Unity is important
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they may never sit"
Replaced my lawn with clover ... now it's always green no matter the weather (even now under a foot of snow, it's still leafy green) ... and several times in the summer, the flowers bloom and the bees visit them. Over the years, I keep planting wild flowers around the edges of the lawn. Not much there but I keep expanding it every year.
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 ....
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.
Going to a bar to meet someone was the first problem. It's far better to try to meet people in public places that don't involve alcohol, drugs and loud music.
At this point in my life ... every one of my playlists is just an endless repeat of 80s and 90s hit songs
I have a niece who does this
I'll look at her saying ... do you understand?
Her .. yup
Me ... you got all that?
Her ... yup
Me two hours later: ... you didn't understand anything did you?
Her .... yup
Sometimes I just respond with .... SPEAK LOUDER INTO THE HORN SON!!!
"I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian Consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 auto-gyro?"
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.
To experiment and just use it out of curiousity. I know it's capabilities and being able to manage, manipulate and change any writing, content or data I send it ... but that's the problem ... I don't trust any of their damned systems to have access to any amount of my personal data or information.
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.
Hope is a undead zombie that can't be killed ... you tear them apart, scatter them to the wind, put them in a blender and pour them into the ocean ... you even burn it and scatter its ashes ... but it will keep regenerating over and over again and will just never die!!
Just because you defeated a country's army in battle and claimed victory .... doesn't mean that the inhabitants or their army automatically become your friends and countrymen. Sometimes at the end of those victories, the only thing holding everyone together is the threat of more violence. All through history, victory doesn't always mean that everyone gets to ride off with cheering crowds and everyone lives happily ever after.