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anildash

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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. #tfr

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anildash, to random
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This is a milestone for the open web. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119353/joe-biden-threads-mastodon-activitypub-fediverse

anildash, to random

why do all the WiFi routers look like the king of the Nazgûl now

anildash,
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@ernie @anildash Ernie no

waldoj, to random
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NYC's chatbot tells me that you must wear long pants to the DMV, so that's good to know about.

anildash,
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@waldoj it doesn’t rule out simply taking your shorts off

anildash, to random
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The perfect @glitchdotcom story: Slate covers a family of Wordle enthusiasts, and there’s an aside where a high schooler casually builds a tool for tracking NYT Spelling Bee high scores, using Glitch. https://slate.com/culture/2024/03/wordle-connections-nyt-hint-word-new-york-times.html

dansup, to random
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I'm honestly considering a paid verification program in Pixelfed to help sustain the project long term.

It would be a centralized list, and would be present in clients, regardless of server.

A blue checkmark would not only help our project financially, but would also provide a trusted visual mark of verification.

Thoughts?

#boostsAppreciated

anildash,
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@dansup I’d prefer to have the option of a general subscription, where one option is being able to have some kind of symbol denoting I was a paid user. Let’s not conflate payment with “verification”, and be explicit about what it entails for content visibility or promotion.

Gargron, to random
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Visiting @anildash and @haubles.

anildash,
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@Gargron @haubles truly a joy to welcome the folks who’ve made this incredible community and platform possible. There’s nothing like meeting someone for the first time in person after years of appreciating their work online!

anildash, to random
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From the “kids are geniuses” department: the high schoolers on this bus are playing a game of punchbuggy, but instead of hitting each other when they see a VW, they shout “Tesla!” and punch each other when they see a Tesla.

anildash, to random
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The headline says it all. You can build fundamentally different, better experiences for your users if the platform you build them on gets data to your users an order of magnitude faster. Don't take my word for it, try it for yourself. https://www.fastly.com/blog/be-among-the-first-to-try-the-greatest-kv-store-ever-made

anildash,
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@Quinnypig Corey do not make me come over there

anildash,
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@alexhammy what’s the oof?

anildash,
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@alexhammy I think it's a lot more like if McDonald's named their french fries "french fries", which... they do. It's very common for web services under a brand to all be named literally for what they are.

anildash,
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@alexhammy lol no I can't, they are hoping that R2D2 for Amazon Megaflipflop for Enterprise CloudBlaster finally solves their branding challenges. https://dev.to/alexantra/let-s-have-a-look-at-how-aws-names-their-products-eye-twitch-44l2

shane, to random
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I read this entire article thinking “this journalist knows what they’re talking about! yes!”

And then realised it was @anildash. Of course they’re right on the money. They usually are!

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/

anildash,
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@shane 🙏🏾💜

ricmac, to random
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Someone said the other day that what is now known as “X” is not the Twitter most of us knew and loved. I totally agree and in fact, I’m glad it’s called X now, because we can remember Twitter for what it was and not what it became over the past year. I actually have similar feelings about ReadWriteWeb, which as far as I’m concerned ended in October 2012 when I left the site and it was re-branded ReadWrite by the new owners. ReadWrite ≠ RWW, even though they inherited my site’s old content.

anildash,
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@andypiper @ricmac it was the most optimistic I had been about the site in a decade, thanks to your team.

anildash, to random
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From twelve years ago, talking to the deeply-missed David Carr about Reddit: “Condé gave it enough rope and left the people there to their own devices. I don’t know whether it was a brilliant strategy or accidental neglect, but the founders did not leave, the community stayed intact, and the site grew beyond anybody’s expectations.” https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/business/media/reddit-thrives-after-advance-publications-let-it-sink-or-swim.html

anildash,
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Carr paid me the highest compliment of my career when I hurriedly emailed him as that story was going to print, asking whether it was clear enough that I had consulted for Condé Nast’s leadership, and whether that needed to be disclosed, and he said “Everybody knows what you’re about, they know you mean what you say.” I think about it a lot, and want to be worthy of the trust he had in me.

anildash,
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@beep @anildash that got me through some very very low points.

jwisser, to random
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Threads is an unusably bad service made by a company that frankly should not be allowed to continue to exist.

But I still don't see why that's a reason to punish Threads users by blocking the instance. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

anildash,
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@jwisser I would only quibble that it’s a usably bad service.

anildash, to random
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You can follow @anildash if you want to test federation or see how I act when I think normies are watching.

anildash,
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@penalbatoday @anildash @anildash I’m not sure! Still figuring out what my strategy will be.

anildash,
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@manualdousuario @anildash @penalbatoday @anildash I don’t think he’ll act differently. I think users might.

anildash,
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@digirights @anildash @penalbatoday I don’t think it’s that much as a total percentage of users, but sure, a number of instances have done so.

anildash, to random
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When your Nani tries to warn you about Mastodon

rjcc, to random

Now my threads profile is federated
https://threads.net/@richardlawler/

anildash,
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@rjcc maybe more effective as @richardlawler

anildash, to random
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I regularly see very smart people making totally avoidable mistakes in the documents they make for their jobs, whether it’s resumes or reports or whatever. I’ve gathered some of the most common kinds of feedback that can help into one simple guide: Make Better Documents. https://anildash.com/2024/03/10/make-better-documents/

anildash,
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@oraculix @anildash sorry! I broke it while messing around earlier

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