moved -> @Riley@cybre.space @Riley@mastodon.technology

*extremely medium dot com popup voice* I notice you like a lot of my posts and are also a bipedal, carbon-based lifeform. Let's make it official. https://www.patreon.com/digitalscofflaw

If Eugen had been Yet Another Guy In Tech and not the good egg he's proven himself to be, Mastodon would have been dead in the water, and almost no one would know or care about federated social networks.

To be clear, I don't mind acknowledging GNUSocial's and its community's contributions, whatever they may be. What bothers me is, yet again, queer and PoC communities are not really getting much acknowledgement for their contributions in press and conversations outside Mastodon.

Mastodon owes its success to Eugen's patience and acceptance, and to the rainbow nerds who joined early.

Federated social media owes its newfound relevance to Mastodon. Let's not confuse the order of events.

Some pre-Mastodon fediverse participants want credit, but as best as I can tell previous implementations were content to be obscure and inaccessible to a non-technical audience.

You can't live in your moat for years then get mad when gay witches and furries make something that's actually inviting to people who don't live and breath code.

I tried the previous thing. Nobody talked about stuff I was interested in. Sorry for not namedropping you when I talk about my new social media home but I only have 500 c

Go hit that follow button. I'll press publish some time next month. https://digitalscofflaw.bandcamp.com

You can listen to Uncanny Valley now though. It's a DnB/orchestral fusion thing. https://soundcloud.com/snowfoxharmony/uncanny-valley

You understand this if you ever read that (I think) Asimov story with the guy who's amazing with computers and can't can't grok how others struggle and why they call him a genius. He surely had areas where he lacked, but computers...

I'm like that with melodies and sound design. It comes naturally to me, and every tiny thing I learn is a 100x improvement. For $5+/month, you can stop worrying about melody so much and bang your drums. https://www.patreon.com/digitalscofflaw

I'm filling out my Patreon content calendar with stuff that's easy for me and hard for others. I'm good at melodies and sound design! So I'm posting MIDIs and Serum presets. This way I don't have to think much about it, and folks paying me $5+ get consistent value out of it.

I am bad at rhythm, so I'm glad other people make them and share the samples.

Specialization is great. Like, it's trivial for me to make a rough but good melody in 15-30 minutes. Plenty of people are great at drums and stuff. Yay. :D

I just posted Uncanny Valley. It's part of an OST I'm working on. Giant robots, some evil, some not so much, are involved. Boost if you can. :3 https://soundcloud.com/snowfoxharmony/uncanny-valley

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@Riley there's extensions for firefox and chrome, and applications like Chromatic Vision Simulator on iOS

@Riley There's also the Colour Contrast Analyser: https://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/contrastanalyser

One of our usability groups at work uses that.

SOON GUYS.
NGINX IS SOON GONNA KILL APACHE. FINALLY.
https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/nginx_reaches_33_3_percent_web_server_market_share_while_apache_falls_below_50_percent
https://masto.quad.moe/media/xn4RWKdofSwmDLbjBz4