Notices by Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green), page 3

@scottjenson I'm not sure this is the best example of Mastodon gatekeeping. I suspect the person you cite (I won't tag him, to not bother him. I follow him. He doesn't follow me) has a different definition of 'engagement' than many on Mastodon. He has 19,000 followers. He follows just over 200. He never ever engages with anyone. He posts one-way toots. He never uses Alt Text. The Fediverse is a chatty place full of engagement, if you choose to take part yourself, to chat, to boost, to reply.

@davey_cakes @scottjenson Agreed. I'm reminded of a science journalist who turns up about once a year to post one-way toots for a few days before disappearing again. Last time, she complained that she was 'screaming into a void'. Literally hundreds of people replied from 'the void', welcoming her. She responded to 0 of them. 2000 people follow her. She follows 0. She's never replied, boosted or engaged with anyone. Fediverse held the gate wide open for her, but she just shouted at us and left.

@reynir @davey_cakes @scottjenson Agreed. I don't think anyone has anything against journalists being here, but they can't expect much more than disinterest if they only ever broadcast one-way toots.

@annika @johnlorimer I'll never find it welcoming to tell people who've just arrived, literally just joined Mastodon, that they're on the wrong server when it is not a server doing something actually despicable & egregious. I often see people going into the replies of Hello, Mastodon! introductions to give the newcomer unsolicited instructions to move server or questioning the way they are moving from Big Tech.

Edit to add: I know you didn't do this! You just answered an asked question (thanks)

Every time a newcomer posts an introduction and somebody tells them they shouldn’t have joined Mastodon.social and need to move to a different server, an angel loses their wings.

I know it's rude to brag, but I saw the world's fanciest vent

@jik

"What informs your personal sense of morality?"

"Previous things I’ve gotten away with."

https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/

@jeridansky Brilliant work! I am still dredging up forgotten accounts like my Dropbox one as I clear up decades of digital BigTech-life. There are inevitably some with forgotten passwords and defunct mail addresses. They can continue to lie there defunct if they must, but good to know some companies will help to delete them. Such a lot of work it is though, disentangling ourselves from each of them individually.

From their OneDrive to my one drive

#DanmarkSkifter

Getting my photos off OneDrive was the last & longest thing I needed to do before shutting down Microsoft. It turned out to be an enjoyable process. I cleansed my digital hoard. I curated & kept what mattered. Now my photos are on my laptop, in my house, backed up on an external drive. I'd forgotten how streamlined & speedy it is to work locally, not in the cloud. Yet again, the process of disenshittification turned out to be enhancification.

@jeridansky I love this. All your open-source programs will run in Danish from now on 😁Velkommen til #DanmarkSkifter-klubben!

It is Monday. And so it goes. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from ⁨#Aarhus⁩, just to wish you a good, calm week.

@jeridansky I hadn't paid for it either, it was just the free version. Which made it easy to forget about when I hadn't used it for years. It also made it easy to delete. I like the idea that you are the international branch of #DanmarkSkifter. I don't think the nice people at the campaign would mind anyone, anywhere, filling out one of their Digital Resolution goal cards even :-)

https://danmarkskifter.dk/vaelg-nytaarsforsaet/

#SilentSunday

Organic Maps. Another example of an app I found in F-Droid that turns out to be nicer than the BigTech one I switched from. Not disenshittification, but enhancification. It's great for walking & cycling. Nice to use. Works offline. Feels 'human-sized'. First time I used it was to find a bus stop. It showed me the right one & noted 'shelter + bench'. To compare, I looked the same up on Google Maps (web). The actual map was barely visible behind ads for local businesses.

https://organicmaps.app

I told local friends who know the area that I would get the bus from the bus stop near the Squirrel In A Top Hat.

What are you babbling about, what squirrel, there's no squirrel, they said.

The map says there’s a squirrel in a top hat, I said.

No it doesn’t, they said, showing me squirrel-less Google Maps.

Yes it does, I said, showing them the Squirrel In A Top Hat annotation in Organic Maps.

I sent back this picture from the bus stop.

#OrganicMaps
#DanmarkSkifter
#Enshittification

While making the final preparations before cancelling my Microsoft subscription in time for Denmark's Big Switch From Big Tech Day (March 20th), I discovered I still have a Dropbox account. If I'd forgotten I had it, then I was just digitally hoarding and don't need it. So this was an easy one to walk away from. Took me less than 20 minutes to delete the files and delete the account. So easy that I should be embarrassed to name it as A Goal and boast about it, but I'm not.

#DanmarkSkifter

Still life with container ship

#WindowFriday
#FensterFreitag
#Aarhus

Still life with bicycle

#WindowFriday
#FensterFreitag
#Aarhus

I have things to do today that I don’t want to do so I will be procrastitooting. No time like the present to start. Here's a picture of Paddington.The smile on my face when I turned a corner and bumped into him! I thanked him for all the good books and all the marmalade sandwiches, because as a child, I refused to eat any other lunch and I always ate it while reading one of my Paddingtons even though we weren't supposed to read at the table.

#Procrastitooting
#MuteMeNow

Librarians always know how to read the room