Rentlar

andrew , 2 months ago to news

DOT Announces Rule Requiring Automatic Refunds of Airline Tickets and Service Fees for flights that are canceled or delayed more than 3 hours domestically and 6 hours internationally

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/biden-harris-administration-announces-final-rule-requiring-automatic-refunds-airline

@news

Rentlar , 2 months ago

Heck yeah! That’s an excellent change.

Canceled or significantly changed flights: Passengers will be entitled to a refund if their flight is canceled or significantly changed, and they do not accept alternative transportation or travel credits offered.

This is good also, that way passengers that just want to complete their journey can accept the delay or flight change.

It’s further good that it’s automatic, but you already know that airlines are going to push hard on passengers with notifications that say “accept [our preferred alternative] NOW while it’s still available” without mentioning that the refund is automatic, if they can get away with it.

maegul , 2 months ago to fediverse

People are actually on BlueSky

There's now a decent measurement of #bluesky user numbers (https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html) ...

They've got about 1.6M MAUs ...
& 0.8M Weekly unique users & 0.340M Daily.

That's not nothing!

Roughly double mastodon and 60% more than the whole fediverse (by MAUs, see fedidb.org).

Bluesky is quite "international" with large Japanese and Brazilian popltns, and there's real attrition happening IMO.

Still, let the protocol wars begin I suppose?

@fediverse

Rentlar , 2 months ago

Their federation protocol was called ActivityTrack, which is different than ActivityPub that much of the Fediverse uses. There were some efforts to host relays that translate between the two protocols but some people got upset that their data is being accessed and processed in order to do that.

samxavia , 3 months ago to asklemmy

@asklemmy What do you think it would take for people to drop Twitter & Reddit and move to the Fediverse?

Rentlar , 3 months ago

As your local blundering idiot, I disagree.

Rentlar , 3 months ago

Someone should make a comprehensive, easy to follow guide to Lemmy with the latest info and apps, and share it to Reddit including their r/lemmy. Same with Mastodon.

I’ve sworn off of Reddit unfortunately so I’m not going to post, but maybe if I make something I can ask someone to share it there for me?

wawe , 3 months ago to games

I released my first game on Steam and got rid of impostor syndrome!

My first game Mushy Score is out on Steam! I have been creating games since I was a child but never felt like a real game dev. Now I finally have a game that I can show to other people.

Mushy Score is a 2D Roguelike where you fight against endless waves of enemies. Collect points and try to get a high score! I am super exited for the release !

If you like similar games go check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2480740/Mushy_Score/

@games

Rentlar , 3 months ago

Hooray and congratulations! That’s quite an accomplishment.

otl , 3 months ago to fediverse

What have I done?! My abomination of an idea of bridging my email and ActivityPub progresses. If you see this message, something is working! Comments replies are welcome as it's a good test of this system :) People keep saying ActivityPub is a lot like email. If it's so similar to email, could I use my email client to interact with the fediverse? Previously I did this by writing a SMTP interface to the Mastodon HTTP API. That worked. But as we probably know, the fediverse is not Mastodon; it's really ActivityPub. The real deal would be working with ActivityPub directly, not the Mastodon HTTP API. And that's now (mostly?) working! In shonky diagram form, sending looks like this: laptop --SMTP--> my_server --ActivityPub--> fediverse Replies look like this: fediverse --ActivityPub--> my_server --SMTP--> mailbox <--IMAP-- laptop my_server translates back and forth between ActivityPub messages and mail messages. For example given the message: Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 16:37:59 +1100 From: Oliver Lowe To: [email protected] Subject: test 2 test hello world! The following ActivityPub message is created: { "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "id":"https://apubtest2.srcbeat.com/outbox/1709703480070628170", "type":"Note", "name":"test 2", "to": ["https://aussie.zone/c/localtesting","https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"], "cc": ["https://aussie.zone/c/localtesting"], "published":"2024-03-06T16:37:59+11:00", "attributedTo":"https://apubtest2.srcbeat.com/actor.json", "content":"test hello world!", "mediaType":"text/markdown" } There's still a lot of bugs (of course) and unimplemented bits (of course). I can't call this a proper fediverse service yet. I'm going to roll with this for a bit and see how it holds up.

Rentlar , 3 months ago

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Deadman , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to technology

How do I use this account on lemmy and vice-versa?
Is the upvote of lemmy the same as favorite of mastodon? (they do not sync) if not then what metric are these two uniquely gauged?
@technology
#instances
#Lemmy
#Mastodon
#Help
#ActivityPub

Rentlar , 4 months ago

You can only browse Lemmy communities through your Mastodon client (look at/follow @technology where you see posts and replies) You need an account on a Lemmy server to be able to see this community from a Lemmy client.

maegul , 5 months ago to workreform

What the new tech creator-content platforms and economy miss

Adam Neely on "quitting #youtube " puts two ideas together (that I hadn't) and implicitly asks "what if the new platform/economy fails you"

Longevity and freedom from traditional gatekeepers. The content-creator economy fails on these promises.

Burn out is baked in and ignoring the traditional gate-keepers is at your own very serious risk.

The world is the same, tech is just milking us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceZ8VS8PbQ

@workreform

Rentlar , 5 months ago

Part of the issue is that yeah sure, the music industry is full of fat cats, arrogance, connections and dumb luck, but there is a pathway for small artists to get noticed and slowly build up a career, gain an audience, connect with fans at local shows, and just having fun with your band without huge expectations.

Like Adam says with Youtube those fat cats are instead the algorithms. The issue is that the algorithms are like a treadmill that systematically keeps speeding up, lowering payouts, reducing exposure and raising roadblocks unless you follow an ever-increasing amount of rules. People starting out there are at even more of disadvantage to begin with.

All so that Google and other tech platforms can extract more money out of people. We need a Fediverse music sharing service or something.

uhrbaan , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to fediverse

@fediverse Is this a title ?

So... Theoretically this should be visible from Lemmy. Hi Lemmy users ! Greeting from Mastodon !
(Im never leaving the fediverse if this works)

Rentlar , 5 months ago

Your post came through to Lemmy! Welcome! Tongue-in-cheek meme for you:

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/099b0528-fbd9-4a22-bf70-aa2d6a453cae.jpeg

Whatever you put after the ‘@’ mention in the first line of your message to a Lemmy community becomes the post title. Anything below it becomes part of the body text.

Rentlar , 5 months ago

Legend! Thanks for bringing the meme over for me.