Notices by Christina Warren (film_girl@mastodon.social), page 5

@phongg @atomicpoet can’t take my posts with me! Big glaring problem with the system right there that there is absolutely no interest in solving. And I don’t honestly give a fuck about the IG tbing. I don’t think Textagram will be any more successful than any other attempt at creating a new social app Facebook has tried in 12 years, which is to say, not at all. It’s the pious handwringing over a rumored thing from people that are also bitching about how the fediverse isn’t more popular

@atomicpoet I have also been in the social media business for 15+ years. The implementation isn’t even out yet! And you are free to make any decision you want for whatever reason you want. I’m not a bootlicker b/c I think people getting riled up over a rumored integration should slow their roll and take a deep breath first and that people starting brigades and shit over a screenshot should chill out. Or that if you don’t want people to use your software, you shouldn’t make it open source.

@atomicpoet and every other instance admin can defederafe whoever they want for whatever reason they want. And some of those reasons are valid and good. But if you’re going to preemptively call for the ban/rejection of an integration that isn’t even in place for a product that will let’s be honest, probably fail and be abandoned in 6 months, and yell for others to do so too or else while at the same time bitching that you don’t have mindshare or user adoption, well yeah I think that’s a conflict

This is a complete and willful misconstruction of what I said. I never said or encouraged anyone to roll out a welcome mat. Not defensively posturing and preemptively blocking and not encouraging others to do the same != rolling out a welcome mat. I said that it seems pretty odd to get up in arms about rumors and start trying to band together to ban instances that might bring real value to your users when you’re also trying to grow adoption. Re: https://calckey.social/notes/9eyz2qg2cd

@atomicpoet I’m not suggesting or even encouraging anyone to roll out a welcome mat! I am saying that making knee-jerk announcements about preemptive bans and encouraging others to do so too is stupid and bad and against the goals that many of those same people claim to have, which is to encourage the usage of decentralized protocols.

@mattl absolutely not! bb codes in the email! I’m proud of that version of phpBB for still running tho!

It happened. I just got the most deranged email reminder ever. Why did I even sign up for this? Oh. Wait. Got it. Got it. There was a Celine Dion/Elvis duet on American Idol & my dad wanted it and I had to troll the CD forums for an HD rip b/c it was 2007 and TiVo was still SD. The best part is that they translate the message into French but the mailer doesn’t support Unicode so it isn’t easily readable.

@thomasfuchs I sadly agree. I’ve long-argued that I’m long ActivityPub, I’m not long Mastodon. You can’t do these things by committee and I think Gargron has done a good job trying to steer, but has also let too many other people bikeshed.

The one thing I do think the AT Protocol is better at than #ActivityPub is data portability. Being built-in at the protocol layer so that you don’t have to do the migration shit (which doesn’t bring your posts) is better. It just is. I think ActivityPub has more potential overall for the social web beyond just Twitter clones, but that part of #ARProtocol is better.

I think data portability is incredibly important and the fact that Mastodon hasn’t prioritized that, to me, is a failing. And I say Mastodon, not ActivityPub, b/c AP does have some options there. But Mastodon wasn’t designed that way, no matter what people want to pretend. It just wasn’t. My followers/following list is only part of my data. My content is equally important.

This is straight-up insanity. It never will survive appeals, fortunately, but I’m absolutely bothered that individual states think they can ban access to apps/websites. Also, the plan is to fine Apple/Google for offering the app in their state. Good luck with that, you absolute morons. https://www.wsj.com/articles/montana-lawmakers-approve-statewide-ban-on-tiktok-17dc0ea6

@vaurora absolutely. But I don’t think avoiding anything that might be upsetting is in any way helpful. But yes, access to therapy would be ideal.

@misc @vaurora Like I said, I'll always try to be thoughtful and courteous if I know in advance. But I'm not going to go out of my way to use them and I'm not going to preface any mention of a film/book with a CW, I'm just not.

This shit started when I was in college and I don’t think it has had a positive effect on anyone. If anything, the ability to guard ourselves from anything potentially upsetting has made us more polarized and less able to connect with one another or to truly understand and empathize with trauma.

I know this is impulse but I fundamentally don’t agree with trigger warnings as a concept. I’ll try to honor them/respect people who need them if I know in advance, but I fundamentally don’t believe in them. I’m glad Cornell pushed back.

Good. Cornell did the right thing here but I’ll admit to being (pleasantly)surprised it was this resolute. If an individual professor wants to do content warnings as a courtesy, fine. But trying to make that mandatory is not OK. #xp https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/nyregion/cornell-student-assembly-trigger-warnings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Just an amazing headline and story here in the continuation of my theory that Insider has started to morph into XoJane. But now it has taken the personal essay into even more mundane areas! #xp

Caity Weaver writing about spending all day at TGI Fridays eating unlimited mozzarella sticks as part of a bet to win vacation time was true art and remains one of the best internet essays of our time. That it possibly led to stuff like “I ate at Longhorn’s and liked it” is just sad. https://www.gawker.com/my-14-hour-search-for-the-end-of-tgi-fridays-endless-ap-1606122925

On this week’s #TheDownload it’s developer conference season, #GitHubActions has a new #VSCode extension, there’s a great #Angular meta framework and a #lego GameCube
https://youtu.be/iYJLP0z3Pdw

@thomasfuchs Leve1Techs (Wendell) has been working on something more proper, but I know it will be expensive.