Thank YOu!

Talking with Ben Pate today at 1500 Eastern. Robert is tomorrow at 1100

No harm in that. To each their own. :-) Everyone gets to decide at least.

Good plan. Keep locking down your big tech platforms, and we’ll all be over here letting folks know where they can find freedom.

Actually going to be talking with Robert W. Gehl tomorrow on Fireside Fedi! I just found out about him, a few weeks ago, and he’s written extensively on social media. I’ve unfortunately not been able to acquire any of his books to prepare, but they seem to all be incredibly interestingly titled.

https://stream.firesidefedi.live/ if folks wanna watch live and ask questions.

https://video.firesidefedi.live/ if you wanna watch the show afterwards.

I have a friend that also brought up discoverability as an issue, so she stayed on Twitch. Twitch also has a massive discoverability problem and they have numerous tools, but there’s so much noise it’s impossible to rise above it.

With Owncast discoverability is organic atm. It’s a tiny, but growing pond. Like anything else anymore, if you want to be discovered you have to do the leg work.

But it’s definitely NOT Twitch and you won’t get famous or make tons of money.

What you can do though is control your platform, stream what you want, etc.

I personally LOVE Owncast. It’s how I’ve met numerous folks and built a community. I use my own for games and tech, https://stream.ozoned.net/ . I’ve even done some testing to see how much overhead it needs, https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/1itGRqF41XeTfrismnsesL , and how many opens streams you can have.

I also use Owncast to livestream my Fireside Fedi episodes, https://stream.firesidefedi.live/ . I even spoke with Gabe Kangas on the show in the past https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/nyM8V7WzVb1f2GehjAdSTX

I’ve spoken to numerous folks that flat out tell me it can’t work. With THOUSANDS of people you’d probably hit bandwidth limitations, but there’s S3 buckets and CDNs. Whether they’ll let you push livestreams to those for the long term is yet to be seen.

I’m very biases though as I love Owncast, I love controlling MY platform, and I love Fedi. Also I run the unofficial owncast community.

https://directory.owncast.online/

Fediverse has quite alot of indie musicians. Check out LABR http://labr.online/ or the indie beat https://theindiebeat.fm/ and try some new music and support creatives directly.

I would be using it, but just bought new hardware that even on experimental I couldn’t get running. But I will run it in the future when debian supports the gpu.

Well thank you so much for all you do Nelizea! Hopefully someday they will give more consideration to us, but for now, we’re lucky to have folks like yourself volunteering time. Very much appreciated!

US has done it before. Stem cell research has been held back in the US even before it could PROVE that it was effective. Here, mRNA PROVED it worked and we’re undoing it. This is worse than ignorance. It’s down right maliciously negligent. Once again all because of their beliefs that science is wrong.

Asking the tough questions.

I know friends love their ereaders. I’d need an open one, I refuse to get into the Amazon ecosystem. But I also LOVE physical copies. I think they’d probably be great for books I’m sure about and then buy a physical book later. But lots of ebooks are ridiculously priced compared to physical.

I get all of my books through Better World Books. I buy them used as much as possible and they’re always in fine shape. I then donate the books on if I don’t want to keep them. I seriously love BWB.

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/

Better World Books is your online destination for books offering the widest selection of used and new books. We give booklovers across the world access to the power of knowledge at an affordable price and help them stay connected through reading. We better the world, one book at a time, by making a difference with every purchase made through donations and environmental programs. It’s simple: Buy Books. Do Good.

It’s a spoontula, cousin of the spork. It is created when a spoon and a spatula love each other enough to transcend reality. Just don’t ever let two spoontulas stay in one area as they’re very territorial and will attack each other. That’s how the spoon drawer gets all messed up.

Welcome folks, be friendly, get to know people. I’ve started a podcast, because I had this exact question. I talk to folks from around the fedi and just have a fireside chat. We need more projects like this that show who and what we are and it has to be shown outside of Fedi as well.

If you’re interested the show is at video.firesidefedi.live/@show . Also on YT, but delayed by months and with new videos I’m pulling some out as a teaser to go to Peertube.

Techno King Asshole. TKA for short.

lots of indie musicians on the fediverse. :-)