Notices by Tim W (admin (and human)) (tim@union.place)

@ajroach42 only every night

@liw that's so cool!

@EndlessMason their web site is actually alive and kicking just fine!

Lol bitly, you want me to "upgrade" my account from the free 10,000 links/month I currently have to ... your highest plan at $200/month for 3000 links/month? Nah.

Not that I actually have used bitly in ages but they wanted me to login to keep it alive so, hey.

And this is why you don't use a third party redirect/shortening service for QR codes you print and distribute with your products.

@nyquildotorg ick, yeah, I don't see a good way to avoid your content being there for whatever purposes bsky itself might choose to use it for.

Technically Bridgy Fed doesn't send anything over (unless it tags a bsky user) unless someone follows you, but the whole point is for at least one person to follow you, at which point everything would go over, and then, the problem you describe.

@ai6yr now they just need to opt in to Bridgy Fed...

@nyquildotorg you've obviously given this thought, which doesn't particularly surprise me, sorry for any potential 'splaining!

@andrew oh yeah gotta love breathing that sweet sweet dust

@nyquildotorg the question is: are the public APIs sufficient to do that / does software to do that yourself exist to make that sufficiently easy, vs. the bridge?

I mean, I guess the existence of the bridge suggests the APIs are there, so it's more a question of self-bridging. I'd imagine Bridgy might do that at some point if enough people want it / someone contributes the code?

@andrew but they're so fun in the air! And who doesn't love the noise! (Oh wait. Everyone. 😂 )

@Jorsh that sounds uncomfortable

Howdy #UnionPlace !

We've decided to unblock the Bridgy Fed Bluesky / Fediverse bridging site: https://fed.brid.gy/

You should now be able to follow their instructions to opt into bridging your content to Bluesky, and to request that Bluesky users consider bridging their content to the Fediverse (or follow them if they already do).

If you encounter abuse from Bridgy Fed, please report it as usual. We can't do anything about the actual Bluesky content, but we can and will block this side.

@climatebrad wow, the misinformation and pure lies in here are amazing. The mental gymnastics of "funded by taxpayer dollars" because dues come from government employees' salaries?!? That is ... fucking awful.

@climatebrad yikes!

@RVLara23 for me it's usually "haven't gotten around to it" because I don't actually listen to vinyl as often as I'd like because ... lazy? busy? both?

@Grant_M don't forget the actual Trump voters, who deserve the majority of the blame.

(Trying to figure out how to report a vehicle that they allowed to get license plate AR1AN, sigh.)

Seriously, Virginia DMV? Why?

"The Contact Us form is only available Monday - Friday, from 8:00am - 1:00pm ET."

WHY???

@masukomi unfortunately this is not at all new, it's just ... getting worse. And I don't have a lot of faith in anyone fixing it. 😞