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@dave

The thing we learned from RSS re twitter is unless people work together, and they refused to, the central service always wins.

In RSS that meant that subscription was a complicated process that browsers got in the way of, where in twitter it was one obvious click.

We could still pull this off but we need feature advantages and it has to be easy to subscribe, but bigger picture, people have to actively, religiously work together.

—@davew

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Things I learned today: You can’t update the #Lemmy UI without also updating the backend. Or else you get server errors. Anyway we’re running the latest RC of the UI on rblind.com now. We’re *also* running a development version of the Lemmy backend; that makes me less happy. I did say that rblind.com is still in alpha, though! Anyway some #a11y fixes for #blind folks are in: the upvote buttons are now toggles, selecting a community when posting works better on Android, expand and collapsed for threads are now toggles. Comment nesting still needs to be fixed, but I believe the PR for that was merged, it’s just not in a release yet.

—@fastfinge

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The #RedditMigration just got spicier 🌶

#Lemmy now has 135,369 accounts. That is tracking with my expectations.

But while #Kbin had ~7,000 accounts yesterday, it’s just shot up to 30,930 accounts.

While Lemmy is the 5th most used server software on the Fediverse, Kbin is now in 10th place and it’s growing at a faster rate than Lemmy.

A few days ago, I predicted that the #RedditMigration would result in 150,000-300,000 new accounts being created on the Fediverse. That expectation has already been met.

This #RedditMigration is fundamentally changing the course of the Fediverse. It’s moved the Fediverse from being primarily about microblogging to having more eclectic use cases.

While the #TwitterMigration validated that decentralized social media can appeal to millions of people, the #RedditMigration has validated that decentralized social media has man varied applications – both in the software and use case sense.

SOURCE: https://fedidb.org/software

—@atomicpoet

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For the record, had this been an Imam in a mosque then local law enforcement and FBI would have already arrested him for incitement. #RSSFeed
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Born In Blood: MAGA Pastor Kent Christmas Delivers a Shocking Sermon | Right Wing Watch

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/born-in-blood-maga-pastor-kent-christmas-delivers-a-shocking-sermon/

Kent Christmas, the radically right-wing pastor of Regeneration Nashville, used his sermon last Sunday to urge those in his congregation to show the same

—@jan

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People of the #fediverse, especially those creating various services, there are alternatives to HCAPTCHA when you ask people to create accounts or login. Despite HCAPTCHA’s propaganda, HCAPTCHA is not truly accessible to #blind people. It requires us to give up our privacy if we choose the cookie option. The text alternative doesn’t work most times. I just tried to sign up for a /kbin server at https://redit.buzz and wasted 30 mins on HCAPTCHA.

Please be #inclusive!

#accessibility

—@ppatel

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So https://rblind.com is a #Lemmy instance that now exists in alpha. We’re still waiting on the next release of Lemmy with a bunch of promised #accessibility fixes, we still have to write sidebars and descriptions and rules and things, and I still need to work out the remaining infrastructure bits (realtime database backups, etc). But if you’re blind, visually impaired, or otherwise interested in this community, and want to play with Lemmy to kick the tires, feel free to apply for an account. Please note that this is a project of its own, and doesn’t mean the end of /r/blind on Reddit, and we’re not asking or expecting anyone to migrate. We’re just trying out new things, and this isn’t ready for anyone but extremely early adopters. #a11y

—@fastfinge

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Okay, Mastodon friends, I rarely ask for amplification about my day job, but I personally pushed for my employer to make a big investment in enabling the fediverse, and I’d love for everyone to show that the support is appreciated. On June 28, you can join us for a (FREE!) hands-on conversation about how the Fastly team worked to support @Mastodon while the service was under a *massive* DDOS attack. Everyone who cares about scaling the fediverse should join: https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon @devs

—@anildash

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BORG: We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.
MY 5 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER: Why?
BORG: We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
5YO: Why?
BORG: To expand the collective.
5YO: Why?
BORG: So that we may achieve perfection.
5YO: Why?
BORG: To reach the pinnacle of our evolution.
5YO: Why?
BORG: *sigh* Because it’s just something we do, ok?
5YO: Why?
BORG: … you know what? F this …*opens a transwarp conduit and leaves*

—@drmaddkap

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At this point I am literally just begging you to stop putting hCaptcha in your apps. Please. I don’t know what else to do. Please. Please don’t do it. If it’s on a website we at least have a chance. As bad a chance it might be. But if it’s in your app anyone who can’t do a captcha is completely locked out. So please. Do not do it.

—@talon