Notices by the roamer (the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk)

@maryErudis @futurebird

Subject mastery gives pedagogical freedom, doesn't it. The ineffective teacher obsesses with meeting the syllabus, precisely because they fail to fully understand the subject matter in its foundations. They use didactics to hide the superficiality of their content. The effective teacher is free to focus on student learning, precisely because they are able to provide natural links to the subject matter, in spontaneous response to the student's trials and mistakes.

@atomicpoet @ArtBear @wild1145 @kainoa

Moderation is an impossible job. With every decision, there will be unhappy parties, and occasionally a decision will be wrong. We need moderators, and I for one am grateful to those who are willing to do the work.

What matters is that mistakes, if they do happen, are noted and lessons are learned.

It seems that the current case has led calckey to a review of its moderation processes. A constructive outcome, and good news for a federated network.

@atomicpoet @ArtBear @wild1145

Good to hear that you are now talking to the other instance and consider re-federation. Disappointing that these conversations didn't take place *before* the block was imposed.

It also seems that the decision was based on second-hand information, not on reports from calckey.social users.

If the current block actually is a new block. I am still not sure whether calckey.social ever revoked the block from last November, as others did.

Not a pleasant sight.

@atomicpoet

#calckey social appeals on many levels. Pleasant interface, excellent threading support, lively discussions.

What troubles me is the aggressive #defederation stance. Last Nov, mastodonapp.uk was blocked by several servers, due to moderation concerns. These were resolved and all the main blocking servers have re-federated. But calckey.social maintains its block.

Unless I want to be cut off from accounts on mainstream Mastodon instances, I can't make calkey.social my home.

@apps

Very interesting.

Do I understand this correctly: the app fetches new posts on my Home timeline at the given intervall and stores these for up to 7 days --- without limit on the number of posts?

That is, via the cache the usual limit of max 400 posts in Home effectively no longer applies? If so, this is remarkable.

(The 400 limit is of course a major constraint for users who follow more than ~200 accounts.)

Thanks for all your work!

I deactivated my twitter account on 20 Dec, having removed all content as much as is feasible. I posted a happy screenshot here.

Core account data remain intact during the subsequent 30-day period, and when I checked last week I was still asked to re-activate my account. Today that option is gone. The account is truly gone.

Free at last! Free at last!

#TwitterMigration #TwitterAccountDeletion
#NotLookingBack

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