Notices by Becka Sutton (shutsumon@tootplanet.space), page 27

I just realised that the @'s in my instance turned into tiny cute planets and I think that's so lovely!

If CWs are censorship then so are book covers. 🤔

I see people posting that Esquire article about Mastodon and for all its faults the funniest thing is the <title> tag, which was presumably at one point the title of the article. I love how even the basic conceit of "this is not a corporation" loses people

I need some... web coding help? Specifically #mastodev but that's tangential.

How, in ruby, can I take an arbitrary block of HTML, find any <a> elements, pull the href url to pass to a function, then insert a class after a specific different class if it exists on that <a> element?

Alternatively, do you have suggestions for search terms I might find useful for researching this myself?

(Please boost if you don't have an answer for me, thank you 💛)

Here is a tiny warthog for your troubles, fellow tooters.

every cat deserves a cardboard box to feel safe in

This seems to be a concert for many Mastodon newcomers so I will address it in this toot:

As the instance admin, I have the ability to read your DMs. They're unencrypted.

There are two ways I can do this:
1- Looking directly into the instance's database
2- If someone reports a DM you send

I will never do the former. However, the latter is a different story, as I need to moderate them to keep the instance and its users safe, and unless not doing so threatens that safety, I will respect your privacy.

If you need to exchange sensitive information that required absolute secrecy, I'm strongly recommending you to use any encrypted method of communication isntead of Mastodon DMs.

Thank you for your attention and understanding!

suddenly you hear a Sending spell in your head. "&" it says. "&&&&&&&"

After you determine that it has the signature magic of a wizard friend you hadn't seen in a while, your party makes the trek to her wizard's tower. You still keep getting periodic "&&&&&" put telepathically into your mind.

She answers the door, surprised to hear what's happening. She then looks in the other room.

To find her cat familiar has fallen asleep on her open spellbook.