Chris Alemany from Port Alberni tells his tale of politically poking the fediverse into the agenda of Canada's federal government.

Find Chris: @chris@socialbc.ca
Find Paige: @paige@canadiancivil.com

Paula Simons (Canadian Senator): @paulatics@mstdn.ca
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/01/07/get-the-fk-off-there-mps-senators-call-on-government-to-abandon-x-twitter-following-wave-of-grok-porn/487023/

[–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago

There’s lots of episodes of the podcast, it follows our adventures as we’ve built FediHost and the projects and people like Rimu we have been meeting along the way. If you’ve got questions about Piefed let us know and we’ll ask next time.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  •  

    Curious to know what others have experienced. I’ve done a few things this year and there’s a real range of personality types. The worst was probably indoor volleyball, a few people were unable to get a grip of their competitive side and made it quite a drag.
    On the other end, ballet and swing dance were a very wholesome and nice crowd.

    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    FediHost handles storage differently to most managed hosting providers. You can buy it separately as-needed and it's shared in a pool across all your services. We actually started the service after I (Paige) found it annoying that on another provider I was having to upgrade my whole plan (RAM, Database etc) just because I'd run out of media storage. We're also planning to add that flexibility to database storage as well in the next year.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The way I look at it, if we get automatic filing it’s like giving many people a national half-day holiday.
    Also one less American cultural norm.

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don’t have a universal like or dislike of publicly owned companies. Expending limited resources and political capital on running a supermarket before trying any antitrust regulation is a waste of governmental resources.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Terrible solution.
    Break up and split the wholesale and retail operations. Legislate against wholesale pricing discrimination (Wholesale pricing cannot have price breaks which exclude smaller competitors)

  • source
  •  

    I've had a small mastodon instance for over a year and recently decided to get to the bottom of why the "Explore" tab hardly ever recommended any posts.

    "Nothing is trending right now. Check back later!"

    When I was a programmer I never used ruby, but reading through the code I think it's down to a hard threshold of 5 minimum interactions for something to even be considered for the trending algorithm. This makes it hard to meet theses conditions on instances with a small number of active users.

    view more: next ›