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Sean Tilley

@ deadsuperhero @lemmy.world

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I write articles and interview people about the Fediverse and decentralized technologies. In my spare time, I play lots of video games. I also like to make pixel art, music, and games.

  • How to Make Your First Loops Video

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  • You might want to try CapCut. It's by ByteDance, used by a lot of Tiktokers, and some of the better features are behind a paywall, but it's probably one of the brightest examples of an easy-to-use mobile editor for Android.

    I still haven't found a whole lot of alternatives to that. There's some professional-grade multi-track editors, and some rinkydink open source apps that barely do anything. Honestly, it's kind of hard to find a good balance.

  • First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed

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  • Object Storage is relatively cheap, and goes a long way towards affordable hosting. Processing video, on the other hand...

  • We Distribute Is On Temporary Hiatus

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  • To be fair, it kind of bubbled up gradually over the course of several years. 😅 It did not happen all at once!

  • We Distribute Is On Temporary Hiatus

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  • Hey, thanks for asking! It largely boils down to money, people, and time. I'm currently a full-time student, and struggling to stay afloat.

    Here's all the things I currently do:

    • Research / Testing (gathering info for stories, tracking down info for sources, testing apps and platforms)
    • Writing articles, interviews, guides, and reviews.
    • Content Editing pieces submitted by contributors
    • Scheduling for Podcast interviews
    • A/V Production
    • Podcast Distribution
    • Music Promotion
    • Graphic Design (thumbnails and such)
    • WordPress development (features and data)
    • Social Media Management (11+ accounts)
    • Instance moderation
    • Event coverage
    • Manage a Contributor Team
    • Fundraising
    • System Administration

    I'm probably missing a few things. It's a lot! And, while I've been able to balance this out for a long time, my severe burnout has seen diminishing returns. I'm at a point where articles are getting finished days and even weeks after something has happened, which... isn't great.

    All of this stuff is more or less being done for pennies an hour. It's not sustainable.

  • Any peertube based podcasts on the fediverse?

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  • Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation

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  • Yeah, discovery remains one of the big domain area problems for the network. There's some promising work happening in the space, but it'll be a while before we see something.

    Incidentally, our publication is federated, and can be followed at @news@wedistribute.org!

  • Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation

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  • I don't disagree, but again, the listed platforms are launch partners who have opted to publicly support the organization on Day 1. It very well could be that they reached out to Lemmy and other projects, and didn't hear anything back.

  • Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation

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  • The list of shout-outs in the main announcement pertains to projects who have partnered with the SWF, and intend to support it and collaborate.

    It's also worth keeping in mind that there are more than 80 different platforms in varying states of development. Yeah, Lemmy is one of the bigger ones, and OG Threadiverse, but the list of platforms to name is absurdly long at this point. I think it makes sense for them to focus on the protocol, and immediate partners.

  • Radio Free Fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe

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  • RFF is amazing, and offers so much high-quality music. Historically, it's all been done by one guy, supporting 500+ artists.

  • Radio Free Fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe

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  • The connotation has more to do with the long tradition of Pirate Radio, not a bunch of random CIA stuff.

  • sub.club Emerges to Offer Paid Fediverse Subscriptions

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  • The difference here is that you literally sign in with your existing Fediverse identity.

  • sub.club Emerges to Offer Paid Fediverse Subscriptions

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  • Some of the people in the space are tired of panhandling, and would like to actually get paid for things they do. This can include: covering monthly instance costs, selling subscriptions to premium articles for a newspaper, supporting a video creator on PeerTube, or donating to an open source project. A subscription system is one way of doing that.

  • You can now bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts!

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  • It's a different approach with different ideas. It uses open protocols, focuses on data and account portability, and incorporates peer-to-peer concepts in its architecture. The vision behind Bluesky is to build a global square with these concepts.

    I definitely wish they would've extended ActivityPub and collaborated on the wider network, but I kind of understand wanting to start from scratch and not get involved with the cultural debt Mastodon brought to the network.