Notices by EVHaste (haste@mastodon.social), page 2

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@Gargron we love Blahaj

@BethanyBlack had to shoot my shot 🙇♀️

@BethanyBlack wow 30 pounds is 13.6 kilograms of legos

@BethanyBlack Awh, we have twin cats! I would give him five breakfasts

"I had to look at a lot of dead bodies..." 🎈🎉🥳

iOS 17 Facetime gestures are triggering at inappropriate times, including in therapist visits.

I'd greatly appreciate a 🔁 boost; I'd like to see if I can get this one out of my orbit and in front of Apple.

#tech #apple #privacy #news

https://evhaste.com/blog/read-the-room-apple

@hakan_geijer love this and I’m excited to read it! Thanks for working on it

@david_megginson @fu

I agree with you on this. I will also add that Bluesky does aspire to be as large or larger than Mastodon social, if it isn't already, so if one holds the opinion that users choosing a big instance is the problem you should also find Bluesky unpleasant?

@pollute_my_lungs I miss forums.

@Gargron @kissane

Yeah, that's a bummer. I try to provide gentle, private feedback to the unsolicited-tip dogpiles.

My hope is that if, culturally, we got to this point where providing alt-text is part of the Mastodon identity (which is rad af), we should be able to do the same thing for the new user welcome and not dogpile folks for perceived CW transgressions, etc.

@kissane This article is fantastic, Erin! And what a cool experiment to do.

I actually almost bounced off of Mastodon originally because of the two highest frequency feedback points here. I'm really glad I pushed through it but I really, really get why most people don't.

Tagging @Gargron , since you basically did a bunch of free product work for the Mastodon team. :)

@LinuxAndYarn Oh, that’s the zombie game right? I tried to get into that but the community put me off immediately 😭

@Viss @LinuxAndYarn yeah I choose to read “we prioritize free speech on this platform” as “well let’s not be hasty, the nazis might have a point”. :/

I plan on shutting my account down but I’d like to keep involved with the protest for a bit, it’s improving my hope for humanity

@adamconover welcome back!

But I would also like to take a second, before you enjoy too much schadenfreude, to point out that by and large PoC communities also are not safe on Mastodon.

A huge amount of the feedback being levied on Bluesky’s lasseiz faire moderation policies also apply to us here.

I have very little faith Bluesky will improve, but we still could.

It is beautiful to watch folks organize spontaneously around this. There are some really novel techniques being used that I have not seen before.

Shitposters and sex workers blurring their posts and withholding lewds, if only there was a safe platform to post them. Quote chains of people asking the devs to block them too in solidarity. Users building custom, public mute lists to block out fascists and protect marginalized communities.

The devs are liking nazi callout posts & posting on Twitter

The #Bluesky community is on strike, in protest of “free speech” moderation policies and refusal to prevent or remove #racism.

The inciting incident this time: users signing up with the n-word in their usernames. Using the word “cracker”, however, was a bannable offense.

Bluesky has not responded for over 36 hours as of writing. Devs are blocking protestors. Timelines are filled with variations of:

“No more normal posting until my Black friends and family are safe.”

#social #tech

A lot of folks are debating about defederating from Meta on the basis of whether it would help maintain a healthy, non-corpo controlled fediverse.

Which is an important discussion, but imo an even more compelling reason to do it is because it’d be fun to just fuck with Meta. 🖕🖕

@dansup @pixelfed I dig the transparency. I was confused for a sec since the feeds are chronological, but I guess that isn’t a given these days

I don’t blame you for being raised conservative. I blame you for staying that way, in the face of everything.