#FollowFriday / #FF recap of this week's recommended follows:
๐ @surlyben - Watercolour artist making lovely paintings
๐ @carokoenigs - Satirical and social commentary books and audioplays (in German)
๐ @newdaymedia - Fun short videos of a sausage dog and its daily life
๐ @inkscape - Free open source vector drawing software
๐ @margodeweerdt - Artist and designer, draws finely detailed pictures
๐ @_crystal_dreams - Creates surreal, dream-like illustrations and 3D renders
๐ฆ Soft Serve just got a whole lot faster! Version v0.3.0 brings major performance improvements, especially for large repos and repos with a lot of commits. It also introduces new commands for interacting with files and performing git actions over SSH.
https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/releases/tag/v0.3.0
Mastodon is part of the Fediverse.
The Fediverse is a collection of alternative social networks which are connected together through a common technical standard called ActivityPub.
People on the Fediverse can follow, comment, like or message each other seamlessly.
For example, the account @craftykat is on a video platform called PeerTube, but you can follow them, watch the videos, give them a like and comment on them without leaving Mastodon. Try it yourself!
Another example you can try interacting with is @Picturavis, which is on a photo platform called PixelFed.
When you use Mastodon, a lot of the accounts you talk to are actually not on Mastodon!
It can take a bit of time to get your head round this, because centralised social networks like Twitter or Facebook deliberately stifle interoperability.
The Fedi is different, no one owns it so there's no restriction on what people do with it. The ordinary user is all that matters on the Fedi ๐ช
Inkscape 1.2 beta is out ๐ฃ & we need your help to test all the cool new features!
Read the full news, learn how to help, and download at https://inkscape.org/news/2022/04/06/download-and-test-inkscape-12-beta/
#floss #artwithopensource #vectorart #helpwanted #testing #inkscape

๐คฉ Our projects just crossed 30k stars on GitHub! Thank you so much to our community and developers who have built with our tools ๐
In honor of the event, weโve created a new repo where we plan to open source all of our 3D models. Come check out Runway!
๐ Just shipped Charm v0.11.0! It's a big release that features performance improvements, support for Prometheus stats, custom SSH keys and allows you to limit access using an authorized_keys file. Check out all the goodies:
nothing says lovin' like starting your day off trying to find the differences between two queries that should basically return the same result and don't but need to
I've been able to get my hands on the #TruthSocial source code (they do have a link to it on their website, although their website is not accessible to me).
They have disabled federation features. I absolutely expected that, just confirming it for others. It is just another walled garden.
Hello Fediverse!
Veloren is an open source, open world, multiplayer voxel RPG in active development. Looking forward to engaging with people here!
yoav-lavi/melody: Melody is a language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more easily readable and maintainable https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody
re: wuweiposting
@trickster there, you made me commit the most cursed meme this week
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