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!

Do I use AI to do everything? No, as a software engineer with over 15 years of experience in the industry, you can't let AI do all the work any developer knows that at this point? It messes things up all the time, ignores design patterns, ignores best practices, writes code stupidly cloning functions already exists, ignores SOLID, ignores security vulnerabilities, and so on. But I did use it to run unit tests, integration tests, perform performance and speed tests, and even to hack my own app.

The communities are random, there's no fixed order in them. Besides, they're mirrored of other existing communities. As you can see, they come from other sources like Mastodon based on the hashtags.

Regarding the plus feature, it's a way for users to decorate their profiles. I planned as source of income to maintain the project, otherwise, the project wouldn't exist, unfortunately I would need to pay for the serves to host the app, the DB backups, the infrastructure, pipelines, buckets, well if you are developer you might understand how a platform actually works. But nothing is implemented yet, nor will it be in the near future regarding the plus.

It is a real shame that people think that this is vibecoded, without prior experience working as a developer and I am saying this because it more than enough to hit F12 and check the network tab, and the weird thing for me is that people judge because how it looks, but this is what the CSS Framework https://tailwindcss.com/ offers. However I appreciate your comment and I hope I answered your questions.

I'm back to my normal 6am start time today and my body is NOT ready.

@jalefkowit one of these dudes has a Nobel prize and you'll never guess which one it is.

@ProPublica Now we know where all that USAID money is going

@hacks4pancakes @RogerBW Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, combined with Dropout, have been shows that help not go crazy through the dark times. I want more people in leadership positions that are like the leaders from those two Star Trek shows.

Let's all have gay space communism!

The explaination for why the Illarians do genetic modification deeply made sense. Its a mentality I wish that we as humanity would embrace again, adapting ourselves to co-exist with a planet, not destory it due to a conquering mentality of ownership.

explain the soulframe celestial polycule to me

wrong answers accepted

The MacBook Pro's PROLED XDR display is the best display you can buy right now, but touch adds little to the experience and it lacks Apple Pencil support (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)

https://petapixel.com/2026/11/05/apple-m5-max-macbook-pro-with-proled-xdr-review-dont-touch-it/
http://www.techmeme.com/261105/p27#a261105p27

The Indie Beat Television is streaming music videos 24/7!

#owncast #streaming #music #musicVideos #indieMusic #indie #TheIndieBeat #TIBtv

https://tv.theindiebeat.fm

@JoBlakely I've always thought of tankies as basically fascists trying to hijack socialism.

I think there might possibly have been a fascist group, awhile back, which actually had "socialist" in their name... historians help me out here?

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Visiting the HVA (https://www.hva.nl/)
Watching Alina Goldman talk about immersive experiences and a framework she has developed to evaluate, debug and have a metric for them.

https://www.theodysseylab.com/

15 dimensions of immersive presence

@domi @fogti @wolf480pl Reminds me that on my OpenSuse chroots it's like this, so pretty sure Alpine could toss out a lot of legacy:

$ cat /mnt/opensuse/etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
messagebus:x:499:486:User for D-Bus:/run/dbus:/usr/bin/false
haelwenn:x:203:100::/home/haelwenn:/bin/bash
lp:x:202:491:Printing daemon:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
systemd-timesync:x:484:484:systemd Time Synchronization:/:/usr/sbin/nologin

(haelwenn being my account, and yeah my uid is from ancient ranges)

@stux Oo, that was a good film.

@fesshole

@andypiper @MastodonEngineering @Mastodon ok thank you sir

@jtonline quiet afternoon then.

@hnapel @ledeuns Yes, anything > 256 characters

@mastodonmigration I used to trust the NYT and WaPost as sources of liberal wisdom until in the era of Trump, it became obvious they were not or no longer. In WaPost’s case my impression it had something to do with being bought by a stink’n $B.

@Daft_Freak it's a colourful benchy so you clearly had some purpose in mind ;-P