TheMightyGlider @themightyglider@gamemaking.social
I'm a spare time game developer from germany.
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
I dont accept ads, or aggressive brand/s accts or paid toots (I’ve been approached) but I do support free & #opensource programs. We have some amazing creative orgs represented on the #Fediverse thru 
#Mastodon’s super-scalable #ActivityPub implementation.
If you havent tried them then you’re missing out (a-z). U have control over ur social & creative lives w #FLOSS
@Blender
#DarkTable
@GIMP 
@inkscape 
@Krita
@ubuntustudio
Others?
It's #FollowFriday! Here are some #alternatives to follow:
@cloutstream CloutStream: An open source federated alternative to LinkedIn, just launched its new website
@Chocobozzz Chocobozzz: Lead developer of #PeerTube, the ethical alternative to YouTube
@Purism Purism: Makers of privacy-oriented computers and the upcoming Librem5 smartphone
@fdroidorg F-Droid: The open source alternative to Google Play
@krita Krita: Open source painting software aimed at artists and illustrators
Pepper&Carrot, @davidrevoy
(You knew this was coming)
Pepper&Carrot is the amazing comic strip of Davod Revoy, an unbelievably gifted and kind artist who releases everything he does with P&C under the CC-BY license. He is open to collaboration and contributions from the community and together they contribute storylines, translations, fan art, derivations, and much more. He's built an amazing community around a clever story and I adore everything about it
Open Legend (open source #tabletopRPG) looks like a lot of fun, anyone on Mastodon familiar with it? #tabletop #gaming
@Gargron
On the other hand you don't really explain what you 'do' on mastodon. You call it a 'micro-blogging service'. I don't think everybody does understand what this means. Instead you should say that users can publish text or media on mastodon and other users can like it, boost it to raise visibility or comment it.
Hope my thoughts are anyhow helpfull. I can give you a bit more details later if you like.
@Gargron
I just had a look at join mastodon.org and think I've some ideas how the page could become more helpfull for non-tech people.
The site is full of technical vocabulary and sometimes there are different words for the same thing. Eg. You use the words 'community', 'server' and 'instance' but mean the same. Furthermore you put the focus on self-hosting a lot. Thats nothing a non-tech users are interested in. Maybe things like this will even scare such a person away.
It seems like SuperTux is in need for new contributors. Would somebody here in fediverse mind to help them out?
https://twitter.com/supertux_team/status/1010979963359592449
Past weekend I worked on RogueBox Adventures again and made some progress. But everything I made only felt halfway finnished, so I didn't upload it yet. I hope today or tomorrow will be some time to work on.
On a old USB pendrive I found a few of my attempts to create music from a few years ago. I listened to it. It sounds like some kind of experimental ambient music but one or two songs aren't that bad (at least I thinke so). I ask me if I should release this to public domain somehow.
Not everyone can self host software systems.
Not everyone wants to self host software systems.
Not everyone gives a shit about tech
Most people just want to go online, do their thing and move on with their day
If there is a mass exodus from GitHub / GitLab or others we people hosting our own infra need to be good about discovery, community building, community engagement and more.
We also need to figure out how to federate authn/authz. I'll skip over submitting small things if it means yet another account on yet another server run by yet another random.
Centralization isn't great but it does facilitate discovery, community and engagement.
We need to keep this at the back of our mind.
Lead developer of PCLinuxOS is in declining health due to cancer.
Cancer sadly happens, it's horrible, being able to say your good byes due to it's slow acting is probably the only upside of the illness.
https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,146233.0.html
Cool! Gearhead Caramel got a new release. Slowly this project takes shape!
https://github.com/jwvhewitt/gearhead-caramel/releases/tag/v0.130
Today I added a very cool feature to Roguebox Adventures. Pets!
Okay to be honest its just one pet right now (a green blob). It will be generated inside the new hub world and can follow you on your adventures.
Already 100+ PeerTube instances and close to 10 000 videos!
PeerTube has proven it works, now let's develop this video-tube alternative to its v1!
#JoinPeerTube on https://frama.link/joinpeertube
Learn more: https://joinpeertube.org
Tomorrow will be a very busy day again, so I don't think that I'll have much time for developing RogueBox Adventures. Lets hope the rest of this week will be better.
Screens from my WIP game Vegan on a Desert Island. #vegan
Today the vet had to deliver one of our cats, which had a inoperable tumour. We cared for it as long it still had a life that was worth living(without pain) but over the past weekend its health status got rapidly worse. I think it was the right moment to let this animal go... but I'm kind of depressed today.
we should all take a step back and realize what is going on: we're writing history together. #mastodon (and #pleroma if you want :) is the first openly developed social network that grows beyond a niche. as @ckeen put it well, it brings along issues that just never came up before. now we need to find a way together to overcome these issues. there are no precedents. it's altogether new. hold your head high up. experiment. don't take it too seriously. forgive.
