Architech x Excessively Black x East Coast kid on the West Coast x JU$T x Building a better Internet
webb.page ~ 37y old from Cupertino
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👽 Paul Webb The U.S. is in such a sorry state that other countries are moving to open-source to avoid running government infrastructure on American-made software techradar.com/pro/... While this makes sense, it's also quite telling.
🙌 Nat Voisey Mastodon is great for communities that have a niche. Have you tried Ivory by Tapbots?
👽 Paul Webb THE only reason I'm such a heavy Mastodon user. Third-party apps are a must for any network.
🏒 Lucian Marin Mastodon is dead. Most people have migrated to Bluesky or Threads.
👽 Paul Webb HARD disagree. Mastodon is fantastic for me. Bluesky is quiet af and Threads is just wanna be viral content. I guess it just boils down to who you follow. To me, small web folks, hackers, and those who spend time making lil' projects for internet lovers spend most of their time on Mastodon.
👽 Paul Webb Blog post I published today about building a video platform blog.webb.page/202...
👋 Saif Ali oh hi, first time posting here 👋 excited to be part of the community <3
👽 Paul Webb Has anyone used Dia browser? Since I use Arc I was able to get an early invite. It's a pretty browser! I do not give a damn about any of its AI tools though.
👽 Paul Webb Hey, so my video platform works. nickel.video/e219n...
👽 Paul Webb Because I don't like Google but I want to upload video, I decided to make my own video platform. Turns out, you need to implement chunked uploads for modern file sizes or your server will run out of memory! I think I have it implemented correctly, can't wait to test in the AM.
🏒 Lucian Marin Liquid Glass design is DOA. Long live flat design.
👽 Paul Webb I quite like it the concept ands immediately installed the developer beta on my phone. It clearly wasn't considered in many places but I expect that from a beta.
🏒 Lucian Marin Do you upgrade every year?
👽 Paul Webb Yup. I keep telling myself I won't but the incentive is always the camera.
👽 Paul Webb Switch 2 is fantastic, loads of fun. Refreshed GameCube Controller is a blast. The camera is neat.
🏒 Lucian Marin What phone do you have? I have a Motorola Edge 50 Neo.
👽 Paul Webb iPhone 16 Pro Max
👽 Paul Webb The Switch 2 launches a week from today. I'm excited.
🏒 Lucian Marin After six months of downtime, Subreply is back online. The new feature is private messages.
👽 Paul Webb Don't call it a comeback!
🏒 Lucian Marin I think I will shut down Sub this time. New social networks can do more than I can do.
👽 Paul Webb I stopped working on socii.network because I came to the same conclusion. Mastodon has scratched that social media itch for me, even though the features I'd add would be more exciting.
🏒 Lucian Marin Google will buy Subreply and kill it.
👽 Paul Webb Par for the course