Thank god everyone was kept safe by this…

Ah, okay! So it’s meant to be more like “user research” than, like, a GameJam which might also bring together a developer and artist, but for the purpose of collaborating on some finished project.

That makes sense! Though part of me feels like maybe it would have been easier to find a bunch of content creators and developers separately, and then pair them up or something. I assume a content creator who arrives together as a team with a developer will already have a lot more context than the average user. 😛

But anything more that gets done is sweet, so good luck! We’re all rooting for you.

I’m not sure I understand the team premise…

They want a developer to work on adding multimedia applications or features to the Fediverse, and they also want artists to make content for the Fediverse, both of which make sense, but why team them up? Is the intention that the content creator member be the first user of the features the developer is developing? If so there might be a boring lead-time where the content creator can’t do anything and they’re just waiting on the developer to build a thing.

I’m not saying it’s a bad idea necessarily… I think I’m just confused at the shape of what they’re hoping to come out of this.

When I scrolled through only the first bit was about tzdb, it also talked about bash, libxml, libz, curl, TrueType, Harfbuzz, SQLite, and I think more.

Not sure why your copy only has the first section.

I saw one of those with I visited my wife’s family in the south of England in 2014 and I thought “oh cool, what a great idea!”

12 years later (sorry) and I’ve never seen that in Canada or any place I’ve traveled to. But it seemed like the future at the time, and probably still would!

Hmm. Obviously compatibility is tough, but I’d say the worst kind of fallback is the “I’m not seeing what other people are seeing, but I don’t know what I’m missing and there’s nothing to even indicate to be that I am missing anything” version…

Until the compatibility (or more obvious incompatibility) is written into the Lemmy server and my client, and then that’s deployed to my server, I worry that anytime I see something say something that doesn’t obviously line up with the photo, I’m going up wonder “are they misinterpreting this picture, or are they seeing a different picture?”

I feel like a better fallback, honestly, would just be a link that says “ALBUM” because if someone is assembling an image gallery, then only showing the first image and discarding the rest is probably never their intention. They picked multiple images for a reason.

What do the multi-image posts look like when federated to Lemmy? Even if I don’t see the extra images, I hope there’s at least some sign I’m missing something so I can go looking elsewhere.

😛

It’s not that that’s confusing me, I think I’m just surprised at the nakedness. Like, yeah, big business supports fascism, but often still have a pretense. Like, oh I’m investing in the industry, and the industry produces tanks, and there happens to be a conflict on the horizon, and you can pretend it’s just an investment in business. Or whatever.

But this feels like a dude, who isn’t in government or anything, put up a sign that says “I’m a prick”, and then a bunch of companies fell over themselves to give him money for… nothing in return. It’s like the business equivalent of sending all your money to a megachurch televangelist or something!

Again, if I were on the board of one of those companies, or a shareholder in it, I might be like “wait, why did we send this guy 30 million dollars? Even if I’m pro fascism… what does that money… get us? What did we spend it on?”

One thing I haven’t really figured out yet, and it may be because there isn’t an answer, is why some of these companies could plausibly be genuinely sending money to Omarchy.

Like, Digital Ocean. They’re a headless server company. So… why are they donating anything to a desktop distro? There’s nothing Digital Oceany about Omarchy as far as I understand.

It feels like someone was like “Guys, I made open source chicken feed” and Linode was like “son of a bitch I’m in”, I just don’t get it.

Ignoring the part where they just like the vibes and want to spend their money on… favour? I don’t even know that the company pretends to get out of it… Like, how would one pitch this expense to shareholders? We use company money to fund projects we don’t use, that have nothing to do with our business, because the guy running the project we don’t use is mean to people who aren’t white enough for him? And that’s what we’re spending your money on?