This post is written on https://normals.me and delivered to !fediverse@lemmy.world over #ActivityPub, so if you are reading it the basic plumbing works. Now let me explain what is this.

Normals is a forum with communities, threads, and questions with an accepted answer. It is a single instance, not software you can host, and the core is closed for anti-abuse reasons. The federation module will be published separately with implementation notes (FEP-67ff).

What federates today Every community is a Group actor following the Lemmy model (FEP-1b12). Follow @selfhosted@normals.me or any other community from Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin or Mastodon.

Posts and comments go both ways. Replies from your instance appear in the thread on Normals, replies from Normals go back to the origin.

Remote content is labelled with its origin, links back to it, and is never copied. Media loads from the source.

Signed fetches, so it works with instances that require authorized fetch. NodeInfo 2.1 is up.

Policies, in case they matter to you, it has no ads, and no paid reach, and of course no AI training on posts. AI crawlers blocked by default, public mod log with reasons, and no automated removals. Numbers at https://normals.me/transparency so please take a look.

If something from your instance shows up wrong here, or something from here shows up wrong on yours, reply with the URL and I'll fix it. Andy Piper mentioned NodeBB uses the same group model, if anyone runs a NodeBB instance I'd like to test against it, if possible.

I hope we all have fun. Cheers!

When the week is long and hard, you need some more energy.

In just one of your Earth hours, Friday will become Fresh!

We have a full hour of new videos and chat will be open if you are so inclined:

https://tv.theindiebeat.fm/

#TIBtv

I'm listening to Suzi Quatro on a popular streaming website.

#totp

If you like cats you may enjoy this one.

#BandcampFriday #Blues #BluesPiano #Improvisation #Music

https://mikesmale.bandcamp.com/track/kitten-on-a-string-2

two preorders i’ve been hyped for came out today; daine’s debut ep https://d4ine.bandcamp.com/album/in-endless-awe-agony & shygirl’s latest https://0800shygirl.bandcamp.com/album/swallow

#homelab

Tomorrow, CommsBreakdown & I are hosting a listening party to celebrate the release of our new album, For The Setting Sun.

Saturday 7 November at 7:00 PM UTC
https://commsbreakdown.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-setting-sun

For The Setting Sun is a collaboration that brings our unique styles together into 11 evolving tracks of chilled downtempo, ambient moods, trip-hop beats and electronic chillout.

It’s music for those golden moments when the afternoon sun lights the room and you want a soundtrack to ease yourself into the weekend.

@M0YNG
There was the guy in Greece that didn't want a QSO. I want DX, he said.

He was further from me than Newfoundland.

Also on HF nearby, but too far for ground wave needs NVIS, which a narrow range of frequencies. I'll hear UK or Donegal, but not the guy reading the IRTS news, most weeks on 7.123 MHz.

I'm near Shannon Volmet / Ballygireen and on 5505 that is often worse than someone in England on 5400.

I do prefer a contact that communicates rather than only interested in collecting.

@godotengine Be kind to yourself: use an open source game engine.

@ossguy yeah the OpenWRT One is a fantastic idea and I am glad it came to fruition but I just feel like all the focus on both jail breaking and LLM GenAI usage is way too much of a distraction from the mission of expanding the availability of quality, unencumbered and truly Free hardware and software 😕

@stevetex a little ham you say? ;)

@bean delay, deny, and depose

Choco is still adjusting to daylight saving time 😔

#ccmusic #BandcampFriday
Four weeks have passed, but I would say
it still feels new :-)

NEW ALBUM "Clicke Dee Click" by Kikhausen

#ccmusic
Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
Name your price

If u like what u hear - drop a dime for pizza and beer
:-)

14 tracks - lets say #electronic music
Including field recordings from 11 european cities this summer (Hamburg, Berlin, Görlitz, Dresden, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Zagreb, Ljubjiana, Munich, Nuremberg

https://kikhausen.bandcamp.com/album/clicke-dee-click

Barry Blitt's cover for next week's issue of The New Yorker. Nicely done. #Politics #BlueWave #Democrats #Democracy #Midterms #Midterms2026 #US #USpol

El 6 de noviembre de 1975, comienza 𝙇𝙖 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙖 𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙙𝙚, cuando unos 350.000 civiles marroquíes desarmados, portando banderas de su país y ejemplares del Corán, cruzarán la frontera desde la ciudad de Tarfaya hacia el entonces Sáhara español (actual Sáhara Occidental).

If you’ve had enough of the working week, I’ve made a fair bit of music that sounds like it has too. It’s still Bandcamp Friday, so if you hear something you like, today’s a good day to buy it.

https://limneticvillains.bandcamp.com

#BandcampFriday