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jsit, 11 months ago to random

Via @ianbetteridge, people seem to forget that there are four pronoun forms, not three, and they are not consistent between number/person/gender:

• subjective
• objective
• possessive adjective
• possessive pronoun

I/me/my/mine
We/us/our/ours
You/you/your/yours
She/her/her/hers
He/him/his/his
They/them/their/theirs

This new #iOS17 contact form is missing the adjective form.

jsit, 1 month ago to random

If you search Mastodon for “threads.net” you’ll see a bunch of people wondering why they can’t see President Biden’s account, unaware that they are on an instance that did a full suspend on the threads.net domain.

jsit, 7 months ago to blogging

Are there any blog aggregators out there anymore?

#blogging

jsit, 10 months ago to twitter

Elon’s latest rationale for the rename from #Twitter to #X

jsit, 1 year ago to fediverse

I have a crazy and probably terrible idea:

A network of medium-sized, invite-only, interest-focused #Mastodon instances at various subdomains -- movies.social.example, minneapolis.social.example, foodies.social.example, gaming.social.example -- that all relay with each other and operate under the same server rules.

jsit, 11 months ago to random

🚨 #SLACK NOW SUPPORTS MULTIPLE WINDOWS 🚨

jsit, 7 months ago to mastodon

I really would love to see a #Mastodon- or #ActivityPub-focused “group blog” or “publication” — technical deep dives, long opinion pieces, etc.

I see a lot of great writing about this place but almost all of it takes place in long threads that are difficult to read and refer to, or worse, in chat rooms.

jsit, 4 months ago to random

“Subscription” doesn’t feel like an accurate word for all the stuff we subscribe to.

When you cancel a magazine subscription, Time doesn’t come and take all the issues back.

When you cancel a Hulu subscription, you can’t watch the show for which you’ve been paying for months or years.

Do you like your Spotify library? Hope you’re ok with paying for it for the rest of your life.

What do we call these? “Service plans”? “Rentscriptions”?

jsit, 1 year ago to random

The superior moralizing that goes on on Mastodon has real “I don’t even own a TV” vibes.

jsit, 1 year ago to random

BUY THE MEDIA YOU LOVE

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23729642/disney-plus-hulu-remove-pull-shows-willow-streaming-bob-iger

jsit, 11 months ago to random

Wait do people really think Meta is actually going to use ActivityPub?

jsit, 11 months ago to random

From the Fedi Pact website:

"project92 is a real and serious threat to the health and longevity of fedi and must be fought back against at every possible opportunity"

This is defederation as sabotage, not as protection of individual users.

"i hereby agree to block any instances owned by meta"

Notice it says "block," not "silence." This means "prevent any of your users from following someone on P92/Meta." That's not what most people want, and if it is, they can block P92 themselves.

jsit, 3 months ago to bluesky

One thing that's great about hosting your own #Bluesky PDS vs hosting your own Mastodon instance is that a single-user Mastodon instance inherently sees just a sliver of the fediverse, for better or worse.

When hosting your own Bluesky PDS, there are no similar trade-offs within the ATProto network. The user experience is identical to that of somebody on the flagship server.

jsit, 8 months ago to random

It’s crazy that Apple Music has had live radio with human DJs for years, and yet you can’t set up alerts for when shows you like are about to start.

jsit, 10 months ago to random

We told people, “on the Fediverse, you can follow anybody from anywhere,” without telling them we would collectively disallow them from following people on platforms we don’t personally like.

jsit, 7 months ago to random

I don’t think a lot of editing was done on this “Techno-Optimism #Manifesto.” I’ve only skimmed it but it reads like some Reddit epic awesomesauce garbage, including phrases such as: “which is good, because, have you met people?”

It’s a pretentious stream-of-consciousness manic rambling.

jsit, 5 months ago to random

I like the promise of ActivityPub because I can connect with people without using corporate surveillance apps, not because I am prevented from using corporate surveillance apps to connect with people.

jsit, 1 year ago to random

@gruber

I assume this isn’t you? @daringfireball

jsit, 5 months ago to random

A question about media outlets now having a Fediverse presence via #Flipboard:

How many of them know they now have a Fediverse presence via Flipboard? I would imagine a lot of these Flipboard-enabled sites are just the result of someone creating a Flipboard account 10 years ago, hooking their site's RSS feed up to it, and forgetting about it.

jsit, 2 months ago to random

Imagine if there were great Swift-based IRC and Usenet clients for macOS.

jsit, 7 months ago to random

Something else great about alt text on Mastodon is that it’s useful if the image or video doesn’t load because of the fragility of federation.

jsit, 11 months ago to random

@stroughtonsmith Long-time Broadcasts user, I love it! Is it possible fo get album artwork with ShazamKit?

https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/

jsit, 1 year ago to random

Does @ivory work with #Calckey? That’s a no, right?

jsit, 9 months ago to BBC

The #BBC has set up their own Mastodon instance! 🤯

https://social.bbc/about

cc @gbhnews

jsit, 2 months ago to random

I didn’t buy that Meta was hiding Pixelfed references the last time they were accused of doing it, either.

It would just be so petty for something that has a sliver of the userbase Instagram does.

Meta does not see Pixelfed as a threat.