My thoughts on the state of the fediverse, along with its basic history and where things are today in 2021. This is my first video using this kind of format and workflow, and I apologize if it gets really rambly at times.

I intend to add my own subtitles to the video when I have a chance - it turns out this video was way longer than I originally planned, and the process of transcription takes a really, really long time when you're not using a bot to do it for you.

Background track is Sad Pad Looping

Just trying to put something up to end the long silence. Apologies if this is crap.

Okay, here we are! Finally!

This is my favorite interview so far, and the one I enjoyed the most out of all the ones I've done. I felt like I really managed to articulate a lot of feelings about the fediverse, decentralization, the nature of the internet, and some microcosms of their history in a highly engaged and conversational manner. I felt really proud about how this interview went, and I think I lucked out in having some really phenomenal hosts.

In case you didn't notice, Montreal Sauce is hosted by the same guys that do Film Frown, only it's focused more on creators and the topics their brains are constantly focused on.

Film Frown is a wonderful, hilariously-named podcast by my fediverse friend Chris and his friend Paul where they watch bad movies ahead of time and then discuss the film with a guest for an hour or two. This is the first of two podcast episodes where I joined in, where we reviewed Murderer's Row, a sort of weird pseudo-parody/knockoff of James Bond.

Show notes available here.

This was a fun interview for the Steal This Show podcast, where I talked about some ongoing developments in the fediverse, such as the rise of Mastodon, the interop between different platforms, the cultural clashes, instance blocking, and the arrival of Gab. I enjoyed talking to Jamie, and was honored to be part of a podcast sponsored by TorrentFreak.

Film Frown is a wonderful, hilariously-named podcast by my fediverse friend Chris and his friend Paul where they watch bad movies ahead of time and then discuss the film with a guest for an hour or two. This is the second episode where I show up, this time reviewing Our Man Flint, yet another James Bond knock-off. Co-guest is Jacob Cook, of arkOS fame.

Show notes available here

Just checking in here. In November 2019, I left my dream city of San Francisco to scrape my life back together. I've been living in a rural town in Central Illinois with my dad, working in a factory, and working to lose weight. On a happy note, I've lost 70 pounds!

Music is "Corncoh" by Kevin Macleod.

Not totally sure what this one was about. Will try to update when I can.

I've been building a game for the past few days based on some novel ideas for game mechanics. Euphoria is my attempt to submit an entry to the AdvXJam 2020 contest...I'm probably not going to finish in time, but I really like where this thing is going, and wanted to at least share some of the stuff I've thought up.

This is very very early stuff.

I wanted to share the weird-ass game I've been working on. I'll share more demos as the project progresses. It's rough right now...there's not much to it. But, it's been a lot of fun to build up the base systems.