ok I officially have no idea why I can’t use my server’s known working smtp outbox on my akkoma or bluesky-pds installs I truly do not understand what’s not working here. time to not think about it for a month maybe that’ll help

just finished reading the king in yellow, just in time to watch an almost-nine-hour video essay on the king in yellow

(the essay: https://youtu.be/D1k1jIIAgqA by flawed peacock)

@stringssection in BASIC it would be more like

10 PRINT "HELL"
20 GOTO 10

@mynotaurus holy shit

seeing a lot of single-user activitypub options that are probably way easier to run and maintain than akkoma, but I already have akkoma installed and I like it so whatever lmao

omg the newest technical difficulties has matt gray wearing a first of october shirt 🤩

@mynotaurus welcome to the club. it sucks here

apparently threads can follow fediverse accounts now. lmao

@mynotaurus but the fire is so delightful

@mynotaurus well, you see, Spotify knows the weather outside is frightful

this post is about office politics. I guess it’s also self-deprecation but I meant office politics

sometimes I forget people don’t like me. those moments of blissful ignorance are wonderful times

the most unrealistic part of blaseball was hawaiʻi having a professional sports team

[Nintendo Music]

"Splatoon 2" has been added.

Listen now: https://share.m.nintendo.com/en-US/US/officialPlaylists/ed61f16b-c91d-4807-bed3-dc1d845674a5/

accidentally blew up my blocklist lmao whoops

edit: oop nvm luckily my nonsense didn’t save

@mynotaurus oh also the handle is basically where a link to your DID can be found, and the DID document in question links to the PDS that’s being used so atproto-capable apps can target it

(username).bsky.social has a text file to a did:plc at (username).bsky.social/.well-known/atproto-did, which has an associated document on https://plc.directory to determine where the account’s PDS is located, the DID is the actual identity of the user and the handle is just an alias to that document

for a non-default one you need to add stuff to the domain host and/or https .well-known directory to discover where the specific user’s DID can be found, either by did:plc (the default, centralized to https://plc.directory) or did:web (an alternate method very few people use, like me, centralized to DNS like websites in general), but basically proving domain ownership is the bsky equivalent to the rel=me method of verification on activitypub/mastodon

@mynotaurus from my very basic understanding:

• the pds (personal data server) is where the data for a user is stored, like a server in mastodon, and like how there’s a ton of users on mastodon.social there’s a ton of users on bsky.social.
• relays are how pds’s federate, like how activitypub crawls other websites, except without the crawling because all pds’s send messages to any relay they’re connected to, which is afaik the main noticeable difference between atproto and activitypub.
• the lexicon is basically an app-defined activitystream afaik but I’m not too sure on that one either, idk anything about lexicons or activitystreams lmao

@mynotaurus I disabled my numbers on bsky and couldn’t be happier, but also I feel like my social media use case is abnormal

TIL that to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its construction, the operators of the Iwayagawauchi Dam in Japan's Saga prefecture had it pressure-washed into a picture of Godzilla.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwayagawauchi_Dam

More images here: https://soranews24.com/2024/11/27/big-dam-godzilla-appears-in-japan-as-power-washer-art-on-side-of-195-foot-dam%E3%80%90video%E3%80%91/

tried out whitewind, an atproto-based blogging platform