There’s an extra treat buried in this article…

The diarist John Evelyn, whose 1661 treatise Fumifugium focused on London’s growing pollution problem, had no doubt that Parr’s death was caused by “the Aer, which plainly wither’d him”

Fumifugium is such a great title!

Honestly this article gets better as you go…We could use a modern medical series like the old “Anatomy of Quackery” to debunk the insidious nonsense still being spread today!

I’ve seen this band name before, but not sure if I’d heard them before so gave “Young Wicked” a listen. They definitely sound like some other bands I’ve heard before…Albeit with their own touches.

Not too bad, not something I’d listen to all the time, but when you want this kind of rock grit, I can see the appeal. Appreciate the track suggestions and recommendation!

Yeah! The last anime that I thought was as comfy was maybe Little Witch Academia.

I don’t know how I found myself watching Little Witch Academia, but it was a great choice. May have to rewatch it sometime…

Cryptocurrency orgs have done one job extremely well here, and that’s blatantly demonstrate that the best way to try to fast track legislation is Big Money.

It’s like how all the cryptocurrency screwups demonstrate why there are financial regulations to begin with, now they’re inadvertently helping demonstrate extremely clearly why we need to get money out of politics.

This caught my eye as I hadn’t read/heard of Ne Zha before, and while I imagine the video’s only scraping the surface, I thought it was a decent overview of the character and their background. It’s some cool insight into some ancient Chinese mythos/folklore.

As to more practical approaches to outreach:

• Look at some of what people chafe against with Reddit, e.g. karma requirements and ambiguous auto-moderation, to invite them over to communities around here.
• If you have an interest in something new and upcoming, post about it in the broader communities here and if the moderators there are cool with it*, use those posts to invite people to a specific community about it.
  • Create specific communities about new/trending stuff and invite people from elsewhere to discuss it here instead of Reddit.
• Whichever instance wants to take a shot at an Ask Me Anything community (as you’d want both admins and mods on-hand for this), consider it as these Q&As can draw attention to this space very well with the right people invited to ask about whatever.

* Moderators of these broader communities, if you’re okay with people inviting others to more specific communities around here, clarify that somewhere easy to find. People coming from elsewhere may assume it’s not and never ask due to their prior experiences.

Ultimately, have fun with it all! If you’re not having fun and enjoying things here, why would anyone else want to join?

Archive link: https://archive.ph/N8QBu

Is there anything else you want people to know about Bluesky?

This is a choose-your-own-adventure game. You can get in there and customize the experience as much as you want. If you’re not finding what you want within the Bluesky app, there might be another app within the protocol ecosystem that will give you what you want. If you can’t find it, you can build it. You don’t get this level of control anywhere else.

Emphasis added on last sentence. If nothing else tells you an interview is as much marketing as it is aiming to be genuinely informative, it should be statements like this.

That last sentence is basically a lie, as anyone across ActivityPub networks can tell you. I would say I don’t know why they would say this, but I do know at least one reason: marketing.

It can be argued ActivityPub doesn’t enable the same level of control, but the problem is that it’s so damn flexible that it’d be somewhat disingenuous to do so.

AuthTransfer has similar problems but of a different sort, primarily that too many people not using it don’t realize how it’s still rapidly changing and that already there are some independent and semi-independent platforms emerging built with it.

What remains important to keep an eye out for is if/when the AuthTransfer protocol is fully released from Bluesky’s ownership/control and becomes an open standard. I think that’s as important or more important than any fully independent “instance”, to put it in ActivityPub terms, built with it.

There’s something a little like this in the form of https://portal.alien.top/

However, as I understand it that currently only works with that specific site/instance (alien.top). Not aware of any others that may do so.

I prefer the all at once approach so I can watch it at my own pace. If it releases weekly, whether a few a week or one a week, I ignore it until the season is done and if I remember, then I watch at my pace.

Alternatively I wait till the show has run its course entirely and then whenever I remember, I watch it and finish it if it keeps my interest.

I’ve probably been through every release scheduling approach the distributors can try, so I’m done trying to follow them (especially when they make it unclear which they’re trying this time). If the show catches my interest, I’ll watch it whenever and however I prefer pending its availability.

Will have to try to remember this one for when it’s finished! Contemporary optimistic imaginings of the future are a rare treat (understandably so, but still).

Desktop friendly link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugstore_beetle

That aside, you’re not kidding:

It belongs to the family Ptinidae, which also includes the deathwatch beetle, furniture beetle and cigarette beetle.

Talk about a wild family.

Yep, I try to look past it and read posts written that way sometimes, but more often I scroll on by without reading them.

Some apps (e.g. Voyager/Thunder) and web frontends (Tesseract? not sure which tbh) enable keyword filtering.

In the case of the apps, it’s found in settings under filters & blocks or filters, respectively. Unfortunately I can’t recall which web frontends enable it for sure, but I do remember there seemed to be fewer of them that did last I checked.

Personally I dislike anything with -verse involved because big companies have run it into the ground and then some.

The boring, dry ways of describing them work best in my opinion.

Federated forums is the driest, most technical and to the point but not very telling.

Swap out forum for link aggregator and you have similar, arguably even more technical (certainly more of a mouthful).

Connected/linked forums might be more approachable, more readily conveying how these are separate forums but networked together.

Cross-forums may work as well to the same end, but not sure how immediately understandable cross may be in this context and outside of gaming spaces.

Whatever the case I kind of think this has things backwards. What’s more important than describing and talking about the backend tech is pointing people to any of the sites built with them that have anything of interest to them to bother with. I can’t think of anything online I’ve ever gone to or used because someone told me it was using Apache, Nginx, phpBB, or like an Open Source Web Server or using such and such CDN.

The reason why is simple: next to nobody talks like that. The only people that might are deep in web dev.

Keep an eye on !webrevival@lemm.ee, search via Marginalia Search, and check out the ooh directory among other things.

Also look out for webrings (or similar) on some of the sites you may find, as they can help you find other likeminded net people.

Some people are trying to bring back some of the old navigation methods, but with some improvements, to keep the open net around.

Sounds interesting, appreciate the link!

Going off the headline alone makes me think of when the idea of putting cosmetic patches on things felt cool. Personally I still think it’s cool, maybe others do too, I dunno.

Anyway, repairing things is cool whether it’s electronic or cloth!

The thumbnail had me thinking this was some strange creature waving until I opened it and saw the good friends goofing about.

For some reason I thought The Verge might have a more substantive article on this…Yet instead TechCrunch came in with better coverage: “Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?”

This is a great demonstration that if Bluesky really wants to walk their talk, they’re going to have to do more. More in terms of educating people on the value of self-hosting their own Personal Data Severs, and encouraging the building of other PDS hosting/entryway services.

Nevertheless even then the protocol still has Relays that act as the biggest point of failure to it all, and that will remain so even with independent ones.