FelipeFelop

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When I had Android, I regularly used phones past the point that they got security updates. Even a supposedly premium phone was hobbled by carriers/networks not releasing updates and cheaper phones didn’t have them for long.

Since moving to iPhone (where the 6S is still getting security updates ) I haven’t had a phone long enough for the updates to stop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The madness continues: the list of servers now shows calckey.social instead of firefish.social. When you click the button to chose it, you’re then invited to sign up to firefish.social. But as soon as you tap it there’s a message that signups are disabled.

You couldn’t make this up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, the instances marked General are not really. I think you might also be correct about waiting a week. The lead developer seems to be fighting some other battles on Mastodon at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed, thought I’d try again after a couple of days. Now getting 502 Bad Gateway errors from the joinfirefish site.

Also, some very strange reposting by firefish on mastodon. (possibly meant to do it from a personal account?) Some sort of unseemly personal argument between two people connected with the project that seem to have mental health issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That doesn’t make much sense. If firefish want iOS users then they are going to have to make it work on Safari

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don’t mind about the local timeline, or that the main language is different or that other users might get it defederated then your approach will work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They are marked as general but when you click or tap through it’s obvious most of them aren’t

Edit: Also, I thought this was a domain change not migrating the users. If they really are migrating users then that would explain why it’s taking so long. But why show the server as verified and available during the process.

I think someone not used to these things would see ‘Coming Soon’ and just leave it as not launched yet.

 

I thought I would try out firefish/calckey but found a few issues.

I should say I am in my 50s and have been around since I used 1970s BBS so have a reasonable understanding of the Fediverse etc.

But, joinfirefish.org seems to have gone for style over substance. It also doesn’t render properly on Safari (iOS)

Choosing a server to join seems unnecessarily difficult. At the top of the list is firefish.social marked as verified but when you click or tap to find out more you are presented with a coming soon page (not seen one of those since the 90s when everything was Under Construction).

The choice of servers seems limited with a need for more general servers.

It looks like I’m going to need to host my own. But a quick glance seems their’s poor documentation.

What do people think? Can anyone recommend a good general server in English?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was using a different client and account 😊

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I seem to be logged in but I can’t vote or comment and there doesn’t seem to be a way to search. I’m nervous to log out and in again because of the login bug.

Edit: changing avatar gives a JSON error

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Copyright is odd, if I make a hammer then the person who buys it can hammer away making things they can sell for profit, modify the hammer, make another similar one or give it away or rent it out without any restriction. But I might have patent on the design and I might have copyright on the logo.

If I make a film of me making the hammer then copyright applies and even if they buy the film from me they can’t do with it what they want and probably have to pay me more to show it.

What I’m saying is that I think we need to rethink and simplify copyright. It’s simply not right that children couldnt (up to 2015) sing Happy Birthday at a party without paying the rights holder for the tune.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Very much agree, but Paramount+ has never been good at marketing outside of the US. It’s simple, if you make shows difficult to watch/find then people don’t watch and don’t subscribe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think you’re right, Amazon has seemingly done well with Picard and Lower Decks (outside of the US) so it’s possible that they will want to add another Star Trek.

Paramount’s big mistake is having poor availability (taking too long to roll out Paramount+ and then having staggered release dates for shows in different areas) and complicated distribution arrangements that means they make less money.

In essence they treated streaming like DVD/Blu-Ray distribution which negates the benefits of streaming to the consumer.

 

Ahead of the merger with Showtime Paramount+ has cancelled more shows. The most surprising of which is Star Trek:Prodigy

The animated coproduction with Nickelodeon was very well received and had been renewed for a second season. The second season is in post production and will be sold to another streamer/broadcaster.

My view is that cancelling already renewed content is a sure fire way to lose subscribers.

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