I absolutely love open source. So I'm super excited to see RISC-V really progressing well. Just saw a video from explainingcomputers.com/risc... that shows MILK-V Jupiter 2 making some excellent progress. It looks like it's a fully functional desktop out of the box. Though speeds and obviously software limitations aren't quite there yet. But WOW has RISC-V come a long way.
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@firesidefedi Good luck - In all aspects!
@gnilleps@mastodon.art thank you. yeah a bit nervous about it all, but we'll get through it. 😄
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Hey folks! 👋
Just a quick heads-up that there won't be any new Fireside Fedi episodes for about a month. I'll be having surgery followed by a trip to Vancouver for FOSSY!
While I'm offline, here are 5 great episodes to catch up on in the meantime:
E83 — Fedify & Futures: Building the Fediverse's Backbone Hong Minhee (@hongminhee@hollo.social) Deep dive into Fedify, Hollo, and Botkit tubefree.org/w/i1WNPWEVoDJe8...
E74 — The People‑First Platform: Hannah Aubry on Mastodon and the Fediverse Hannah Aubry (@haubles@hachyderm.io) A chat about people-first platform design tubefree.org/w/x715zm1Nkvqd8...
E73 — Ink & Open Source: David Revoy's Fantasy Webcomics in the Fediverse David Revoy (@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org) Exploring webcomics and open source creativity tubefree.org/w/j2yFdBC8LtV5R...
Episode 8 — Paige (FediHost) Paige (@fedihost@mstdn.social) Early episode chatting with Paige from FediHost tubefree.org/w/oZsDbzuKFt2hZ...
Episode 45 — Weatherman (Weather Is Happening) Weatherman (@WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network) A lively conversation about weather and more tubefree.org/w/8BPyhJkxRkAu5...
You can find these and all our back catalog at tubefree.org/@firesidefedi 🎙️
Want to be on the show? We're always open to volunteers and welcome topic suggestions! Feel free to reach out if you'd like to sit down for a chat or have a suggestion for someone you'd like to see on the show.
I'm really looking forward to meeting many of you at FOSSY! I'll also be doing a panel for the Fedicon track — come say hi and let's chat!
Thanks for your patience. I'll be back with fresh conversations soon. 🧡 #FiresideFedi #FOSSY #Fedicon #Fediverse #Podcast #Vancouver
Episode 45 - Weatherman - Weather Is Happening - Livestream 2025-09-28
Fedify & Futures: Building the Fediverse's Backbone - Hong Minhee - Fedify, Hollo, Botkit - E83
The People‑First Platform: Hannah Aubry on Mastodon and the Fediverse - E73 - Livestream 2026-02-11 12-12-23
Ink & Open Source: David Revoy’s Fantasy Webcomics in the Fediverse - E73
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@ozoned best cold open ever on the latest FsF!
@phillycodehound@indieweb.social thank you. Lol gotta hook them somehow right? 😁
My 9 year old just found out about #Portal . It's from my #Steam library and we have Family Sharing set up.
He's SO excited about it. My 6 year old is watching him and said it gives him the "heebie jeebies".
It's 2026 and Portal is stil AMAZING. 😊
My 9 year old is now #thinkingWithPortals .
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1. Cake.
2. Blue.
3. Mastodon. It's not even close.
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WOW! What hard hitting controversial answers! Can't wait to hear why you have such AMAZING answers! 😁
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We'll also be speaking with these following extraordinary people:
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At #CoLab.coop , #Django is a developer for #WordPress sites. His approach is people-centric, which influences the usability, #performance and #accessibility of his designs.
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Involved in various #FOSS projects such as #ReproducibleBuilds #Debian #Guix and so much more. Passionate about #Aikido and #Solar hobbyist.
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#Founder writing.exchange/@write_as , musing.studio
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- Ben Pate - @benpate@mastodon.social -
Ben is the nerd who's building emissary.dev/ - an #ActivityPub server for building custom social applications on the #Fediverse .
First app on this platform is a #music #sharing #server for indie bands, called bandwagon.fm/ . He's also working on atlasmaps.org/, a #social #mapping server for adding #Federated annotations to places in the real world.
HARD HITTING questions! Questions like:
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Best Fediverse Application?
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I've never been on normal social media so I don't know etiquette, but where do Fedizens stand on replying to someone's post and adding a hashtag?
Example: Someone talking about animals and I reply with #animals .
Is that considered rude at all? Is this something we should try to do? Social tagging? Crowd sourced tagging?
Since there aren't really algorithms it's on us to help build out and make connections we want to see.
This thing takes more work than traditional social, because we didn't take shortcuts. But we have the opportunity to learn new ways of building out OUR network.
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@ozoned@btfree.social getting itch integrated into the games themselves may be harder, but integrating an existing software @nodebb@fosstodon.org could work. Create a new category for each game, etc. 🙂
@julian@activitypub.space @nodebb@fosstodon.org @itchio@mastodon.social while built into a game could be interesting. Achievement system built into a game?
I was talking about the developer's page.
I think AP could enable any number of innovations. 😁
This might be a good idea to track on https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues
Note that a couple of years ago a number of #fedijam #fedijam2022 were organized via #itch and there was a lot of interest to participate at the time.
@smallcircles@social.coop @itchio@mastodon.social so you're stating I should suggest it on the codeberg repo? I can do that.
Thanks for the link BTW. I didn't even know about that one.
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I absolutely love @itchio@mastodon.social . It's the best way to find new and interesting games.
I see that #Itch has links to different socials.
I wonder how difficult it would be, should they be interested, in actually implementing #ActivityPub inside of Itch?
This would allow software developers to just use Itch as their platform to post their games and communicate with others.
Itch already supports a comments section. Configuring AP anyone anywhere in the world could the comment on a game as well.
We could follow a developer from our open socials and when a developers posts a comment or posts a game, we'd get it everywhere.
Just thinking this would be really interesting idea. I don't know how much work or how feasible it would be, but it'd support developers, it'd support Itch ( by allowing folks on the Fediverse anywhere to follow and know that it's only Itch that you can do this on) and it'd support the wider Fediverse as we whole.
Love to hear thoughts, comments, suggestions, and even if it's just a silly idea that isn't really practical.
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Café & Canvas: Painting the Fedivnvas 17/07/2026 - Grant - E95
Special thank you to @grant@grants.cafe
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi! TODAY!
Special Guest: @grant@grants.cafe - Threadiverse CANVAS
I run various fediverse things. fediverse.events . Canvas social.fediverse.events/@can... . sc07 mastodon.social/@sc07
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@ozoned I remember a while back on Linkedin Clock Tower X were advertising for jobs at their company, positions like meme creator for pro-Israeli content... really obvious/blatant stuff. I probably have the screenshots saved somewhere...
DECOLONIZE THE STACK: Dismantling Big Tech's Colonial Foundations — Rania Youssef — E94
Special thank you to Rania Youssef
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi! TODAY!
Special Guest: Rania
Youseff - tribe-x.org
Back End Developer | Founder of @Tribe-X | Tedx Speaker | A Decolonial queer activist | Political Performer | Public Speaker | Station F | SINGA
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PROJECTIONS & PROTOCOLS: Classic Cinema in a Digital World - Troler - E93
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PROJECTIONS & PROTOCOLS: Classic Cinema in a Digital World - Troler - E93
Just had the best use of #LLM in my short history with it.
I got a text message asking to talk about my opinion of the US and Israeli relationship. After going back and forth with the person it was obvious that they were pushing a Pro-Israeli agenda. Everything is Iran's fault by the way.
I asked who they were with. "Friends for Peace". So obviously I instantly knew it was diabolical. Of anyone ever has an overly sympathetic name, you know it's backed by some sociopathic fuckwads.
Thanks to #Proton #Lumo I was easily able to look them up and their backers. Here is only PART oh what Lumo gave me, the rest was just as good:
The campaign is operated by Clock Tower X, a firm run by Brad Parscale, former Trump campaign manager. Clock Tower X was contracted by the Israeli government through the German branch of Havas Media Group, a French advertising agency. The contract is valued at $9 million, according to Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings with the US Department of Justice.
So #Israel paid $9,000,000 USD to text me and sell their lies. They'd rather spend that money to lie to Americans than anything else. How far could $9,000,000 go to help the citizens of Israel and Palestine?
Thank you Lumo! And go fuck yourself Israel government.
I want to make this very clear distinction, I do not feel the same for those in Israel that also want this all to stop. I've spoken to some Israelis that feel powerless.
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