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Is this tree a goner? 🥺

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@Kevin mushrooms

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@Kevin Lots of leaves! Did a quick google and saw it suggested that mushrooms indicate root rot - they don't kill the tree but suggest that it may be terminally ill.

Do you (or anyone following the hashtag) happen to know if #cambridgema has an office that will come out and diagnose a tree like this?

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I think if Mastodon is gonna grow significantly, and win back potential converts who rejected it before, it's gonna need a rebrand.

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We understand "clients" as a concept but what would a browser for the social web look like? Something that would let you dip into a convo on Mastodon, or Bluesky, or whatever, and help you track the throughlines

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Short term goal: get invited to the group chat of people in movement comms who are plotting to dislodge X.

Or start that chat, if no one has.

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It seems like one way to avoid scraper protection would be to not automate the browsing part, but rather have distributed volunteers with browser extensions to download the target data as they access it.

(Trying to think of ways to get Instagram story data in a more useful form)

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Like, the social media team for my org chapter has a weekly schedule of shifts, and it’s hard to track and coordinate on what we’ve seen and shared. I just want all that stuff chronological.

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There’s definitely stuff out there about Instagram scraping but I’m afraid of catching a ban…

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Please consider helping my friend Myoshi, who was fired for her support of Palestine, and who has been pouring her heart and soul into activism with IfNotNow Baltimore.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-myoshi-wrongful-termination-silencing

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In a world where everything is kinda federated but it's through a patchwork suffused with blocks, bridges, and feature mismatches - does the inscrutability of all that become the new opaque algorithm?

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Probably a new form of expertise for social media professionals. How to navigate that, knowing where to post for the most reach.

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For a long time I was critical of any would be post-Twitter than didn't federate from the start, because that seemed like the obvious essential way to bootstrap a critical mass.

But now, I'm starting to feel like there is gonna be some strength in the fact that Mastodon + the broader microblogging fediverse, Bluesky, and Threads are going to come together after developing separately.

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So basically I'm wondering what potential there could be for other networks to develop on their own and then start to federate. Were Bluesky and Threads unique occurrences, or could that happen again?

Thinking about this also in terms of the persistent whiteness of all of these post Twitters. Wonder if any of them has the capacity to fix that, or it's going to take something new, and how that could work.

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It's also relevant to concerns about EEE from Meta. How much are we able to spin off new networks and start anew?

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@sennoma Gotta separate the people from the companies imho

(and I mean that on multiple levels)

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@gabek Just bridgyfed for now, but I suspect that the boundaries will get increasingly permeable.

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@gabek lol - not a fan?

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@gabek Why?

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@gabek fair enough!

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EDIT: Think I'm good, thanks @nyquildotorg & @jonny for the pointers!

I'd like to find a way to automate it so that people on a social media team can fave tweets and those automatically get compiled into a google sheet. I see github has some Selenium X scrapers that could be useful, but none of them seem to have an option to load someone's faves. I guess I could try to figure them out and retrofit this myself.

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@nyquildotorg Whoa, it does! I was taking for granted anything like that was long gone. (Saw a blog post from Zapier that they were discontinuing X support)

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@nyquildotorg Damn this is great because it kinda sorta redeems my choice to get IFTTT Pro when they started charging, for the promise of an eternally grandfathered low rate, even though I wasn’t using it and haven’t used it since… until now!

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@jonny I have never used any of this stuff before, and apparently IFTTT can do it, but I might try this just to learn. (Part of me kinda just wants to learn how to scrape X out of spite.)

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There should be a word for theoretical double booking, when you’ve pledged your availability at the same times on multiple when2meets and doodles

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