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Brendanjones

@Brendanjones@fosstodon.org

A good life for all within planetary boundaries.

PM/PO/UX-er. 🇳🇱 and 🇦🇺. Avid cyclist and frisbee player. Stubborn optimist.

Mainly here to talk about:
#Sustainability #SystemsThinking #PostGrowth #Degrowth #Climate #ClimateChange #Energy #Renewables #Ecology #EcologicalEconomics #UBS #Coops #Biodiversity #PlanetaryBoundaries #UX #UXDesign #PO #Netherlands #Utrecht

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Brendanjones, to mastodon
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I think one of the most powerful changes we could make to content discovery on Mastodon is by showing hashtagged posts to everyone following that tag.

Right now, you only see tagged posts from your federated feed, which is (I think): posts and boosts from your follows, from anyone on your server, and from anyone followed by anyone on your server

If you’re on a big server then yes, that is a lot of posts, but it’s no way near all of them!

Community-building needs this.

Brendanjones, (edited )
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It’s explained well on the GitHub issue for this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22637

Currently, a tagged post won’t send to a server just because somebody on that server is following the hashtag - posts are only sent to a server if at least one person on that server follows the poster.

Imagine how much further posts would reach if they sent to every server where someone was following the tags in the post!

Brendanjones,
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@pheonix It’d be great if somebody else could confirm this, but I believe so, yes. You can only search that which your server already knows about. This is the downsides placed on us by decentralisation!

Hashtag propagation is more easily solvable than the limitations of search, though. By following a hashtag you’re actively expressing a desire to receive that content, and your server can share a list of all followed hashtags so other servers know to send tagged posts there.

Brendanjones,
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@ericdano nope? Didn't say anything about bypassing federation.

Brendanjones,
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@ericdano yes, "from anyone on your server, and from anyone followed by anyone on your server" are people you aren't following.

Brendanjones,
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@kev or @mike I'm curious your opinion on how much effect this would have.

How many more posts would I see from our federated network if this was implemented? And is a big server like Fosstodon using any relays?

Brendanjones,
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@mike @kev "Without knowledge of the instance [via follows], there's no way to exchange hashtags with those instances."

Yeah, tough one to solve. I guess you'd need to provide other servers with a list of every hashtag followed on your server, but still, what would they send to when hashtags aren't an actor type?

🤷 this is beyond my technical knowledge.

I also wonder at the computational load this'd result in ...

lirontocker, to random
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Not sure about the UX on this page. The tabs look like buttons, so instead of scrolling down and clicking "save changes" I clicked on "edit profile" intuitively and my changes were (obviously) wiped. Is it just me @Brendanjones?

Brendanjones,
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To get to your point of the tab looking like a button, I agree it’s confusing, and it could be made better by altering the tab design to be less buttony and including some ‘save profile’ interaction … but to me that’s a bandaid fix and doesn’t address the larger navigation issue that’s forcing the use of tabs.

I mean, using a hamburger menu (especially an unlabelled one) as the primary way to navigate through Settings on mobile is just … ugh. No. (2/3)

Brendanjones,
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It needs to switch to using what every single other app does, which is a branching tree design - I can’t think of any other way to solve it and it keeps the design consistent with app design patterns. (3/3)

Brendanjones,
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@lirontocker Hah, nice that you think of me when it comes to Mastodon UX 💚

You’ve come to the right place, I definitely have thoughts on Masto’s settings. Both the navigation, that you’re pointing to here, and also some of the setting groupings in the navigation. I’ve been thinking about mocking up an alternative for a while, but I’d probably only do it if I had some indication that it’d be considered by the Masto team. Otherwise it’d be wasted effort. (1/3)

astro_jcm, to mastodon
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1/ After having tested it for some time, phanpy.social ( @phanpy ) is now my one and only client. The interface is sleek, and you can tell there's clear intentionality behind every single design choice.

First, look at how gorgeous nested replies look! I no longer struggle trying to decipher who's replying to what. And when you reach too many nested levels, a button gives you the choice to deploy them or not, to keep things clean.

Brendanjones,
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@astro_jcm @timbray @phanpy If you want to love Phanpy even more, check out https://dev.phanpy.social/#/catchup

limebar, to fediverse
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I really want to see succeed. But I don't see many videos slide across my feed. It feels like PeerTube videos don't achieve wide federation.

I think this is because people don't follow as many PeerTube accounts and because PeerTube accounts don't post as often as Mastodon or other microblogging accounts.

Consider this... there isn't much downside to following all PeerTube accounts that you come across and boosting their posts because they are few and infrequent.

Brendanjones,
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@limebar @NikaShilobod “But I don't see many videos slide across my feed.” // “I think this is because people don't follow as many PeerTube accounts”

Yeah, because I’m here for text-based content, not video. It’s not specific to Peertube.

Just explaining one reason why you’re not seeing much video content on a microblogging platform.

Brendanjones,
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@limebar @NikaShilobod Yeah totally, it’s not like I’m opposed to video content here, and I’m aware some people like it far more than I do. And completely with you on preferring Peertube to YouTube. Just providing one reason why Mastodon might not have as much video content as you’d like.

Sustainable2050, to random
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Since 1 October, we've already had 781 mm of rain here in central the Netherlands. That used to be more than a year's worth!

Brendanjones,
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@Sustainable2050 cries in Utrecht what a miserable winter it’s been!

UP8, to Economics
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🐜 4 Problems for the Degrowth Movement

https://jacobin.com/2024/02/degrowth-movement-problems-climate-change/

#degrowth #economics #ecology #politics #climatechange #decarbonization

Brendanjones,
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@UP8 https://timotheeparrique.com/a-response-to-daniel-driscoll-another-slice-of-degrowth-bashing/ covers it

Brendanjones, to Economics
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In a world of global supply chains, why aren't workers paid the same no matter their location?

Economically, I get it. I get why production is outsourced to wherever costs are cheapest.

But morally? Just because that's how the system operates doesn't mean that's how it should operate.

New law: every person involved at any stage of a company's supply chain must be paid, at a minimum, the minimum wage of the country in which the company operates.

Brendanjones,
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Some economies aren’t as productive as others. Currency values aren’t the same, and value fluctuates. Purchasing power and cost of living isn’t the same everywhere.

But none of that answers for me why if a t-shirt is made in my country the workers get at least €12 an hour but if it’s made 2000km to the south of me then the worker would be lucky to receive even 1/10th of that.

That’s just the way it has to work? I’m irredeemably naive and utopian in my desire for fairness?

Brendanjones,
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Of course when I searched 'global minimum wage' just now I got a Jason Hickel article: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/6/10/its-time-for-a-global-minimum-wage/

Well, great to hear that I don't have original ideas:

"If we’re going to have a global labour market, it stands to reason that we need a global system of labour standards, something that will put a floor on the race to the bottom and guarantee a baseline level of human fairness. The single most important component of such a system would be a global minimum wage."

Brendanjones,
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@metacosm The linked article addresses much of that https://fosstodon.org/@Brendanjones/112016208110686943

Brendanjones, to climate
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"Globally, solar electricity capacity has more than doubled between 2016 and 2022 but this has happened in parallel to a 5% increase in the use of oil, gas, and coal who still represent 76% of the world energy mix. What some people call an “energy transition” is closer to an energy addition where renewables are added on top of their fossil predecessors."

Another great one from this piece https://fosstodon.org/@Brendanjones/112015654987197311

Brendanjones, to random
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Pretty glad we're on a platform where favouriting a post doesn't cost $44.99.

Looks like Reddit is trying to prove they have revenue streams before IPO time 😆

Brendanjones,
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I was going to say "a platform where favouriting a post CAN'T cost $44.99" but hey, there's no reason someone couldn't set up a Mastodon server where favourites do cost money.

It just ... wouldn't be very successful. Reddit's going full here.

Brendanjones,
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@SeasonsChange I'm afraid it is real, that is a screenshot taken just now.

Brendanjones,
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I guess they realised that selling user data to other companies to train AIs on isn't enough to justify a $10 billion valuation?

https://fosstodon.org/@Brendanjones/111964241353263058

Brendanjones, (edited ) to ai
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Alright, so many companies are using user or customer data for training without consent that I think I'm going to have to make an ongoing thread to document them all. 🤖

Here we go! 1/x

Starting out with who have sold user data to another company, that will use it to train AI:

https://fosstodon.org/@Brendanjones/111964241353263058

Brendanjones,
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16 years of user-generated Stack Overflow content is going to be fed into AI to “provide Stack Overflow content directly within Google Cloud”.

4/x

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/398127/our-partnership-with-google-and-commitment-to-socially-responsible-ai?cb=1

Brendanjones, to random
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Damnit, why is Matt Huber being given airtime on again? He’s repeating the same mistakes and straw man arguments that he’s been corrected on repeatedly for years now. I respect his takes on capital and labour but he’s so obviously ignorant of ecology, and remains so despite some earnest efforts to educate him otherwise.

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/degrowth-climate-change-economic-planning-production-austerity

Alright, a thread taking apart Huber’s terrible article:
1/

Brendanjones,
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@pdotb you're welcome! Glad it's still useful.

And yeah, the sources thing is great. I wish more outlets put sources all through their articles, it makes checking claims and doing further reading way easier.

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