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Nicol Wistreich
Nicol Wistreich
@nicol@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 21 hours ago

How many people know that #WordPress was co-founded by a black man, Mike Little?

Or that he's from the north of England? A self-taught coder from #Stockport, just south of #Manchester? Or that he never received so much as a share, cent or job offer from the $7bn+ valued Automattic after spending five months working exclusively with Matt Mullenweg on the B2 fork?

After @bevangelist told me about @mikelittle I interviewed him for a documentary I never got round to making. Back then I was left with two certainties: he's Wozniak to Mullenweg's Jobs. Among other things he added the one-click upgrade that's been central to WP's bonkers 45%-of-the-web-success. And he's one of the nicest people I've ever interviewed, which is also bonkers given that he not only didn't share in WP's financial success, but that he's barely known.

But he should be - so, better late than never - please meet #MikeLittle, perhaps the most-influential-least-known person in #foss… https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

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Nicol Wistreich
Nicol Wistreich
@nicol@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

If anyone's struggling with the video embeds on the WordPress site (I am on my phone), there's direct links for both the videos on #PeerTube. If that goes down (and I’ve no reason to think it should) I have got Vimeo links - but 🤞

- Mike Little, Part 1: co-founding WordPress and watching it grow (from afar): https://open.movie/w/hzQjFV6xJF9agsn5ERz4Kz
- Mike Little, Part 2: his life in code: https://open.movie/w/rdot9DoygXTXzLM4ZnJjTf

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@candide@vis.social  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@nicol I had some trouble streaming it from Peertube, so I tried to download the file to my device, and ran into issues there too... It looks like my phone's media player has trouble determining the duration.

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Nicol Wistreich
Nicol Wistreich
@nicol@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@candide thanks for the report.. @ozoned - would federating help with this?

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@ozoned  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

@nicol@social.coop @candide@vis.social ​i can watch the videos without issue.

I'd always suggest federating your Peertube, for instance my TubeFree.org asked to follow yours, but I don't think it it would solve this issue.

I'm guessing a client side issue or ISP block. Maybe try a VPN or switching to cellular or WiFi.

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candide.xyz
candide.xyz
@candide@vis.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@ozoned @nicol It's working now! I turned off the sharing system, and that seemed to help.

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@ozoned  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@candide@vis.social @nicol@social.coop ​"turned off the sharing system" do you mean the P2P? I had that on mine by default, and while I love the idea, as well as others being able to replicate videos through Peertube, we found that it causes too many issues. You can't count on the quality of connection of anyone else and then folks pulling from flakey connections only see issues and think it's the video.

Also I was wrong about the follow. I hadn't followed open.movie on my tubefree.org. I do now though! 😄

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Seth of the Fediverse
Seth of the Fediverse
@phillycodehound@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 19 hours ago

@nicol @bevangelist @mikelittle Mike is a great guy. He doesn't get enough credit. Overshadowed by Mullenweg.

Very well spoken and a decent person.

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Sam Izby
Sam Izby
@izby@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 19 hours ago

@nicol @bevangelist @mikelittle

Skin color doesn't matter. And gender too. Just do the right things and be a good person.

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷  🦛 🦦
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

if skin color didn't matter, he would be a multimillionaire.

don't parrot the ignorant moderate white man bullshit.

in a racist societ, the color of our skin matters. to deny this is to side with racists.

instead of negating the racism, the correct thing to do would be to ensure his name is not only forever said BEFORE Muhlenberg’s, but make it your business he gets paid reparations for these sins of omission BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY.

@izby @nicol @bevangelist @mikelittle

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Stefan Scholl
Stefan Scholl
@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@blogdiva @izby @nicol @bevangelist @mikelittle not everybody lives in the USA.

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷  🦛 🦦
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

so fucking what?

don’t be ignorant.

@Stefan_S_from_H @izby

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Stefan Scholl
Stefan Scholl
@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@blogdiva @izby what do you want? In which world do you want to live in?

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Rashunda
Rashunda
@rashunda@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 21 hours ago

@nicol @bevangelist @mikelittle #blackmastodon @blackfedi

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