Was pitched Vocial - https://vocial.app/ - this morning: a social network that just uses voice.

Audioboo did something similar back in 2006 or so. I loved it - enough to be an advisor - but it never got to scale enough.

For Vocial, my advice would be…
a) base the social network on “the fediverse” - Mastodon etc
b) make Vocial a first-class fediverse client, so your friends are already there, so your posts already have an audience, and so you don’t have to actually run the entire social media network
c) make the Vocial app the place that’s optimised for voice: audio-first. The interface highlights posts made with voice (but still shows the rest). Posting voice is really easy with Vocial. Listening to it, too. But other Mastodon apps would also see the posts - just with their own clunky interface.

As a product, I think it has legs, perhaps - I suspect @evan may have views on how audio works here.

It will probably need to wait until early 2029, but every single person who has conspired with Trump to support Russia's invasion and occupation of Ukraine should be sent to Ukraine to face justice there while any domestic legal process continues in absentia.

Whatever laws need to change to make that happen need to be changed.

#USPol #politics

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-starshield-limits-russia-war-trump-musk-rcna608938

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

@llamasoft_ox how much is a good low milage sheep these days?

At #ArlingtonNationalCemetery for #VeteransDay Pete Hegseth with his wife, chief of staff Ricky Buria, Deputy CoS Patrick Weaver & Senior adviser & Deputy asst Tami Radabaugh were laughing & chatting, prompting the soldier patrolling in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to yell out
"ALL VISITORS WILL MAINTAIN AN ATMOSPHERE OF SILENCE & RESPECT AT ALL TIMES."
#Hegseth #disrespect

Fun one from me - we often talk about Earth-like planets in the search for life. But what about more unearthlike places?

For the BBC I dove into some of the more unusual ways we're looking for alien life, from trapped oceans to maneuvering stars. Enjoy!

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

@dansup Heyyy, this looks like what I had in mind when I threw together the crappy prototype linked in my profile! Thank you for doing it in a form people might actually use :)

This is powerful

#PeteHegseth #Hegseth, a #warhawk television personality from #FoxNews, of no real skills or value, who has no business leading the #US #USA #ArmedForces, does what plastic fakers with zero awareness do: he and his entourage of posers laugh at the #TombOfTheUnknownSoldier

He receives a swift and harsh rebuke from The Sentinel. The guardian of the tomb who maintains solemn decorum at the site

Sometimes in life a deeply symbolic moment really does capture it all

#VeteransDay

Also propaganda bots on Lemmy are an absurd assumption. Very few people use lemmy as compared to watching TV or Netflix or YouTube or Twitter or Instagram. Any entity that wants to influence anyone would not waste time, money and effort on Lemmy. The returns on investment just aren’t there for Lemmy as a channel (and this is how these media decisions are made as ad companies are often involved in political campaigns).

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/117600065097998771

Whiskey Pete will likely try to prosecute this brave soldier who rebuked him indignantly for his shameful show of disrespect at one of the nation's most solemn memorials.

(If you're not familiar with the soldier's unit, the Old Guard: it's a ceremonial posting. But you don't get in without serious soldiering credentials.)

When the republic has been cleansed of MAGA, this soldier deserves a medal and the thanks of the president.

@dansup @mczachurski still happening today :(

I'm not gonna wear my Ringwraith cloak around the house anymore. Too much pet stress.

@fesshole Yeah, rats are a serious health hazard, the council will help. A smart way would be to call the council and let them figure out it was at your neighbours place, but needed to be done.

Wife invited new upstairs neighbour in, she had a problem with her (android) phone: people could call her, but she wasn't able to call anyone. Her phone showed the outgoing call, but the other phone never received it.

So we started digging, seeing if she accidentally misconfigured something. She tried calling my phone, it rang for 30 seconds, nothing. Cancelled the call, we went looking in settings and whatnot... 5 minutes later, my phone rings, and she's calling. While her phone is in my hand, and the call app isn't running.

The problem isn't on the provider side, because we're using the same provider, and we can call just fine. She's not behind on payments or anything either. Nothing's blocked. Nothing is misconfigured.

We were about to give up, and she accepted that she'll have to visit customer service in person (she doesn't have a laptop, can't call them, and even if she could, she wouldn't understand a word they're telling her) to fix it, when my Wife chips in:

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Dear Fedi! We did not. We tried, and her phone magically started working again.

I now feel more ashamed than anytime in the past decade or so.

@ToonLink "kittenproof the house" , haha 😆 I can exactly imagine the process.

Elaborate on “ultra leftist”? Literally where are you on the compass if Reddit moderators are “too leftist” for you?

@tekhedd @tef *shagularity

We are hiring #PHP developers to work with #Moodle and related platforms. The company is Brighton-based but the team is mostly remote across the UK. It's honestly a great place to work, an established company with a supportive environment and no startup bluster. If you're interested, I'm happy to field PMs https://www.catalyst-eu.net/jobs/php-software-developer

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