Is there a good way to sync listening history between platforms? That seems to be a big reason why people have a hard time jumping around between platforms

None that I’m currently aware of

There is random.org which could work in the meantime

https://www.random.org/faq/#Q3.1

Some thoughts

• since there can be federation issues, having a bot confirm entries would be helpful. For example, replying to every comment, sending a DM, or having a public list of usernames somewhere

Looks like the outage was localized to certain areas: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1h75ppj/fix_it_fix_it_now/

This was actually an important point in the article, I should have included it in the post

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So far, that investigation has not been forthcoming. University spokesperson Mick Kulikowski declined to comment to The Technician about Brain’s death or the allegations. To date, the university has not issued a public statement about Brain’s death.

Unrelated to your post, are there any topics you’re interested in that we can help you find communities for?

Welcome!

How easy is it to access groceries or other services there? What is the process like (does someone come to the village, do people travel periodically, etc.)

I think it’s easiest to slowly learn as you go, or research specific products. Details change and guides/resources can go out of date by the time you need to buy something

Some links:

• CIRA puts out a (small) list of .ca small businesses https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-gift-guide/

• we have !buycanadian@lemmy.ca, but you’re free to post here with specific requests too

• I came across this website, I’m not familiar with it https://madeinca.ca/

Framasoft

They’re also involved in Fediverse development, they made Mobilizon as an event management platform

https://framablog.org/2022/11/08/mobilizon-v3-find-events-and-groups-throughout-the-fediverse/

There was a kurzgesagdt video related to this, discussing a few perspectives

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0

I haven’t tried this myself but I’ve heard the name before, how is it?

Wow that’s cool

Could it help with internal tasks, like self-hosted services or a business that transfers files around a lot?

Wow that’s really cool!

You may have already checked these, but it might also help people narrow things down by finding related genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactivity_(song)

Genre: synth-pop electronic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Ganacci

Genres: EDM, moombahton, trap, dancehall

I also didn’t know what moombahton was, if anyone else is curious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moombahton

Well, there are some things wrong with it though?

It’s possible to criticize both Mastodon and Bluesky for their respective issues

As a follow-up, if you have people on Bluesky you want to follow, go for it :) Community is important

There is also a mastodon bluesky bridge that some people use to access both

https://lemmy.ca/comment/12906744

I talked about it in this comment, which should hopefully still be recent enough to be accurate

It’s still too soon to tell what they will do. It’s totally possible that they will take the necessary steps to be properly decentralized by transferring control of the registry + protocol to an independent non profit.

Right now I feel that they don’t have much of an incentive to do that, since the vast majority of their users won’t care.

I would love to be proven wrong

The audio when loading a new page surprised me lol

Cool :)

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Sounds similar to the case with Jellyfin & Findroid (and likely Swiftfin)

The official Jellyfin app has full functionality, but it feels clunky. Especially for casual users.

The native third party app is smooth, intuitive, and visually nice, but is missing a few features (ex. Admin dashboard).

What I’ve seen recommended was:

• Findroid (and likely Swiftfin) for daily use
• Keep the official Jellyfin app installed for when it is needed