I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket;
— when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount;
— eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant “You should make a comic about that!”
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren’t going to buy it, and I’d smile politely, “Yeah, sure. Someday.”
“Don’t try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it,” they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don’t make comics any longer after all.
Apparently, so did everybody involved. Over a decade ago, Dan the Automator said the follow-up album was almost finished. Then… nothing more 😟
Advertisers can stake their PRE [crypto tokens] to a keyword, and whichever advertiser stakes the most tokens will have its ads displayed when a user searches on the term selected. Advertisers confer the most external value on PRE, so their success is very important to the ecosystem.
So crypto currency and advertising? Hard pass.
I genuinely can’t tell if that’s intended as a comment, or if it’s something you need to have looked at 🤷
Just the sheer percentages of Software User Distribution by MAU on FediDb contradict your assertions about what “people” focus on.
Currently, Lemmy is at 3.05% vs Mastodon 56.85%.
All of those other platforms you try to throw into the discussion are beside the point. Nice try though.
That went hard from “people I know” to people, period. I’m decidedly non-celebrity, but I use Mastodon as well as Lemmy Mbin 🤷
You’d have to live under a rock (or not bother looking up publicly available stats) to claim that your experience reflects general usage.
There is probably no doubt that this at least in part has to do with the current political climate in the US, and I think there is a potential here to grow a US-centric org and try to establish instead a network of national organisations coordinating their efforts internationally.
This might — on a longer timescale than “by April we can’t pay our bills” — make for a broader field of potential funding from national, regional, and other grants applicable to local organisations. Certainly, the EU would be amenable to funding an organisation like IFTAS.
On another level this decentralisation would not only chime well with the nature of the fediverse (indeed, the internet), but also add a diversity of international perspectives to the IFTAS’ efforts.
This might also dispel the notion in some quarters that the internet is somehow a thing for North Americans to govern. From a European point of view — and certainly in my personal bubble, as a Scandinavian who does a lot if not most of my online communication in English — there has probably never been as much distrust in US decision making as now, and it might become IFTAS and other organisations to recognise that.
Once again, none of the above would solve IFTAS’ immediate finances, but if the org struggles through the lack of funding somehow, it might benefit from the broader perspectives.
They absolutely could, and arguably they should — will they, though?
No, that sounds accurate. Basically “Advanced protection” puts security in Google’s hands, and therefore is irrelevant to people worried about Google being the security risk…
Advanced protection
blocks side loading
disables installing apps from outside the Google Play Store
— so to me, running a degoogled Android device it is not just useless but actively harmful to the security of future apps that may become overreliant on this monopolist framework.
There are no alternatives I know that are compatible with my phone
No need to code your own(!) until you’ve tried the crdroid ROM available on the XDA forums…
You’re right though, there don’t seem to be a lot of actively developed ROMs, but still one more than expected?
Oh, and I just found a request for an /e/os build for your model(? mind the 5G/4G differences). Maybe back that if relevant 👍
There are plenty of good responses here already, but to me the main thing in marketing Trek to new audiences would be stop the frigging nostalgia fest.
Twenty years ago when the BBC relaunched Doctor Who, they played down all the background stuff for most of the first season, only drip feeding lore to the audience.
Star trek needs to learn from that approach to focus on good stories and engaging characters — and to aim outside of the established but dwindling fan group by allowing the almost 60 years of canon to play second violin.
Nice piece! Might fit even better in !workreform@lemmy.world?
Good talk. Get lost.
It’s been years since I actively used Friendica, but AFAIK the project has always had some form of “circles” that you can choose to share individual posts with? I don’t know if it’s been streamlined to translate into federation, though.
I believe people have a right to make their own choice.
And yet you argue against the jointhefediverse curator’s choice not to list whatever goes against their convictions?
As mentioned in another reply, Soapbox is an example of a Fediverse server software that often goes unmentioned because the developer is a giant MAGA hat. As the meme goes, they’re the same picture.
Do I? You seem to enjoy pedantic hairsplitting, but I fail to see where you’re going with this.
I agree that ideally the concept of “main instances” is beside the point in a federated network. Let’s call them “flagship” or “onboarding instances” then, the initial ones set up by developers as proof of concept that usually get the most traction by way of being open for registrations the longest.
I think it’s disingenuous to classify the decision to omit Lemmy from a list of fediverse software as “a spat”, though. Bringing it up again 1½ years later probably fits the bill better.
Well, horrible genocide apology takes, TBF. I didn’t mean to downplay the gravity of the points they bring up in the archived mastodon thread.
Do most people go to jointhefediverse, though? Honest question, I don’t know the site’s traffic stats vs fediverse.to or fediverse.party (which both show up way above jointhefediverse in my duckduckgo search). It’s not like an authoritative index or search engine blackballed Lemmy, it is literally about a single grassroots site.
Has she done other work than Elysian Fields and Lovage? I clearly didn’t do my homework like you have.