Jesse Welles comes through again.

@killyourfm I wrote something relatively recently about how, when blogging tired me, I would emphasize design work more. I think the challenge with social media is that it doesn’t make it easy to switch tracks.

@ricmac it's a good list! One strategy that I found works well is to build an engaging thread that encourages responses (i.e. share your work) and then build the responses into a starter pack.

In terms of growth, it's a similar ground game to here except there are a few more accelerants.

@ricmac A combination of things: I had a couple of semi-viral posts, and I ended up on a couple of quality starter packs. I also created a couple of my own that helped build the halo.

When Mike Masnick added me on his, that kind of made it clear it was going to start surging.

Bluesky is now more.

My Bluesky and Mastodon follower counts are now exactly the same. Pretty weird how quickly that happened. If you told me a year ago that Bluesky would blow up like that I don’t know if I would have made that bet.

@gavinanderegg I set up a PDS, just to be clear. My use of “relay” was essentially me just trying to explain that the server does not do very much on its own.

I started up a self-hosted instance on Bluesky and made it an Alf parody. I will report back that while I had some headaches with domain propagation it was actually not very painful.

The gotcha about the setup is that you need to use a wildcard domain for individual users. They offer a Caddy setup on their docker-compose to make it easier but if you're already running a server it can be harder to implement

The Onion bought Infowars. Not a drill. Not a drill.

https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

The fediverse rules and I plan to stay here as long as I can.

But seeing Bluesky carry a similar mission into the mainstream is ABSOLUTELY worth respecting.

https://mas.to/@swelljoe/113467896206066079

@zachleat Nightlight preservation efforts beginning in earnest

@killyourfm Definitely adding in more about Flatpak and Proton, which (for their own respective reasons) have changed a lot about the experience that makes it appealing to the average non-technical user.

I like this post from @johnonolan. While I don’t personally use Ghost these days, I deeply respect what they’ve built.

https://john.onolan.org/democratising-publishing/

@zachleat ok now that's a cool use case

@zachleat my worry is that it puts all the complexity on the user.

“Having a doorbell does not need to be complicated,” says the guy who wants everyone to pull out the phone and scan a QR code every time they want to ring the doorbell.

https://dingdongdoorbell.com/

@killyourfm Watching videos, surfing, and screwing around on various projects. It’s a laze-about machine. (I use an HP Envy as my main machine, mostly because of screen size.) Probably wouldn’t get that playing a game. But the GPU optimizations the Asahi team have made it equivalent to running on MacOS battery-wise.

@killyourfm Not a bad idea. I will note that, if you’re willing to test a different machine, I average 10+ hours on Asahi Fedora Remix on my M1 MacBook Air.

I get why the Framework is a good choice for this, though.

@killyourfm Interesting. I am mostly running Nobara GNOME these days and hearing the battery life getting that tanked using such a simple interface is genuinely surprising.

Turns out that all those subscribers the Post got in 2017 were bought in by the Democracy Dies in Darkness stuff, and this just shattered the illusion.