Notices by Tom Walker (tomw@mastodon.social), page 3

@jk If you don't do it then Google starts emailing you about your site getting downranked for "too small touch targets"

@shipp @jk

@shipp @jk It's real. You only get the email if you have claimed the site in their webmaster tools thing

@mcnees I've seen this allll over the place. Even if Twitter does collapse, they'll probably be reposting it for years to come. Similar to the strange afterlife of popular Vines.

@Loukas I hadn't considered that in these kind of cases the fediverse has an in-built advantage because it can circumvent domain-level blocks – the same information is accessible via thousands of different instances. Not impossible to block but far more difficult.

Seeing people post positively about Substack now that it's challenging Twitter.

Reminder: Substack is also centralised. Worse, the business model is basically to take what would once have been blogs and paywall them as premium 'newsletters'.

Substack is not a friend of the open web.

@mastomememakers #procrastodon

People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.

@aral It's interesting to see the original post of this image that just basically says "look at these book benches" and the replies say "wow" etc, then your exact same image with different framing and the replies say "how terrible"...

I'm very bored of "don't be scared of algorithms, 1 + 1 is an algorithm" and similar. Some people really cling to this for some reason.

The now-dominant use of 'algorithm' means "selection of posts on a social media network using an engagement-tracking process". If you insist that it always means something else then all you will do is misunderstand 99% of sentences that now include the word.

If it's only the technically-correct definitions of words that matter then please let me offer you this fruit salad.

@Rachel_Thorn yeah I'm very much part of the #TwitterMigration but have unfollowed people doing this – it is not useful to have a load of Twitter stuff cross-posted here out of context and with the tone all wrong