Notices by Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)

@joeo10 The only time I’ve encountered disc rot is with CD-Rs.

Actually, dark patterns do exist on #Mastodon. We don’t recognize them as dark patterns because we’re too politicized to see what’s obvious in plain sight.

But here’s an example of a #darkpattern on Mastodon: harassers being able to send you abusive messages as “followers only”. This renders the message invisible from public view while being visible to everyone who follows the abuser – followers who are likely to have the same toxic affinity as the abuser.

Let’s not pretend this is not a dark pattern. It clearly is.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/harryprayiv/statuses/114082840668402297

The notion that #Mastodon isn’t making a choice on how to categorize and organize the content being displayed is complete and utter bullshit.

Of course it is.

A reverse chrome timeline is a choice. Mastodon could, of course, choose to display content differently but it chooses not to.

RE: https://gotosocial.social/users/unattributed/statuses/01JN6W3PPXRVVX600D0AGZMZMF

The Fediverse ain’t worth it if people don’t share and talk about art.

News isn’t what makes us human. Politics isn’t what makes us human. Tech certainly isn’t what makes us human.

Art is what makes us all human.

Mutual aid spam is becoming a problem on the Fediverse.

And to be sure, I’m not against mutual aid. What I am against is spam.

This person has not verified who she is – or even if the profile picture is hers. Additional research on her name states she is a scammer with a record of grifting. I am therefore skeptical that any donations will help anyone in need.

Folks, please be cautious with mutual aid requests. Yes, people sometimes need help. But people also lie.

@fediverse

The Verge just interviewed Evan Prodroumou. That is, @evan, Research Director at @swf, and co-author of #ActivityPub. And he shares some big news:

• The W3C is working on end to end encryption for ActivityPub
• The W3C is also working on group standards that have interoperability across the #Fediverse
• Evan predicts a big 100M+ user network joining the Fediverse, and it’s not Threads

https://www.theverge.com/the-vergecast/618904/electric-cars-robotaxis-activitypub-fediverse-vergecast

@fediversenews

Okay, what the hell just caused that big uptick in #Fediverse MAUs?

Was it John Oliver? Was it #NodeBB? Was there some drama happening on another platform that resulted in a migration here?

Please tell me if you have the answers.

RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/4010e7a5-6754-4ae5-9f6e-00cac5aa7a63

It’s so bloody funny how people on both #Mastodon and #Lemmy are hostile about interacting with each other, yet often don’t realize they’re actually interacting with each other.

I mean, that literally just happened in this thread about how to use Mastodon to interact with Lemmy. 🤣

RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/a1970a21-440f-4fcc-aef6-572c45b48b6c

FediDB respecting robots.txt has resulted in appr. 2M Fediverse accounts no longer being counted.

Prior to this change, #FediDB counted 12,923,233 accounts. Now it counts 10,868,233 accounts.

Now let me be blunt: respecting robots.txt is a good thing. But now when we look at #Fediverse accounts, it must clearly be seen with the acknowledgement that these only count services that haven’t opted out of tracking.

So when people compare user counts of #Bluesky vs. the Fediverse, remember that Bluesky has the luxury of a more complete count because they host all accounts there. In contrast, the Fediverse is actually decentralized, and a good many services simply do not want to be tracked – and are therefore not counted.

https://fedidb.org/

@fediversenews

Just discovered Emissary. It’s a social web toolkit that’s “designed for end users, app creators, and hosting admins”. It’s a highly customizable and scalable ActivityPub-enabled server software with few dependencies.

Only two known servers currently use #Emissary, but one of them is highly prominent: bandwagon.fm.

This has lots of potential if you want to build federated social web software with a specific use case scenario in mind.

Here’s the website:

https://emissary.dev/

Here’s their Git repo:

https://github.com/EmissarySocial/emissary

And here’s their kanban board:

https://trello.com/b/Ir9dDTdu/emissary-dev

@fediversenews

JUST EXPERIENCED AN EARTHQUAKE IN VANCOUVER!

STILL FEELING IT!

SCARY AS HELL!

Holy crap! My whole house was shaking – the walls and everything!

Lasted for a solid minute!