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reiver

@reiver@mastodon.social

I make things for the #Fediverse & #smallNet

Also talk about #FediverseUX #P2P #Privacy #SpreadFediverse

I post #SciFiArt

My work includes — #AllYourBases #FediverseAcademy #FediverseCity #FingerProtocol #GreatApe #PostFreely #SpaceHost #StarSeed

I life-cast at https://firefish.lol/@reiver , collect at https://playset.social/reiver , threadiverse at https://flamewar.social/u/reiver

Once upon a time, was a mathematician, computer scientist, data scientist, software engineer, industrial researcher 🌞

The meaning of life — first survive, then reproduce 🌞

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Gaptangle, to Birds

Hey Fedi help me out? Someone made a meme I think a long time ago, and shared it some time last year, and it was the whole structure of a bird with silly labels for everything, and it had perfect alt text except it was a bit hard to tell what was where. I'm trying to find this for a friend I mentioned it to ages ago. Can someone link me to the post, or op if you see this can you post it again?

reiver,
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@Gaptangle

Was it the annoyed-bird meme?

reiver,
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@Gaptangle

With the Annoyed Bird meme, you would add whatever text you want.

...

Are you more interested in the text someone had, rather than the meme image?

TechCrunch, to random
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Kiki World, a beauty brand that uses web3 for customer co-creation and ownership, raises $7M from a16z https://tcrn.ch/3UdKBi8

reiver,
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@DaveMasonDotMe @TechCrunch

https://a16z.com/

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ScienceCommunicator, to science
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Spray oxytocin up a woman’s nose __a research participant (a way to get the neuropeptide past the blood-brain barrier and into the brain), and she’ll find babies to look more appealing.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31170723-behave

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

reiver,
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@ScienceCommunicator

I liked his book (back when I read it years ago).

BeAware, to martialartsmemes
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To ALL my followers and mutuals:

This weekend is WrestleMania weekend.

I am very excited. However, I know most of you don't follow me for that.

Therefore, I'm giving you a heads up! I will be using the following hashtags a LOT over the course of the weekend and it WILL contain spoilers.

#WrestleMania #Wrestling #WWE #ProWrestling #ProfessionalWrestling

If you don't want to see these posts on your timeline, FILTER THEM. Preferences > Filters

reiver,
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@BeAware

I was really into Wrestling starting back in the early 1980s.

reiver,
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@BeAware

I haven't watched it in decades.

I wonder how many of the characters I remember are still there.

I imagine many of them have retired.

I know some of my favorites have even passed away 🙁

hamin, to blogging
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Old-internet feelings things that are strangely nostalgic even though they shouldn't be:



Anything missing on this not-so-extensive list?

reiver,
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@hamin

Regarding:

"Anything missing on this not-so-extensive list?"

It probably depends on how old you are.

For me (in addition to what you wrote):

• finger,
• Usenet / NNTP,
• telnet,
• mailing lists,
• surfing-the-web (back before searching the web became practical),
• personal (web) home-pages and websites (often as a tilde sub-site),
• all the very, very niche mini-sites created by people obsessed by some topic,
• the open-mined net.

atomicpoet, to random
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Watching a pre-season baseball game.

It’s Vancouver Canadians vs. UBC Thunderbirds. Both local teams. Canadians play in a Single A league, and the Thunderbirds are a university team.

reiver,
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@atomicpoet

Pics?

reiver, to random
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I don't do April Fool's posts.

Although I think some April Fool's jokes can be funny in certain contexts — I don't think social-media is one of those contexts.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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So far, only 2,800 Threads accounts have turned on Federation. Of the ones I see, they’re quite active.

I suspect the reason for the minuscule federated accounts is because Threads users can’t see replies from the Fediverse yet. Why would you turn on federation if you’re oblivious to interactions from the Fediverse?

Nevertheless, we’ll see what happens once communication becomes two-way.

@fediversenews

reiver,
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@atomicpoet @fediversenews

There are also quite a number of steps to turn on federation for a Threads account.

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/112191768847355806

reiver, to random
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1/

I was curious how a Threads account shows up on the Fediverse.

I have seen Threads users on the Fediverse — but I noticed that when I tried looking up many people, they didn't show up.

Later, I saw mention of Threads users having to enable Fediverse.

This is how a Threads user turns on "Fediverse sharing" on their Threads account.

🧵

reiver,
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2/

Step №1:

Go to your Threads profile.

Then tap the icon in the top-right with the 2 horizontal lines — that will take you to the Threads app 'Settings'.

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reiver,
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3/

Step №2:

On the Threads app 'Settings' screen, tap 'Account' — that will take you to the 'Account' screen.

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4/

Step №3:

On the Threads app 'Account' screen, tap 'Fediverse sharing' — that will take you to the 'What is the Fediverse' screen.

(Note that the 'Fediverse sharing' option didn't show up for me last time I checked. Today is the first time I saw it there. YMMV.)

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5/

Step №4:

The Threads app will require you to scroll down on the 'What is the fediverse' screen.

Once you do that, the inactive button (near the bottom of the screen) that previously said 'Scroll to continue' will become active and say 'Next'.

Tap the 'Next' button to be taken to a 'Turn on fediverse sharing?' screen.

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reiver,
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6/

Step №5:

On the Threads 'Turn on fediverse sharing?' screen, tap the 'Turn on sharing' button near the bottom of the screen.

And —

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reiver,
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7/

If that was successful, then the Threads app should take you back to the 'Account' screen.

But where before 'Fediverse sharing' said 'Off', now it should say 'On'.

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reiver,
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8/

And now for the-moment-of-truth — will looking up my Threads account from Mastodon work‽

Yes! Yes, it does.

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9/

FOLLOW-UP №1:

Even though I followed my Threads account from my Mastodon account, the Threads app is NOT showing me that follow in my in-app notifications.

reiver,
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10/

FOLLOW-UP №2:

When I try to look up my Mastodon account from the Threads app, it doesn't seem to work.

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FOLLOW-UP №3:

@BeAware
https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/112191934402926845

BeAware, to fediverse
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Ugh. I wish Fedi wasn't so reliant on domains....

Back when my naive self started Fedi, I went with the most known software (mastodon). But after months of dev incompetence, it's obviously not where I want to be, but I like my domain....

I guess I'm basically stuck with all these bad UI updates and no moderation features....😬🤦‍♂️

reiver, (edited )
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@BeAware

That is one of my criticisms, too — that identity on the Fediverse is tied to an Internet domain.

chimay, to random
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It's great to have gopher and gemini protocol, but why not use markdown (or orgmode) as a simple yet powerful one ?

Imagine, your notes rendered natively in your browser : headings, lists and so on, but no bloated js.

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@chimay

What are the things you would add to gemini gemtext, to make you feel it meets your needs as well as markdown and orgmode?

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/111432883671965677

reiver,
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@chimay

In addition to the ones you mentioned — some of the other common criticisms of gemini gemtext that I have heard include:

• lack of bolding,
• lack of italics,
• lack of embedded images,
• lack of embedded videos,
• lack of color,

...

How do you feel about these?

Do you want them, too? Don't care? Etc?

dillo, to random
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Hello mastodon from the browser!

reiver,
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@dillo

Very cool!

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