Notices by whetstone (whetstone@romancelandia.club), page 2

@classicalmusic

I’m sorry that I don’t know how to find an admin for this group, but is there a way to add a list of words that will *not* be boosted into followers’ timelines? That ish from verita84 a few minutes ago was reprehensible.

@AlgoCompSynth Good god. I’m sorry that racist jerk found this post. Have blocked their instance, hope you have already done the same!

I didn’t know Hovhaness. Thank you so much for the post, listening right now.

@dynamicsymmetry Thank you. I’m mostly here, but some people I care about have not made the switch so I check in there still. Granted, now it’s just the list I made of “people I care about who aren’t in the fediverse” and I access it through TweetBot (no ads), but I’m probably still a MDU and therefore enriching that fascist billionaire bozo.

Moral purity is for clearer-cut things than whether you occasionally use a social media platform.

@LaCrecerelle That’s pure magic.

@ashton I don’t blame his daughter for changing her last name as well as her first. I wouldn’t want anything to do with him either.

Poor kid.

I spent a lot of time on my walk today thinking about the Winter Rainbow: after the summer the world looks gray, but there are brilliant colors hidden in that neutral world that reward close attention. #SilentSunday #nature #sunset

@AmyTanMD I have seen (relatively wealthy, white-presenting, terminally-ill) people choose assisted dying in a way that does seem compassionate.

But if people are “choosing” death because they can’t afford a comfortable place to live/enough to eat/access to existing accommodations and treatments that would help them, the whole idea needs fundamental rethinking.

@AmyTanMD I heard an interview about this on NPR today, and was really disappointed that the interviewer did not talk about people choosing MAiD because of a lack of social supports to make life bearable. They were ostensibly addressing the controversial nature of the program and as far as I’m concerned, that’s the major controversy I’ve seen.

@crowgirl These are people who heard good stats once about filtration on planes (in fairness not completely horrible once they’re in the air) and decided the entire experience of air travel was Empirically Low Risk and anyone who disagrees is a moron. Drives me bats.

@holborne @drvolts Really there should be a “party car” and the rest of the train should be quiet.

@molly0xfff I am just such a huge fan of dog side-eye

Also dogs in shirts

so this is 10/10 AND 10/10

@everentropy I don’t know, but I am very curious what you find out.

@aurynn I saw an argument that mutual notification could be dangerous for troll instances. Seems like a one-sided notification would be doable too though. I don’t see any reason for mod decisions to be hidden from their own instances.

@aurynn Done! It clearly didn’t have any legs in early 2021 but maybe the influx of people from Twitter and all the discourse about defederation will make it feel more critical now.

@aurynn Looks like a version of it already exists:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15891

But there are only a few comments and it’s been more than a year. Is the etiquette here to make an account and comment into that issue, or to create a new issue?

@aurynn That is a great article, and I love how it teases out the dual-burden of moderation that defederation creates.

Looking into creating a GitHub issue now... not sure what a repository name is. I think maybe I need a more basic intro to fediverse development to do this effectively, unless you have a suggestion for which repository I should look for...

I can't tell you how much I love this tweet.

RT @QueenOfRats@twitter.com

@KalynnBayron@twitter.com Yep. I tried doing a BookTok Top Books display at my library and gave up. I did a display of Black YA authors instead.

@aurynn I am new enough here that I have no idea *how* to open a GitHub issue, or indeed what a “GitHub issue” is! I’ll take a look at the article and see whether I can figure it out.

@tempest This explains a lot! I hope you have a great time and enjoy the lightning....

@aurynn Users *do* have individual choice. If they don’t like your protective boundaries, they can move to another instance that isn’t defederated from whatever you’re blocking.

It’s a big cognitive shift from single-platform thinking.

I’m new here so I don’t know whether this already exists, but if there were an automated way for people to be notified when they lose followers/following to a defed that would be good.