Notices by Victor Wynne :tooters: (victor@tooters.org), page 2

As Sandra expressed to me earlier today, I am in a perfect position to call babka.social out on their bullshit because they cannot desperately attempt to falsely label it antisemitism. Fellow Jew and whatnot. The admin is a bad actor, and the instance is the Jewish equivalent of mastodon.art. A bad actor to the utmost degree.

Fedi is making a smooth transition from being pissed about .art & friends, to making fun of the sheer idiocy. Good.

Watch this space.

Just saw an elderly woman in line at the deli using an iPhone 5s (champagne gold color was the tell).

Me: wow, all these years later it still works, and I love that you don’t use a case on it.

Her: I’ve used and abused this phone with zero issues.

Me: they just announced the iPhone 15 today, going to upgrade finally?

Her: there are two things I could not give a shit about. Celebrity love interests, and the new iPhone.

Me: oh I love you 🤭

These 10 instances (in descending order) account for 98% of all spam that is reported to me by community members of #Tooters. Of that 98% total a whopping 86% comes from the top two in this list. The other thing they have in common is they all have 50k+ users.

mastodon.social
mastodon.online
mastodon.world
universeodon.com
fosstodon.org
mastodon.cloud
mstdn.social
mas.to
mstdn.party
c.im

#QueerMastoAdmin

@BlueWaver22 …did you intend to @ mention me on this?…and if so, what posts did they reference me in? Would like to be aware.

@BlueWaver22 yes, please DM them to me. Are you the admin for your instance?

Is @kainoa@firefish.social going to rebrand once more to RacistFish, or let their dark fedi friends fork and take the name?

Tuba City (Tó Naneesdizí), Navajo Nation - Elevation 4,718’

I wish I had a clearer shot of this, but I was too far away. The #Diné guide I was with said, “certain times of day, certain times a year you will see the shadow warriors come out”.

#Navajo #Indigenous #photo #desert #travel #history #photography

@jdp23 I only just sent an email out to Renée DiResta this afternoon, and so no word yet. I saw Oli’s mention of 90% of CSAM being blocked by employing their T0 blocklist. I take that figure with a grain of salt because how could you possibly know when new dark fedi instances come online every day. A noble cause, but pointless to make such claims with nothing backing them.

@smitten @Velveteen

Potential #Tooters rebrand. For the sake of consistency toots will be referred to as “tees”.

@What_is no 😅 just making fun of Twitter/X lol.

Chelsea - Eighth Avenue at West 31st Street (noir)

#NYC #Photography #AltText

@mike thank you so much for the quick response, and action. It was shortsighted of me not to assume good faith, and the potential for a bug when earlier this year I saw my photos ending up on Flipboard with everything preserved. I updated my thread with your initial response last night when I saw it this morning. The entire history of Flipboard has basically been link posting which pulls in certain info from the source, and when it was radically changed it threw me off. Thank you, Mike. 💙

You’ve “flipped” (🖕🏻) dozens of my photos @miaq and at no point, anywhere, do you give author attribution, or reference where the images were sourced from.

You also strip out the location details I provide in my toots, and the alt text which are an important (and essential to screen readers) aspect of each photo I publish.

Watermarking be damned, that still wouldn’t help link people back to tooters.org.

#Photography

There are countless fedi photographers who have CC/Copyright protections on their photos which have been “flipped” into this same curated list of photos with zero attribution. They should be a lot more upset by this than me.

I am more upset that no linking back is occurring so my location, and alt text details have been removed. I put a lot of information in my alt text both for people who use assistive technology, but also Easter eggs for people with no vision impairments.

#Photography

@squeevening 💯…look at the first screenshot of two in the initial toot of this thread. That was done correctly. Providing all of the info in the original post, and a link back so that alt text was retained. This is ridiculous.

Hey @miaq why the change in Flipboard’s website which strips all author attribution, titling/alt text, and zero links to the source material? Those photos are mine, but how would anyone know? Same behavior on the website/iOS app.

Boosting 🚀 on here retains the original author. The only “flipping” happening here is the middle finger at photographers.

#Photography

Hey Eugen @Gargron I know it’s been nearly five years lol, but the rest of the thread is missing, and I am curious what the context is here…?

This piece by @ivy on the topic of #Meta / #Threads, moderation, CWs ⚠️, and accepting pre-existing cultural norms on the #fediverse was a really good read.

Bonus points for the website slug 😉

https://ivytime.gay/posts/metametameta/

My timeline right now:

🐱…🏳️🌈…🐱…🏳️⚧️…🐱…🏳️🌈…🐱…🏳️⚧️…🐱

Love it. 💙