Notices by Ben Werdmuller (ben@werd.social), page 3

Oh. Yeah, forcibly forking a plugin and taking it away from its maintainers is an actual existential problem for an open source community.

@binarydigit The open source software never went away! But it's in need of an architectural overhaul.

This would have been the year to launch Known, tbh.

Hmm

@evan 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

So, uh, anyone else getting hit by Japanese spammers taking advantage of older abandoned Mastodon instances?

This is where something like Akismet for Mastodon would come in handy.

@tchambers @_elena @mike @mia @cheeaun @phanpy @darnell @manton @quillmatiq @hello @ThomasFoster @cazmockett +1 to what Tim said - this is amazing company to be in. Thank you!

Tired: cross-positing your content.

Wired: having your content exist as a first-class citizen on the federated social web with no cross-posting involved.

@evan @cwebber I'm so sorry I missed your book signing party btw. It's been an all-day-at-the-hospital kind of week. I hope it went well! And it should go without saying that I bought a copy of the book.

What does a successful #Fediverse look like, in your opinion?

I'd love to learn what's actually going on behind the scenes here. This whole skirmish feels like it came out of the blue. What were the private conversations that led to it? https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/

@ricmac And even the open social platforms often strip referrers and utm tags, so nobody knows how if traffic comes from there. (Still Mastodon's biggest own-goal imo.)

I agree re: Discover counterbalancing search. It's such a shift towards the curated and sanitized, alongside the black box nature of it. I don't think it'll end well.

There are some interesting referral statistics embedded in this piece. Facebook referral traffic has fallen more than 40% over the last year; referrals from Reddit have increased by 88%. #Media https://werd.io/2024/google-discover-is-sending-us-news-publishers-much-more-traffic

I'm convinced that the Fediverse is the future of the social web. The Social Web Foundation is a key step towards supporting its growth, and I could not be more excited. https://werd.io/2024/unlocking-the-fediverse-the-social-web-foundation-is-shaping-the

#fediverse #socialwebfoundation

"ProPublica, the nation’s leading nonprofit investigative newsroom, is in search of a full-stack senior product engineer to lead work on our publishing systems and core website." If this sounds like you, I'd love to work with you. https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4403685006 #getfedihired #journalism #engineering #jobs

"We found a disturbing link between work-related communication outside of regular hours and increased employee burnout. Answering emails after hours was linked to worse productivity, employees badmouthing their employers and other negative behaviors." #Business https://werd.io/2024/responding-to-work-emails-after-hours-contributes-to-burnout-hostility

What would a Mozilla-like organization that actually represented what we care about look like? How would it be funded?

Over 50,000 people support @ProPublica's investigative journalism. We're a non-profit, web-first newsroom that investigates abuses of trust in the public interest.

We're beginning our fall member drive, and I want to show how vibrant and engaged the fediverse community is. If you have the means, please consider a donation.

https://give.propublica.org/give/346423/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=ben_mastodon

#journalism #fediverse

Finishing the weekend utterly overwhelmed. Trying to get it together to sleep. And then, all the things that follow.

By secretly paying some creators to post on Threads, Meta is undermining trust in everyone's motivations. Suddenly everyone is assumed to be "engagement farming": https://werd.io/2024/threads-is-trading-trust-for-growth