Notices by Paul (paulcox@toot.wales)

@aral we're actually just playing around with Vimeo for course we're building within Mossy Earth account and it seems to be exactly what we need.

@cheeaun curious, is this more, less, or doesn't a make difference to resource usage on an instance? I guess highly dependent on someone's mastodon usage? Also, have you played around with different types of 'popularity' metrics? e.g. very rough one off of the top of my head, a post's likes / their follower count, as a way to not have things skewed to just large accounts.

@cheeaun I was thinking more of an aggregate popularity sorting e.g. giving a post a popularity score based on the number of likes divided by the number of followers. Kind of like a relative popularity of a post for the user. Interested if this is a better metric than sorting based on number of likes as posts from larger accounts are more likely to appear at the top and so I might miss particularly interesting posts from smaller accounts I follow.

@inthehands yeah, I've always found that quite a number of people ignore this side of the "wealth" equation. (Not ignoring that for many people there's a certain amount of privilege in being able to do this)

@inthehands it always annoys me when I see a related sentiment in other places - "it was really hard when we were going through it, and we didn't have this support, so you shouldn't either"

@aral @empathroet this is how I wish more climate protests were handled, much more constructive and powerful, imagine athletes doing this in front of the eyes of the world. Disappointing statement by the festival director though.

@aral yeah, we use Stripe as well, but yesterday we had over 1000 attempts to create memberships with different cards and 100 went through. We must be on someone's list somewhere.

@aral I had a look at that, but didn't seem likely enough to stop them, as easy to figure out with a quick look and work around it... but I could try that first and see. Have you had success with it previously?

@aral as a small web person, do you have any thoughts on captcha alternatives? We keep getting hit with bots testing stolen cards by signing up to memberships. Looking at Cloudflare turnstile but wondered if you had any thoughts?

@feditips is there a feature planned to rate limit hashtags at all? e.g. show me 1 in every 10 posts from a hashtag. Some can take over the timeline

@mattl for some people this is still a better solution than using the same password everywhere, requires someone to break into the house

#introduction - I'm Paul Cox, a software developer in London working at Mossy Earth - a rewilding and reforestation company. We have a membership for people to help rewild our planet. You can check out our website https://mossy.earth and YouTube videos of our projects https://www.youtube.com/c/MossyEarth.

I also love sport, live music, complexity science and systems thinking.

I moved servers because I want to immerse myself more in Welsh culture.

#rewilding #conservation #complexity