grant

@grant@toast.ooo

i’m the canvas guy (!canvas)

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grant ,

for some reason this post didn't get federated to toast, weird

July 12th, 2024 @ 4am UTC (the countdown is also on the website -- https://canvas.fediverse.events)

grant Mod ,

I already have plans in the work to sell Canvas prints of this year's and last year's 🙏🎉

the proceeds from the print sales (and possibly other items) will go to funding Canvas itself (and maybe other fediverse.events things)

(more details related to this will come out within the next month most likely)

grant Mod ,

Lemmy and Mastodon have pages on their project websites for how to donate to them

individual instances also have their own donation pages, yeah

grant ,

hi i'm the guy behind canvas & also the admin on toast.ooo

last couple days i've been fixing things w/ my lemmy instance, but it should load

(ik it's like 4 days late lol)

grant ,

that's strange, you might want to contact your instance admins then

grant OP ,

when the event goes live, it'll be a website you can login to and place pixels

the login system sends a DM to your account with a code to verify your identity, no passwords are used

grant OP Mod ,

you're right! totally forgot to post it there

here's the new post there: https://toast.ooo/post/3741538

grant OP Mod , (edited )

it'll be 500x500 (from 1000x1000 last year)

grant OP Mod ,

it'll be 72 hours (12th @ midnight - 14th @ 11:49pm)

completely forgot to include that in the post

grant OP Mod ,

I added an .ics link to canvas.fediverse.events but it looks like that doesn't have great support :/

grant ,

Oh hey it’s also toast’s 1 year as well 🎉

https://toast.ooo/post/3679257

grant ,

oh shit i didn't see this notification 😅

keep an eye out 👀

grant ,

Something that I’d love to see in a fediverse server that exposes the client-to-server standard of creating statuses instead of just the Mastodon API

grant ,

After taking a glance at the AppStore page for it, it looks like direct tipping/paywalled content instead of advertisements but I could be wrong

Tipping/paywalling seems like a step in the right direction, avoiding advertisements

grant Mod ,

There’s no announced date yet

I’m still keeping my plan of announcing the date 30 days before Canvas starts to allow for groups to form and whatnot

Progress updates are being put in the Canvas Matrix space and Discord server if you want to keep even more up to date

I’m finishing up my college classes this month so development will speed up once those are done

grant ,

Could you link to what instance it’s hosted on? (Eg !casualconversation<instance>)

grant ,

hackliberty.org still links to it, although it returns a service unavailable, so it looks unmaintained

Also the most recent forum post is about how covid is a hoax

https://forum.hackliberty.org/t/operation-coronavirus/103

grant ,

Having a name for a version would be nice for each major release (1.0.0 would have a name but 1.x.x wouldn’t, but 2.0.0 would, etc)

grant ,

https://media.tenor.com/Zxdb-uDpgHwAAAAi/how-hungry-how.gif

grant ,

Mastodon on iOS adds a button to the URL share sheet to open any url within Mastodon, and if it’s an ActivityPub object, will load the post inside Mastodon

Does the Android version have something similar?

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Why are all the instances defederated from each other?

@fediverse

Has there been drama over there or something?

grant ,

I feel like it’s because of the risky nature of video content and it appearing to be hosted by the site

I run a small instance that doesn’t have open registrations and is very limited in who it follows to prevent risky videos from accidentally being rehosted (and to host content I helped make)

Please give some feedback on this proposed model to fund musicians in the Fediverse (an alternative to Bandcamp / Spotify)

For context: I recently set up a Funkwhale instance for Communick subscribers, where people can upload their music collection, stream on mobile/web and share with their friends. That's useful already and can be thought of as a replacement to the original Google Play Music, but I guess that those with large music collections will...

grant ,

I would definitely reword your original post, it’s very misleading with how it’s worded now

(Eg “How I feel” -> “how individual users feel”)

grant OP Mod ,

ah shit i did spell it wrong 😅

grant OP Mod ,

(also posting this here as i mentioned it in our matrix room)

i'm not going to explicitly banning threads from contributing but i also won't be testing with it (as i don't plan to register on threads)

if enough people are against it i might change my plan though 👍

grant ,

I’ve gone for colors for my servers and omelette ingredients for my VMs

grant ,

For a bit now I’ve been thinking of starting a small classic style of forum, using the top forum software (to my knowledge at least — xenForo) and writing a custom extension for it to add ActivityPub to it

Idk, I’ve realized that I don’t have a whole lot of time to keep up with live chat communities (like Discord, etc) so I started throwing the forum idea around

grant OP ,

yeah it's satire lol

i didn't know that openstreetmap had overpass, and i found it funny that one of their examples is to find banks far away from police stations

grant ,

If I remember correctly, apple also made it so iPad apps automatically work on the Vision Pro unless if the dev explicitly disables it, which is also a plus

grant ,

I’ve clicked on ads (primarily Instagram actually) because it is an ad that is for a product or service I was actually looking for but didn’t have the time/knowledge to actually go searching for it

grant ,

It was really easy to update as well this time around

grant Mod ,

that was a major hiccup this time around i wasn't expecting the event to be this large and this wanted, but i do have plans to market it a bit better this year

if you use Mastodon or Matrix check out this post

grant Mod ,

canvas size:
i do agree the last canvas was too big with not enough people, honestly didn't think twice about how big i actually set it to. i might do what @CameronDev is suggesting, with it dynamically growing size

event time:
i am not entirely sure atm, completely depends on when i think most people would be able to and my availability

announcing:
i have plans to announce it a month in advance 🎉
then slowly ramping up announcements as it gets closer

other things
we have a matrix chat and i'm working on getting a discord setup w/ bridging to the matrix space when i get the time to

grant OP Mod ,

i should probably create a new thread, but i was thinking about doing that (the other games idea)

if you have ideas for any you can dm them to me via matrix or discord (grahhnt)

grant OP Mod ,

That seemed to be a major hiccup this time around, getting the word out there

my plan for next year's is to give 30 days and 7 day notice before the event starts

make sure you're subscribed to !canvas & in the Matrix space so you don't miss it next year

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