Tired of YouTube calling all the shots? It’s time to build something better—together. Here’s the slide deck for a proposal to launch a PeerTube co-op. Right now, there are three of us ready to get this off the ground. I’m looking for two more founder-members to bring us up to five. With that core, we’ll have the resources to make a PeerTube server not just viable, but sustainable—and built to last. This isn’t about joining someone else’s platform. It’s about creating one. As a founder, you’ll have a real voice in governance and a direct hand in shaping content policies, by-laws, moderation rules, and more. We’re staying early stage by design. This is the moment to get in, shape the vision, and build something that actually challenges the status quo. If that excites you, message me.

Google Docs

PeerTube Coop BC Pitch Deck.pptx

PeerTube Co-op B.C. – Building a Sustainable Federation Sustainable, community-owned video hosting for the Fediverse Welcome. This deck outlines ...

#Mastodon plans to add the display of quote posts with Mastodon 4.4, and then to support authoring with Mastodon 4.5. I hope the dev team has the courage to follow through with this plan because, amongst some Mastodon users (but not most), this will be the worst thing ever—despite Mastodon clients supporting quote posts, and software like Akkoma, Sharkey, and Friendica doing the same. Ultimately, quote posts are a must. More people want them than don’t.

Mastodon Blog

Trunk & Tidbits, January 2025

News and updates from the Mastodon developers. Technical changes from January 2025, and what the core team did at FOSDEM.

Some people on Instagram are forced to follow Donald Trump. And they cannot unfollow him. Meta says this is due to “technical difficulties”. That said, if you really don’t want to follow him, you can delete your Instagram account.

The Independent

Meta admits some people can’t unfollow Donald Trump on Instagram

Users including Gracie Abrams have said they never asked to follow presidential account – and are unable to stop

Wow! 😲 CrowdStrike’s CSO sold $1.5M worth of stock right before the outage today! I repeat, the Chief Security Officer sold $1.5M worth of stock! https://www.barrons.com/articles/crowdstrike-insiders-sold-stock-cac5e509?siteid=yhoof2

Sometimes I feel the urge to conquer Europe. Many ambitious men build armies for just this purpose. As for me, I prefer to stay home and let the computer do the work.

Sheryl Crow - C’Mon, C’Mon (2002) I love Sheryl Crow. She has a great voice, writes her own songs, and produces them too. Not only that, she rocks. Case in point, “Soak Up the Sun”. That was a summer jam. I remember hearing it during a hot July while in a 7-Eleven pouring myself a slurpee. Good times. But the mastering is brutal. The dynamic range is squelched. Hearing this is like hearing a band in a metal coffee tin. Someday, I hope this album gets remastered. https://atomicpoet.org/media/4c1f05ab-9b77-4637-bdf7-b58e1732de49/file

No, I do not want Uber-like pricing on the Wendy’s menu. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/27/food/wendys-test-surge-pricing/index.html

LOL at this Karen who is outraged – outraged! – that I’m not having fun in her preferred manner. In all seriousness, it is a bad look to blame war and violence on video games. It is equally problematic to imply that people who enjoy FPS games are intrinsically violent people. I am playing a futuristic submarine game. Believe me, I am very unlikely to hijack a submarine and start torpedoing everything that moves. Also, why are you implying that women don’t enjoy shooting games. My 10-year-old daughter loves Splatoon and Fortnite, and she would be quite offended if you told her those games are not for her. Keep your gender toxicity out of my mentions.

I’ve been running every day for the past two weeks, at minimum four minutes each time. Here’s something I noticed. When I first started, my heart would instantly hit 150bpm. But now it takes me a full minute just to reach 120bpm. Also, mornings are great for running.

One of my favourite YouTubers is Linda Guillory. She has the largest verified collection of gaming consoles in the world. Most of them are LCD handhelds from the 1970s and 80s. For example, here’s her collection of Pac-Man games.

Hey Google, stop trying to sell me your overpriced and crippled gaming Chromebook. Also, I’m not buying anything gaming-related from you after the Steam debacle.

Just stumbled upon the art of the Ife Empire which was a Yoruba kingdom in what is now Nigeria and Benin in Africa.This kingdom lasted between 1200 to 1420. And I’m stunned. This is beautiful, breath-taking work that’s highly sophisticated – technically better than what was being made in Europe at the time. Just look at this copper Ife statue. It’s as good as the Venus de Milo. The detail is incredible. I need to learn more about this.

Confession: I have never seen Titanic. I fully intend to live the entirety of my life without seeing Titanic.

Well, I’m annoyed. I bought a game on Fanatical only to discover it was activated by another Steam account already. Has this every happened to you?

I’m really tempted to make a #Fediverse RPG based on the RPGMaker engine. Here’s what I got so far… Main Characters: Tooto: A young warrior from Mastodon Island. Specializes in quick attacks. Pixela: A mage from PixelFed. Has the ability to manipulate images and illusions. Peery: A bard from PeerTube. Uses video and sound-based attacks. Ephemra: A rogue from Pleroma. Specializes in stealth and surprise attacks. Plot: The game begins with the player in Mastodon Island where they learn about the threats posed by the Centralized Empire. They meet Tooto and decide to join forces. The player travels from island to island, gathering allies and learning more about the impending threat. I’m still trying to consider the enemies, quests, game mechanics. This could be a fun way for people to learn about the Fediverse.

Something I just realized: Star Trek wouldn’t be what it is today if a bunch of middle-aged women weren’t obsessed with Spock furiously boning Kirk. And if you think I’m making that up—no, I’m not. Slash fiction got its name because of Spock/Kirk erotica being shared amongst women, usually on photocopied paper at Star Trek conventions. This occurred pre-Internet.

Once you get a 16:10 monitor, it’s really hard to go back to 16:9. This is the main reason I don’t have a 4K display.

I should start an “en-ghostify” service so that people can ensure they can haunt people and places after they die.

I don’t want cloud gaming to be the a thing. I already tried this with Stadia, it was terrible, and everything I bought—with real money—disappeared when Stadia was discontinued. Never again. If the game doesn’t exist on local storage, it’s dead to me.

Just watched the first episode of the Halo TV show, and it’s actually very good. I’ve played lots of Halo, read the books, watched the animations—and this is everything I wanted in a live action Halo TV show. To me, this is better than Star Wars.