amberage

amberage, 5 days ago

Usually, when someone follow requests me, I put a note on their profile like this:

follow requested 2024-06-04 after liking, boosting my (topic xyz) post (link to post), replied (link to reply)

Then, when I have the time and energy to, I go through my backlog of follow requests, vet the profiles, and accept or deny the requests.

That requires going back and forth between posts and profiles several times to copy links and such, and whenever I do that, I lose my place in the notifications and have to scroll all the way down again. When I don't have the spoons to, I don't do that, annd those follow requests usually get denied when weeks later I can't reconstruct what they were about anymore.

Having that text field right in the notifications and being able to just copy paste links from the surrounding notifications would be a HUGE upgrade.

#MastoDev

amberage, 5 days ago

@rysiek yeah! I'd love some kind of multi-column layout for that – not the usual multi-column layout that's already available ("advanced interface") that's a UI nightmare, but some kind of context-sensitive columns.

On a 16:9 screen, there's tons of space wasted left and right of the UI. A column there that i.e. displays the poster's profile when you enlarge a post would be amazing.

We keep talking about AI assistants that could enrich our digital experience and provide comfort and semi-automate menial tasks, but we can't even get something like that right. Just put something there that will provide author/thread context for posts.

amberage, 5 days ago

@rysiek author profile displayed on the left of a post, tree view table of contents of all replies displayed on the left of a post. That would be such an upgrade!

amberage, 5 days ago

@rysiek the digital assisant I want:

Provides important information, helps me contextualise things, is passive, doesn't feed any data to any companies they don't already have (like such a context column only using posts the instance already has).

The digital assistants they sell to us:

"Ok Google, write an email to my wife and then hire a new accountant for the company."

amberage, 6 days ago

@safer JA WER HÄTTE DAS NUR AHNEN KÖNNEN?

Riesiges Event abhalten ohne Masken- oder Testpflicht und dann überrascht sein, dass es Coronafälle gibt. Ursache und Wirkung, ganz neues Konzept.

Keine Maske, kein Mitleid 🤷‍♀️ einmal hart in den Spiegel schauen und eigene Selbstachtung gegen Mitschuld aufwiegen, bitte.

Kompetenzabwesenheitler_innen ey.

#GPN22 #SchwereSchuld

amberage, 5 days ago

@jm_rtr @jeder @safer if I wear a bulletproof vest, that's only of limited use if everyone else is firing guns in every direction.

I protect myself. But others don't protect me. The best smoke detector in the building is only of limited use if everyone else is playing with fire.

People don't want to protect others; that much has been ambly demonstrated over the past few years. An event that refuses to mandate consideration and care for others is complicit in the harm that follows.

Everyone is free to only drive 100 kmh on the autobahn, but that won't save them if some jerk barrels through at 250 kmh and rams them to death.

"Everyone could take their own precautions" is less than the bare minimum. A room filled with virus aerosols remains a room filled with virus aerosols, and even the best masks are only 90-some % effective. Masks, and this has been proven scientifically time and again, work to their full potential only if everyone wears them. Anything else is reckless, irresponsible, and expresses a profound contempt and disregard for people who don't want to get the plague, or worse, for whom (esp. repeatedly) getting it poses an even more grave danger than it already does for most people.

This isn't "a serious thing for you", this is a serious thing for everyone. COVID turns previously healthy people into permanently disabled wrecks, on top of killing people with damaged immune systems (and everyone who has had it previously has a damaged immune system).

Refusal to mask is not only dangerous to oneself, and frankly I don't care if mask refusers die because of their own ignorance; it's dangerous to everyone around. The majority of infections are asymptomatic; any seemingly healthy person can be a death trap for others.

Free optional masks only work if everyone else is willing to mask up, for their own and especially others' safety. Since the majority has decided that selfish hedonism and cruel disregard for others is he norm, masks and tests must be mandated, else your event is a danger to everyone and profoundly eugenicist and ableist.

And eugenicists and ableists don't deserve politeness. We tried politeness years ago; after years of being pushed out of public life, events, and even formerly safe spaces, we are well, well past politeness. People who consistently endorse passive murder of others at large scale are beyond politeness.

Does the phrase "tyranny of the majority" mean anything to you?