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I was excited about this. Went on to look at the website and was greeted with a "Coming Soon!" message. It all made sense when I saw it was yet-another project from Daniel "Overpromise and Underdeliver" Supernault.
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Not to be confused with the original Web Intents.
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Not to be confused with the original Web Intents.
Thank you. Something stirred in the back of my mind when I read the title. Would have jumped down the rabbit hole if not for this comment 🙂
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I was excited about this. Went on to look at the website and was greeted with a "Coming Soon!" message. It all made sense when I saw it was yet-another project from Daniel "Overpromise and Underdeliver" Supernault.
I’m rooting for him, but sometimes he does make it hard.
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I had to laugh at this little bit of irony
<a href="https://mastodon.social/@webintents" target="_blank" rel="me noopener noreferrer" class="inline-flex items-center justify-center px-8 py-4 gradient-alt-bg text-white font-semibold rounded-lg hover:opacity-90 transition-opacity shadow-lg"><span class="iconify i-feather:user-plus mr-3" aria-hidden="true" style="font-size:20px;"></span> Follow on Mastodon </a>
If only there was a way that link could open their profile on the instance my account is on!
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I’m rooting for him, but sometimes he does make it hard.
He likes the process of working on greenfield ideas and gets bored once he ships the MVP, which is fine. What is not fine is that he makes a ton of hype around new projects, but after he gets tired of playing with it, he refuses to let go. It sucks the air out of the community for very little benefit.
I was hoping that the PixelFed kickstarter would force him to finally focus on the damn thing, but it seems he simply does not have the drive or interest to work at a steady pace in one single product.
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He likes the process of working on greenfield ideas and gets bored once he ships the MVP, which is fine. What is not fine is that he makes a ton of hype around new projects, but after he gets tired of playing with it, he refuses to let go. It sucks the air out of the community for very little benefit.
I was hoping that the PixelFed kickstarter would force him to finally focus on the damn thing, but it seems he simply does not have the drive or interest to work at a steady pace in one single product.
Senior Laravel/PHP Dev here. I'm really tempted to fork Pixelfed and loops. I've interacted with him on and off for nearly 8 years, and I just wish he'd make decisions where he would FULLY complete feature development initiatives... instead, he squirrels off towards a new shiny object.
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There is a FEP for this - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md it's not something dansup came up with originally. We'll see how close Pixelfed adheres to it.
PieFed has implemented basic support for that FEP since August 2025 and I just added more today.
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There is a FEP for this - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md it's not something dansup came up with originally. We'll see how close Pixelfed adheres to it.
PieFed has implemented basic support for that FEP since August 2025 and I just added more today.
Good on you Rimu. If NodeBB implements Activity Intents it'll be because of you.
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I think there's definitely an underserved space for academics on the fediverse.
Feed-based mechanics are not good for archival or slower (read: not always online) readers, so NodeBB actually works really well to collect that stuff and present it in less of a firehose-y format.
For example, here's a NodeBB forum that follows the #medicine tag: https://postcall.pub
Here on ActivityPub.Space the discussion is all ActivityPub focused and it is really really good at keeping up to date with the latest topics.
I'd be happy to work with you to start a general science (or more topic-focused) board if you're interested...
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you may also find a slack channel dedicated to your field.
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I think a lot of them moved to bluesky
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I think a lot of them moved to bluesky.
Here, I would just hang out in the science communities and other relevant ones, post relevant things and follow people you're interested in.
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Create/join communities in your field, on Mastodon follow the hashtags and most importantly feed them with posts even if no one answers or interacts, someday you’ll reach the audience you’re looking for
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The academic meme community here is absolutely ace! But what I would also like is to communicate with other academics in my field and share the latest publication and talk about it a bit if possible with peers.
I used to use Twitter (back when it was called Twitter) to post about my new publications. Now I use Mastodon.
Say what you wish about the negative aspect of algorithm based feeds, I am currently finding it hard to connect with other academics whose profiles may be dispersed in the wide fediverse.Long story short: How do I disseminate my work and connect with other academic peers in my field on the fediverse?
I'm study biosystems and circular economy.
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Good on you Rimu. If NodeBB implements Activity Intents it'll be because of you.
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There is a FEP for this - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md it's not something dansup came up with originally. We'll see how close Pixelfed adheres to it.
PieFed has implemented basic support for that FEP since August 2025 and I just added more today.
