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tokyo_0

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tokyo_0, to random
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Now the U.S. has the excuse it's wanted to go after Iran, which is why Israel's belligerence and crimes against humanity have been tolerated for the past six months.

https://mastodon.social/@VOANews/112269355674283808

tomw, to random
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Mastodon has two types of people: people who really want replies to their posts and people who extremely do not.

(I am in the first category, reply away)

tokyo_0,
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@tomw Some people don't seem to want to interact at all — I find that quite odd.

tokyo_0, to fediverse
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How do we make sure develops responsibly, in ways that accommodate its growing use for social media and related applications without being coopted by and their friends?

tomw, to random
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Everyone just sort of casually agrees that "we live in times of crisis". This is seen as self-evidently true.

But I wonder: when were the times of non-crisis? Which was the most recent not-crisis year, exactly?

tokyo_0,
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@tomw 1998 wasn't bad.

tokyo_0,
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@tomw There was?

tokyo_0, to random
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@fediverseobserver Hi there. Was wondering if you had any thoughts on this since you're pinging a lot of instances all over the place and must be familiar with the data you're able to get from them 👉 https://mas.to/

Is there a good and/or trivial way something like this could be added and/or made standard?

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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The Fedipact table showing which servers are blocking Threads is not accurate!

For example, it says that atomicpoet.org is blocking Threads when, in fact, this is not correct. So view this entire site with skepticism.

https://fedipact.veganism.social/

@fediversenews

tokyo_0,
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@atomicpoet That table isn't the official site. It's run by @nm If you check their feed, you'll see they've been offline for the past few weeks due to health issues. There are problably some updates that haven't been applied.

@fediversenews

onepict, to random
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@tokyo_0 sorry didn't properly read your profile.

Ignore me.

tokyo_0,
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@onepict I don't really know what that means, but ok 😅 I thought you were writing to Dale, anyway.

fulelo, to Israel
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- - latest: and block US call for immediate Gaza at UN - live page:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-68631712

tokyo_0,
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@fulelo These unintentional things just keep happening, don't they.

danie10, to fediverse
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Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub: This could change the Fediverse forever

Years before there was Mastodon and even ActivityPub, there was Mike Macgirvin who created the Zot protocol, which Hubzilla runs on. One of Hubzilla’s most amazing features (apart from also integrating with Activity and the Fediverse, and having cha ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/oh-zot-nomadic-identity-is-coming-to-activitypub-this-could-change-the-fediverse-forever/

#activitypub #nomadicidentity #socialnetworks #technology

tokyo_0,
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@fisunov Basically you can register or connect your identity on one instance with another one. Rather than having to migrate the way you might on Mastodon, the identities are mirrored on both at the same time. One of them is the primary and gives you your contact handle, but you can log in to use that account from any of the instances you have connected together. If one instance goes offline, you can still use your account from the others you had previously connected to. (IIRC) @danie10

tokyo_0,
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@fisunov It gets a bit confusing when you try to connect that to ActivityPub, because while Zot sees your registrations on all instances as part of one identity, ActivityPub only sees them individually. Your posts get blasted out onto AP for each of the instances you've connected over on Zot. But that may change by the sounds of things. @danie10

tokyo_0,
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@danie10 Fingers crossed. There's no reason the whole Fediverse couldn't switch to a more powerful protocol, I guess, but ActivityPub does have the numbers for now.

tokyo_0, to fediverse
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So, knowing many of my friends are using services other than , what will happen to those followers if I move Mastodon instance and initiate the migration and redirect?

Will they follow my new account? I suspect not. But why? Everyone has known for years the ideal is to build in portability — that beyond being a nice-to-have, it's actually more of a necessity to make this big project a success. Other ideas are rigorously implemented and fiercely defended. Why not this one?

tokyo_0,
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@moftasa That is the case on , and for followers who are also using Mastodon (I've moved a couple of times and it does definitely work). The content is lost, as you say, which is why I built .

But even if I move from one Mastodon instance to another Mastodon instance, and all my Mastodon followers move with me and follow me on my new instance, I think right now any followers who don't use Mastodon (instead using other services) would be left behind.

tokyo_0, to random
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When I come on Mastodon I see a lot of news that isn't being reported by a lot of mainstream outlets. While often it's shared with a link to an article, those articles are all from different places. If you read any one of them, you might see one of those articles every six months or so — when a good outlet would be full of all of them every week.

tokyo_0, to random
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By now we could have had air quality indicators displayed outside shops. Instead of pointless handouts intended to "stimulate" people into disregarding their health, that people instead just put into savings accounts, we could've had internal air quality regulations that reduced all airborne illnesses, now and in the future. What a missed opportunity. Our generation is missing so many opportunities, destroying life for all unfortunate enough to follow.

kushal, to Life
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My brain is exploding between learning: Technology in general / Security / Swedish / Technical Swedish / different pronunciations of Swedish

tokyo_0,
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@kushal You need a system, a routine. At least, that's the conclusion I've drawn. Learning languages well involves all the skills, and by the time you explore all of what that involves, figure out a learning method for each and then start putting together materials (often including a lot of data), it gets overwhelming. If you're not careful it takes up too much time, as well, because even if you only spend a few minutes on each thing in a day it's still too much for a day next to work etc, (imo)

tokyo_0,
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@kushal The journey is tough. Would the people in those meetings agree to you recording them to listen again? You could slow the audio down a bit, then, as well, and start to work through the vocab that's less familiar. You could listen to the recordings over and over, as well, while commuting for example -- that kind of practice can be good for building listening skills.

Otherwise, if you can rip the audio track from any tv shows you like and listen to that over and over that would help too.

tokyo_0,
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@kushal You're probably doing things like this already, mind, and I don't want to just give you "advice" when that doesn't make any difference today and probably doesn't make you feel any better. I do hope you start to see more results from your hard work soon. Every time you write about it, it sounds like you're doing all the right things and working hard at it. It will pay off 🫂🫂🫂 Keep the faith ✊

tokyo_0,
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@kushal Hmmm. That says more about them than it does about you or your language ability, doesn't it. How are their language skills? 😉 It can be like this -- ie immensely frustrating. But working through that has a payoff, too. Are there any podcasts on the kind of technology you're working with? (in Swedish) Listening to any similarly conversational audio will help. Even if you can't find something on the exact same topics, it will still help speed up and automate your listening skills.

tokyo_0,
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@kushal For what it's worth, I think natural conversation is the hardest thing to follow, listening wise. It can skip topics so much, have idiomatic/cultural references, humour. I tried to work from textbook audio then with audio from TV dramas I liked, then I used some "for schools" style educational TV shows for kids - the science shows were great for vocab and holding my interest. Then news, which was faster and had lots of varied vocab. Actual conversation is still harder than all of them.

tokyo_0,
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@kushal That is really good practice. If you can get someone to give you good feedback on the text you produce in Swedish that'll be a huge help, as well. The challenge with that is managing how much you get at once - it can be demoralizing (for me, at least!!) but it's less demoralizing than making mistakes when you want or need to use the language "for real".

kushal, to random
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Can anyone tell me how much fucked up this is?

tokyo_0,
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@kushal any external monitor you can plug in to see if that works? Then you'd know if it's the display or the graphics card.

liztai, to internet
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Trying to figure out a mentally healthy routine to follow instead of impulsively & compulsively checking throughout the day. What do you do to prevent social media from becoming too toxic? Tips appreciated!

tokyo_0,
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@liztai Timeboxing, 10-15 minutes in the morning, lunch, you could maybe add another block or two in the evening or before bed at first until limiting time is more comfortable, and then whittle down further. Any simple timer can let you know when time is up. The hard part will be stopping 😉 Also, turn off notifications — just check in the app when you visit. @moftasa

skinnylatte, to random
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This sentence broke my brain, and I read a lot of weird stuff: ‘24 year old Vedic astrologer lost $440K in crypto and thinks this happened because of the eclipse of Taurus and Scorpio’

And then I watched the video and it broke my brain some more

https://moneywise.com/investing/cryptocurrency/astrologer-lost-440000-by-day-trading-crypto-lives-on-credit-card-debt-caleb-hammer-responds

https://youtu.be/MgJAzmc-p6A

tokyo_0,
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@skinnylatte That part you quoted isn't quite so hard to parse when you realise he's talking about two separate events happening in two separate signs but I haven't checked what eclipses it is he's talking about (please don't make me 😅). The whole 50-minute (!) show seems to be structured around the host making fun of the guest, though, and I'm not sure it's the victory flourish he thinks it is.
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