stefan

b0rk, 10 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

I know $12 USD is a lot of money for some people, so to celebrate 1000+ sales (!!!), I'm giving away 1000 PDF copies of How Git Works (honour system: only if $12 is a lot for you!)

Here's the link, enter code BUYONEGIVEONE at checkout to get a free copy https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/

(it'll ask you for a billing address but you can enter a fake address if you'd prefer)

_L1vY_, 13 days ago to random

I haven't had the bandwidth to discuss it, but I'm super stressed out. On top of the stress of just trying to work and parent and scraping to meet expenses, my checks were stolen from the mail this week.

So on top of already being overworked and no time to cook, sleep, etc., now my account had to be frozen, and I've had to squeeze in repeatedly running to the bank in person to deal with it, and my bill payments are bouncing. Internet, my work platform, etc.

jupiter_rowland, 10 days ago to random

I've got over 500 connections, most of which are on Mastodon. Yet, it feels like I've got much less reach in the Fediverse now than I used to have when I only had some 200 or 300 connections. This can only mean that especially lots of Mastodon users and maybe even entire Mastodon instances have muted, blocked or shadow-banned me. I wouldn't even be surprised if some public Mastodon instances have secretly muted or blocked hub.netzgemeinde.eu as a whole just because of my actions.

I can't really tell from the delivery reports, for one difference between Mastodon and Hubzilla is that Hubzilla rejects blocked or filtered messages at the server level whereas Mastodon accepts them and then discards them before they can be delivered to the muting, blocking or filtering recipient. Otherwise I think I could weed out a whole lot of connections.

And here's a list of reasons for which I've probably been muted, blocked or shadow-banned:

1. Posting over 500 characters. Regardless of whether or not I put them behind a Mastodon-style content warning.
2. Posting over 500 characters without a Mastodon-style content warning. That's because I simply can't put Mastodon-style content warnings on comments. Still, I'm pretty sure that just about everyone who has ever come across an over-500-character comment from me while using the official Mastodon app has taken countermeasures.
3. A summary in the content warning. Mastodon's content warning field is the summary field, but 99% of all Mastodon users don't know.
4. More than four hashtags. On Mastodon, more than four hashtags are spam, regardless of whether they're spread across a 150-character toot or a 10,000-character essay or at the very end of the post. Also, Mastodon largely doesn't know the concept of filtering hashtags, it knows filter-generated content warnings even less, and it knows the concept of adding hashtags in order to trigger filters another great deal less.
5. A few may still be upset about text formatting, even though I guess many mobile apps still don't show it.
6. Talking about virtual worlds, but the Mastodon users in question don't know how to filter.
7. Talking about the Fediverse, but actually talking about the Fediverse outside of Mastodon and/or making Mastodon look bad in comparison to non-Mastodon Fediverse projects.
8. Questioning Mastodon practices that are set in stone and never discussed on Mastodon such as certain aspects of describing images.

Essentially, this boils down to two points:

• not adopting the entirety of Mastodon's culture as a Hubzilla user
• not abandoning Hubzilla's culture as a Hubzilla user

All because the Fediquette is entirely defined by Mastodon users, most of whom at that point didn't and often still don't know that the Fediverse is more than just Mastodon.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #MastodonCulture #Fediquette #Mute #Muted #Block #Blocked #NotMastodon

stefan, 9 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to internet

Nominate your favorite #IndieWeb sites for this year's https://tinyawards.net!

via @waxy

#TinyAwards #internet #TheWeb #websites

nora, 10 days ago to random

hey if you are thinking of donating to the trevor project this pride maybe don't

https://sherishaw.net/blog/inside-the-absurd-mismanagement-of-the-trevor-project-part-1

https://sherishaw.net/blog/inside-the-absurd-mismanagement-of-the-trevor-project-part-2

https://sherishaw.net/blog/inside-the-absurd-mismanagement-of-the-trevor-project-part-3

stefan, 8 days ago to fediverse

Hey fediverse, I made a fediverse sharing button you can add to your website or a blog!

https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-sharing-button/

#fediverse #FediverseSharingButton #webdev #WebDesign #websites #SocialMedia

A short recording of me using the fediverse sharing button, filling out various fediverse domain names, showing how the icon changes to match the software running on each server. The interface itself consists of an input field for the domain name and a share button preceded by an icon. An "https" placeholder text is before the input field to signal that this part of the URL is not needed.

stefan, 10 days ago to MountainBiking

Happy #WorldBicycleDay!

"The [2018 United Nations General Assembly] resolution for World Bicycle Day recognizes "the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle, which has been in use for two centuries, and that it is a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and environmentally fit sustainable means of transport.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bicycle_Day

#bicycles #biking

stefan, 29 days ago to music

Full song: https://soundcloud.com/stefanbohacek/secret-places?in=stefanbohacek/sets/mixtape

#music #NewMusic #synth #soundcloud

stefan, 9 days ago to news

"New York is planning to prohibit social media companies from using algorithms to control content to youth without parental consent under a tentative agreement reached by state lawmakers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/york-set-restrict-social-media-224625314.html

Original, paywalled article: https://www.wsj.com/politics/new-york-set-to-restrict-social-media-algorithms-for-teens-ce250dfe

#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #TheAlgorithm

stefan, 11 days ago to history

It looks like parts of the original thread are broken, but the TLDR here is: Do you know the source of the quote:

"You don’t fight fascism because you are going to win, you fight fascism because it is fascism."

https://waag.social/@MennoOng/112540224146722651

#quote #history #fascism #sartre

sara, 12 days ago to random

@stefan Hi! I realize this is a long shot but I tried remixing the glitch creative-bots project to make a little Mastodon bot, but it seems like it doesn’t work anymore and npm starts screaming. Are there any plans to maybe update it at all? (It’s fine if not, it’s free after all, and I’m sure you have more than enough to do!) 💛

stefan, 12 days ago to webdev

Finally had a proper look at @eleventy.

I really like that it can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be.

I'm not quite sold on it for hosting blogs (yet), but I've migrated a few of my smaller projects for which I've used a simple node app (mainly to take advantage of templating).

Huge improvement in memory consumption! For example, https://simplepagebuilder.app went from 67.89MB down to just 6.07MB.

Nice!

#webdev #11ty #eleventy

stefan, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to internet

It was 13 years ago when I registered fourtonfish.com, which I've used as my internet home for the following 11 years, before switching to stefanbohacek.com.

How did you pick the domain name for your personal website?

#anniversary #internet #TheWeb #PersonalWebsite #DomainNames #poll

josh, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

Hey folks! I'm looking for examples of elected officials and people running for office who have accounts on the fediverse.

Know of one? Please let me know! Boosts appreciated :boost_requested:

#USPol #CanPoli #UKPol