Ininewcrow

If they didn’t have the numbers or add them to a list … they should have at least given them an honourable mention

Greetings from northern Ontario in Canada … it’s a balmy -22 degrees Celsius tonight … and that’s not even wind chill as the air is perfectly still tonight … hopefully it’s a bit warmer where you are

That was a fun interview and informative and personal … which I really enjoyed. It’s also amazing to get a response from the creative head of the project.

It’s not so much for praise worship or to become a mindless fan … I want to get to know who the person and people are that are behind a software project that I want to use. I got into Lemmy and enjoyed it for a while before I started hearing about who the developers are. Although I was disappointed by who the developers are and what they represent, I also didn’t fully understand the animosity between everyone - if they are so terrible, why do people work with them or use their software - and if they are so terrible, why do they share their work and allow it be freely used by their opponents. It feels a lot more like sibling rivalry … where the siblings are fighting one another but can’t bear or are incapable of living without each other.

As you alluded to, Piefed is a breath of fresh air as the extreme politics are removed from the conversation. It feels good to know a bit more about who the person is behind the project and what they think and how they see the world. It makes me feel more comfortable to use this software.

I also noted the books you mentioned and will add them to my reading list …

• ‘The Ministry For The Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson
• ‘Orbital’ by Samantha Harvey

… and we already watched the film ‘Don’t Look Up’ and even though it seems to be panned by others as a lacklustre film, like you, we thoroughly enjoyed it as it was a great mirror to our world and how we should look at what we are doing to ourselves and how we are dealing with global problems.

Thanks again for sharing this interview … it’s a great insight into your mind and now I feel a whole lot better about staying in Piefed and using it more. I definitely feel a whole more confident in promoting it to others around me and to grow this corner of the fediverse.

Or if its in your basement on a concrete floor … the sounds of a drunken brawl happening downstairs.

We’ve done the same in Canada for years … I remember sending one to Santa when I was kid in grade school

We use a postal code system in Canada in the format of six digits separated in two three digit groups … A letter, number, letter … then a number, letter, number

So the postal code for Santa in the North Pole for Canadians is … H0H 0H0

Great … thanks for the response … it’s amazing for me to jump into something new and to be able to talk to the people developing the project. It’s nice to see the community in its infancy and be part of it. Good luck to you all and thanks for everything you guys do.

adaguy!

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they may never sit”

English is just mispronounced French

Interesting history provided by Rob Words - https://youtu.be/TUL29y0vJ8Q

As a Canadian … no doot aboot it

K-Pop!

Lookin ahead, the Guam-based firm is developing legal challenges to deep sea mining in the Pacific based on Indigenous guardianship, which Aguon says seeks to defend the ocean as “kin rather than commodity”

Great work to see that there are people actively trying to deal with the climate crisis and global warming. I’m Indigenous Canadian and the message that this law firm is building on is one I learned from my parents and Elders in northern Ontario … the idea and perspective that we don’t live for very long in this world and that we should take care of it for future generations. To treat the land and water like a living breathing entity … a sibling or a relative … that we should take care of because we exist in the same world together.

Thanks for this, I had to take time to be able to watch the full video. Great talk and I enjoyed being able to listen to the lead developer … but it was a bit strange to just turn on an interview video without knowing who anyone was or even have any of them introduce themselves properly.

It was still good and I left a detailed comment on the piefed.ca ‘a peak at piefed’ post …

https://piefed.ca/comment/2496066

Great video and talk … I appreciate being able to listen to the person who made Piefed possible.

However, I am a bit tech literate but not enough so especially with the Fediverse to know all the ins and outs of what is happening and who is involved or even who anyone is or what they do or even to know what is being done.

I think you guys making these presentations should take into consideration that you are talking to people who know absolutely nothing or very little about the people who are speaking and also very little about what they are doing. If it was more personable and presented down to the level of talking about these things to a random person on the street, it would be more informative and helpful for people.

This presentation as much as I enjoyed it felt more like I was thrown into a conversation mid way through a talk at a dinner table I happen to sit down at by accident. I don’t know the people, I hardly know what they are talking about but I know I want to know more about them.

I guess what I’m saying is that if these presentations were geared more to those of us who don’t know so much about the fediverse, we would be more likely to join into these projects like Piefed.

And when I say more personable I mean being able to talk about simple straight forward questions like …

• What is your name?
• Who are you? Where do you live?
• Are you a family man? Do you have a family?
• What do you do? What is your background?
• When did you start Piefed? How did it get started?
• Why did you start it?
• Who started it? Was it just you? Was there a group of people?
• How did you start it? How did it all come about?
• Where is all this happening? Is it just with you or is it a project happening and evolving in multiple places?

I know that people are careful of wanting to dox themselves … but there has to be a level of presenting yourself and your identity to the public to show them they we can trust them and they can trust us. I don’t want to know your address, identity or government issued information … I want to get to know a little bit about you as a person. The more I know about you, the more I can feel attached to you and the more I can trust you and the more enthused I can become about wanting to join your cause and your group. If its always the message of ‘here is the project, use it, good luck, bye’ … then there is no connection to the people and no personal feeling to anyone and there is less likely to form any kind of trust or bond with anyone.

Personally I’m liking Piefed but it feels like an uphill struggle to get to know the developers, the people behind it all and the history and evolution of it all because I had to go dig around and search for this info myself. Most people won’t do the digging and searching that I did and will just dismiss it all and move along and wait until Piefed hits a million users before they will want to do anything with it.

So in short, I appreciate Piefed and its developer but if you want people to be more interested in the project, we (the public) need to have more personable simple straight forward info about the who, what, where, why and how so that we can start to feel that connection to everything and have more of a personal link that will make us want to join Piefed.

They were just in the process of being transported from one location to another. Just as they were about to transport, they saw this chair and decided to snap a quick photo.

If you sing this to a nice cheery Christmas music melody … it sounds kinda nice :)

I want to find out more about the origins and development of Piefed … but I can’t seem to find any central write up or basic history. I have to search through past comments and posts to cobble together any info and the Piefed websites, tech descriptions from other sites or anywhere are all very generic and just say it’s a fediverse software similar to Reddit and Lemmy.

I don’t want people to completely dox themselves and expose themselves online if they don’t want to … but at the same time I want to know who the people are that working on the software I want to support. I want to know the people and their organization. I dug around the internet and found the main Piefed developer Rimu Atkinson and he seems like a very decent person.

I guess what I am asking is … it would be nice to have a central place of information for Piefed. A description of its history, how it came about, when it started, who the people are that are making it happen, how many of them there are. If you guys are worried about corporate espionage, a public blog wouldn’t make any difference because these big corporations already have detailed profiles on everyone as it is … it’s just not public.

The thing about public easy to read and quick information site descriptions, articles and stories about people and their work is very informative for us who are new to your community. I had to really do a lot of digging and reading about Piefed over several months (not because it took me that long but because I just did it in my spare time, wasn’t terribly interested and it took a lot of coaxing on my part to look things up). If I was unsure and I wanted to know this history but I had to look up this info on my own … there are probably many more people out there who just wouldn’t bother and pass over Piefed because they just don’t know, can’t find out and don’t want to be bothered searching for the info.

It’s just basic marketing and communications … if people don’t know you, your work or what you’re about … most people won’t take the time to research it all and just won’t bother with it. If there is an easy place to just read up on all this stuff in a few hundred words, a photo or two even, then people would feel a lot more comfortable about wanting to try Piefed.

Thanks … it feels a bit like a very small club at the moment but it’s neat to be here and see something new grow.

Nice to be here!

I just got my piefed account started and TOTP 2FA was one of the first things I went searching for.

I saw the other options but they are unfamiliar to me as I’ve never used them.