Where @ethanz tells us about the cultural power of #DontLookUp:

"But there’s something Don’t Look Up gets right. Many of our #institutions are failing us. The experts don’t know what to do. The feelings of terror and helplessness lead people to behave strangely and unpredictably. McKay doesn’t offer us a solution to an ongoing #apocalypse, but this #film, at its best, offers us a moment of #empathy. Look past the machinations of the politicians and the media stars, and look towards the people in the background trying to make sense of a reality that no longer makes sense, disrupted by #COVID or #climatechange or by a slide into #authoritarianism. If there’s a solution to this polycrisis, this interconnected mess of apocalyptic threats, it’s in the #groups working to live through this scary moment, not through the politicians or celebrities who’ll get to escape to their bunkers or spaceships."

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/04/science-on-screen-dont-look-up/

Baked into the latest Firefox version is the long-awaited Tab Groups, allowing you to organize related web pages into specific groups to keep track of them more easily and prevent the Tab bar from getting too crowded.

#firefox #browser #tab #groups
https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefoxs-new-tab-groups-might-be-the-solution-to-your-biggest-browser-problem/

EDIT: Thanks for boosting everyone, I FOUND IT! It's Tommy D - Pretty Much Bayside https://soundcloud.com/user-347580189/pretty-much-bayside

Hey #fediverse, it's been a while now that I'm looking for this #house #track that #pingu likes so much. Really hope that I'm connected to the right bubble of #musicnerds who can help me find the track #id. If anyone knows good #groups that this post should travel to, please do mention them. Thanks!

36 days of type on the Fediverse
Please boost if you’re a designer or artist

You probably know 36 Days of Type, if you don’t is “a project that invites designers, illustrators and visual artists to express their unique interpretation of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet”. So every year they drop a calendar and each character is assigned to a day. People will share their interpretation of that character on Instagram using specific hashtags and tagging the project’s @. They share an handpicked selection of the shared works, however it is not a contest, more like a festival if you want.

However, the concept is extremely interesting and fun but it mainly takes place on Instagram, I think it is natural to think it would be great to partecipate also on the Fediverse, using the same official calendar. And who knows, maybe one day the curators of the project will officially embrace Fediverse

Ok, the thing is, to make this real we can’t only rely on hashtags because you know, federation doesn’t show all the contents for everyone. The best thing we can do is to use Group accounts.
Group accounts will boost every post with the group’s @, and there are some Fediverse services allowing that

Guppe groups is quite easy, however there’s not way to moderate it or to retrieve complete flow of boost from a single source (which is important if we want to build a complete gallery of the artworks)

Friendica groups look almost like Facebook groups, except they work across the Fediverse and they can be moderated

Lemmy communities are like Reddit subreddits, they works with the whole Fediverse but the way federation is implemented is somehow unclear sometimes.

Personally I think Friendica groups is the best option but maybe someone with a better understanding of federated groups can share their opinion.
However there’s contest calendar isn’t out yet, so we have time to prepare even for this year’s edition. Can we make it?

#design #36DaysOfType #groups

I am responding to another email chain.... Thinking to myself... I wish more of my friends/family are on mastodon. This email is exactly how I use mastodon. Same with a text message.

Only things missing are:
- Encryption on private toots.
- Ability to send files like a pdf.
- Groups. A group of contacts that can be saved as one name. Each contact can receive/respond/remove own contact from group.

#Green #Groups Sue Fed. Agencies Over Frozen Funding
#Environmental groups sued five #federal #government #agencies and their #leaders alleging they illegally froze congressionally approved funding and are hampering the organizations' work.
(via Law360)
#US #funding #frozen #court #illegal #Congress

Groups are not new to Pixelfed, we have webUI support but the feature wasn't polished enough for use, until now

Groups will be compatible with Lemmy, Mbin, Smithereen and other projects, and will resemble Facebook Groups in our official app!

Stay tuned, we'll be shipping the updated Groups support in the app and webUI this weekend

»A #fediversesymbol: ⁂ is called an #asterism. In astronomy, it refers to #groups of #stars in the sky, akin to #constellations. We suggest that it’s a very fitting symbol for the fediverse, a #galaxy of #interconnected spaces which is #decentralised.« https://symbol.fediverse.info #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News