@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 

@reiver
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I make things for the #Fediverse & #smallNet

Talk about #DeSo #FediDev #FediverseUX #P2P #Privacy #SpreadFediverse

I post #SciFiArt

Vlog at #AllYourBases #FinalForm

Work on #CrowdBucks #FediCon #FediverseAcademy #FediverseCity #FingerProtocol #GreatApe #Microdon #ProToGo #SocialFed

I life-cast at @reiver

Code in #golang

I like to understand things. I like to make things.

The meaning of life — first survive, then reproduce 🌞

Formal b/g: comp sci, math. Pro b/g: soft eng, ml, research

Web-Sitehttps://reiver.link
Support My Workhttps://crowdbucks.fund/@reiver@mastodon.social
Alt (Science Fedi)https://mstdn.ca/@reiver
Source-Codehttps://codeberg.org/reiver
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 12h ago
PaNel82cz 🏴‍☠️4d ago

I love #mastodon

THE REAL #internet

#aiart

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 13h ago
Micr0byteMar 16

Hi so, i've been putting this off for a bit but i think i need to say something about it

i run a bunch of stuff for free,, altbot, fuzzies.wtf, wellness-p.ing, ventboard.site and a few other things.

mostly i just quietly covered the costs of whatever the donations couldn't, using my own money. that was fine especially when i lived at home.

i moved to uni. now the gap kinda comes out of my food budget. which... is not ideal..

server and infrastructure costs run me $165/mo. donations have also been slowly going down recently,, which is totally fine, life happens,, but it's gotten to a point where i feel like i should say something rather than quietly struggle

if you use any of this stuff and can spare anything, even just a one time thing, it would actually really help

github sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/micr0-dev

ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/micr0byte

no pressure, things will stay free but just know it gets harder for me to keep doing stuff like this. love you all! <3

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 13h ago
PPC Land14h ago
W3C's smart voice agents report flags fragmentation, privacy gaps: W3C's February 2026 voice agents workshop flagged eight unresolved standards gaps covering interoperability, privacy, hallucination control, and accessibility. https://ppc.land/w3cs-smart-voice-agents-report-flags-fragmentation-privacy-gaps/ #W3C #VoiceAgents #SmartTechnology #Interoperability #Privacy
W3C's smart voice agents report flags fragmentation, privacy gaps

W3C's February 2026 voice agents workshop flagged eight unresolved standards gaps covering interoperability, privacy, hallucination control, and accessibility.

PPC Land
Show thread@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 13h ago

@OliviaVespera @HolosSocial

Regarding:

"""
And this... doesn't make sense to me either.
"Mastodon is not decentralized, it's just someone else's computer."
"""

I assume they mean that a single Mastodon server is centralized because, for example, your identity is tied to an Internet domain, and the sysop/admin of the server with that Internet domain can take that identity away from you.

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 14h ago
Show threadElena Rossini ⁂14h ago

@reiver if I may be blunt, I think many creative people (and journalists and politicians) are too attached to vanity metrics even if their engagement on Big Tech platforms is very low. They may be afraid to start over on yet another new network where they'd have 0 followers.

This year I'm all in trying to help cultural institutions get on the Fediverse... I think once some big players are here (museums, galleries, media organizations) others will follow

Show thread@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 14h ago

@nils @occrp

Is the media limit the only issue you are aware of?

Or, are there other issues, too?

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 14h ago

It has been a while since I heard anything about Nicole The Fediverse Chick.

#NicoleTheFediverseChick

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 14h ago
MastoBlaster - Official Account15h ago
Build 84 is out:

  • Added support for uploading audio/video files.
  • General fixes.
#MastoBlaster
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 14h ago

RE: https://sigmoid.social/@TTAships/116355762671266667

There is a bot that generates images:

@TTAships

And, another (different) bot that generates alt-text for those images:

@altbot

...

For example:

https://mastodon.social/@TTAships@sigmoid.social/116355762831811026

https://mastodon.social/@altbot@fuzzies.wtf/116355771607377808

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 15h ago
Show threadNils15h ago
@reiver The apparent 40 mb limit for media attachments on many Mastodon servers makes this a hard sell. At @occrp, we routinely have to produce a dedicated version of videos for Mastodon that stay below that limit, lest posts with media won't publish. I know this is a local server limit, but it seems most servers have comparable ones. Linking to video platforms is fine, but if one wants to cross-post with platforms that favor local attachments over external links, you'll almost certainly be crafting separate versions specifically for Mastodon. And uploading a video to YouTube every time adds an extra step where mainstream platforms allow you to just include the file with the post and be done.