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@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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- Dan Supernault - @dansup@mastodon.social

Currently building @pixelfed, @loops, @supapp, @fedidb, and more.

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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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- 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.

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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.

@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. 😁

@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.

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.

DECOLONIZE THE STACK: Dismantling Big Tech's Colonial Foundations — Rania Youssef — E94

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@matttutt@mastodon.social 🤮

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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@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social Thank you! 😊 Easy to be a great host when I have amazing foks to talk with. And if you have any suggestions on how to improve the show, please don't hesitate to let me know! I'm definitely not an artist though, so not much I can do about the logo. 😁 A friend made it for me based on my request.

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@zzepposs@chaos.social TY. 😊

@ozoned@btfree.social @josh@social.joshbaileycreates.com that other co-founder is @baris@community.nodebb.org 😁 give him a follow

@Josh@social.joshbaileycreates.com @julian@activitypub.space light weight and it felt SUPER snappy. Absolutely incredible. Julian and cofounder did a great job with it. 😊

Thanks for listening/watching. 😊

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@julian@activitypub.space @nelfan@gotosocial.social that's awesome. Hopefully someday we'll be able to bring the "dialects" together. And I love the term calling then dialects. Fits so well.