Google, Facebook, and Twitter might be private companies, but their ties to the government make them something far more sinister: a means by which government can censor and manipulatively coerce their citizens. https://sevvie.ltd/censorship/google-beyond-good-and-dont-be-evil/

Will do. <3

Okay, nevermind. I'm not sure what happened before.

Wait. Do I have to pay for every post now? Did something change in the time I've been more idle?

For those that don't know, Pleroma is a sister project of Mastodon, both being daughters of GNUsocial and ActivityPub, granddaughters of StatusNet/Identi.ca.

The pedigree behind federated social networking is quite impressive. If anything can overtake Twitter, ActivityPub can.

I've spent the day getting a Pleroma instance and Matrix server up. Distributed/decentralized systems have always been a fascination of mine.

my sleep schedule is quite upside down, for where I live. Forgive my groggy first peep of the day.

Good morning everyone. Yes, I'm aware morning ended some time ago.

I've written an essay I suspect won't make me many friends around here -- but it's something I think needs to be said. https://sevvie.ltd/essays/fascism-left-until-its-right/

I like this one.

Hey, peeple, quick question: how do you pronounce #lkie? Do you just say "like", or is it "ell-key", or..?

@bevan A feature request, if you could. I doubt it'd be something that is needed in the future, but for the time being it seems like the only way to check my notifications is to refresh the page.

Could clicking the "Show new peeps" button query for notifications, as a stopgap?

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply I'm miserable because of the design. I have chronic health problems and they've really weighed me down the last week, especially the last couple days.

Focusing on my site is a means by which I ignore the problems usually.

To be clear, when I say "miserable", I mean ill. I don't want to worry anyone.

I'm really happy with the design I have in mind though. I'm stripping away all the unnecessary sidebar content on articles, especially on tablets & laptops < 1080p.

I've been miserable yesterday and today. I've been working on this new design for my website but I'm moving at a snail's pace at this point...

The mobile-first stuff is almost done though.

I may not be a popular figure, but I write and produce videos containing information I think needs to be heard. It all started as a voice from one of the lowest points in this country, homelessness, but it has evolved into so much more.

Even if I am read by one, I am read.

The Facebook Memo: "We Have a Problem with Political Diversity" #politics https://sevvie.ltd/politics/facebook-memo-problem-political-diversity/

I just figured out something very fun with CSS grid. You can maintain a fixed line-length for paragraphs, but intersperse images much wider -- achieving a very "responsive" look. https://codepen.io/sevvie/pen/OoRjOP

Personally, I like that he's not a charicature of his former self. Presidents in the age of the television changed how presidents act, and it strikes me as dishonest, overly-sanitized. Trump refuses to be anything but Trump.

He can demand good press all he wants; in a free society, we're free to ignore that and publish what we please. But when those who do support him are suppressed, even when they disagree with him, something is amiss.

That's not necessarily true. No hardcoding is required; if the training is done with biased parties, the algorithms will produce biased results.

https://sevvie.ltd/politics/social-media-algorithms-biased-against-conservatives/

That would be why I'm here. But when these companies are actively lying to their employees about the results of bias analysis, I think it also important to discuss.

Social networks do suppress conservative views and users. Employees of Facebook, Twitter, and Google know this, but those who disagree are terrified to speak up. #politics https://sevvie.ltd/politics/social-media-algorithms-biased-against-conservatives/

My essays and video essays are my passion and livelihood. But my code is and always will be my first love.

Thank you! And yeah, the embed on the page messed up and I had to fix it. This is what I get for pulling all-nighters (and all-dayers).

My latest video essay is up! This time, I'm talking about moral panics, a subject that gets mentioned often, but is very rarely properly explained.

https://sevvie.ltd/video-essays/sustained-moral-panic-weapon-of-dying-news-media/

Good heavens...

So... it will cost me 8 characters total, to imitate an IRC style of greater-than and less-than symbols around a name. Odd choice.

<Morgan Freeman Narration> But she did it anyway.

Ah, okay. Tags are being stripped out, instead of symbols being replaced with HTML < and >'s.

... Waitasec. Don't tell me you're not allowing HTML directly, @bevan

And that was the day @ano's curious, git- and IPFS-inspired manner of talking infected everyone. It was a good day.

#lkie

I adore Brave as a browser for multiple reasons: built-in security, the direct payment system, open-source codebase, and so on, and so on.

But even my beastly rendering computer has trouble with it, when I have too many tabs open, especially Twitter tabs. Here's hoping for -Os.

This is the article where they discuss it. I don't think having the codebase open-sourced means @Trust is to blame for malicious actors. Can the community help?

https://medium.com/@trustwallet/why-open-sourcing-android-app-could-be-a-harm-to-the-crypto-community-fb3ae1707dc6

I've switched over to @Trust on Android, just to test it out, but after reading about them closing the source in development I'm a bit concerned.

I get why they did it; people were purportedly forking the codebase to create scams. But there must be a better option than this.

Are you creating an ad-hoc mesh? Cuz I've considered making something similar.

Coming back to Peepeth in the morning: "Oh, I better refresh to see new notifications, and any changes to the frontend code."

I was far more active on IRC, but there's definitely a USEnet feel as well.

We'll know the really old geeks by their response that it reminds them of dial-in BBSes xD

@sponnet has been developing a JS library you might want to check out: https://github.com/sponnet/peepin

Thank you so much!

A friend on Twitter just pointed this out to me: WaveShare is now producing Raspberry Pi-compatible module boards that are cheap and stunningly beautiful: https://www.waveshare.com/compute-module-io-board-plus.htm

Now it's you, me, a couple others and a couple first-peeps filling in the night shift. ^.~

@bevan I know, I'm irritating... I sent you a DM on Twitter; it'll be the last I'm bothering you about this if you don't wish to respond.

I'm still helping @sponnet develop the JS library; it's one of the best ways to promote multiple frontends atm.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw

There is commonality, even if it seems like we're completely different. There are means by which everyone can be happy, and benefit from a platform which is moderated *and* uncensored.

Oxymoronic? Not if it's done right. And it wouldn't even be that hard.

I wish I knew how to say this in 280 characters.

Those who followed @fulcrum and I here are not contrary to Peepeth's goals. An opportunity is laid at @bevan's feet, by serendipity, to create something greater, both in line with his goals and the interests of those unexpected.

This is very insulting. I have been nothing but considerate as I can be, in listening to other opinions while presenting my own. If you do not wish to see what I say, the mute is right there; you needn't condescend.