Month: 13 Iyyar 5783 (May 2023)

Finished the first pass of rethinking how incoming direct messages work in Micro.blog. I still believe that most social networks should not reinvent the wheel with messaging, because it’s unlikely to be as secure as dedicated services like iMessage and WhatsApp. But we roll with what we’ve got.

—@manton

Revamped direct messages from Mastodon to no longer send an email. Instead you’ll see a “1 direct message” link in the Mentions page on the web. Click that to view incoming messages and reply back to Mastodon.

—@news

So just a quick rundown of how social media platforms handle bitcoin scammers

🐦Twitter: Hell yeah we love that shit. Heck, we’re owned by a bitcoin scammer!

☁ Bluesky: look, free speech is free speech. But if you’d like to filter them out we’ll tag it “Finance Advice”

🐘 Mastodon: GET TAE FACK OUT AND DONNAE LET THE GOOD LORD SEE YAE LEAVIN

—@action_jay

If you received unwanted direct messages this morning, one way to mitigate this is by disallowing direct messages from accounts you aren’t following.

Navigate to Preferences, Settings, Notifications, and check the box labelled “Block direct messages from people you don’t follow”

—@admin

I would recommend anyone on mastodon.social to look for another smaller instance to which to migrate. It’s way too big for its britches.
Check out https://instances.social or https://fediverse.party/en/portal/servers/

—@jeannie

Social networking is about to bifurcate into two basic camps: people who post about doing shit, and people who mostly shit-post.

https://www.theverge.com/23710406/mozilla-social-mastodon-fediverse-moderation

—@shoq

“I was born in 1994”

– boring
– heard it before
– tells you nothing

“I was born in the year of Cotton Eye Joe”

– arouses curiosity
– who was Cotton Eye Joe
– where did he come from?
– where did he go?
– Cotton Eye Joe

—@snarthelg

So, this guy solicited nude videos from an undercover police officer he believed to be a minor in 2018. It took nearly five years to convict him and (apologies but I’m going to use all caps here) HE REMAINED AN ACTIVE DUTY NYPD OFFICER UP TO HIS CONVICTION THIS WEEK. In the press release, the NYPD goes on and on about how he betrayed his oath but they don’t seem bothered with letting him keep his badge for years after he did.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/nypd-officer-convicted-possession-and-attempted-receipt-child-pornography-and-sexual

#nyc #NYPD #policing #hypocrisy #law #EricAdams

—@neilcar

Lots of crypto spam coming from numbered mastodon.social spambot accounts right now.

They’re tagging people directly in their posts.

I’m not quite how to best handle these as the admin beyond blocking the accounts, which seems ineffective.

Individual people can add filters for the following keywords, through: moonxtrade dot com, PINTER-23 without the dash. (Or B-T-C without the dashes, really, why would you want buttcoin in your feed?)

#fediblock

—@nikodemus

“What matters is how accessible your final content is.” https://racheleditullio.com/blog/2023/01/component-library-accessibility-audit/

—@thea11yproject

If you’re looking to join @mozilla’s Mastodon server to access the Fedi, they have a waitlist you can now join.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/

@fediversenews

—@binarytango

I wish I could just mute this entire day, if you know what I mean. After 10+ years of hearing the same damn joke over and over, its worse than an overplayed song on the radio.

—@FreakyFwoof

We’re, like, a week away from finding out that Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow have a shared checking account.

—@charlotteclymer