Especially when U+26E5 ⛥ is right there, and much closer to the current logo. Add lines connecting the outside and you’re basically there. If we made a font that rendered the sequence U+26E5 ⛥ + U+200D ZWJ + U+2B20 ⬠ as the Fediverse logo, and set it as default on Fediverse web platforms, we could go a long way towards getting it adopted.

U+26E5 RIGHT-HANDED INTERLACED PENTAGRAM and U+2B20 WHITE PENTAGON, for those curious

i was more referring to the fact that as a snark community they don’t necessarily represent the best of us

awful.systems is up there?

have to say i’m surprised. and a little disgusted.

I’m definitely not here to defend hexbear but have you scrolled their front page for even 10 seconds

I don’t hate change, I hate Putin apologism from a space that claims to be left wing.

More to the point I hate brain dead takes like “voting is not harm reduction and if you don’t go 3rd party in 2024 you’re no better than a fascist”

???

Maybe it’s been a while but last I checked in the admin of poa.st was bragging about being homophobic

Defederation would be my guess

not so fun fact: both of these apps actually just search iTunes

this whole article feels misleading to me. platforms where you can search for things by name without specifying who published it, cannot exist unless one (or a small handful) of organizations does all of the publishing. not unless search engines communicate with each other – and since apple is one of the major players I can promise you they do not.

let’s face it. 99% of podcasters use a monthly paid service that hosts their media files and submits them to the small handful of podcast search engines that exist, maybe even gives them a boost in the algorithm or whatever, and which could delete them at any moment should the podcaster stop paying. the only people who want to think about technology less than creators are consumers. approximately 0% of podcast listeners even know what an RSS feed is. if you don’t like Apple (or worse, they don’t like you), and people have to find the setting to paste a URL into their podcast app to listen to your podcast, an even smaller percentage of no one will listen to it than otherwise would have. “find us wherever you get your podcasts” is just a fancy way of saying “get to our website by googling our company name” (which more and more companies are doing in their ads). if you become someone Google doesn’t want to appear in their results, or you’re not big enough for google to notice you exist, your dream is over before it starts.

I’m honestly baffled how anyone can talk about the world of public podcasts being open and radical when they’re like one industry cooperation away from supporting DRM.

also antennapod ftw.

Why defederate though? All that will accomplish is preventing Threads users from seeing their message, effectively silencing the journalist on Threads before Facebook has a chance to.