Michel de Bree

@micheldebree
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Time traveling coder and
anatidaephobiac, building mission-critical enterprise software in the present, on an #opensource #java stack, and #chiptune 🦆 on the #commodore64 like it's 1989.
Websitehttps://www.micheldebree.nl/posts
Githubhttps://github.com/micheldebree
Retrocomputing :mastodon:https://c64.chat/@youth

Fresh piece of #c64 magic from LFT released at Fjälldata.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4twUyt-MY

#RetroComputing #demoscene

NINE (Seemingly Impossible C64 Demo)

YouTube
#genuary2025 #genuary28 Day 28: "Infinite Scroll."
@estrapade @noracodes One thing that I now technically understand but that I don’t really feel comfortable about is that with choosing an instance you are choosing the bubble that you are in, and it is not directly apparent which one you’re in and what other bubbles there are.
@kaukamieli Yup that’s what I meant. I have accounts on different servers because of discoverability, by watching the federated feed and by following federated toots by tag. I suppose I could do the same with only one account by visiting instances that have their feeds publicly accessible and picking users to follow. But that’s more work and not part of my daily routine.

@kaukamieli They do, but the home feeds of my two accounts do not have the same hits on the same tag. If it has nothing to do with federation, what could be the issue here?

Edit: ah you are saying that if I want to follow a tag, I should check the same tag on other instances to expand my bubble. That's my point regarding discoverability. Not a complaint, but a complication that not everyone will, or wishes to understand.

@kaukamieli Well that’s the thing. The way I understand it, when you follow a tag, you follow it in the federated toots. For example I follow #c64 on my c64.chat account and it has way less hits than when I follow the same tag on mastodon.social
@chordian You could at least secure your identity on c64.net before it becomes the next big thing ;)
@chordian Yeah first I thought of just switching accounts but then I run into these discoverability issues. Plus, when joining a new small instance, I am pretty much in the dark how well it will be maintained and how long it’s going to be in existence. So I kept my first account for those reasons and try to keep retrocomputing stuff separate from my more ‘normal’ identity. For a curious techie like me this is ok, but I can understand people that don’t wish to dive into these details.
Trying to get my head around the #Fediverse and #Mastodon instances. I have joined a small specialized instance because people say that’s a good thing (spread the load). There I am in my own bubble because the federated timeline still only has content related to the few people on the instance. If I want to discover toots outside my bubble I have to keep my account on the big general instance. I can live with that but it takes effort to grasp.

The combined weight of animals bred for food is now ten times the combined weight of all wild mammals and birds put together.

77% of the world's farmland is used to graze animals or produce crops to feed animals.

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