The dunking on Bluesky happening on Mastodon and the dunking on Mastodon happening on Bluesky is wild to me. Both things are attracting similar audiences, both protocols have their advantages and disadvantages, and both are recognizing some fundamental problems in the 2010 social model.
I was invited to Bluesky a few weeks ago and followed one person and posted exactly once yet somehow people are following me so there must be decent discovery, I guess, or maybe lots of bots?
The app looks clean and familiar to Twitter users and I imagine this is the primary reason why everyone is suddenly interested in it.
I wanted to change my password and could not find a way to do it. I just checked again this morning and I still cannot find a way to change my password. So there's that.
@Ciantic@bigzaphod Mastodon already looks very similar to Twitter. These tweaks are really minimal – changing a few icons and widths – hardly seems like make-or-break ease of use stuff. Twitter used to change this kind of thing around all the time anyway.
@GlasWolf Yeah that makes sense, it might be that lots of people just don't care, or haven't seen it. I'm just worried by people I've seen dipping their toes in, especially people who looked like they would stick on Mastodon.
Postcodes are a great invention. I guess the problem here is that people do not realise how much information a postcode encodes. Each one is (usually...) either a street or a section of a street.
The 'correct' database thing to do here, I think, assuming you are only handling UK addresses, would be to try to standardise on:
Name
Flat/House No./Name
Street
Town
Postcode
But in practice every system I see sadly ends up with something like:
Name
Address1
Address2
Address3
Address4 or sometimes Town
Address5 (rarer)
Postcode
@dan Yeah – worse, you see UK as a thin translation layer (at best) for what is "zip codes" etc internally, and does some completely wrong things. Like Nationbuilder stripping leading zeroes from phone numbers, which I bet it does to this day.
We are thrilled to announce that we're starting to roll out the red carpet at Celebrity.Social ⭐ , an exclusive Mastodon social server designed for celebrities and notable people,
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@mikesheldon Hey, good to have! I bet there's something interesting in there. (I don't think I've ever put anything into a tarball, only taken stuff out.)