Kind: Reposts

Another rainy day in Humboldt.
I am positive our neighbors wonder about why I was out throwing tennis balls in the rain.
It worked, though. Summer was worn out enough for a low-key house game of fetch.
She has learned to catch the ball mid-air in the house and gets lots of good girl feedback from her pal.
We are a fun-loving party til you drop sort of family for sure.
#DogsOfMastodon

—@norcalgrandma

Hi all: research from our latest #TwitterMigration informed this interview I did with @mattontech for the IEEE Spectrum Magazine. This is one of the largest tech and software engineering trade mags, and they also shared it to their Twitter following of about 150,000+ developers…

here is the article:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/mastodon-social-media

And here is the Tweet, any help retweeting this would be most welcome: https://twitter.com/IEEESpectrum/status/1637091726387978243

cc: @spreadmastodon
@fediversenews

—@tchambers

As usual, read this from @pluralistic and get pissed. No, I mean really pissed. This is extra pissed times.

“Listen: people aren’t pissed off about the bailout because they want startups to fail. They’re pissed off because they are living in the century of “socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor””

Pluralistic: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank’s apologists (15 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-les-guillotines/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout

—@jdarnold

Friendly reminder that using those ‘fancy text’ generators to make your name or the text in your posts all pretty makes them inaccessible to screen reader users. They can also be a pain to read visually.
to you, they’re just cute lettering you can just skip over. For a screen reader user like me, depending on various things, they could come out as
‘mathematical small bold k mathematical small bold a mathematical small bold r mathematical small bold a’,
‘letter 126b letter 17dj letter 13y7dwiz’
or nothing at all.
I’m not sure off the top of my head how they appear on a Braille display but it’s bound to be a right mess.
I don’t particularly call any of those pretty, do you?
Plain boring text that is accessible to everyone is the new pretty.
#a11y #accessibility

—@KaraLG84

Two things going on that may be related:

1) Mastodon new user count is up to about 1000 per hour for the last day. This is way up from the recent low hundreds.

2) Reddit r/Twitter is full of complaints that Twitter feeds are now not showing followed accounts, replaced by right wing politics and even porn.

Getting tweets… from people that i dont follow and dont know at all >>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/11stqha/getting_tweets_on_the_timeline_from_people_that_i/

Did twitter change its algorithm completely? >>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/11suqxl/did_twitter_change_its_algorithm_completely_no/

#twittermigration

—@mastodonmigration

@HistoPol That’s because mainstream media in Europe and even tech media in Europe haven’t heard yet that there are also other projects in the #Fediverse than #Mastodon. They think that Mastodon = the Fediverse, and the Fediverse = only Mastodon.

And I’ve got the impression that 90% of @Fediverse News still thinks the same in spite of the other 10% trying to tell them otherwise.

Mastodon alone won’t be a social network unless it manages to become so incompatible to the rest of the Fediverse that it becomes a walled garden with no connections to the outside world anymore.

In the meantime, that “social network” also consists of dozens of other projects next to Mastodon.

#MastodonIsNotTheFediverse

—@jupiter_rowland

Wow, this year marks the 20th anniversary of WordPress-it’s wild that I’ve been using it for 15 of those 20 years.

WordPress just posted a downloadable commemorative logo pack (and source files) for their #WP20 celebrations and they’ll continue to announce things for the next couple months up to the actual anniversary date (May 23).

https://wp20.wordpress.net/download-the-wp20-commemorative-logos

#WordPress

—@jake4480

Give a person a program, frustrate them for a day.

Teach a person to program, frustrate them for a lifetime.

—@bennie

I’m very happy that Freedom Scientific is considering establishing a presence on Mastodon. From the February FSOpenLine released on FSCast episode 227:

RYAN: And just to go back to your first comment about Mastodon, it’s actually something we’ve been in conversations on, looking at how we would get set up and how we would leverage that platform. So don’t have exact timeframe, but it’s definitely something we’re working on.

https://blog.freedomscientific.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FSOpenLineTranscript-February2023.html

—@DavidGoldfield

The Blind Vintage Tech Community (BVTC) forum site is now live!
Are you blind/visually impaired? Are you a sucker for retro hardware and/or software? Do you hate to see icons of the past slip into the land of the forgotten? This is the site for you! This site aims to unite sightless nostalgia freaks and retrophiles the world over. Classic operating systems, old school screen readers, long lost and forgotten speech synthesizers… It’s all here!
Though this site is mainly targeted at the blind/visually impaired, sighted folks are allowed to join as well! It’s important that sighted people gain an insight (no pun intended) into how us V.I folk live our lives. Nothing about us without us, right? With all that said, remember to follow the rules and have a good time! 🙂
Check out the site and sign up for free at https://bvtc.epizy.com

—@seedy

Welcome to Tuesday everybody. World Blind Herald Vol. 1 Issue 11 is out, with a featured perspective from our own Itto Outini, plus Blindness Briefs 63 and Science Briefs 25. https://www.worldblindherald.com/

—@worldblindherald

yes, daylight has been saved again, but at what cost?
at what point are we going to decide daylight needs to learn to fend for itself and give up on costly interventions?

—@AlienSkyler

As a former expert on infectious diseases and large language models, and a newly-minted expert on bond risk management, let me explain what happened at SVB and why it aligns with my politics

—@lcamtuf

we did it you guys we saved daylight

—@fro_vo

Within the next 18 months we’re going to see an explosion of invasive #tracking and #datascraping as major advertisers and #dataanalytics companies realize just how fucked Twitter is and start looking for new hunting grounds(profit sources, us and our “content”).

We, as #MastoAdmin and #mastoMods MUST have tools to easily lock out, allow list, and control who can have access to our users that are expecting us to protect their peace and privacy. We’re going to see #spam ads from pop up domains in larger numbers, we’re going to see garbage coming into our DMs like it used to on Twitter.

The reason these things weren’t a larger issue on Twitter (until recently) was because of the infrastructure that went into managing and subduing that sort of behavior. The fediverse has none of that infrastructure, or really even tools.

If you do #MastoDev, please, we need tools. Perfect is the enemy of done. We mastoadmin need ways to share reports about problematic users and servers quickly and with notes and standardized categories. We need ways to identify and share with our peers and friends the things we are seeing and actions we are taking, and we need room for nuance and flexibility and options in our response to unknown unknowns.

It’s a big ask, but there’s decades of these kinds of tools being built for email and other distributed systems, we don’t have to start from nothing!

#fediblockhole #rapidblock #FedeRater #fedirelay #relay

—@Crazypedia