customdesigned @customdesigned@qoto.org

@customdesigned @pidgin On UNIX like systems you should already have purple-url-handler installed which is already setup to handle xmpp: uris via the .desktop file.

Happy Mother’s Day from Benzie and the puppies Penn & Teller

@customdesigned @wordshaper @timbray One interesting aspect is that originally multicasting (to a considerable extent) was based on a typical "broadcasting" model of many people listening (or viewing) to the same thing at the exact same time. As on-demand, user choice applications came to dominate, this model became less and less useful.

@dgar
I before E except after C, except when your weird foreign neighbors Keith and Heidi seize the reins of their eight counterfeit heifer sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters

For all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”.

#EnglishIsHard

@theogrin @dgar

I pour some water in a trough
I sneeze and splutter, then I cough.
And with a rough hewn bough
My muddy paddy fields I plough.
Loaves of warm bread in a row
Crispy crusts and doughy dough.
Ow, my final duty to do
And then my chores will all be through.
My lament is finished, even though
Learning this word game is really slow.
It is so difficult, it's very rough
Learning English is really tough.
If a trough was a truff
And a plough was a pluff
If dough was duff
And though was thuff
If cough was cuff
And through was thruff
I would not pretend, or try to bluff,
But of OUGH I've had enough...

@pidgin is the reason I will never be able to spell "pigeon" correctly.

The 5000th GPF strip is officially in the queue. It will go live on January 4th. That's, um, a LOT of comic strips.

Mind you, there are already over 5000 UPDATES in the archive. Some of those are guest strips, some are bonus "Sunday comics" that were added before I did them regularly and thus weren't officially numbered. But this is 5k sequentially numbered comics. Now I REALLY feel old.

@customdesigned@qoto.org if you were to self host activity pub I wouldn’t use mastodon unless you plan to spend and have lots of users. It doesn’t work for small scale. As for this specific Que, honestly not sure, what’s gargons follow count?

@customdesigned
Iirc, activity0ub requires the server to "accept" and store the followers' info(inbox and such) so when you make a post their server would get notified about it(allowing for both notifications and simply to know if there is a post to pull)

@customdesigned Whilst this is all technically correct and useful, I think a bigger factor is going to be the front end for non-technical users. And that includes brands that want to have a presence and add that mode into their marketing campaigns. Lastly, sometimes a single user with high profile can bring an audience with them and dominate a particular platform, whilst remaining an average presence on others.