Notices by Jay 🗳️ (jsit@social.coop)

I had my first real-life encounter with gen z slang on Halloween when a trick-or-treater said to me -- and I am not making this up -- "skibidi toilet to your brother"

@dansup How can I create an account?

Media Log: Train to Busan (2016)

Watched: Oct 21, 2024

#NowWatching #movies #MediaLog

Does a link become trending on #Mastodon if only *one* account posts it, but hundreds of others boost it?

The fact that Mullenweg keeps harping on #WPEngine’s lack of upstream contributions — something that is by no means required by anybody using #WordPress — demonstrates how weak he knows the copyright claim is.

If it were a strong case, he could just quietly file the cease and desist and not go on and on about the values of open source, which are irrelevant to whether a copyright has been violated.

@annika What font is that?

I don’t know about everybody else but have you tested that #Threads #fediverse sharing account options link? It just opens a browser for me.

I’m on the latest version of the Threads iOS app.

https://www.threads.net/settings/account/fediverse

@siege Thanks for the recommendation, I grew up on Clue and adore it, will have to check this out

@KamalaHarrisWin @tchambers https://www.threads.net/@tombonier/post/C_Li1TfpAcI

@ntnsndr How to write rules and policies for acceptable behavior and the means of dealing with it.

@inthehands My only disagreement is that Halloween season can start on the first day of fall.

@tchambers Guess I shouldn’t have mentioned the group.

Would be nice if there were some threshold of likes or something that a post had to meet before being boosted out to all followers.

@tchambers The previous one was on Friendica? What features did Friendica lack that made the experience worse? What is it running on now?

Regarding those false Beyoncé rumors, I’ve always suspected “Angry Staffer” is some dude in Indiana cosplaying a White House staffer under Trump to gain a social media following by pretending to confirm with first-hand accounts the things people want to believe about Trump and his White House — political porn for gullible middle-aged MSNBC viewers who own The West Wing on DVD.

#DNC #DNC2024

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/angry-white-house-staffer-twitter-account-misinformation-trump/

@LGBTQNation @lgbtq-nation-c65vn37sz-LGBTQNation @tchambers What is the 3-word phrase??

@Thomas He said “See what I did there?” but I wish he had just let it sit

@Raccoon @jaz @jerry @jztusk @Crell The refrain of “allowlists/blocklists are bad because it means you won’t hear from me” misses the point: This is why they are GOOD.

People don’t have a “right” to talk to your instance, this is a privilege that should be EARNED. And the protection of vulnerable people on social media is more important than my ability to make sure they can see my dumb posts.

This is not antithetical to the Fediverse. Choosing which instances to federate with is central to it!

@Raccoon @jaz @jerry @jztusk @Crell Because I am not among a group that is a frequent target of abuse, I have the privilege of enjoying the benefits of being on an “open” instance without having to worry about the drawbacks. I will probably always prefer to be on an instance that is blocklist-based instead of allowlist-based. But many people do not have that privilege.

@Raccoon Yes, who decides what to put on an allowlist/blocklist and what are the criteria they use continues to be a fraught problem with no simple solution.

But I was countering the claim a lot of people make that shared allowlists/blocklists in principle -- even if "perfectly curated" -- are antithetical to the Fediverse, which I think isn't true.

Some people bristle at the idea of these lists not because they think they might not be perfect, but because they want a nearly 100% open Fedi.

@Raccoon I think maybe part of my confusion is not fully understanding how allowlists work. Can someone on a LIMITED_FEDERATION_MODE instance be *followed by* someone on a non-allowlisted instance?

For instance (heh), limited.example is in limited federation mode with only safe.example in its allowlist.

Someone on unknown.example wants to follow @ user @ limited.example. Can they do this?

#MastoAdmin #FediblockMeta