I’ve just released v7.1.0 of FediFetcher. This is an important release that will significantly improve resource usage and running time of FediFetcher, as well as help our users be good citizens of the fediverse.
I encourage you all to update to the latest version asap.
For full details including update instructions visit the release page:
If anybody wants to #contribute to a small #opensource utility using #ratatui and #iroh we've got an open issue for making a Terminal UI for a graph database explorer on the Weird project:
I am convinced one of the most radically positive things you can do as a middle class/wealthy person is provide a little seed capital to start a worker-owned cooperative. Groceries, community pharmacy, medical office, gym, local newspaper, co-housing, whathaveyou - a lot of the folks who could benefit most from a co-op don't have the $ to start one even if they can contribute sweat equity.
Start something that frees us all from the rapacious corps & plutocrats.
It’s come to my attention that #fedifetcher can put a lot of load on mastodon instances. (Yes, I should’ve foreseen this)
Here are my thoughts on ways to address this. I’d be keen on thoughts by people impacted by this (be it as users of Fedifetcher or as #mastoadmin ) - preferably as comments to that issue.
While looking into the small web, I came across the Tildeverse, which is a collection of sites that provide homepages and other services for each of its members, with a focus on being a tight knit community. Like look at this one site, and in particular it's "what's everyone up to" section: https://ctrl-c.club/
I think that's really cool, and it's the kind of communities I think the Internet needs more of.
For a long time I couldn’t imagine a world where Twitter wasn’t a daily hangout for me, and now my account is deleted. I couldn’t imagine a web without Google and now I don’t use it because they ruined it. I never used Facebook much, but it was a powerhouse for years and now it's a shit-filled shambling zombie.
These digital behemoths, they’re temporary. And their time is almost up.
We have some unfortunate news. @fastmail has made the decision to lay off 60% of our bargaining unit, including our bargaining committee, in a surprise restructure while we were in the middle of contract negotiations. Fortunately, we were able to negotiate for a much better severance package than we would have gotten had we not unionized when we did. We are grateful for the work that the Communication Workers of America put in on our behalf to get us the best deal they could.
> If you use clean energy sources for that added demand, you've used up some of the clean energy supply that could have gone somewhere else. Until we actually have more clean energy than we need, throwing lots of it at training and using "generative AI" models is just going to make the climate crisis worse.