Notices by Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social), page 21

Does GitLab really not have syntax highlighting for Crystal?

Welcome @doctorow 🎉

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.@matt's write.as federated blog service is on HN, that's an upvote from me

"We Are All Public Figures Now" https://elladawson.com/2018/07/08/we-are-all-public-figures-now/

Couple notes for mastodon.social moderation:

If you're reporting someone for spam, please include at least one toot in the report, it saves time for us. Especially important if you are reporting someone for DMs, they are not visible in our UI unless they are included.

Don't report sex workers for "illegal in the US", this isn't the US. If you don't want to see anyone from switter.at, open the profile of anyone from switter.at and choose "Hide everything from switter.at" in the dropdown menu.

IndieAuth sounds interesting as a more generic way for federated applications to allow app registrations https://indieauth.spec.indieweb.org/

The question is how do we adapt this after our current, extremely similar but somewhat different system has been in production use for around 2 years #mastodev

The police confiscated this as an "explosive" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2HDoyKE2W8

"There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution"

Blog post: How to make friends and verify requests (Implementing an ActivityPub inbox) https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/how-to-make-friends-and-verify-requests/

So why exactly is Drake all over Spotify

Welcome new folks

Blog post: Why ActivityPub is the future https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/why-activitypub-is-the-future/

Draft: Why ActivityPub is the future https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/blog/blob/master/content/posts/2018-06-27_Why-ActivityPub-is-the-future/index.md

Let me know if you think it's convincing!

Bonus pixel version #mastoart

if anyone ever needs to find me just follow the empty 16oz cans of craft beer and bags of tortilla chips

i'm likely close by