A pretty cool thing about the Fediverse:
It will still be around in a decade. Even two decades.
Usenet still exists. IRC still exists. Email still exists. When you build platforms on open protocols and standards, it doesn't actually matter what corporations try and do to enshittify it. So long as there are people who are still willing to run instances, and users who still want to talk to one another without going through some corporation's platform, it'll still be here.
Y’all. My heart (and belly) is so full at the end of these two weeks at the John C. Campbell Folk School. I can’t tell you how lucky I feel that I was able to take the time out of my “real life” to do a deep dive building new skills and honing some rusty ones. Being surrounded by folx from all kinds of backrounds who were also diving into their respective crafts and arts.
I’m more than a little emotional about heading home in the morning!
So. Here’s a picture of the result of all that work:
@mycrowgirl Beautiful piece of work! I’m overjoyed when I see folks doing things like this with their lives.
@moof That really puts into perspective how much has changed in roughly three human lifespans…
200 years ago today, at roughly 9am, between 450 and 600 people boarded 21 waggons with seats on them at Brusselton, County Durham, England. There were also 8 coal and one flour Waggon attached to the train, and Experiment, a closed carriage.
This train was hauled by a steam engine built by Timothy Hackworth and James Kennedy, engineers at the Robert Stephenson and Co. factory in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the time, it had no designation, but it was given number 1 by 1827, and was named “Locomotion” sometime around 1833.
This engine proceeded to haul the train to Darlington over the next two hours, with two stops, one due to a broken waggon, and the other for some minor repairs to the engine. It reached a peak speed of 15mph, and averaged 8mph on that trip if you discount the time needed for repairs.
This is widely considered to be a turning point for the railways, as the first steam-hauled passenger train in England, and is being celebrated for that today. #SDR200 #Rail200
@reiver I’m not picking sides, in fact I want more bridges, but nostr has nip-23 that fits this use-case pretty well.
@Djeep I still use these lol
@PNS That guy was real quick with the, “Say Cheese!”
@skinnylatte What!? Very cool tidbit.
These are the things that @mary and I sometimes talk about.
"And that folks is the secret to my famous Birthright Stew."
-Jacob
@CattleBaron I think she just needed permission to quit. That is rough.
https://forum.skysedge.com/viewtopic.php?p=400#p400
It looks like Justine Haupt is throwing in the towel with the Rotary Un-Smart Phone project.
https://skysedge.com//2025/08/19/announcement.html
It's been a wild ride of dedication, hardship, loss, perseverance, and regret. I really wish her the best. Her story scares me enough that I might learn something from her experience.
Nostr:
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