Notices by Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social), page 8

@Crab22 Mastodon does not track your location. The news displayed is the same for everyone using the English language.

It's wild how social media outside of the fediverse has deteriorated. You have followers, but if your post doesn't please some opaque algorithm, they'll never see what you post. You have to avoid certain words to please the algorithm. If you refresh the page good luck finding the same posts again. And people put up with it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/16/instagram-limits-political-content-shadowban-election-posts/

@hipsterelectron There is a spec that Mastodon is built on, it’s called ActivityPub. If you believe something isn’t outlined enough in the spec I recommend getting in touch with the Social Community Group at the W3C which is responsible for maintaining it.

@ZuilenV Here:

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-plushie

This week, 305 Mastodons found a new home. There are only 184 remaining for all of Europe (and 500 for the US, I will have news on this next week, they have finally arrived at the warehouse).

@analog_cafe Jack's Lab in Bristol and Come Through Lab in Manchester offer same-day development for 5 GBP extra if you bring the film before 2pm or 3pm, so probably that.

So @ErikUden made an unboxing and review video of the #plushtodon. If you want to see The Creature in action, here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69fgnoyBczs

@MrLovenstein Me for the past two years.

#Bleptember may be over, but we’re right within #Bleptober.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

@philippsteinkrueger @newsmast @Mastodon What do you mean by "we don't have proper search or reblog"? We've had proper search for a long time now and we had reblogs since day one, they're just called "boosts".

@MatWright @Mastodon We are not affiliated with press.coop in any way.

@timdesuyo I want to understand, how does this in your view have anything to do with anyone controlling what you see? You are on Mastodon. Here you control what you see.

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver Do you refuse to accept text messages or phone calls from friends unless they're on the same phone network as you? Do you refuse to send e-mails to your friends unless they self-host their e-mail? It should not matter what provider you use. People should be able to connect. That's the principle of the fediverse.

@CosmicTraveler Yes. Unless it's in a reply to their post.

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver Well, you could say "If I wanted to be on beige.party, I'd have a beige.party account", and yet here we are talking to each other while using completely separate platforms. That's the principle of the fediverse and I don't see why it shouldn't apply to Threads. I want to talk to people regardless of which platform they choose.

@darnell @threads @mosseri @zuck Where did you hear this?

@heygarrett They can see replies to their posts. But if you write your own post and mention them they won’t see that.

It's always a pleasure to see a popular Threads account with fediverse-sharing enabled. Despite such a vast difference in the platforms, we can achieve a human connection. But fediverse integration in Threads is still in a sorry state over a year since launch. They need to be able to follow us back. They need to see when we mention them. Those are such basic things.

@kevinrothrock If you follow @bsky.brid.gy from your Mastodon account it will allow Bluesky users to follow your Mastodon account, then you only need to post here.

@hisham_hm They see the replies if they’re opted in to fediverse sharing. They are not displayed publicly.