Alex π₯π₯π₯π₯ @mralex@cybre.space
Adventurer and maker. I tinker with code, music, art, and electronics.β©webdev, synths, and things in 3D.
Joined Apr 2017
Hmm, well, time to figure out how to migrate my account. Moving on over to @mralex!
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whats a good retro tech instance that's open to the public?
Rough day at $DAY_JOB. Please send cute animal pictures. 
Alex π₯π₯π₯π₯
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Top marks to the kids who opened with "we want to talk to you about your car insurance". Very scary.
Alex π₯π₯π₯π₯
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cybre.space end of life update; tldr delayed to jan 1
some users have had issues exporting their account backup archives, so to make sure i can communicate with users until all issues are resolved i will be delaying the read-only phase of the cybre.space end of life to january 1st, 2023. (also because there's a lot going on in my life right now and i want to make sure i can respond promptly to issues that might arise)
to be clear: you will still be able to export backups after the site goes read only. i just want to make sure people have a way to reach me if they encounter problems.
TFW someone starts following you on an instance you forgot you had an account on. π
Happy Halloween! Have some spoopy music I made for the occasion. 
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This place is kind of What if Twitter were Linux
For instance, could we reinvent late-90s Web Rings using modern ActivityPub/federation tooling? Ushering in a resurgence of personal sites and weblogs.
Made it to the laundromat, and even though I am still feeling quite unmotivated today, I do have one or two ActivityPub ideas I might have a go at hacking on soon.
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I wont spam anymore today, but I just wanted to share the game we did!
It was made by two people: me and @LucieLumia
It's a relaxing 3rd person exploration game in which you play as a Mouse!! πππ
It's also available on Switch
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1679210/The_Spirit_and_the_Mouse/
That said, waiting at the laundromat may give me ample time to finally come up with a pithy domain name to host a masto instance on. 
I need to do laundry today, but really struggling to drum up the motivation to do anything -- besides drink coffee and eat doughnuts.
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Five years after I set up this account (soon after Thimbleweed Park released) I am taking a break after another Terrible Toybox game I worked on released, #ReturnToMonkeyIsland. I was the lead game programmer, with 3 other game programmers working with me. Plus of course @grumpygamer and Dave Grossman. A dream project to work on.
I think what Iβm actually thinking of is a federated BandCamp, a method of getting artist releases out to broader communities. Itβs the obvious copyright concerns that make this a likely non-starter, if artists want to get paid.
A stripped down version could be a lightweight announcement system that links to BandCamp/Spotify. And at that point it becomes an ad platform, which sucks.
Is there a fediverse equivalent of SoundCloud yet? I imagine it would be like PeerTube but, you know, for sound.
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How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:
1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit
While I'm here, thanks for all the florps, @chr! This was a rad server.
Aw man, just as I start dusting off my account over here I learn that cybre.space is shutting down. Maybe time to spin up my own instance? Unless there's another happy home open for artsy-fartsy-musicy-gamey folks?
Adventurer and maker. I tinker with code, music, art, and electronics.β©webdev, synths, and things in 3D.
Joined Apr 2017
