At work we have a little thingy for digitizing 8mm/super8 film reels. It’s kinda janky, doesn’t actually play the reels at normal intended speeds or even at all really, in a sense. Rather, it takes a picture of each individual frame and then turns them into a video. I’ve been told by purists that this is far from ideal.

However!

The advancing film mechanism makes this incredibly satisfying rhythmic “ka chunk, ka chunk, ka chunk” noise that I reallllyyyyy enjoy. Check it out: https://loops.video/v/g53y-EtF-C

I have a huge list of small independent ones added to my browser, but I’m not near it and don’t remember most of them. Marginalia-Search is really good though

I use a FalbaTech keyboard and can definitely recommend those. Expecting this one to last forever!

Wait, I’m out of the loop! What’s the bad preexisting thing named LOLA?

No prob!

Maybe sorrrttttt of the opposite of your “especially”, but:

Do They Owe Us A Living? by Croy and the Boys, which is a country cover of the 70s punk song by Crass.

Absolutely love this song.

I mean, yes that is true, this is unfortunately how life is for most of us… However, why encourage anyone to put up with it? We should be changing it. Nobody should have to live like this, we just do.

That sounds awesome actually, hell yeah

PieFed communities do have reddit-style wikis attached. They work pretty well but don’t federate. Like somebody else mentioned, i think Ibis is closest we’ve got.

The corner, under a ton of blankets

Ooh, so a collection is like a starter pack? I’ve definitely got a couple ideas for those. Wait, what if somebody doesn’t want be in a collection? Is it like opt-in or something?

Edit: ahh ok, so there’s a toggle in your profile for whether you want people to be able to add you to collections, andddddd you can also remove yourself from one afterwards. I would imagine this might mean that collections can’t include accounts from other fediverse platforms though, right? Like somebody on Loops won’t have opted in, because that toggle doesn’t exist for them.

Ooh, some other ones occurred to me, some maybe only tangentially related:

• !plot-development@community.darkscribes.com
• !pathfinder@wanderingadventure.party (prolly better comms on this instance for worldbuilding questions, but I always have trouble getting some NodeBB comms to show up reliably lol)
• !fanfiction@literature.cafe
• !conlangs@mander.xyz
• !writing@beehaw.org

There’s a handful of communities on ttrpg.network that might be relevant:

• !worldwrecker@ttrpg.network
• !rpg@ttrpg.network
• !micro_maps@ttrpg.network
• !rpgcreation@ttrpg.network
• !askgamemasters@ttrpg.network
• !DMWorkshop@ttrpg.network

Etc etc

It works exactly like Lemmy, yeah!

If your experience with PeerTube comes from their official app, the UI is kind of unintuitive to anyone familiar with the fediverse. I think they tried really hard to prioritize users not having to be signed in at all, if that makes sense?

I’m not 1000% sure, but I don’t think I’ve seen the same on my P7P. There have been a lot of updates for me lately too though. If I’ve noticed any new slowness out of the ordinary, maybe just that the browser will hang occasionally, as will PWAs

My two boyfriends 😍😊

We built a fancy solar node with a big giant antenna and put it on top the local library, but something’s not working with it… Still trying to get it right. It seems like there are plenty of nodes around, if we can just get it working

Whoaa cool!!

Maybe so! If you do pick one up, you’ll have to tell us how it goes, I’m curious

I guess it’s not for everybody, but for my specific context it’s pretty great. I think if I did have a phone with expandable storage, a 3.5mm jack, and still had an unlockable bootloader I could run Graphene/Lineage/Postmarket/etc on, it could probably replace the music player easily enough. I’d probably still end up eating a lot more battery that way though

• Better quality DAC
• Don’t have to drain my phone’s battery
• My music collection is big enough to fill my phone’s storage, and they don’t come with SD card slots anymore
• Smaller and lighter than a phone
• Definitely will last way longer and is easier to
• My phone doesn’t have a 3.5mm jack 😭

That’s everything I can think of right now