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nicol

@nicol@social.coop

Digital governance, community/civic tech, indie-media and the funding/tech/etc that support it. Co-founded Netribution.co.uk in 1999, co-wrote 3 editions of fundyourfilm.com on indie film finance. CSS/UI/UX, CiviCRM, CMSs, digital gardening, VJing, doc making, film festivals, wannabe vegan, long train journeys.

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nicol, to random
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"you don't need you can post a link & comment"

Also, in the official ...

  • see toot that links to a toot (or Activity Pub post)
  • click it & arrive at new interface as the full web app Mastodon renders
  • click boost/fave, get asked to login.
  • click back> clk three dots menu> 'open in Ffox/etc'
  • click URL bar> select all> copy
  • back to App> Search section> paste URL
  • Toot appears!
  • boost

If you think this is optimal UX maybe you need time outside your tech circle

nicol,
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@stefanlaser @elk I thought there was a decent compromise offered when the debate was raging during migration2 for those who felt QTs had helped personalised attacks on **itter, where Quote Toots on one's own Toots could be either allowed, or not, by the user in their settings.

nicol,
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@Brendanjones it would be good if - like parts of fedilife - the norms here made pile-ons worse for the person trying to do it than the victim. Maybe a lot was a byproduct of the snark-culture that many of twitter's diehards seem glued to & this space has less of.

I used QTs a lot before to boost a blog or news article while adding a quote from the article, presentation or video. But I also had someone QT to try shame me to their followers -I'm still moaning about it!- so I do get the concerns.

nicol,
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@Brendanjones
> “Great take, read this one” <- should be a boost.

That's a good point. There was a lot of 'I endorse this message', which could diminish the original person in favour of the booster-endorser. But maybe sometimes that's helpful to for establishing consensus around new issues/questions? A boost might be an FYI not an endorse.

I miss the ability to tailor a post for some followers… ie why this blog with a very technical title is relevant to artists. It felt like crowd-subediting.

nicol,
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@Brendanjones that's true /* endorsing comment */

nicol, to random
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Anyone surprised that Threads has decent UX seems to forget that half of us ditched MySpace for this college start-up because it had Ajax commenting. You'd enter a comment, click submit and - the entire web page didn't have to reload! That was like witchcraft.

The other half of us ran because Rupert Murdoch had bought MySpace, and this college start-up which had a picture of it's student founder on every page was clearly not megalomaniac. (Every step of the web most of us have got it wrong).

nicol, to random
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This -> https://werd.social/@ben/110645300070487117 is why I'd encourage any of the latest Twixiles to join a democratic, member-led instance, like social.coop, where I've been since 2017.

It doesn't solve all problems, and the tools and norms are still evolving, but it makes a big difference to be in a Fediverse space that is answerable to the people who use it (most of us also pay, > $1/month - so moderators are paid (not enough) too. .

nicol, to Ukraine
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Moscow has kidnapped 700,000 children from , according to Russian MP:

" has brought 700,000 children from the conflict zones of Ukraine into Russian territory, the head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, has said."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jul/03/russia-ukraine-war-live-moscow-has-removed-700000-children-from-ukraine-says-russian-mp?page=with:block-64a232ab8f08d551cf54c627#block-64a232ab8f08d551cf54c62

golgaloth, to random
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#OceanGate

nicol,
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@golgaloth and that they were going to visit the wreck of a ship that had sunk and killed so many, because its owners cut corners under their own hubris...

Even when their entire business was one big graveyard of a lesson about putting profit before safety, they didn't get it.

nicol,
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@qazwsxedcrfv000 @Kichae could it even be narrower than 'corporate social media'? Ie maybe you run a tiny business and don't have a problem with companies just because they're companies. But you know monopolies are usually bad, so monopolies over the world's public digital squares & discourse must be really bad.

And so you ended up here, on Activity Pub, not completely convinced that an 8-million-monthly-active-user fediverse will survive federating with a 3-billion-daily-active-user monopoly.

chrismessina, to random
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I agree with @gruber. Not federating is certainly a choice admins can make, but it's unlikely to have an impact considering that Threads is being bootstrapped off the Instagram social graph.

Would you rather keep the fediverse restricted to its current population of ~8M people or scale it to ~2.35B+?

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open

nicol,
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@chrismessina @liaizon advanced content policies are relatively moot at Facebook scale, as 1000s of examples show.

Meta has ~3 billion daily active users (Statistica). That could flatten the fediverse even if they weren't trying to. Why not wait, see how they behave and only federate if/when they prove they not only don't want to embrace & extinguish, but are self-aware that they're an elephant trying to enter a room full of mice, where 'move fast and break things' is just dangerous.

nicol,
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@chrismessina @renwillis @tchambers @gruber isn't re-centralisation inevitable when you have, potentially, 3.05 billion daily active users from one corp (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1092227/facebook-product-dau/) vs 8 million?

artfulrobot, to random
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Is there a way in to do a presentation mode? e.g. hides all buttons, toolbars and other chrome etc. at once?

I'm thinking no but worth asking the mastodon masses.

@inkscape group

nicol,
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@artfulrobot https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Inkview ?

nicol, to random
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"Greek authorities have been criticised for not acting to rescue the migrants on Wednesday, despite a coast guard vessel escorting the trawler for hours the night before it sank. Greek officials argued that the migrants repeatedly refused assistance and insisted on continuing to Italy. However, a network of activists said they received repeated distress calls from the vessel during the same time."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/greece-shipwreck-people-smuggling-suspects-arrested-as-search-continues

nicol, to webdev
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Many things I love about . One is reading of features I've never/barely heard of, such as in @5t3ph's talk/mega-tutorial– https://front-end.social/@5t3ph/110514087802458725 – knowing they don't need me to first install something on a server, or persuade a client to adopt or upgrade a particular language or framework and assess if it might become obsolete. They're just arriving, in every browser, sooner or later (eyes glued to with https://caniuse.com/css-nesting).

nicol, to random
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Bizarre to see the doubling down on their attempts to dismantle global protections after their populist 'not our values' racism spectacularly failed at the local elections. and - both strong Leave areas impacted by 'small boats', went from Conservative to Labour. The anti-refugee policy isn't just 'morally unacceptable', it doesn't impress the voters they designed it for.

nicol, to random
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I could taste on one hand the that didn't taste like penance. But this, following Julienne Bruno' "can convince dinner guests it's the real thing" Strachiatella, the Honestly Tasty based Blue lives up to the name, and probably would fool a lot of pallets for the cow versions. Tastes a bit like the offspring of a Cheshire-Cambazola love in.

nicol,
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@u0421793
yes & no… I was enjoying Burger King's vegan nuggets on Sunday so I don't think it's a socioeconomic thing for me, am aware I'm eating ultraprocessed whether it's fast food or artisan plant-cheese. As a kid veggie food was entangled with healthy eating so put people off, the last few years vegan wave for me has been separating that. We obvs still need to eat healthy but not exclusively. That said M&S plant-Chorizo has 12g fat & 1.18g salt/100g vs 45.4g & 3.53g for their pig-Chorizo.

nicol,
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@u0421793 thanks. Is the researcher who was writing somewhere recently (can't find now - Guardian?) about an experiment where calories and fat/carb/protein balance was matched between two research groups for a few weeks. But one group ate only ultra-processed foods, and the other only low/no-processed foods.. and despite the calorei & nutrition match, the processed group put on weight, and the unprocessed group, ate less / lost weight?

Mastodon, to random
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A new update on our : Hiring progress, 3 months in

https://www.patreon.com/posts/hiring-progress-81995545

nicol,
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@Mastodon doesn't appear to let me reject or opt out of Tracking to read that…

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