Scary
I was just thinking about how the bluebird social network was rebranded, and how it now feels legitimate to give it a place in the museum of dead social networks...
Scary
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2026License: "Scary" by David Revoy, with mascots of joinmastodon.org, pleroma.social, and misskey-hub.net โ CC-BY-SA 4.0
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davidrevoy
๐ฝ๏ธ Process of "Scary"
๐ฆ Source and high-resolution: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2023-07-30_Scary_by-David-Revoy.html โ CC-By 4.0
#Mastoart #ArtWithOpensource #krita #video #process
213 โAlderForrest@raining.anvil.top
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org brutally awesome!
โHistoPol@mastodon.social
I hope, someone will show this to Elmo.
Brilliant!
โKazukyAkayshi@magimeche.zarchbox.fr
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org โ:derp_charmander:โ รฉnorme encore une fois โ:pikakisswink:โ
โArneBab@rollenspiel.social
wow, that oneโs great!
โErikUden@mastodon.de
The people of the future, on the decentralized, anticommercial web, will have to study about the brief phase where there were only centralized and monetized platforms which will be a concept so foreign and ridiculous to them
โprayag_suthar@mastodon.social
@ErikUden Tbh, that's how I feel about the idea of AOL Desktop v.s. just using a web browser ๐ณ
So this scenario could very well be the case, if Mastodon pulls through and becomes ever-more popular ๐ฎ
Player2alpha@mastodon.social
@ErikUden I think decentralized social networks should get government funding. That is some good use of taxpayer money. I think it's comparable to building roads, it's infrastructure.
Ritzga@snaggletooth.life
yes <3
โOssi@mastodon.art
Every time you make these it's just so incredibly well done. I laughed out loud seeing Google+ in the background ๐คฃ. Amazing work as always!
โedgren@mastodon.nu
Can I download it somewhere in 1920x1080? I want to have that masterpiece as a wallpaper ๐
davidrevoy
@edgren Hey thanks! Yes, the source of the artwork is here: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2023-07-30_Scary_by-David-Revoy.html , check in the bottom, you'll find a link for the high-resolution as well.
7 โedgren@mastodon.nu
Many thanks ๐
๐ผ๏ธ 8ec1994be489a8bb.png โstux@mstdn.social
Lovely! :blobcathearts:
โhendric@astronomy.city
Fine, fine, I'll up my Patreon. Great work!
โdavidrevoy
@hendric
Thank you!
โnunux@mastodon.social
โTrop fort, vraiment...
Magnifique, merci!
prayag_suthar@mastodon.social
Dark.... But clever! The little blue feather is a subtle touch ๐๐ผ๐ชถ
โAnna@mastodon.art
this may be my favourite take on this horrible logo ๐
โriedler@catcatnya.com
night at the museum? I hope not, that bird can stay dead.
โTravinatorisme@mastodon.world
Brutal.
โlevampyre@chaos.social
Jeder nur ein Kreuz.
One cross each.
Mani1989@mastodon.social
โThis is brilliant ๐
rticks@universeodon.com
Best logo yet.
โAntoineVe@mastodon.tetaneutral.net
Excellent, jusqu'au dรฉtails des tableaux sur les murs de la piรจce.
โBravo ๐
davidrevoy
@AntoineVe Merci d'avoir vue ces dรฉtails โบ๏ธ
nartagnan@mstdn.fr
Wow
โdรฉrangeant lร comme รงa ร froid.
Trรจs joli hein, mais dรฉrangeant ๐
davidrevoy
@nartagnan Merci. Oui, j'avoue que passer quelques heures ร bosser l'anatomie du squelette de l'oiseau รฉtait aussi un chouillat macabre pour mon dimanche ๐
โnartagnan@mstdn.fr
Tu m'รฉtonne ^^
โmarnic
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utopify_org@veganism.social
I really love the details that there are MySpace, freenode, Google+ and orkut in this museum too โค๏ธ
And it looks like the big blue bird was fighting for its life for a long time.
It is emotional and really deep. I love it!
Keep up the good and impressive work ๐ช
โdavidrevoy
@utopify_org Thanks for spotting all the details on the background's paintings. ๐
โdarekpages@mastodon.social
So you predict that X will die. I think Musk by making weird changes and rebranding will just kill off Twitter. It may end up as it was with Google+ (whose functionality I liked), or it will remain just a medium for militant politicians, which also means the end.
#mastodon #twitter #x
davidrevoy
@darekpages My illustration is not about the end of X but the murder of Twitter by X and so, the end of Twitter.
I left Twitter in April and when I announced it you could still see some warm feelings , especially in my illustration of the moment ( https://www.davidrevoy.com/article964/goodbye-blue-bird , ) .
But now with the rebranding, I really feel the place I knew between 2010 to 2023 with all I learned on it is definitely changed and so, Tw belong to the museum of G+, Orkut, Freenode and Myspace (I was on the four).
5 โdarekpages@mastodon.social
I see. The most, worst thing is that different social media actually fight each other, different communication protocols make the user exclusive. The lack of this universality of communication precludes exchange between them. I heard there's a new medium in the making: Blue something, similar to Mastodon. Lovely illustration! But disturbing, sad.
โdavidrevoy
@darekpages You probably refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_Social ; but there is nothing similar to Mastodon in it. As far as I can see, it's proprietary, with investors, so expect it will get monetized aggressively by adv, data mining, or anything like that after a free period that will serve only to bring in the Bluesky boat the new adopters and an audience.
โpotatoxel@pleroma.potatoxel.org
@darekpages what dis, i have no brins todae i am tomat: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds
davidrevoy
@potatoxel It's a partial proprietary code dump; and mostly a bash script that downloads from a distant server an environment or executable run as sudo. ๐คข The repo also has no License mentioned ๐คข , so certainly not something Free/Libre.
Conclusion: mmm ... Yes. I had a doubt at first, but this is the smell of corporate ๐ฉ
๐บ
But I'm an artist, not an expert. I'm surprised that just a Github repository is enough nowadays to ethic-FLOSS-bleach any project.
@darekpages
โpotatoxel@pleroma.potatoxel.org
@darekpages i didnt look at repo properly im very very tired.
darekpages@mastodon.social
Youre probably right. From what I've heard so far, its from some guy on Twitter. There are suggestions that this guy is not affiliated with Twitter. It could be a corporate war.
Whidou@ludosphere.fr
I hadn't noticed the paintings in the background before this time-lapse, that's such a nice touch ๐.
โArneBab@rollenspiel.social
@Whidou regarding the images in the back (freenode โฆ): did you notice that the Founder of Freenet recently decided to use the name Freenet for his new non-privacy-related crypto-contract system?
We had to rename to #HyphaNet due to that.
https://www.freenetproject.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html
Note the redirect to https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html
For some background: https://www.draketo.de/politik/kommentare#differences-hyphanet-locutus
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Parnikkapore@mastodon.social
@ArneBab @Whidou I'm still annoyed about name takeover, primarily because some of the primitives provided by Locutus and Hyphanet are very different (CRDT-likes vs SSKs) and taking over the name is bound to cause confusion, especially with old documentation floating around.
ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
@Parnikkapore yes โ and with old articles and even the past years lectures I gave about distributed systems.
@Whidou
ScruffyDux@fosstodon.org
I love these so much. So many things I care about all wrapped up in one. Art, freedom, technology. Thank you.
โwarper@linuxrocks.online
so cool
โm0bi13@pol.social
cc @mr_zvbr
begsby@liberdon.com
nice symbolic, but atm i still think of X-Server
โshine@gts.churanova.eu
Amazing ๐ I just hope that GoToSocial sloth will join them at some point ^^
โdavidrevoy
@shine Hey, I hope too! The sloth is really cool. I know it is under CC-By-Sa ( src https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial#image-attribution-and-licensing ); I'm just waiting for maybe just meeting more GoToSocial instances around me and see how the project is popular. Thanks for the reminder!
3 โshine@gts.churanova.eu
I see it more and more on personal instances (like mine), it's a great fit for those ^_^
โdavidrevoy
@shine For sure, I'm going to try to make it soon.
I'm curious to know the gender of the mascot. Him/Her or They? Can you tell us, @Anna ? (and btw, cool design)
โAnna@mastodon.art
@shine Thanks! But I think we need @dumpsterqueer to answer this question :blobfoxlaughsweat:
davidrevoy
@Anna @shine @dumpsterqueer Thanks, I just had an answer from @tobi about it ( asked by @zatnosk on antoher thread, ref: https://framapiaf.org/@tobi@goblin.technology/110808412218181460 ) ; but I'll wait validation by @dumpsterqueer too. ๐
2 โmaloki@rage.love
@Anna @shine @dumpsterqueer @tobi @zatnosk extra validation from another gts team member here. ๐
โtobi@goblin.technology
@maloki @Anna @shine @zatnosk
me and @dumpsterqueer are the same person ;)
โzatnosk@gts1.zatnosk.dk
@tobi @maloki @Anna @shine @dumpsterqueer are you sure? Can you be certain that no one has seen the two of you in the same room at the same time? :O
โdavidrevoy
@tobi @dumpsterqueer Purrfect! and thanks for the quick feedback then!
@maloki @Anna @shine @zatnosk
3 โHaste@mastodon.social
Iโm really enjoying this series.
โbrucehankins@mas.to
this needs to be a gif with with Jurassic Park theme
โdavidrevoy
@brucehankins ๐ I'll only accept the melodica version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk
codrusofathens@linuxrocks.online
Aww, the poor bird... c'est la vie, no? ๐
โhumanOS@mastodon.social
โAwesome!
RodneyPetersonTalent@mastodon.social
Good Doggie! Sit! Stay!
Azurewhitewind@sfba.social
I really love this painting! It conveys what I've been feeling about Twitter as of late...
It's not the same as it once was and it just feels empty...
I'm so grateful for opensource, I would feel really lost without it! ;;o;;
โdigitalfox@yip.vulpine.engineer
I'm just now noticing the photos in the backgroundโฆ Google+ and freenode hit close to home (the former because I followed a lot of Android engineers there, the latter because I'm involved in some open source projects who had migrate from freenode to Libera Chat/etc).
Overall, well done! And, sadly, I suspect this museum will continue to grow.
โdavidrevoy
@digitalfox Thanks. Yes, I was also very affected by G+ closing, it was at that time my account with the most connections to contributors and audience of my webcomic (Pepper&Carrot was pretty new at that time). I remember I followed also many pages and accounts I never saw anywhere else after.
Same for Freenode to Libera; but in this case, the migration happened so quickly and Libera team really supported 1:1 features that nothing was lost in the process for me and all went almost smooth.
2 โdigitalfox@yip.vulpine.engineer
Ah, I didn't realize you had a strong audience on G+ - that is rather unfortunate.
Agreed on Freenode to Libera. I hope how relatively smoothly that went is a positive sign of how we'll move on should a major fediverse instance become hostile.
Regardless, I'm glad you seem to be finding a new audience, one that is - hopefully - harder to have taken away from you.
(Aside, I realized I still have your MyPaint brushes saved, some from V3, and I've used a tweak of V6 "soft-dip-pen" for most of my drawings to this day. I don't think I ever said this, so, thank you!)
davidrevoy
@digitalfox oh nice
โFlamekebab@toot.wales
I initially interpreted as a gorgeous area from a point and click adventure!
โdavidrevoy
@Flamekebab Oh, the staged point of view in the room could be indeed a good screen for a point-and-click. I would play this game ๐
โFlamekebab@toot.wales
me too!
โpurerstamp@pouet.chapril.org
stylรฉ.
โefi@chitter.xyz
ok now you're being silly
davidrevoy
@efi ๐คช
Smerks1109@universeodon.com
paintings in the background. Nice touch. The graveyard of social media.
โdavidrevoy
@Smerks1109 Thanks! I was surprised to read how long the list of defunct social medias is : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services . I preferred focus on my illustration only on those where I had an account and saw their extinction: Orkut, G+, Freenode, and Myspace.
I wonder who will join the museum in the next ten years. (I personally hate Pinterest, polluting my image searches, so I really want this one to go extinct ๐ )
2 โSmerks1109@universeodon.com
Painting well done! love paintings that have a lot to look at. To almost study. Thanks for sharing!
โrealcaseyrollins@social.teci.world
I find โha ha #Twitter sucksโ posts a bit silly but this art is great, love the easter eggs for #Pleroma and #Misskey
โhyde@lazybear.social
just beautiful ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ
โmaufdez@fosstodon.org
sad but true
โParnikkapore@mastodon.social
The logos on the paintings in the background ๐คฃ
โoliviersaraja@mamot.fr
splendide illustration, et ร la fois pleine de sens. โบ๏ธ jโadore!
โdavidrevoy
@oliviersaraja
Merci!
โLuluHelle@ohai.social
beautiful work
โmarvinsequera@mastodon.social
this is so awesome ๐
โjessebot@enby.city
this is really good! Great work!
โrobookwus@fosstodon.org
xxx
jasdemi@jasdemi.com
Awesome work.
Webwasp@mas.to
Xtinct platform ๐คฃ ๐
Yamakyu@shelter.moe
Wow, c'est trรจs trรจs puissant!! J'adore !
๐ 73011e7a0af7db16.mp4 โtinta@mastodon.art
cool
โa1ba@suya.place
it's so lovely seeing Fedi mascots together :3 โ
AmyIsCoolz@sauropods.win
This looks really nice!
โachadwick@urbanists.social
Ha, I just noticed the pictures in the background!
So it goes.
โMichalBryxi@veganism.social
That's absolutely brilliant ๐
โferricoxide@evil.social
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
โPassion of The Bird?
zem@conesphere.social
#awesome
@KAOS
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io
the freenode nod ๐๐
โandre_601@blobfox.coffee
Why do they look scared (And even more important why do they go with a flashlight through a museum at night)?
davidrevoy
@andre_601 They look scared because they are three mascots of social media alive in a museum of extinct social media. The lamp and museum at night, is for the spookiness, and a subtle reference to Luigi's Mansion series. ๐
โeljefedsecurit@infosec.exchange
brilliant.
โlissalissa@tech.lgbt
I think you mean adorable.
โcoke4all@mastodon.social
still laughing ... can't stop ...
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#notXbutTen #media #twitter #twttelmunSPn
โbady@mastodon.sdf.org
On one side an extinct species got resurrected, which is thriving now ๐๐ฆฃ, while on the other side another species which used to be very much alive is being forced towards extinction! ๐ฅ๐ฆ
โdavidrevoy
@bady Interesting parralal!
โemanoel@bolha.us
genial
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