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@ozoned I love how when anyone recommends me, the description is always something like the one in the OP. As if whatever it is I do around here is undefinable, but enjoyable. 🤣🤣🤣
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@slothrop@chaos.social @_elena@mastodon.social @lumiworx@mastodon.social Excellent way to put it for sure.
Centralization is easy. You control it all. It's not good for people that want innovation and choice.
Decentralization brings freedom, innovation, choice, but offers a lot of technical roadblocks.
I just want choice. I can choose what's best for my family. I don't need Tim Apple, or whoever to tell me what's good for us, while trapping us into a fish bowl and making us work for our food.
Now that I think of it. Are there any kind of fediverse connectivity between servers tools? Digging in logs at the admin level yes. But we want to exist in the Fediverse. Shouldn't we have quick check tools to make sure we're connecting out? Even users can identify issues then.
I like the new tabs.pub. Just had a thought.
A user on my Bonfire is experiencing an issue with Federation. When I've been posting from here, I see that tags.pub has been boosting my content. I like that. A bit noisey, but whatever.
HOWEVER, since I now know that my FiresideFedi user isn't federating, I wonder if you could add like a @ping@tags.pub when doing a #ping or something similar, so that we have external servers that verify our connectivity. Maybe not just a ping, but a PONG or response or something. I think this could help with understanding connectivity.
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
Special Guest: @BjornW@mastodon.social
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It will happen on 20/04/26 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
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Upcoming Episode of Works On My Machine LIVE, this Sunday at 1030 UTC-4!
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By the wonderful @mapache@hachyderm.io
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While I'm attempting to figure out my bonfire issue for Fireside Fedi, you can catch all that I do by following these accounts:
Me babbling Livestream: @ozoned@stream.ozoned.net
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While I'm attempting to figure out my bonfire issue for Fireside Fedi, you can catch all that I do by following these accounts:
Me babbling Livestream: @ozoned@stream.ozoned.net
Fireside Fedi Livestream: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live
Works On My Machine Live Livestream: @ozoned@workskonmymachine.live
VODs: @ozoned@tubefree.org
Calendar: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
Special Guest: @troubledclef@bandwagon.fm
Recording engineer, with other 35 years of experience. Hollywood trained, owner & producer at Troubled Clef Studios, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
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It will happen on 08 April 2026 at 12:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥
📺 Live: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live (#livestream)
🎬 VOD: @ozoned@tubefree.org (#Peertube #VOD)
🔔 Alerts: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance
Since my bonfire @firesidefedi account is acting up, going to post this here.
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
Special Guest: @tommi@pan.rent
If I wanted to make this bio accurate, it would change every few hours. Figuring out my identity, 64 bits at a time. Learning at post.lurk.org/@xpub , working with social.coop/@dweb and toot.village.one/@VillageOne... . Words and pictures originally published by me are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 13 April 2026 at 13:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥
📺 Live: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live (#livestream)
🎬 VOD: @ozoned@tubefree.org (#Peertube #VOD)
🔔 Alerts: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
Special Guest: @troubledclef@bandwagon.fm
Recording engineer, with other 35 years of experience. Hollywood trained, owner & producer at Troubled Clef Studios, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 08 April 2026 at 12:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥
📺 Live: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live (#livestream)
🎬 VOD: @ozoned@tubefree.org (#Peertube #VOD)
🔔 Alerts: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
Special Guest: @tommi@pan.rent
If I wanted to make this bio accurate, it would change every few hours. Figuring out my identity, 64 bits at a time. Learning at post.lurk.org/@xpub , working with social.coop/@dweb and toot.village.one/@VillageOne... . Words and pictures originally published by me are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 13 April 2026 at 13:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥
📺 Live: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live (#livestream)
🎬 VOD: @ozoned@tubefree.org (#Peertube #VOD)
🔔 Alerts: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance
@ozoned @firesidefedi sure, I'd be happy to talk about it if you want! The podcast idea is cool too: I've done a lot of presentations on my work, but only a couple of podcasts, which is a pity as I find the conversation approach more interesting.
FYI, there's a lot of info material on WHIP/WHEP on my company blog too. The latest was on the libraries, with many examples:
https://www.meetecho.com/blog/whip-whep-nodejs/
It would be interesting to see how easy/hard the whole thing is for who's starting from scratch!
@lminiero@fosstodon.org awesome! Sent you a DM! 😊
@ozoned I don't think it's something you can improvise or add only as an afterthought to an existing backend: WebRTC is tricky, especially on the server side, and simulcast is only part of the equation. I did my tiny online concert last summer using OBS and WebRTC (no simulcast support in OBS back then) since I didn't have an Owncast instance I could use, so I just used my own WebRTC SFU (Janus) for the purpose. There are other servers too that handle WebRTC as a first class citizen
@lminiero@fosstodon.org reading through Janus docs. You built this?
I've been talking with me community and I think we're going to test this out, maybe live. If you're every interested in talking about this, let me know.
I run a podcast called fireside Fedi as well. We can do an interview of you'd like. @firesidefedi@tubefree.org if you care to check it out.
But also is you'd like to help or watch or anything.
Actually I'm also liking to run another podcast where I talk to a developer while attempting to install their application. It's called Works On My Machine LIVE.
Friends, if you haven't already, it would be a big favour to me if you could enable tags.pub to boost your public tagged posts.
Just search for @_followback in your Mastodon UI. Click the follow button there. (Don't try to follow from the profile page; it doesn't work yet.)
It will follow you back, and when you make a post with a hashtag in it, the server will boost your post from the appropriate hashtag.
I'm working on a YouTube mini series explaining the Fediverse!!
Who are the most knowledgeable people in this realm who I should definitely talk to?
What do you think is important to include in my series? I want to hear thoughts!!
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