Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 93

@nolan can I request that the "@mention User X' option that's buried in the menu one people's user pages gets a more prominent button? It would be great for the UI to encourage people to send a "Hi!" message when they follow someone, especially when it's a request to follow someone wh moderates their follower requests. I didn't even know it was an option to start a new post to users from their page until today.

@kensanata BTW I officially volunteer to be on any lists relating to topics like free code software, free culture, open source and other commons-based peer production, and digital freedom issues (user freedom, privacy etc). That's the vast majority of what I post about, and I'm training myself to use 'unlisted' more for #ShipToasting and short replies, to keep the posts I feed to followers more info-nutrient dense ;)

@carbontwelve @Thepunkgeek @ChangelingRandy @eloisa

@tootbrute love to know how it works out for you. What's the specs of your Acer? Mine is a netbook I bought in 2010. I've upgraded the hard drive to an #SSD (which makes the world of difference on any computer), and doubled the RAM to 2GB. #Trisquel 8 (with #Mate) runs great on it.

@emacsen I love the #CreatorEndorsedMark! I've promoted the idea a lot (here, on the #Trisquel forums, and I think on my blog?). I was really disappointed to hear someone who's been part of #QuestionCopyright.org basically saying it was a failure :-{ Do you think it could still take off, with the right promotion?
@cwebber

@emacsen I thought maybe it was worth pointing out that there's absolute no way to know that you charged @cwebber for the cost of the medium (eg USB) if you gave him NC-licensed music (unless he dobbed you in I guess), so you wouldn't get sued anyway. But then it occurred to me that exactly the same is true if the music is under ARR copyright, so ... yeah ;)

@staticsafe in the 1990s #LoFi used to describe a sort of cross between #punk and #indie, like #Ween, or #Beck, or #TheClean, or the #TallDwarfs. Stuff recorded on 4-track and 8-track tapes in people's bedrooms. It expanded to include stuff influenced by them, like #Pavement, who sounded like they were recorded in someone's bedroom, but I don't think they were. No idea what LoFi means now, or why it's applied to stuff that sounds to me like #TripHop or #DownBeat.

@Maltimore I prefer #AppImage ...

Implementing AP on Diaspora, in the right from, would also allow Diaspora users to comment on #WordPress blogs that use AP plug-ins like #Pterotype. So that's a whole different set of users Diaspora users are being denied the ability to interact with:
https://getpterotype.com/

@Cochise this is one of the problems I came up with the concept of #SoftwareBurger to solve.

@musicman all fair points. As well as being "not a lawyer", I'm not from the US. Where I come from, central government can just say "we don't recognize software patents" in an Act, and voila! Plus, you can't "sue" people in NZ, and the body of legislation and case law is presumably much smaller than in older states, especially with federal systems. I suspect it's much easier to write a license with (fairly) predictable legal results in NZ courts. But again IANAL ...

@trwnh I wasn't saying Hillary is a leftist (I agree she's nothing of the sort), but that some leftists consider her, like capitalism, the lesser of two evils.

@kensanata
> what of politics, science, and so on.

Fair point. Part of the goal of @lightone 's list was to encourage more orgs to set up official accounts. Eg if #NewScientist and #ScientificAmerican had fediverse accounts, wouldn't they be good on the science list? They certainly wouldn't drift as much as individual accounts. Assuming their posts generated discussion, it would still be a good way to find people with shared interests.

@carbontwelve @Thepunkgeek @ChangelingRandy @eloisa

@eloisa why do orgs have to volunteer? Surely the whole point of having org accounts is to have as many followers as possible, and get your news out?
@kensanata @lightone @carbontwelve @Thepunkgeek @ChangelingRandy

@emacsen OK, so @cwebber has corrected me on this, so I have egg on my face bigtime (which is not a great situation for a vegan to be in ;) We're on the same page about NC (and ND) not being useful in most cases, as I argued here:
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2018/12/19/an-open-letter-to-not-for-profit-projects-on-your-choice-of-creativecommons-license/

Maybe we part ways at the bit where I say there are *very* limited cases in which NC is a legitimate strategic tradeoff, given the current state of copyright?

@mathieu then let me be more specific. Mate does everything that any version GNOME I've ever used does, except for make my PC drag, freeze up, and crash all the time. I have never owned a PC powerful enough to run GNOME 3.0 at a performance level suitable for day-to-day use. That's why I don't recommend it for any PC older than 3 years. It might work for now, but not for much longer, as the required specs continue to creep up.
@noorul

@mathieu two questions.
1) What has been added to GNOME in the last 10 years to make it more useful, that justifies the Windows-esque increase in resource usage?
2) What can a user do with GNOME that they can't do with Mate?

Genuinely curious. With version 8.0 #Trisquel changed from GNOME Fallback to Mate. The only major change I noticed was a significant reduction in resource usage. What does full GNOME do that Fallback doesn't?
@alatiera @noorul

@LWFlouisa you have chocolate or ice cream that contains *bacon*?!?
@noorul

@LWFlouisa hehe ;) In Aotearoa we call the Chinese gooseberry a "kiwifruit", and the people who live there are "kiwis" (in honour of the native bird of that name). We always get a giggle out of North Americans calling the fruit "kiwis".
@noorul

Implementing #ActivityPub in some form, would allow Diaspora users to connect with about 3 times as many users as they can using only the Diaspora protocol standard. That's with a number of apps/ instances not yet rolling out AP support that's in the works. Regardless of how good the Diaspora UI might be for existing users, denying them such a massively increased network reach is poor #UX design.

One thing I think Dennis really underestimates though, is the important of #NetworkEffect to the #UX of federated social apps. The most important way for a network comms technology to serve its users is to help them to communicate with as many others as possible. This is especially true in #SocialMedia, when the user's goal is to publish a message they consider important, to as many people as they can. But it's still important in #SocialNetworks, when users want to find their friends.