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by zdunn 2mo ago
> But RSS isn’t the reason why podcasts are popular I don't understand the relevance of this point. RSS is infrastructure so why would end users need to know about it? They don't know about IP addresses when they type a domain
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by zdunn 2mo ago
That's only a problem for the engorged advertising industry that's been built up in the past couple decades. Putting ads in an RSS feed is no different than non-algorithmic ads on a webpage or classified sections in newspapers, wh
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by zdunn 2mo ago
But RSS did become mainstream; podcasts are a normal part of media now and non-techies seem to have no problem finding and consuming them. They don't have to know about RSS. There's no reason similar UIs can't exist for tex
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by zdunn 2mo ago
Aren't the ads already on the webpage? If the RSS contains snippets of the pages and I have to navigate to the page to view the article, then I see your ads. Also, can't the ads be a part of the feed just as nicely as the articles
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by zdunn 2y ago
Right, you said you're from the UK so that's in line with what I would have expected. My unstated point was that multinyms are intrinsically tied to dialects so there is no absolute list of multinyms
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by zdunn 2y ago
> "e'er" would sound slightly different as it's spoken almost like two syllables, though not quite. I'm a native English speaker (US). Sometimes when I say "ever"/"never", the 'v&#x2
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by zdunn 2y ago
In the United States South, its very common to drop the 'g' at the end of a word ending in '-ing'. barren-bearing can definitely sound the same here.
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by zdunn 2y ago
I'm from South Carolina, USA and I pronounce 'greater' and 'grader' the same. There is a subtle difference and that difference can be more noticeable sometimes, but most of the time I'm saying them the same. Fo
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by zdunn 2y ago
I think the acronym thing is related but a separate phenomenon. My guess would be that speakers intuitively think the acronym isn't easily understandable so they add an extra word to clarify it, intentionally or unintentionally duplica
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by zdunn 2y ago
> mistranslated horno to "earth oven" My argument is that it's not a mistranslation. In Spanish, "horno" means any kind of oven. In English, it means specifically an earth oven because when English speakers start
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by zdunn 2y ago
When a common word from another language is borrowed into English, it tends to take on a more specific meaning. Most native English speakers wouldn't use "salsa" to describe any other sauce. Horno oven sounds perfectly reason
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by zdunn 2y ago
> just make transit more attractive, not make driving less attractive If ppl drive more than use transit, they won't support improvements to transit. This is the first step to improving transit. Make driving less attractive, more
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by zdunn 3y ago
> Also, though the author mentions annotations, I don't see how they intend to implement them. It's discussed at the very end of section 8 and all of section 9 that interactive functionality would use web components.
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by zdunn 3y ago
> The basic thing I am saying is that if you call it a web browser and use the same core protocols etc., you have a practically infinite (for an individual) set of requirements to implement and will never be truly compatible But what the
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by zdunn 3y ago
Aren't you the developer of Smithereen (a fediverse server)? Nearly every other fediverse software has a web interface that can act as a PWA. I launch lemmy.ml and kbin.social as standalone PWAs from my homescreen. My pleroma instance
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by zdunn 3y ago
I asked for it, and a lot of other ppl did too. These are great features and removing them would cause more than 1% of websites to lose some functionality. But, importantly, they shouldn't lose their core functionality (if they're
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by zdunn 3y ago
I've found https://tiddly.packett.cool/ is great on desktop and mobile
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by zdunn 4y ago
Discoverability is a little better since Pleroma exposes the public timelines for non-logged in users (though the admin can disable that). I'm not sure about search.
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by zdunn 4y ago
The repos they linked are just for the clients. I think the server software would be way more interesting, but it's also their secret sauce so it unlikely they'll open source that. I'm with you that allowing the clients to co
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by zdunn 4y ago
Except in situations exactly like this one. A user shouldn't have to worry about local vs remote videos if they want to share the link outside the fediverse and someone clicking that link definitely shouldn't have to know about in
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by zdunn 4y ago
Right, but that doesn't mean the server can't support other post types or leave complex UI to other clients. Each server could fallback to displaying a link to an external post at a bare minimum, or display whatever the `content`
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by zdunn 4y ago
> The UX is important. It's important that all users have the same one. For link aggregators, you want comments displayed as a tree. For microblogging, flat lists work better, especially when people post "threads", which t
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by zdunn 4y ago
You could ask around the indieweb irc, https://chat.indieweb.org/ Some of the people there have messed around with syndicating to ActivityPub. I think one of them maintains a Wordpress activitypub plugin
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by zdunn 4y ago
You could also check out Pleroma; Mastodon isnt the only microblogging software on the fediverse https://pleroma.social/#featured-instances https://fediverse.party/en/pleroma/
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by zdunn 4y ago
That's the basis for https://indieweb.org which i think is a much better solution than ActivityPub. See micro.blog if you want an example of a productized form of those ideas
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by zdunn 4y ago
> You can't shove Reddit into Twitter UX and expect something nice to come out, no matter how hard you try. Why not? it's text; you could make the same exact post on reddit and twitter (barring the length, which could be trunca
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by zdunn 4y ago
But you can't post a video to Peertube or start a thread on Lemmy. There's a level of interoperability that was envisioned for the fediverse that we're missing right now. If you post a video, Peertube users won't see it
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by zdunn 4y ago
> I am not sure why the ecosystem went this way Because when activitypub was still getting off the ground, mastodon built their own client api. A lot of excited people built apps for mastodon so pleroma, and then others, started building
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by zdunn 4y ago
https://indieweb.xyz is a reddit-like link aggregator and https://www.indieforums.net/ is a forum for independent blogs. Neither is curated since theyre user submitted content, but still might be of interest to
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by zdunn 5y ago
You're right, my bad. I was getting ahead of my self. The JS fallback covers older, non-evergreen browsers and the HTML fallback covers everything (including the described issue)

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