thanks for this bit of history. I had no idea joe was involved with Jupiter previously but it explains how he and Alex seemed to know each other.
I’m glad that Joe’s podcasts are still going. I find Chris and the Jupiter crew insufferable to listen to. the episodes feel like a mix of ads and cryptobegging between brief overly animated bits of content.
I believe freetube uses yt-dlp, so probably eventually yes. Many of these tools do.
i love the headphone profiles in poweramp!
louder for the people in the back.
read.write.as shows posts from users on that platform. maybe a good place to start looking. at any rate, it’s pretty ad-hoc and manual because, while it federates, you’re not going to see activity other than posting.
I use threema with family but getting others to use yet another app (especially for thin social connections) is difficult.
Depends on your threat model though, I guess.
Having been around since the early days of identica/statusnet: no, not really.
It’s always been small and a generally nice set of communities but it won’t reach a large enough audience to matter. US (and to some degree) global politics are such a clusterfuck that it’ll take more than some little servers with people discussing open source software and art or whatever to create substantial change.
that’s not to say it’s pointless. it’s nice to have these little groups to focus on. it doesn’t give me any hope but it does regulalry lift my spirits.
EDIT: I also dont think it needs to be any kind of agent or tool of change. Why can’t it just be what it is? Groups of people socializing with one another?
Really love Organic Maps. I live in a semi-rural area, though, so the only issue I’ve had with it is getting it to recognize addresses. I can navigate “close enough” in most cases to get there. Solid project.
or it’s a reddit post that once contained the answer but has been deleted in protest.
sadly it looks like the number of platforms you can sign into are really limited. would be nice if they let you specify an instance. a good start, nonetheless.
my guess would be to reach the widest audience first
radiodroid is also great. it’s an interface for radio-browser.info
have these streams been added to radio-browser.info?
maybe the reality is somewhere between them marketing things but also being really passionate about something. good observations.