huh. i just found out the only emoji i ever used was in my first post

I agree, the whole paradigm of activitypub instances being treated as little local web communities that can interact with one another from their respective websites in limited ways is very flawed if the goal is for it to catch on as an alternative to existing social media experiences.

Although that’s not to say that paradigm is innately bad though, since it works fine for more tech-savvy people and is basically what hexbear has and works well with, but it’s a total non-starter for the average social media user.

Personally I think that something along the lines of what you said is the only way activitypub will ever be able to exit the niche space it currently occupies. The user should not have to learn how it works whatsoever. Ideally the process of getting a friend to join should sound more like “Install this app or go to this website(which is a server-agnostic frontend), click register and pick a service provider(not an ‘instance’)” rather than “Find an instance, go to its website(which all look slightly different), create an account, and then inevitably end up with a disjointed mess of browser tabs on different instances because you clicked ‘View the full profile on the original instance’ while trying to find people to follow.”

I’m not a developer, but it really feels like the fediverse movement is sort of trying to reinvent the wheel in a lot of ways. Also sorry for the long rambling reply, I’m bored at work.

i am constantly subjecting myself to my own little sisyphean punishments for no reason

life is laggy

I’m always impressed with good sound design–particularly foley. It really makes a world of difference to give an environment the right tone and make it an immersive scene.

actual genuine sicko

https://modrinth.com/mod/easyauth

to me absurdism isn’t so much about looking at existential meaningless light-heartedly as it is about reconciling with the notion of it—by spitting in the face of the universe’s cruel indifference and arbitrarily inventing personal meaning.

it’s like aiming to live a life that you alone feel is purposeful just because you can, in spite of the will of any higher power or lack thereof that tries to rob you of it.

obs, flameshot/sharex, and 7-zip

goosebumps attack of the mutant

vlc media player hat

Blackwake. Super fun and unique team gameplay if you’re lucky enough to join a server that isnt overrun with toxic gamers. or if you’re lucky enough to play at all, since the game has been abandoned for a few years now and it’s pretty much dead in terms of playercount. In my opinion though, it could’ve grown to become a truly incredible and timeless game if it weren’t abandoned by the developer and left proprietary in an unfinished state so fans can’t pick up development.

also, the sponsorblock addon works on mobile and there is an addon that allows videos to play in the background if you need that. i haven’t tested this with youtube music in the browser but i wouldn’t be surprised if it also worked.

pipepipe and rimusic is what i use. youtube in the browser is fine too, if you disable that “open in the youtube app” popup (firefox for android with ublock origin addon is what i use, although i have experienced some regressions with the ad-blocker not working after youtube updates something, but ublock is usually on top of it and fixes stuff quickly).

marx cannot be telling anyone to touch grass

grey pill

put it in the dog’s food bowl with dinner heehee

love this one. i’m really impressed with his consistent level of quality on all of these original songs, especially considering how fundamentally simple they are musically.

him recording banger after banger on his phone in the forest with nothing but a guitar and sometimes a harmonica while droves of industry plants churn out highly-produced slop in a vain attempt to make as many viral tiktok sound bites as possible is a prime example of the fact that good art comes from lots of passion and practice, not from access to expensive professional tools and resources.

also syncthing, if you’d like to synchronize a directory to act like a shared folder and be identical on both devices

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