deadsuperhero

I can confirm that the email is only for sending out an invite, for downloading the beta version. You just use your existing MastoAPI-enabled Fediverse account.

Good to know. I have an inkling that this probably slipped under the radar when the SurfApp team were looking at branding and trademarks. Despite the fact that Suckless projects tend to have a somewhat popular following in the *nix community, it's probably pretty obscure anywhere else.

That’s not what this is. It’s more of a feed aggregator / reader with social features, framed as a browser of sorts.

The main thing it’s used for is feed curation and content discovery. You can basically use anything with a feed as a source, then aggregate and filter things.

It’s kind of like a news reader version of Yahoo Pipes almost.

Kind of. It doesn't do everything, but it could be a killer app for custom feeds and discovery in the Fediverse. It's still in Beta, and feels a little underdeveloped, but it's a promising proof-of-concept.

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That's honestly hilarious, fuck Minds.com. Place is literally Gab Lite.

Lukewarm take at best. It's cool if it's not for you personally, but a lot of people use it, love it, and benefit from it.

I think the stuff that Loops is building out could eventually become a standard feature that a lot of Fediverse platforms optionally offer. That kind of interop for the people that want it is frankly a win.

They were for a while, but I think the process has opened up a bit?

You might want to try CapCut. It's by ByteDance, used by a lot of Tiktokers, and some of the better features are behind a paywall, but it's probably one of the brightest examples of an easy-to-use mobile editor for Android.

I still haven't found a whole lot of alternatives to that. There's some professional-grade multi-track editors, and some rinkydink open source apps that barely do anything. Honestly, it's kind of hard to find a good balance.

Object Storage is relatively cheap, and goes a long way towards affordable hosting. Processing video, on the other hand...

To be fair, it kind of bubbled up gradually over the course of several years. 😅 It did not happen all at once!

Hey, thanks for asking! It largely boils down to money, people, and time. I'm currently a full-time student, and struggling to stay afloat.

Here's all the things I currently do:

• Research / Testing (gathering info for stories, tracking down info for sources, testing apps and platforms)
• Writing articles, interviews, guides, and reviews.
• Content Editing pieces submitted by contributors
• Scheduling for Podcast interviews
• A/V Production
• Podcast Distribution
• Music Promotion
• Graphic Design (thumbnails and such)
• WordPress development (features and data)
• Social Media Management (11+ accounts)
• Instance moderation
• Event coverage
• Manage a Contributor Team
• Fundraising
• System Administration

I'm probably missing a few things. It's a lot! And, while I've been able to balance this out for a long time, my severe burnout has seen diminishing returns. I'm at a point where articles are getting finished days and even weeks after something has happened, which... isn't great.

All of this stuff is more or less being done for pennies an hour. It's not sustainable.