Google tells me "The term Levantine generally refers to Europeans (often British, French, or Italian) who settled in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Ottoman period, forming a distinct, cosmopolitan community.
In the context of the Levant, the Barry family refers to a prominent British merchant family that was part of the Levantine community in the Ottoman Empire, particularly in Izmir (Smyrna) and Istanbul (Constantinople). "
Oh, and the photo is the Barry's. So now I understand the pieces, but I don't really get it.
Maybe you've already looked into this, but my concern with your plan is the idea of packing up and moving to a new site and platform. What happens to existing users and post history? Building a community only to tell them they need to start all over could be detrimental.
My project for the week is getting Matrix and Continuwuity set up. Half-hearted initial attempts have been unsuccessful with the Continuwuity container just in constant restarts.
For basically as long as they've been around, I've mostly dismissed the Murphys as "too Boston" (which, in this sense, means dickish Boston Irish). But these last few years have really shown me I was just an idiot and they are exactly the kind of Boston Irish I want around.
I've been using Tusky for the last couple of years, but decided to give OpenVibe another go to keep Mastodon and Bluesky in one place.
OpenVibe is alright. Next to no customization, a little slow to load when first opening, and the scrolling animation is...I'm not even sure how to describe it. Artificial? It almost looks laggy even though it's responsive.
I understand recommendations, but I don't want anything just auto inserting music into my library. I curate my library. I want to intentionally add to it. Half the joy in finding new artists is whatever led you to that moment.
Maybe it's partly regional, but growing up it was always "nitch". Like "Tom has really found his (nitch)." It only seems to have been making the transition to "neesh" in the last 10 years or so and it still sounds off to me.
So do you have just a bunch of random boolean tags? The Genre tag can hold multiple values, so you could have "Classical;Relaxing;String Quartet;Suites" if you wanted and each is identified separately.
Thanks! Definitely going to spend some time with the media managers this weekend. Replacing 4 separate-but-connected-or-related apps into one would be amazing.
What's the flow there? Receive link, copy, open MeTube, paste, download watch?
Tiktok and Instagram links are so frustrating when friends send them.