Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social), page 2

As @samir noted, today's the Naked CSS Day:
https://css-naked-day.org/

So I adjusted my bloggo:
https://rys.io/

(if you had visited before, might need to hard-reload)

Websites can and should look ok and remain functional without styling. For a lot of people, that's how they experience the web – be it because they use screen readers, or console browsers that help them avoid surveillance capitalism, or just because that's their preference.

#NakedCSSDay #WebDev

Oh and by the way, it's always the No JS Day on my bloggo as well.

Once I re-enable CSS in a day or two, I invite you to click around and explore. Plenty of interactivity is possible with no JS at all.

In fact, these two little side-projects of mine are pretty darn interactive, and use zero lines of JavaScript:

(CW Donald Trump, but funny)
https://rys.io/you-are-donald-trump/

(CW map of Russian invasion of Ukraine)
https://projects.rys.io/ukrainvasion/

#WebDev

As it happens, one of the oldest Mastodon instances – octodon dot social – is going to close down very soon.

This is a sad milestone, but it also shows the resilience of the broader network – people migrated, and relations remain.

That tiny volunteer-run instance survived longer than Google+ – a gigantic behemoth of a social network, backed by one of the largest tech companies in the world, and pushed down on everyone and their dog through mandatory integration with YouTube.

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I will probably never get tired of having a hearty laugh on Mastodon Won't Survive Day.

Ulanoff's piece is such a great example of "tech bubble journalism" – where anything that does not fit in the round hole of Silicon Valley VC-fueled business models must necessarily be outside of the realm of possibility (and imagination).

Not only he completely ignores the existence of broader fedi, but he also compares Mastodon to Peach – a centralized social network that quickly fizzled out.

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Peach fizzled out because it was trying to replicate the monopoly-based walled-garden business model of already existing social networks.

The problem is: that space is already overcrowded. To really have a shot at that, one would need resources comparable to the resources of the biggest players in that space. And even if you do have such resources, this might still not be enough – as the fate of Google+ illustrates.

Fedi is playing a different game; decentralization is a superpower.

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Because fedi is not VC-backed, it does not need to generate hockey stick growth, and it is not going to end up under immense pressure to enshittify when early investors start demanding their payouts.

Because it is decentralized, it can try all sorts of things all at once. You want shorter posts? Or longer posts? Or an experience focused on photos? Or short videos? You want quote posts, or do not want them?

There's an instance for that™.

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This is not to say everything is honky-dory and our job here is done.

There are loads of things Mastodon-the-software-project needs fixed or implemented, there are loads of things other fedi software projects need.

And there is still the cultural problem of racism on fedi that drives Black and Brown people away. :blobpensive:

But all of this is fixable, and we all have agency here, in ways a VC-funded walled-garden ripe for enshittification is not.

So we have that going for us.

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It's been eight years to the day since Lance Ulanoff, the storied Tech and Social Media Expert and an award-winning tech journalist, decided that Mastodon won't survive because William Shatner couldn't find him on here.

Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives:
https://rys.io/en/177.html

Please join me in celebrating the annual Mastodon Won't Survive Day, right here on fedi. :blobcatcoffee:

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#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonWontSurvive

:blobcatpeek:

#Signal #TheAtlantic #AYBABTU #SignalGate

I spent waaay too much time on this. :blob0w0:

@onepict oh damn. Do you have a link about these shenanigans?

I always treated OSI with... suspicion. Felt a bit corporatey.

Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.

Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."

But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.

So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience. 🤷♀️

I hear people are doing a surprise-pikachu about Discord's new ad push?
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/discord-heightens-ad-focus-by-introducing-video-ads-to-mobile-apps-in-june/

Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere. 🤯

Nobody saw that coming! :blobcat0_0:

:blobcatcoffee:

#Discord #WalledGardens

Cruelty is the point. 🤬

Trump weighs revoking legal status of Ukrainians as US steps up deportations
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/
12m

Holy moly, #Flow got an Oscar for best animated feature film!
https://mastodon.social/@Blender/114098097931596540

I am so happy for the crew, and so happy for @Blender.

If you have not seen Flow, go see it. It is wonderful, warm, insightful, and wise, without a single line of dialogue. It is, to me, an instant #Solarpunk classic, as well.

Edit: seems like they respond only on TCP?

It seems like nih.gov nameservers are down – unless my euro-commie IP address is being blocked (which would be weird).

Can someone from the US please check?

ns.nih.gov. 3600 IN A 128.231.128.251
ns2.nih.gov. 3600 IN A 128.231.64.1
ns3.nih.gov. 3600 IN A 165.112.4.230

#SysAdmin #InfoSec

@tadbithuman US did not start it, Russia did.

It's not a proxy war, it's a war of imperial conquest by Russia against Ukraine. With Russia being very clear they do not consider Ukraine a country, Ukrainian a language, and Ukrainians a people.

Putting it in any other terms is furthering Kremlin's propaganda. Please don't do that.

Fantastic resource for anyone who wants to understand what's going on in Ukraine, and why it is happening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLfFmYWjHtc&list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz_1Mx1MaO6sw_

@djsundog :angry_laugh:

@loke this.

Plus, if the device has WiFi and if your neighbor has an open network, who's to say that the TV won't auto-connect?

For your convenience, of course.

I would be begrudgingly fine with a *physical* switch that would disable "smart" crap, though.

@ghostdancer @sv1 @djsundog

@villewilson ha! smart! I need to consider this.

the other option is some "professional displays" like this one:
https://iiyama.com/gl_en/products/prolite-lh5541uhs-b2/

but these tend to be more expensive than "smart" TVs 🙄