Notices by DavidB (davidbhimself@firefish.city), page 2

@Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org It's because the Mastodon Taliban have bullied yet another developer into shutting down their project because they deemed it an attack on their imaginary privacy.

It's not the first time it happens, and I'm afraid not the last time.

What part of "Open web" is it that they don't understand?

If you think the Fediverse and Mastodon are private places and that anything that makes them a bit more open and visible is an attack on your privacy, sorry to break it to you but you're in idiot.


#MastodonHOA #Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenWeb #privacy

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @audelherete@mastodon.social @kevinleecaster@social.beaware.live It's actually plagiarism from someone else's post. A literal copy/paste. Sad and pathetic.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al There's a sequel: "How to fight fascism by simply boosting outrage on social media."

@BeAware@social.beaware.live Yes, but if you see my posts it's because you care about what I post (and that's why I follow you too.)

Why should I follow someone who posts about things that I have no interest in? Or things that upset me or annoy me? I want to have an usage of the fediverse that has a positive impact on my mental health, not a negative one.

Also, nowadays I unfollow Americans who never contextualize their posts because they think that everyone here is American or that foreigners don't matter. Fuck those people, even if they're lovely for everything else.

In other words, there are many reasons to follow or unfollow someone, it's not one size fits all.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live I will have to disagree with you on this one. I curate my timeline (especially in this day and age) and I don't want it full of posts about things I don't care about.

With this current account, I follow back more liberally (and I unfollow as liberally), but with my other account, I only want to see certain topics in my timeline, and if someone follows me but never talk about those topics, there is no chance I'll follow back.

I don't care about my follows/followers ratio (and people who do it here are seriously misunderstanding something) but I care very much about what appears in my timeline (I use filters too, but they can only do so much, especially when people don't contextualize their posts)

@evan@cosocial.ca It's a tough one.
Non-natives should definitely be expelled from North America. But we, Europeans, don't want the Americans (we're fine with White Canadians and Mexicans, we'll welcome them with open arms)

People, seriously, if you keep on talking about things such as US politics or other doom and gloom that does nothing except damage our mental health (no boosting outrageous things to death does nothing positive) without using appropriate keywords and hashtags (including people real names) I will have to unfollow you or even mute you, regardless of past relationships.

Spreading all the things that depresses us does nothing but damage our mental health a little more every day. This is not militantism (you need to get off your couch to do militantism, you don't do that with a phone or a keyboard) this is not raising awareness (our awareness is raised alright) this is just increasing negativity everywhere (in a sense you're playing in their hands).

Also remember that any publicity is good publicity.

#fediverse #mastodon

I think it's a great thing that Pixelfed is getting adopted by a lot of people who are not Mastodon users.
Among other reasons because people will finally start to understand what the Fediverse is and that it's not synonymous with Mastodon.

#PixelFed #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialMedia

I watched Babylon last night.

How did this movie bomb?
The first hour is some of the most insane piece of cinematography I have seen.

(Sure the other two hours are more tame, but they're still great cinema)

#Cinema #Movies #Babylon

@sam@bikersgo.social @FrenzyBiscuit@login.ready.art @Alex@vran.as @BeAware@social.beaware.live WeDistribute is just one of the best information site about the Fediverse and the Open Web. 🤷♂️

@evan@cosocial.ca Depends on the constitution, I guess. But usually, it's the president. The prime minister is the chief of government only.

@evan@cosocial.ca Take a country that has both a president and prime minister. The length of the head of state mandate is less of an issue if the head of government is a different person and changes at a different pace.

@evan@cosocial.ca It all depends on the country's constitution and such.

Today Fediverse reminder: Friends don't let friends be on mastodon.art

The Fediverse is about bridges, not walls.


#Mastodon #Fediverse #art

@pfefferle@mastodon.social Thank you for your ActivityPub plugin which is just awesome.
However, I have a question/issue. Since one of the latest updates the possibility to customize what appears on the Fediverse seems to be gone, and my posts just look weird here. (one was just two pics and only one appeared without a link to the original post, the other one was the full text but every picture was a link to the pic URL on my website and not appearing on my fediverse feed)

Is this a bug? Or is the possibility to format the posts as we wish gone?

Thanks in advance.

@dansup@mastodon.social You should be nominated too.

Wordpress WTF???

I tried to not follow the drama of the past few months, but the situation is starting to stink pretty badly.

I'm starting to think about whether I should move away from Wordpress? (I wouldn't even know how to migrate my two 15 year old blogs to a new platform. 😭)

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/12/holiday-break/

#Wordpress

@reiver@mastodon.social It should just have a much higher character limit or no limit at all. It's even stranger when the Alt-text character limit of a picture is so much higher than a post's character limit.

Zoom just sent me an email about an "AI Companion."

If it can pretend to be me and attend meeting instead of me, awesome. Otherwise, WTF?

#zoom #meetings #AI