Notices by Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social), page 30

The problem with things is that when people like what you do they move on with their lives, while if they don't, they make it their goal to waste as much of your time as possible.

A form of toot search has been requested since April 2017, multiple times:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1152
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/4293
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/5880

I have announced that am going to implement it with constraints that won't let it be used for abuse on Dec 20 2017, then again on Dec 31:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mastodon-2-1-and-16135262

During implementation I seeked feedback #onhere, submitted PR on Feb 3 2018:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/6423

Then announced it in a progress report on Feb 21:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/progress-report-17120064

Throw ready player one into mount doom 👏

On that topic, @Mainebot wrote this today:

Replacing the Pillars of the Internet: A brief overview of current efforts and innovations in the decentralization movement on the World Wide Web.

https://medium.com/tootsuite/replacing-the-pillars-of-the-internet-235836580a0e

Here's a tip: Use @matrix instead of Slack

"Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16539857

jicard (jean picard)

Hahahaahahaha holy shit. Hiveway is a fork of Mastodon with blockchain slapped on top, selling ICO tokens, and John McAfee is involved. Wew lad

I wrote a new blog post: Twitter is not a public utility https://medium.com/@Gargron/twitter-is-not-a-public-utility-2bc49567152b

This image from the article is fucking amazing https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2018-6-Verteiltes-soziales-Netzwerken-mit-der-Twitter-Alternative-Mastodon-3976925.html @eloquence

Mastodon v2.3.0rc1, that is, the first release candidate, is out for testing: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.3.0rc1

- Full-text search
- New landing page
- Archive takeout
- Focal points
- Federated reports
- and lots more, in a hopefully super readable changelog

I haven't written the docs on how to configure the optional elasticsearch, LDAP, CAS, SAML and PAM stuff yet... Maybe someone else will do that......

https://mastodon.social/media/Kqt1PdRytXNze0sKXDA

https://mstdn.jp/media/ZTLe09rY_PR879i9txA

industrial strength snuggling

#Vero is yet another capitalist silo that seeks to monetize user-generated content without paying the users who generate the content. But we're supposed to have warm fuzzies about it because they'll charge a subscription fee to every user after the first million suckers instead of pushing ads?

Fuck Vero. It deserves to fail and die.

Why is Vero getting attention all of a sudden when Mastodon is clearly 100% the best?