Notices by Zatnosk :blobwizard_sun: (zatnosk@manowar.social)

The radio in the office blasting "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" repeatedly from the outro of Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name Of" is a special kind of ironic.

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@aldersprig I wrote a thing about that a while back, where I called it celebrity-oriented vs peer-oriented microblogging.

https://manowar.social/@zatnosk/100329291127427013

I also made it into a blogpost/essay later, but I can't find the link for that right now.

Is there an app that can place a german word (of the day?) on my phone as a widget, possibly with an example sentence and/or pronounciation and/or english definition?

I should write a blog about how public microblogging is slightly toxic in itself, and describe my ideas for partial solutions (e.g. groups, instance level web of trust, limited fuzzy audiences that aren't predefined, etc.)

#SocialWeb

How many votes can I get on this poll if y'all boost it?

If I ever get rich enough to take up an expensive hobby based on collectibles - such as Magic: The Gathering or Warhammer - please remind me that I would much rather commission art from independent artists with those money.

Direct messages should not be represented with the type "Note" in ActivityPub implementations.

Direct messaging is not microblogging, and Note is (and should only be) used for microblogging.

#SocialWeb

#CrazyIdea What if fediverse instances had (optional) "friend-instances" that they featured on they landing page?
Then by just finding a single instance, you could discover more instances that might match in quality and values - kinda like an old school webring of instances.

Our local library has a pretty good black friday offer:

(translated from danish:)
"Borrow two books for the price of one
Twice as free"

@aral Exactly. While the technical benefits from the protocols Google design are attracting, I don't know what the weaknesses are - and I definitely don't have the resources to investigate.

Will HTTP/3 aka HTTP/QUIC make it easier for Google to track anything they want? Will the complexity of the protocol lead to implementer monopoly, giving them control of all of our network usage?

I don't know, I don't know how to find out, and I don't want to risk it.

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Deleted my discord account, wasn't using it anyway.

Prompted by this: https://yiff.life/@regal/100914738839302193

@bhaugen but more ontopic, the best resource I know of is https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub

Sometimes I have trouble remembering that other countries don't have the same level of background socialism as Denmark.

Coops are ubiquitous here, I rent my home from a coop (I'm a member), half the convenience stores around are part of a coop (I'm a member), the milk I drink is produced by a coop (farmer-owned, I think my uncle is a member), etc.

And all of these coops have been around for more than 50 years. Hel, even my IT-worker's union is over 50 years old.

Celebrity-oriented microblogging is my name for using microblogging to follow a number of people you find interesting, without expecting any direct interaction. This slowly leads to interesting people accumulating followers, which leads to follower counts being a metric for "interestingness".
And thus two classes of users are born; followers and celebrities.

I can't help but join in with the current "discourse" spawned by a follow-recommendation feature in the latest RC version of Mastodon.

I've seen some take it as an attempted movement towards better user retention, and talk about why people come to mastodon and why they (don't) stay.

To add my view here, I think there's fundamentally two ways of using microblogging:
• Peer-oriented
• Celebrity-oriented

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@sikkdays "why spend time to build anti-abuse if no community yet?" - because a community growing up without anti-abuse tools tends to be lenient towards abuse. Tackling abuse after it becomes systemic is a defensive and uphill battle that takes more energy in the long than pre-building anti-abuse tools.

I'm of the opinion that any platform should have anti-abuse tools before a community arrives/appears.

Oh great. I just noticed that because Mastodon changed the UI of external hashtag pages from paged to infinite scroll some time ago, a link I made to Mastodon history is now as good as dead - i.e. it shows newest posts, instead of the page I linked to last year.

Context: https://manowar.social/@zatnosk/331871

@ctrlaltdog if you're not growing up, maybe try to find a stone of some kind to help you evolve?