Now with more and more #instances upgraded to version 4.2.0 of #Mastodon, you can compare full text #search on different ones: Having multiple accounts, I did – and yes, the differences are rather big.
Once again it seems clear, the bigger your instance the better for finding content in the #fediverse. Especially for journalists, this also implies, that an instance by your organization might not be the best idea. Something like journa.host could make more sense.
@joosteto@mho@feditips@tchambers That in itself greatly reduces the usefullness of a search, though. Opt-in means 1) only those servers who have the features to set that opt-in will participate and 2) only those people who know and care about the feature will be included.
I firmly remain of the opinion that if you publish data on the public fediverse, you are in no position to demand which clients, apps, and tech people use to consume your data.
@mho I think the only "solution" is either to continue this stalemate or someone who doesn't give a rats ass building it anyway.
You see, there's nothing preventing malicious actors from ingesting the fediverse. But there are many ways to prevent goodwilling actors from doing this
@mho We were one of those attempts with @flockingbird . We gave up, despite hundreds of people cheering for us. Because a handful of people were campaigning (bullying, threatening) just a bit too hard.
I'm sure this will happen several more times, until someone just ignores the bullies and presses through.
@mho ah. Sorry. I entirely misread (and therefore misunderstood) your comment. Sorry.
But yes, I completely agree. Google (and OpenAi, Yahoo, Yandex) and probably a few hundreds of social-media-data-services are quietly eating up the fediverse that we try so hard to protect.
@BjornW@alper I guess his point is mostly that "Being that change" is moderated to death immediately.
At least, that how I see and felt it. "The fediverse" has a very vocal minority of people who make sure "this is why we can't have nice things". Through coordinated fediblocks, dogpiling, bullying and such. Because they are afraid/conservative/protective. Maybe rightfully so, but the net result is that we hardly have change and hardly "nice things".
@tomw, have you considered software architectures that adress this problem?
My domains too are messy, fluid, and ambiguous. Aren't all?
So I use #ddd to model this domain. Then anti-corruption layers to put the most ugly parts, or uninteresting (and their libraries and frameworks) behind curtains, to keep all that abay. Hexagonal architecture to abstract these layers. And events to bind everything together.
If I make, say, an invoice parsing tool, as an HTTP service that stores events and sends emails, then "everything about invoicing and it's parsing", all its messy and real world constraints are put front and center.
But HTTP, emailing, persistence? Way messier, but utterly uninteresting to the domain of invoices or the domain of parsing. Boring details. So those are put out of sight. Abstracted away.
Serious question… why is buying a particular issue of a digital magazine or newspaper not a thing?
Like if I wanted to read just one particular article in paper form I could go to the store and buy only that one issue. But online I have to either deal with a paywall or sign up for a full subscription?
@mariyadelano tbc, I don't think any crypto is even close to a practical solution.
And about subscription: I meant, as seen from the business. For customers the situation is very different. The way many businesses see it (which is wrong, IMO), is a zero sum game. Where everyone who wants to read article A and can buy it separately is lost as customer for a subscription.
So, I think there's huge opportunities, but this market is so conservative, they rather lose everything, than change.
#UnpopularOpinion I don't like instances that allow far more than 500 characters per toot. #ActivityPub is not a blog platform. I tend to just scroll over posts that are too long. I didn't come here to read long texts. I think that toots should be short messages. With links if need to more persistent and retrievable content. Toots are meant to be more like short-lived status updates. Which is why I auto delete toots after a few days, unless they get traction.
Volgende week ga ik naar de #nordunet#workshops in #Kopenhagen. Ik heb er 2 uur aan besteed om de mogelijkheden die bestaan om er heen reizen en er te verblijven tegen elkaar af te wegen.
De voor de meeste mensen voor de hand liggende optie is om met de trein (of de auto) naar #Rotterdam#AirPort of #Schiphol te gaan en dan naar #Kopenhagen te vliegen.
Ik heb op donderdag de mogelijkheid om ons #Fediversity project te presenteren rond lunchtijd. In principe zou donderdagochtend heen en…
@koen@BjornW@Esceedee Nee, klopt, Maar het bedrijf erachter, treinreiswinkel kan wel (bijna?) alles kopen. Een telefoontje is meestal genoeg om die uren werk die jij nu zelf deed voor je te laten doen.
Heb er vaak gebruik van gemaakt. Zelfs kaartjes die nog niet digitaal zijn kunnen (konden? is al tijdje geleden) ze kopen en gewoon per post naar mijn huis sturen.
De kosten die ze rekenen zijn -bij mij- altijd ruim terugverdiend omdat ze de kaartjes voordeliger wisten te krijgen dan ik.
I heard a quote (but forgot to bookmark or save it) the other day. Paraphrased:
"Maybe React is so popular because it acts as a kind of Hazing Ceremony. Where, once you understand and remember all it's weirdness you feel special. And the cognitive dissonance of having invested so much in it, makes you a devote advocate".
@sarajw@DavidDarnes@sophie I do get it with React. But not typescript. Maybe because I really like a good typing system (I don't think typescripts' typing system is exceptionally good. It's ok. But it always beats having no typing. In my preference)
«news focuses mainly on exceptional events. It doesn't help you to fundamentally to understand the world. And it makes you cynical and anxious»
I have been following this advice for two years. And it's made me calmer and better informed. Not about "Kardashians" but about stuff that matters to me.
Meet Red Pen, a rudimentary #Rust linter: https://github.com/estebank/redpen
I cleaned things up to the point where you can actually use this, but it is v0.1 and I mean it. It most likely won't work when you first try it (linux only for now), but I'm really happy with the first useful lint it has: assert that a function cannot call panic.
The more I read about gut stuff, the more I have no patience for the fatphobic people who claim Americans are fat and it’s all their fault. (Also fatphobia is bad pls don’t be like that)
There is something very seriously weird with the food supply in this country. In this study, the gut microbiome of Hmong immigrants changes almost immediately upon moving to the US.
But it's not as if some foreign nation is forcing their food and diet onto the US.
It's entirely a domestic thing. So if Americans are fat, it really only is America's fault. Maybe not individuals' fault, but certainly as a whole nation, and culture.
This triggered me, because, while no foreign nation is forcing their diet onto the US, the US is exporting their diet. Agressively. In some cases actually forcing it onto other nations even.
Once again the news and social media are full of stuff about an upcoming #SuperMoon .
🌕 The #Moon's orbit around the Earth is elliptical. Sometimes it's a bit closer and thus looks a tad bigger, but the difference is barely noticeable. It's not even remotely close to "super".
The Moon is always pretty, there's no need to wait for fabricated "events" to look up and enjoy it!
@astro_jcm I saw a large and very prominent moon yesterday. I told my wife: look outside the moon is beautiful and bright tonight. Only today did I learn there's a supermoon.
The logical explanation is recency or selection bias here.
I was just wondering that when we perceive the size of the moon different than what is measured, we might perceive what is measured as small diff, amplified too. Our brain is clearly exaggerating the size, so could it be that it exaggerates size-differences too?
