It’s a spoontula, cousin of the spork. It is created when a spoon and a spatula love each other enough to transcend reality. Just don’t ever let two spoontulas stay in one area as they’re very territorial and will attack each other. That’s how the spoon drawer gets all messed up.

Welcome folks, be friendly, get to know people. I’ve started a podcast, because I had this exact question. I talk to folks from around the fedi and just have a fireside chat. We need more projects like this that show who and what we are and it has to be shown outside of Fedi as well.

If you’re interested the show is at video.firesidefedi.live/@show . Also on YT, but delayed by months and with new videos I’m pulling some out as a teaser to go to Peertube.

Techno King Asshole. TKA for short.

TY for linking. :-)

Asking for constructive criticism reasons, is there a reason you don’t watch or listen? I’ve been told my mic quality bothers folk, so working on getting a new setup for that this week hopefully. :-D If you just don’t listen because you’re not a consumer of that kind of content or just not interested, totally understand. I just thriving on constructive criticism. :-)

Thank you for your hard work! Let me know if you’d like to talk on Fireside Fedi with me sometime!

Can I throw my Fedicast in here as well? :-) https://video.firesidefedi.live/@show

MSI, unknown model, VBIOS version 015.050.002.001.000000 [2017/11/13 20:06].

AMD RX 560

Any thoughts, suggestions, etc, I’m always open to hearing it. :-) Hell, the good luck is still a great start. Thank you. We’ll need it.

I already have some folks interested in joining. I didn’t want it to be attached to me as a personal entity, so no. I don’t think it’s backwards. You can’t ask people to come to a restaurant that doesn’t exist yet.

Maybe it is. I’ve never run a business. So this might all flop. But I have to try at least. I personally believe the Fediverse is the next evolution of the web. And we need to help it where ever we can.

It’s just an idea at the moment. I don’t know if it’s feasbile, practical, or even allowed legally. Hence why I have to talk to my accountant.

But my idea is to generate income either through donations, funding drives, sponsors in the banner, etc. Or to do like a service where you can upload X amount of videos for $/month.

Then once we’ve hit break even, assuming we do (yes I know this is a difficult task atm), to share the additional revenue with content creators.

Definitely a difficult task. Thinking more of a service fee for storage space or faster transcoding maybe. IDK we’re still figuring it out. Also checking with an accountant about maybe being able to do a revenue share or something for content creators. All very much a work in progress though.

I agree. We’re in a chicken and egg problem. No creators because no viewers, no viewers because no creators. I’ve started Fireside Fedi to help make some kind of content. I’m setting up this NonProfit to show there’s an actual business behind it. I’ve opened the Peertube to attempt to make that barrier to entry lower.

I have some ideas on how to help people upload to multiple places easier, but I’m no dev and need to talk to a friend I could probably interest.

Thank you for the welcome. :-)

I’m running my own auto-follow index at ptindex.btfree.org if you’d like to get added to it.

Also going to attempt to create a search index this week. I have found far too many unsavory instances on the public on. So attempting to provide value with building our own.

Not sure those numbers are super correct. It says there are 9 users on GoToSocial. I have 3 different gts instances with about 7 total accounts. :-)

Definitely a nice project though. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you! :-) I went with Planka for now. We’ll see how well it works. But I like it so far! :-D

Let us know your thoughts! I’ve been using it for years. Definitely some jank, definitely not for everyone, but again it’s been pretty good for me. And if you really want you can run your own server.

Lol that’s an absolutely fair request. Have you asked on Element github? Sounds like a Mich needed feature.

Matrix via Element works great for me personally and it’s available now. :-D

Happy to have folks on e2ee matrix. It supports calling directly and group voice and video chat rooms quite well IMO. :-)

Cory is amazing. I interviewed him on Fireside Fedi and that dude has so many well thought out points. He changed my mind on Threads coming into the Fediverse.

Link for anyone interested. https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/huevh4L6r1yMYXqcQMi8gR

https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/cory-doctorow-livestream-2025-05-13-18-59-21