TL;DW:

• Old fashioned earplugs and passive headphones are good
• Electric headphones are bad as they generate feedback - worse than nothing
• Riot shields combined with earplugs/headphones are great
• Flip a riot shield around to reflect the sound back and target the operator. If you aim right it’ll get worse for the operator than for you

Oh damn, you’re right!

But sometimes on the fediverse there’s a “copy link to post/comment on original instance”, which I sometimes find to be useful. But this is already pretty great!

That’s true - it would be useful to have a “copy direct link” option in the menu bar for each comment. @rimu@piefed.social

I just put together my first feed today, collecting more than 60 US protest communities into one feed: https://piefed.social/f/50501

In the drop-down menus on top I can choose between either the communities I’m subscribed to, or the feeds I subscribe to. I can subscribe to public feeds compiled by other users, including users on other PieFed instances. I can also make a private feed if I don’t feel like sharing it.

It’s pretty great. Would absolutely recommend.

There are two main instances:
https://piefed.social/ and https://feddit.online/
There’s no mobile app/APK support at the moment, but it’s coming soon.

What an amazing site.

We won’t ask why you would want to glue ceramic and leather together - we just give gluing info.

• Make car out of stainless steel
• Glue it together

Referring to the song Sweetheart Like You:

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king

Assuming the same communities are being followed and no users are blocked and all else is equal, one possible explanation is that lemmy.world is using Lemmy 0.19.3, and sh.itjust.works is on Lemmy 0.19.5. Something might have changed in how posts are sorted between the two versions.

One might expect these two instances to be pretty similar, as they both have a bunch of users and are pretty much catch-all. But in general, different instances of Lemmy will display different content by design - the users decide the direction of the instance by following communities they are interested in.

confused European sounds

There are several mammoths (instances) peacefully grazing on the same pastures (the social web), but the pastures are also shared with completely different species of animal. Perhaps they are single-user instances as no birds are landing on them; perhaps they are completely different pieces of the social web, such as Peertube or Lemmy.

Or maybe I’m over-thinking it.

This is how I read it too. Like, thank you very much Eugene, but you’re wasting our time and not really being very helpful while we kinda have real problems to deal with here.

Basically a harsh criticism of deliberative democracy.

Fantastic! Thank you for this. :)

I would honestly have been worried if the main people behind the protocol were busy trying to gatekeeep it.

The numbers are down to 1.3M today, which matches Fediverse Observer. So it seems like this was pretty clearly some data problem on the side of Fedidb.

On the positive side, if Fediverse Observer has been consistently correct, the number of monthly active users has increased every month since October last year. So at least there’s that. :)

Great interview. It’ll be curious to see whether big platforms end up making a whole-hearted adaptation of ActivityPub this year as they have claimed they will.

Evan Prodromou, the research director at the Social Web Foundation and one of the people overseeing the ActivityPub protocol

It’s interesting how they don’t even mention that he was part of the small group of people who defined the protocol in the first place. I’m sure the Social Web Foundation is great, but it’s not all that obvious what their role will be.

Bless the people who consider “generally-working audio” sufficient to jump on it as a daily driver.

Since we’re on a decentralized service, you won’t see every post of a user unless you go to their profile on their instance. You’re responding to a Mastodon user, so most of her posts will be invisible to you because Lemmy does not support microblogging. It’s a bit of a confusing quirk on the Fediverse - you always have to visit people’s own instance in order to see their full profile.

A quick look on Mastodon discloses that she’s been posting punk and anti-fascist content for years. :)

“HUDUDIDOO DE DAA DE DOO! HODEE DEE HOO!!!”

“Oh, yes, the beautiful song of the sirens”

Cool! Seems like a cool niche, good luck with the community!

!DJSetups@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Ideally while remaining more respectful of pussies perhaps, but that’s a stylistic choice.