Okay I think I've got a handle on the basic mechanics of atproto apps. But I've decided to learn nextjs right alongside it because I can't just let things be easy so that'll be a little while yet.

Did my @anisota.net #harvest Really gotta get those posting numbers up next year, this is embarrassing. Started off 2025 with good intentions but spent most of my energy on unhinged blog posts so I didn't have any time left for unhinged microblog posts. Lesson learned. anisota.net/harvest

Critical thinking and info/media literacy becomes more important as convincing but wrong or misleading stuff becomes more common. This is a cool experiment for one part of that equation. Worth checking out and maybe going through with a child in your life.

Fired up the statusphere example application finally after looking at it for...entirely too long. 0.001% of the way to making my first atproto app.

I love seeing folks building cool stuff on atproto, but I gotta say I reserve a small amount of judgement for people building tiktok/reels-style "channel surfing" apps. Call me out of touch, but I don't think there is a way to make this model of social media healthy. Moreso than other types, even.

If you haven't heard of Kagi before or haven't had a chance to try it, this post is a great example of what they're building and why. If it doesn't inspire you to at least give their free trial a chance, well...just do it anyway trust me.

FYI to all reality show cast members: that's not what trauma bonding means. You may be trauma bonded with your partner but not in the way you're describing.

Someone gotta tell the dems they can do two things at once. You can advocate for your economic policies without "focusing less on...democracy"(?).

The Fred Rogers and Bill Maher principles, respectively

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

"Interchangeability" is a good word I hadn't considered, even tho it eats character count. Seems like it's a step closer to user- and value-centric than the nerd-wank terms like distributed, decentralized, or federated. Not to mention something that should continue to grow more tangible over time.

Finally decided to go and complete my Mega Man NES collection.

Ah it's been nearly a month now so it's time to post another reminder: X is a ratchet employed solely to position the Overton window and build an illusion of public consensus via algorithms and AI controlled by one of the richest people in the world.

Hell yeah, look at that backfill rate!

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

Choose your own discourse temperature from the thread below:

new protomen album soon means i randomly remember someone made this

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/nromdotcom.cloud Less Halloweeny, but how about some Mario?

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/nromdotcom.cloud Anyone wanna play some Castlevania?

Starting in about 20 minutes. The next part of The Curse of Illmoore Bay as we continue Illtober. Now to run the air conditioner on high until then because for some reason it was 80F today even though it's October. youtube.com/live/7jBxR-b...

Seems like we're bumping up against "one company running one space for millions of people and tons of communities to share means it doesn't quite work right for anyone." It's funny when I first joined Mastodon folks were mad at Gargron for turning his back on the communities that helped build fedi.

Love Is Blind is wild cause it's like "wow I have no idea what this person looks like [but also they don't let anyone who is not above-average conventionally attractive on the show]."

The Evercade discord has some of the friendliest, funniest, and most knowledgeable folks I know on the Internet. If you're into Evercade and like to play and talk about games, it's a great place to be. If you're considering getting into Evercade but have questions, it's also a great place to ask.

Getting a bit back into streaming after a year or so. Gonna be playing some Roguecraft DX on Evercade in a couple minutes. Maybe some Taito Arcade 2 depending on how my Roguecraft run goes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAda...

Maybe it's a bad thing that municipal governments and law enforcement mostly communicate with their communities via Facebook and X and their actual websites are often incomplete or wildly out of date. Sick of seeing news stories like "[local city] PD issued a statement" with a link to Facebook.

Oracle Short-Form Video Social Media will be licensed per CPU core with quarterly audits for anyone with over 10,000 followers.

This is exactly what a baby trying to convince his doctor not to give him a shot would say.

This is such a cool idea. I really like the thought of bridging between different lexicons with this. Now if only I used any other lexicons...

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

Regular reminder that X is now simply a tool to manufacture an illusion of public consensus via algorithms and AI controlled solely by one of the richest people in the world.

I need everyone who thinks 20% of the US population is openly trans to close their pornhub tabs right now.

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

as you cancel disney subscriptions, please remember to support your favorite independent media. there are amazing people doing critical work with very little support, and things are only getting harder. here are some of my favorites: www.citationneeded.news/friends/. feel free to post yours below!

I don't need dems to "tone down" LGBTQ stuff. I need my choice to not be between "an active descent into technofascism" and "a lazy slide into technofascism (but some crosswalks are painted with rainbows)."

Lovecraftian horror, but the Forbidden Knowledge is social media telling you what everybody thinks about everything all the time.

The media is really benefitting from the fact that Charlie Kirk just wasn't that well-known outside of certain circles while he was alive, so anyone can just kinda say whatever they want.

I've been sitting on this Evercade review for a few weeks now waiting for motivation to write it down. And now I can look forward to writing about carts I've enjoyed more than this. But for anyone curious, here's what I thought about Gremlin Collection 2. blog.nromdotcom.cloud/gremlin-coll...

Roguecraft DX would be the perfect pick-up-and-play Evercade game for taking with you on a Super Pocket if you could suspend runs. Even without that it's an excellent game that plays great on the go. Just sometimes I don't have an hour uninterrupted and feel back abandoning or sabotaging good runs.

> Tim Wu coined the term ‘tyranny of convenience’ to describe the tendency for ease-of-use to prevail over other concerns such as privacy and accountability: ‘Created to free us, [convenience] can become a constraint on what we are willing to do, and thus in a subtle way it can enslave us’ Real.

Thursday Murder Club movie adaptation was okay as its own thing, but quite poor as an adaptation of the book. At least the casting was good for the most part, except what were they thinking with Pierce Brosnan?

Man. I first joined fediverse via mastodon in 2017. Even ran my own instance for a few years. But constant squabbling between devs/admins/contributors/etc eventually burned me out. I'm poking my head back in via Ghost's ActivityPub integrations, but shit like this suggests things haven't changed.

There are two truths in social media: 1. Just because you see someone's post doesn't mean it's for you or that you need to respond to it. 2. If someone responds to your post (even if they disagree), that's called "a conversation" or "feedback" and not automatically "negativity" or "trolling."

this is why i watch bum fights, not because it's entertaining, but because it's a moral imperative

Just as a reminder, X is a ratchet employed solely to move the Overton window. And the longer everyone keeps pretending it's actually a "digital town square," the more damage it can do.