Extremely tempted to try to go to @xoxo
I don’t feel like I have any work worthy of it just yet… but it would be a good motivator to get some stuff together by then.
I love the form factor of my little iPhone 12 Mini …but I am so ready for a phone that doesn’t constantly overheat and run out of batteries like 7 times a day
@misc as a data point - my 12 pro max was a refurb which I got in December 2022 and the battery lasts for a good day and a half without a charge, fwiw.
But, i'm a homebody - I use it all the time, usually on wifi which seems to help with battery life. I try to remember to wipe it annually to prolong...
@knizer Yeah I think the issue is that a larger phone allows for a larger battery, but doesn't actually use that much more power. So a Pro Max should last much longer. Still, probably worth attempting some clean up, to make the next few months more livable.
Exciting news, the #FreshPond Beer Garden is coming back on Friday! Possibly the most charmingly uncool beer garden in the #Boston area, and therefore my favorite. #CambridgeMA
I don't want to get too carried away with extrapolations, but it's wild to see engagement on Mastodon and Bluesky blow X away, for essentially the same posts, on accounts with ~10-15% the followers.
Well I did the first step which was disassembling the existing couch, unfortunately turns out assembly requires two people and wife is still at work, so back on the floor I go
One thing Mastodon (or a fork) could do to win some users over from Bluesky, is support taking your account private. It's wild that X and Threads are the only big post-Twitter microblogging platforms that allow this.
@misc I don't know very much at all, but that sounds extremely dicey to implement in ActivityPub since other forks and systems could just ignore the changed flag.
Maybe I'm wrong, but since doing a wholesale "going private" move is so frequently used when shit gets super hostile, it seems like it would be important to bulletproof in ways that…may not be available? Idk.
@Kevin Lots of leaves! Did a quick google and saw it suggested that mushrooms indicate root rot - they don't kill the tree but suggest that it may be terminally ill.
Do you (or anyone following the hashtag) happen to know if #cambridgema has an office that will come out and diagnose a tree like this?
@misc Honestly I think we need to talk less about Mastodon. Frankly, I think Mastodon and many of the decisions made by Gargon have been bad for the Fedi at large. I'm glad to see some of the other software gaining mindshare.
In the end, Fediverse will be here for the long term, and I think it's going to be small communities connected to it that bring people here.
We understand "clients" as a concept but what would a browser for the social web look like? Something that would let you dip into a convo on Mastodon, or Bluesky, or whatever, and help you track the throughlines
@misc I think a fedibrowser could have built in functionality similar to Graze, which allows you to easily interact with any other Mastodon server as if it were your own. https://faqabout.me/iam/graze
Taking that a little further, I could sign in to my primary fediverse accounts and choose one whenever I'm looking at a pixelfed post, or a peertube post, or a mastodon post, on any server. It could even work when I leave a comment on blogs, as long as they are connected to ActivityPub.