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   jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 23:45:06 JST jonny (good kind)

   The dangers of the situation are obvious and real, but it matters that we remember that the world’s big platforms are steered not by shadowy forces, but by teams of gold-rush-addled dorks whose sometimes-well-meaning employees are stuck frantically LARPing world government on internal forum software.

   It’s equally important to remember that the patterns we’ve experienced on mega-platforms are not the only way to do networks but the result of specific combinations of under-thinking and malign commercial pressures—and that the currently ascendant systems are not inevitably annihilating forces, but legal and financial constructs that can be brought to heel, forcibly reconfigured, or just replaced. Keeping these basic facts in mind is oddly difficult, because there’s so much money involved, and money is a spell for blurring the truth.

   I think our failure to remember that the mega-platforms are just intentionally extractive constructs run by brainmelted but very human weirdos is a failure of accountability, but our failure to remember that it doesn’t have to be this way is a failure not only of imagination, but of nerve.

   Great piece from @kissane
   https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/

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   Aroop Roelofs :verified: (finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 17:38:59 JST Aroop Roelofs :verified:

   in reply to

   @SuperDicq Topics about say, how we should adapt laws/policies to be more favourable towards FOSS (or less favourable towards restrictive, proprietary software) or solving issues that affects the common person (like making software more accessible, interoperability etc.) could be interesting...
   But it's highly likely it'll go towards things like gender politics, anti-government politics and alike instead, things that only affect people with a very specific view on things.
   Just the "typical politics" as main course with a side of software.

   It's honestly why I personally prefer to keep software and politics separate for the most part (unless, it affects the common person).

   @drewdevault

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   Walt :ani_clubtwit:🚀 (astralcomputing@twit.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 11:37:03 JST Walt :ani_clubtwit:🚀

   @futzle

   Yes, that explains why I am the only one to ever find the "bug" that got by all the Alpha and Beta testing, and the release of the software.

   It never fails. I touch it and I get a new "never seen before" error/crash.

   🤖

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   BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 09:40:41 JST BeAware :fediverse:

   A normal user would be quite shocked at the absolute lack of admin/moderation tools in the Mastodon software.

   It's wild, it's basically "if you don't see it, it doesn't exist". As someone who's constantly worried about liability, this just does not work for a single user instance. I have nightmares about how bad it might be for a much bigger instance.😳

   I hear Akkoma has decent tools, anyone can concur?

   #Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Akkoma

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   Will Tuladhar-Douglas (yetiinabox@todon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 20:25:51 JST Will Tuladhar-Douglas

   So I handed over my Samsung A72 to a child, and replaced it with a used Pixel 7a . I thought it would be smaller (I am tired of large phones!) and run better software.

   It's an awful phone. No ANT support, no SD card, aggressive Google stuff everywhere, confusing and fiddly interface, and my plan to use #GrapheneOS has apparently been thwarted because bank apps now use Google, not Android, calls to check that they are on a secure phone.

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   Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 10:10:41 JST Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢

   The #SNS #T2 or #Pebble might have closed down, but there is something to learn from the team and community: theme it and build your own identity!

   This is the new look of https://pebble.social based on the mainline #Mastodon #fediverse software.

   It gives the instance it's #identity amidst the countless instances powered by mainline Mastodon.

   The theme ported to mainline Mastodon's default UI by @blobcat and is available here https://github.com/blobcatz/pebble-mastodon-theme if other instances wants to install it.

   #Themes #Skin #T2pub #T2social #PebbleIs @t2pub @t2