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smallcircles

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I'm Arnold Schrijver (he/him). Social coder. #FOSS, #HumaneTech and #SocialWeb advocate.

I help foster #Solutions that improve #Wellbeing, #Freedom and #Society

Let's #ReimagineSocial and envision a #Peopleverse where archipelagos, built by the #Commons, unfold the #HumanWeb. Delightful Realms of Creation, where only our dreams may hold us back.

Previously at: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech

Boosts and favourites do not imply endorsement.
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18+ smallcircles, to stackoverflow
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Bye bye, 👋

(I decided to keep my account. My statement that SO has some of my work, yet stole it. But I will not, can not contribute anything more.)

smallcircles,
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Onwards we march towards decentralized Q&A on the fedi ✊

smallcircles,
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@janvlug over time I got a lot of benefit and also direct help from SO. But the enshittification was always looming.

It is the same for LI btw, where I have some uses for it (until a federated alternative arrives). I recently edited my profile indicating I'm not playing the LI game, though. Should still finish that, but my CV will be elsewhere 😅

smallcircles,
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@janvlug there used to be Flockingbird project under development, but the maintainer pivoted to building a job search bot + site, and then abandoned that.

https://github.com/Flockingbird

smallcircles,
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@ggpsv

@hobs did a search on non-federated codebases to build from: https://mstdn.social/@hobs/112414438147753719

And @andre reminded me of @retrospring that has several open issues on their tracker. Mentioned in this thread, also on the topic of finding alternatives: https://fedi.jaenis.ch/@andre/statuses/01HXH5R3NQ4FER2TXS68YVGGW6

jonny, to random
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Doing some research for a zine. Here's on detective agencies, spies, and sabotage in unions from "Boycotts and the labor struggle" (1914).

https://archive.org/details/boycottslaborstr00laidrich/page/n1/mode/2up

#LaborHistory

ccording to Miss Gertrude Barnum, one of the leaders of the strike, Morris Lubin, a young man supposedly a garment worker of Cleve- land, was hired by the cloak manufacturers of that city, through the William J. Burns agency, soon after the breaking out of the strike, at a salary of $10 a day, and was required to make daily reports to the manu- facturers* association. He was a clever talker, was elected into the union, volunteered as a leader on the picket line, and, by means of his energy, versatility and daring, soon became the idol of some of the younger element. His position in the union secure, he began to urge the strikers to less peaceful action on the picket line, arguing that the strike was the beginning of the industrial revolution and that mild actions were totally ineffective. His leadership resulted in many deeds of violence which greatly discredited the union. Some of his activities are thus described by Miss Barnum:
"Lubin led secret raids upon the homes of the strike breakers. He plotted unsuccessfully to blow up the hotel occupied by the 'scabs.' . . . He looted and wrecked other places. He was lavish in distributing lead pipe, blackjack and even revolvers to the hot heads of the union who were committing the outrages unbe- known to the officers. As a grand climax of his pro- gram of violence and bloodshed, Lubin planned an attack on a train bringing strike breakers into town. . . . Revolvers were furnished from his home. . . . They (Lubin and his followers) opened fire with their guns, shooting into the air, but didn't do any damage."
Finally a strike-breaker was slugged by Lubin and three strikers. The man afterward died. The vio- lence reported in connection with the strike aroused public opinion against the strikers, who finally lost. Miss Barnum believes, as a result of these deeds. At one time, In fact, the strikers were about to settle with a manufacturer when Lubin, Miss Barnum alleged, broke up the conference by throwing an ink bottle at the employer. On the trial for assaulting the strike- breaker, the "spy" broke down, confessed all, and was sentenced to six months' Imprisonment.

smallcircles,
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@jonny

Freedom erodes, crumb by crumb. But in the heart it cannot die.

18+ smallcircles, to random
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The horrible Apple ad is a good opportunity to highlight one of the amazing but also highly impactful animations by Steve Cutts.

In this video featured on the official music clip of "Are you lost in the world like me?" by Moby and The Void Pacific Choir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8

Content warning: animation contains scene relating to suicide.

smallcircles,
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Wake Up Call! ⏰

is NOT the Future!

Please allow the fabulous to elaborate a bit on that..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhR_zKUn6jc

Codeberg, to stackoverflow
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Anyone considering how to break the #StackOverflow #monopoly already? Any #federated alternative work in progress?

smallcircles,
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@naught101 @Codeberg @tauli

It occurs to me that while is a fairly bad choice as the extensibility mechanism for protocol, it should be in theory a rather good choice for the knowledge network and navigation thereof, of the content aggregating into the various federated SO instances.

TBL once asked about using to create a and I suggested adding federation to the mix:

https://forum.solidproject.org/t/ideas-for-a-possible-faq-solid-app/4627

Nowadays also @skohub comes to mind here.. 🤔

douginamug, to firefox
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Sometimes I need to watch a video on youtube.

Even if I quickly go fullscreen, there's enough time to be enticed by the algorithmically-addictive video on the side menu.

What browser magic can I most simply implement to hide the side menu?

smallcircles,
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@rosano @douginamug

Delightful humane design curated list has a bunch of related things to try. Either an alternative client, or a 'declutterer' like Youtube Search Fixer (I haven't tested this one myself).

https://delightful.club/delightful-humane-design/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite-search-fixer/

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Hey, which app allows an to be used as a ?

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/112414539433136490

#❓

smallcircles,
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67

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/67

smallcircles,
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@Linux_in_a_Bit

It would be nice to give emoji more meaning this way. If also custom emoji are supported, then the "boost appreciated" #emoji can be filtered on, for instance. And #❓ can be alternative for #AskFedi for instance.

smallcircles,
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@hazelnoot neither on Mastodon. It does not recognize as a hashtag link in the web UI.

smallcircles,
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@julian

Hmm, on your end.

First toot was a single 'loose' top-level toot, second one above to the thread, but no emoji showing in at all in both of these. And opening the link to your toot, leads to a login page on NodeBB.

How did it look on your end?

smallcircles,
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@mikedev as it should. Nice!

smallcircles,
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@tyil thus far only streams app supports them.

Why use emoji at all? I'm in favor of a culture that gives more care to emoji's rather than carelessly strewing them around.

They can convey meaning well, like the "boosts appreciated" custom emoji. They can be used in addition to other textual hashtags that aren't always as accessible in their meaning either. There are cultures around emoji use, that give meaning in certain contexts, and those cultures are part of social fabric and cohesion then.

smallcircles,
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@tyil fair points. I am suggesting emoji should be usable as hashtags, but not prescribing how they are best used. Like for public square broadcasts.. probably not so appropriate.

I have use cases for them, and they are in the realm of "personal social networking" where people know the context and meaning.

mcc, to random
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Well. I guess that's it then. https://antabaka.me/@mochi/112412569121873646

smallcircles,
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@mcc

Gender meanders beautifully. Why do folks wanna dam it in, make it straight? What's wrong with them? Rigid flow imagined in rigid minds. Unnatural.

demiurg, to fediverse
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I have the feeling that Activity Pub and other new 'protocols' have a different meaning of the term 'protocol'. I mean these APIs and services would not be handled by the IETF. Or do I miss something?

smallcircles,
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@demiurg

Imho AP serves more as a kind of "protocol framework", and it still must be completed to be fully production-ready. Current early adopters are all working with alpha versions and flavours thereof.

csarven, to random
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re https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero/112287359872818229 :

happy and thankful to announce that dokieli is among the projects receiving funding to contribute its bit for the open internet.

Thank you for your time and consideration!

Some details on what we'll do is described at https://nlnet.nl/project/Dokieli/

Will continue to contribute to open web standards ( see e.g., https://github.com/linkeddata/dokieli/blob/main/README.md#specifications )

smallcircles,
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@csarven @liaizon

Congratulations on your funding, Sarven 🎉

Dokieli is a most interesting fedi project that ventures beyond regular social media use cases that still dominate the field. Thus an application that invites exploring new areas of the social web, where there exists great potential. Thank you for your efforts!

dentangle, to random
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Linus demonstrating that any clear and well-reasoned proposal can still be attacked using nothing more than SHOUTY CAPS and calling it "idiotic".

Deftly ignoring direct questions, and side-stepping all attempts at logical discussion by deliberately and repeatedly mis-quoting the other person.

@kees I am in awe of your patience and calm 😉

https://lore.kernel.org/all/202404291502.612E0A10@keescook/

smallcircles,
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@dentangle @jens @kees

Gotta say.. just Wow! What a behavior this shows. Literally stamping on an idea. Bringing full authority to bear and minimize any chance of people more broadly starting to muse on merits and possible drawbacks to take into account. Absolutely toxic stuff.

liaizon, to random
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"Roam the Wilderness of Autonomous Social Networks"

Requesting feedback for this as a title for a tour of the fediverse I am giving in September...

smallcircles,
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@liaizon

I like the title. Though I consider "autonomous" be a tease and small barb towards traditional corporate non-social Social Media.

"Autonomous" is like automated, robotic in the visual image I get when hearing the title. But that's the fun there. Fedi is about autonomous people doing the things they love, and on their own free volition. No algorithmic steering and influencing there. So the exact opposite of that mental picture.

You could make that a theme in the presentation visuals.

smallcircles,
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@liaizon yes, I can see that, and also you are giving the presentation in an autonomous zone I saw/think.

For regular folks and also techies the connotation is different, I think.

But that is an opportunity for some wordplay around that 😃

dansup, to fediverse
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Anyone building a federated Stack Overflow?

smallcircles,
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@hobs @dansup

Ohh, those are nice finds.

Looking in the SE github org, there's also their Design System, and it is MIT-licensed.

https://github.com/StackExchange/Stacks

That can be a) giving a good headstart in designing an alternative, and b) depending on how it is exactly licensed, be great to "fork" the brand assets (if they are also just MIT, they maybe aren't protected as they usually are).

alcinnz, (edited ) to random
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Developer's PSA: The way you & your culture do things isn't the way everyone does things! Be wary of cultural constructs, no matter how basic they may seem!

Time & dates. Text. Punctuation. Names. Addresses. Iconography.

What else am I forgetting?

P.S. This is also a politics PSA. Very topical to NZ right now!

smallcircles,
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@alcinnz depends how fresh it is ;p

smallcircles,
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@alcinnz 😮

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