It’s #NewstodonFriday — such a shame it’s been a slow news week! Just to refresh your memories, this is a day to feature work from newsrooms with an active presence in the #Fediverse. If you like what you see in the (long!) thread below, follow the profiles and boost their stories. If you’re a journo or newsroom that we don’t know about or if there’s a newsroom you’d love to put on our radar, please let us know in the comments below.
@themarkup reports on how Chinese migrants are following step-by-step instructions on Douyin, the equivalent of TikTok, in order to immigrate to the United States via Central South America. These include tips on clearing your chat history, bribing law enforcement officers and more. On arrival in the US as asylum seekers, they find a reality they were unprepared for.
What’s your perception of a gig worker? Most are relatively young, but @restofworld spoke to 50 who are aged between 50 and 75 as part of its Graying Gig Workers series. Maureen Zephora Khumalo from Johannesburg, South Africa, told Rest of World that friends laugh at her for doing a young people’s job, but “with harsh economic conditions and my children out of jobs, I [may] even work until my eighties because no one can give me money for free.” https://restofworld.org/2024/aging-global-gig-workers/
Liebes #Fediverse,
mit der heutigen Insolvenzeröffnung stellen wir endgültig den Geschäftsbetrieb ein.
Als Belegschaft dieses einzigartigen Ladens blicken wir voller Stolz und Freude auf das gemeinsame Engagement für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur seit 1986 zurück; ob als Ideengeber für das #LirumLarum-Lesefest der Stadt @freiburg, mit Aktionen zum #WelttagDesBuches für Schulklassen und zuletzt auch eigener #OpenSource, wir waren stets mit #Herzblut bei der Sache 🥰
Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated using #ActivityPub
We're really excited to share this sneak peek that showcases the new onboarding flow and discovery features (Connect Mastodon) and look forward to the upcoming beta release!
@pixelfed please slow down the succession of the slides a little bit, I had to pause that video multiple times because there was not enough time to read the words. 🙏🏻
@vsaw@stux Was about to say the same. Posting a survey about average usage of a platform on said platform is inherently biased. Especially with the short runtime, like you already mentioned. The results definitely cannot be used to make any representative claim about average usage.
Dear all Canadians and also all Fediverse Citizens!
Please boost and sign (name and place please) this open letter that will be sent to the Parliament of Canada. This is a followup to #e4769 petition which is now awaiting a formal response from Government. This Open letter will be sent on Monday June 3rd to the Speaker of the House of Commons and other critical officers and Ministers to encourage a positive response to the petition.
In the words of Fatboy Slim, "we've come a long long way together." Here, @miaq breaks down Flipboard's federation journey so far.
"We could [federate Flipboard] with a quick flip of the switch but we’ve chosen to act more intentionally," she writes. "We’re taking measured steps to test, learn, and ensure that everything we’re doing stays true to our values and those of the fediverse. Maintaining quality is top of the list."
How do people meaningfully search and/or export their #Mastodon favourites? I've been favouriting (not bookmarking) a bunch of useful and/or interesting stuff since I came here, but the data seems difficult to access in a useful way.
When I use my instance's website, there's no search facility on the Favourites page. It only loads a subset of favourites upfront, so without pressing the "load more" button hundreds of times, I can't use my screen reader's find feature either.
When I try the favourites timeline of Semaphore, it also only loads a subset of my favourites, but apparently without a means of loading more of them.
In Mona on iOS, I would likewise have to keep finding, and then pressing, "load more posts".
When I try to find information on the internet about possible qualifiers for searching my own favourites, I get results about API calls and installing Elasticsearch as an instance owner.
In the "import/export" section of my account preferences, it doesn't say anything about favourites, and doesn't make it clear whether my posts archive would include them.
@admin It's not still a problem for me personally; I now have my favourites and statuses in HTML and plain text, with an easy way to update the archive with changes. Thanks for the response though, appreciate it!
Inzwischen ist mir klar, dass ich zwar nicht immer fair diskutiere, das Entgleisen von Gesprächen aber nicht von mir kommt.
Und damit habe ich meine Ruhe gefunden.
Riddle me this #peertube
So the account export feature packs up your content and account and creates a nice little archive to dl and upload to the new instance.
Ok.
So where does that file live when the user's content is on object storage and exceeds the server's local disk space?
The docs don't bring that up. The way I see it the export feature could brick a server.