thom

@thom@indieweb.social

Working with big tech professionally, but interested in small tech personally.

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thom, to internet

Seeing more and more of these "how could anyone POSSIBLY know how will act" takes and... and...

I think the has maybe 2 or 3 years before it's largely gutted by . Honestly hope I'm wrong.

thom, to internet

And comparing blocking with Trump building a wall? WTAF?!?!

thom, to internet

Working my way through the latest drama. I'm not on the "everyone should pre-emptively block" bandwagon, but I also don't need to wait and see with them. We know who they are already.

But signing an to meet with Meta to discuss the future of the is absurd. And the defense by a particular admin was telling.

There's a good chance I peace out and stick with my personal instance, because are gonna and it's feeling like less of a community these days.

syntaxseed, to fediverse
@syntaxseed@phpc.social avatar

I just got my first real taste of the power of . I wanted to reply to a post on the new instance & was lamenting the need for another social account. Then realized I can copy the url of the post into the search box here & view it like a Mastodon post. I can reply & my reply shows up on the original Lemmy thread.

Wow! 🤩

All we need now is a button that opens it in your currently logged in fediverse instance. 🤔

Maybe a browser plugin?

thom,

@syntaxseed thanks for explaining that - it's been the question I've had about Lemmy/Kbin since this started.

Now is it safe to assume I can't start a new post on them from Mastodon, etc?

anildash, to random
@anildash@me.dm avatar

Okay, Mastodon friends, I rarely ask for amplification about my day job, but I personally pushed for my employer to make a big investment in enabling the fediverse, and I'd love for everyone to show that the support is appreciated. On June 28, you can join us for a (FREE!) hands-on conversation about how the Fastly team worked to support @Mastodon while the service was under a massive DDOS attack. Everyone who cares about scaling the fediverse should join: https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon @devs

thom,

@anildash @Mastodon @devs will this be recorded? I am VERY interested, but will be at a work event that day.

michael, to random
@michael@thms.uk avatar

Hang on. Did the break , or have they broken their systems, hoping noone will notice the blackout? 🤔

thom,

@michael I have a feeling all of those huge subreddits going private has probably borked the site. But I wouldn't doubt it might be on purpose.

Tusky, to random
@Tusky@mastodon.social avatar

v22 has been released!

Changes in this release include:

✅ View trending hashtags from the side menu, or as a tab
✅ Edit image descriptions and focus points after posting
✅ Better ordering of languages when writing a post
✅ Mastodon v4 filters
✅ Show the differences between different versions of edited posts (try it with this one!)
✅ Accessibility improvements

Available in Google Play and F-Droid, the full release notes and other assets are at https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v22.0

thom,

@hydreliox @Tusky from the announcement, it points to this from the Masto docs. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#filters

mattl, to random
@mattl@social.coop avatar
thom,

@mattl I remember telling a scientist to use that format in his filenames because then sorting would just work and his jaw practically hit the floor.

jpf, to random
@jpf@mastodon.social avatar

I hate that mass shootings are so common now that, so far, they’ve coincided with two of my vacations. The mass shooting in El Paso (my hometown and where my parents were living) happened during my first trip to Hawaii and Uvalde happened when I was at Disneyland.

The news is hard enough to deal with, but it’s even harder to try and hide my anguish from my family. To try and at least spare their happiness.

thom,

@jpf I hate that I've got no answers when my daughter has a bad feeling and her school has a "police presence" on regular occasions.

kellybodwin, to random

I've been clinging to a futile hope that

(a) Mastodon would automatically start to feel natural to me; or

(b) A magical new alternative would appear; or

(c) Twitter would stop its death-spiral into fascism.

Since it's clear none of those are happening, I'm finally going to bite the bullet and leave the Hellsite and commit to posting only here.

Friends, I would love help with rebuilding my network and getting the "feel" of Mastodon. <3

thom,

@kellybodwin as someone who got an analytics degree but was too scared to use it, I always enjoy following stats/data sci folks.

whalecoiner, to random

I've started using @obsidian of late, and I'm really liking it so far! It's the first note-taking app that I've not given up on after a few days, angrily going back to my paper notebook in disgust at technology. 😂

thom,

@whalecoiner @obsidian Wish there was better support for WebDAV, because I do really like it. But I'm mostly sticking with Joplin until that gets figured out.

atomicpoet, to random

Great tip from @feditips!

The current account I'm using is not a Mastodon account.

RE: https://mstdn.social/users/feditips/statuses/110419243418935258

thom,

@atomicpoet @feditips I do wish there was a better name. Because every time I say it, my daughter hears "fetaverse" and starts laughing.

thom,

@aram Seems like some road trips are in order!

ross, to random
@ross@rossabaker.com avatar

In Extreme Programming, we picked a new pair programmer every day. I decided that was nonsense, and adopted Pete. We paired for the next nineteen years. He preferred the title "alpha" to "principal staff," but he shared his opinions whether you wanted them or not. He logged off this morning. Rest easy, friend.

P.S., this is what he thought of YAML.

thom,

@ross So sorry for your loss. 😢

stefan, to internet
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

I wonder if people threatening to block Facebook's/Meta's new ActivityPub-compatible social media network also automatically block emails coming from gmail.com.

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

thom,

@stefan This is an absolutely absurd comparison.

thom,

@stefan I get that there's plenty of gatekeeping around here. And anyone who would immediately block any corporate presence is being silly (IMO).

But you can't ignore the reality of a corporation. Certainly Google (with their history of embrace/extinguish) would get blocked by many if they picked up ActivityPub. And so will Facebook (with their history of abusing everybody's personal data, even if you're not a customer).

On my personal instance I'll probably block first, ask questions later.

thom,

@stefan oof, that's a worst case scenario that hadn't occurred to me.

I'll add that I do think it would be in particular bad form if a major instance like mastodon.social did the blocking.

Cloudguy, (edited ) to random

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    thom,

    @Cloudguy Happened to me, too. I wrote about this last year that after deleting all of my tweets older than 3 months they started re-appearing.

    Since then I simply de-activated my account(s).

    thom, to random

    Debating just muting the word app, because 9 out of 10 times it's something iPhone only and I'm just tired of it.

    rolle, (edited ) to random
    @rolle@mementomori.social avatar

    My regular feed is now delayed for 15 minutes. And it's not even Eurovision any more. I might have done something wrong. Reducing Sidekiq processes from 6 to 1 might have temporarily hogged it...

    Still looking for that perfect tutorial on how to optimize Mastodon. None found yet. The existing ones assume too much.

    I'll leave this now and go to sleep...

    thom,

    @rolle Amazing how frequently the right article ends up being yet another DO tutorial.

    profcarroll, to random
    @profcarroll@federate.social avatar

    Bluesky app is now open source https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app

    thom,

    @profcarroll Something about the fact that they are open sourcing the client for a closed service before opening up federation seems very on brand.

    atomicpoet, to fediverse

    now lets you edit your posts!

    To edit, follow these steps:

    1. Go to a post that you want to edit

    2. Click the "..." button on lower right corner of your post

    3. From the menu that pops up, click "Edit"

    4. A compose box will appear with your post contained inside. Make your edits

    5. Click the "Edit" button when you finish composing your edit

    After clicking the "Edit" button, your post will update, and there will be an indicator on the top right corner of your post that it is edited.

    Just like , Calckey now allows you to edit your posts!

    @fediversenews

    Edit compose box with edit button emphasized in a red box.
    Example of an Edited post.

    thom,

    @atomicpoet @fediversenews Does it also notify users who interacted with the post? I really appreciate getting those notifications even though 99% of the time it's just a grammatical fix.

    hazelweakly, to random
    @hazelweakly@hachyderm.io avatar

    I did it. I found the most fucking cursed password prompt ever

    thom,

    @hazelweakly Honestly can't tell if : is acceptable or not.

    thom, to fediversenews

    I thought @fediversenews was a moderated list, but will have to unfollow after a blatantly hateful, transphobic post was boosted by it.

    thom,

    @skotchygut wouldn't be surprised. Currently out and about, but when I've got a moment I'll try to send it your way.

    thom,

    @atomicpoet ugh, that would be a shame.

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