Notices by Mark Darbyshire (markdarb@mastodon.social)

@drsbaitso @evan Me too! I know it's stupid but I still try to use the store's own bags (or non-branded bags) where practical.

@dansup I miss Firefish.

Sigh. I probably could have run an entire JP appointment in French just now if I didn't respond to "Vous parlez français ?" with "un peu". With languages you've got to be bold! Seize the opportunity to speak another language! Don't be timid by sitting on your budding gift.

#JusticeOfThePeace #French #LanguageLearning

The intense grief when you accidentally press Ctrl-C instead of Ctrl-V.

@evan I'm torn on how to respond! Technically at work I'm always using a VPN. At home, I never use a VPN, although I did dabble (unsuccessfully) with setting one up a few years ago so I could connect my phone to my home network from anywhere and remote into my desktop. I could count myself anywhere on the spectrum from "never" to "often".

@dansup Far out we keep you busy!

@dansup Wow!

@mmasnick I'm bridged, and even following your Bluesky account from here (thank you)! But the number of Bluesky users I can follow is miniscule. Asking people to follow a bridging account so I can follow them is hardly seamless. I have a similar frustration with Threads: having to contact friends and ask them to enable federation before I can follow them. I'm not sure what we do about the upset users you refer to, but siloes are currently trumping user experience across multiple platforms.

@evan @mmasnick Users need to seamlessly connect with all their friends and communities. That is the feature that is currently missing from the great decentralisation experiment, and Bluesky has made it worse.

@evan @mmasnick This article talks about experiments in decentralised social media. Bluesky is the great experiment in fragmenting decentralised social media and splitting it into different siloes with different protocols. What we need now is a great experiment in unifying social media, preferably with a single protocol, but at the very least with seamless bridges or networks that support multiple protocols.

@Gargron Worse than that, the page refreshes itself!

@evan Researching my answer for this poll, I'm sad but not surprised to see which countries have and haven't recognised the State of Palestine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Palestine#/media/File:Palestine_recognition_only.svg

Case in point: my country supports a two-state solution but doesn't recognise Palestine as a country.

Long may it endure and grow!

@dansup @swf

@evan I've said strong yes, but I don't think it'll happen because it's not compatible with their business model.

It could be up to the owner of each instance to decide. Keeping less popular videos forever could be a paid add-on.

@dansup @loops

Streaming now! https://www.youtube.com/live/bTBjl-TVhTA

#apartments #urbanism #yimby #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZPol

#meme #doughnut #donut

@georgetakei Thank you for putting alt text on this image! It makes a big difference for some users.

And we talk about AI at the expense of all the other problems that need solving (or solutions that need promoting) in tech.

@Gargron @joncounts

Not sure I'll ever get around to running my own server, but I strongly believe I should be able to. I'd love to start one focused on my neighbourhood but don't think I have the time.

Do you see this as a point of difference for the design philosophy between ActivityPub and AT?

@evan