Devils Panties 01/22/2024

[desertcreosote@lemm.ee]

They’re still working on it. All the dev is by a single guy, who also runs Pixelfed. He says he’ll be open-sourcing the code soon so more people can contribute and help get things going, but he wants to finish getting the web interface working first. And apparently he’s been spending a lot of time keeping everything online during the surge of interest, which has slowed everything down.

[launcheskayaks@lemmy.world]

It took like a week for me to get my email.

[sxan@midwest.social]

The jury is still out on BlueSky, but I don't think that's going to go well.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

Why not? A collection of links to things posted by people with comments from other people? Seems pretty social media to me.

[lordnikon@lemmy.world]

So by that logic are old school forms or bbs social media?

[lordnikon@lemmy.world]

Social is not the primary word in that phrase it's Media. Media the primary function is passive. Where only a few engage those people are the media personalities or in new media influencers. Since lemmy is so small most people engage since is not big enough to be used to make money or influence people to make other people money. So lemmy acts more like old school forms with a big webring than social media.

[klear@lemmy.world]

Don't forget beans!

[photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I disagree. We are sharing media. Whether or not the poster has a large following or is making money is irrelevant. What matters is that we're socializing, of a sort, by sharing media with one another.

[lordnikon@lemmy.world]

While true and I can see where you are coming from. My logic is we are sharing media meaning this is not the media in of itself. If this is social media, do you consider a discussion board like the ones that use phpbb social media? Honest question.

[photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah. I see any kind of online platform where users interact with other users and share media of any sort to be social media, so forums and discussion boards would fall under that definition. Reddit and Lemmy aren't much different from those types of forums. Granted, that is a very broad definition of social media, but the term itself is very vague.

[randomvideos@programming.dev]

The feed with the posts since the app was created or since a shorter time interval?

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

By forms, do you mean forums? If so, yes. If you mean like Google Forms, then no.

[lordnikon@lemmy.world]

Yes sorry yeah I meant forums

[coldus12@reddthat.com]

(Title says it is from 2024, while picture has @2025, so I guess 22/01/2025 That darn calendar)

[quantumsparkles@sh.itjust.works]

TikTok was just a bad Vine clone, and I don’t want a bad TikTok clone I just want a good Vine clone! Because I’m old!

[shortrounddev@lemmy.world]

Neither is tiktok. It's just media