Nice reminder from Florian Waldow (Humboldt Uni) that "utopia" is spatial and not at all temporal. Today's usage as future-oriented should really be "Uchronia".
@discoursology but then again if I don't have it wrong 'far away' and 'a long time ago/in the far future' are roughly equivalent in the multiverse, as per Max Tegmark and such? :)
@katanova@ansate@Matt_Noyes@emi@dphiffer@sam@hollie@django FYI I'll be making some changes to join.social.coop tonight to renew the API key it uses to open registration bugs; @idmyn kindly reached out to let us know the previous key was expiring. There might be some disruption to the registration process but it should be solved tonight.
@katanova@ansate@Matt_Noyes@emi@dphiffer@sam@hollie@django@idmyn I made the changes but both before and after updating the token I only received an email with my test answers in the registration form; no matching bug in anagora.org/go/cwg/bugs yet unfortunately
ok as much as I complain about computers, it's pretty great you can type in some real dipshit query like "moon situation" and get links to the current moon phase with visualizations and details and shit
Create an account on https://dlvrit.com and add X and Bluesky (up to 2 sites)
Create a new website feed automation
Add: https:// INSTANCE/@ YOURUSER/tagged/tt.rss
(ignore if the service says feed is invalid, just click connect)
Now every time you toot containing #tt the service will fetch and repost, it pulls every 15 minutes, so don't expect the post to be there immediately.
You can use /@ YOURUSER.rss to post everything (but the free service allows only 50/month)
Extra:
If you want to self host an alternative there is the https://github.com/muesli/beehive :yunohost: service, it runs a service that using a free twitter API key can post up to 1500 posts/month.
This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer's specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.
Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it
"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page
I am particularly irked by 1. the tendency to hijack links by replacing every URL with a minified/obscure redirect, thus further attacking the 'readability' of the web and 2. the fact that some of them are believed to maintain lists of URLs that will 'shadowban' the post or the user if posted.
@simon my proposal to work around any linking limitations is to "just" define and maintain our own linking layer on top of all forms of social media -- in particular, using [[wikilinks]] to signal that the user means to link to an external knowledge base ;)
@dynamic right, I understand that direction of thinking I think; but I'm unconvinced it's enough to sway me. There'll still be a character count display, and people could presumably use clients that let them self-impose arbitrary limits (indeed, you could make the argument Mastodon should provide such setting -- alongside making the character limit itself a setting).
Also, note that Mastodon's UX should (IIUC) already provide a 'show more' link over a certain threshold when reading.