Notices by Frozen Canuck (frozencanuck@mas.to), page 2

@BeAware I much rather Mastodon push forward on these changes. At the same time, advocating for these changes to be adopted part of AP. The problem with protocol standards like AP is getting a large number of stakeholders to all agree on something which takes a long time.

"In order to support multiple authors for a `fediverse:creator` link preview, we are introducing the `authors` attribute in the REST API"

This is awesome.

@Mastodon is taking the right steps towards providing useful features that support journalists and content creators. Looking forward to this progress.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/trunk-tidbits-june-2024/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #journalism

"Project 2025 should scare every single American."

#Project2025 #Biden #Democrats #VoteBlue

Sorry but I don't want an America that is ultimately being controlled by The Heritage Foundation, the Southern Baptist Convention, a bunch of NRA gun wielding nut jobs, psychopath anti-feminists, incels, Russian & Chinese tankies, QAnon conspiracy lunatics, neo-confederates, and billionaires who want massive tax cuts

#Biden #Democrats #VoteBlue

This is exactly how a responsible newspaper editorial board writes an op-ed about the debate.

New York Times Editorial Board is total shit. They should take a hard lesson from The Philadelphia Inquirer's Editorial Board.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/first-presidential-debate-joe-biden-donald-trump-withdraw-20240629.html

#Biden #Democrats #VoteBlue #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania

"I know what it'll take to rally the world to stand up against Putin and defend freedom. And I know what it takes to keep the world safe and free for the years ahead" – President Joe Biden

Hell yeah.

#Biden #Democrats #VoteBlue #Ukraine #Putin #Democracy

Great to meet @Gargron, @andypiper and many other #Fediverse and #Mastodon enthusiasts in SF.

Thanks to @mike and @Flipboard for holding the social event!

Love #Mastodon and want to see it thrive? Consider donating or becoming a sponsor. Money goes a long way to help the Mastodon team build the features you want.

💜🐘🤗

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

#Fediverse #Donate #Dev #ActivityPub

It's crazy to learn that the big spam wave that happened over the weekend was because of a stupid dispute between two Japanese teenagers.

@GossiTheDog did an incredible job covering all the details of this nut ball episode.

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111954920343204483

Also, I had no idea there were so many abandoned Mastodon instances still running that have open registration enabled. Doesn't it cost money to run these? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Glad there is a fix coming https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29280

Bloomberg has a good opinion piece on #Threads, #Mastodon and the greater #fediverse.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-20/meta-lends-a-crowbar-to-open-the-gates-of-social-media

The target audience is Bloomberg's readership which is very much the business community, not the techie crowd. So the author uses kid gloves to gently guide the reader through technical terms like "protocol".

Anyway, good article.

Here's a link to the web archived copy:

https://archive.is/lYRml

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb

I’m now bringing in the holidays with my delightful winter themed Mastodon mug

#Merchtodon

@mike I'm currently listening to your latest Dot Social episode with @cubicgarden. Really enjoying it.

At the 11:55 mark, you mention The Guardian's experience with Mastodon and how they ultimately shut it down. I think you mean the Financial Times.

FT setup a Mastodon instance and let anyone join. That turned into a royal mess for them.

https://www.ft.com/content/8d995a24-d77c-4208-a3a6-603d8788ebcd

Not sure why FT allowed anyone to join their instance. They should've done what BBC is doing. Keep accounts limited to just FT.

@annika @ramsey @pronskiy Thanks so much for getting @php and @thephpf accounts verified!

I see the `rel="me"` links on both websites. The PHP Foundation account shows up as verified for me but for some reason the PHP account does not. Hmm 🤔

@ramsey @annika seems like this can be resolved by resaving the @php account’s profile. Saving the profile will force the Mastodon server to re-trigger a link verification. I guess @pronskiy has access to the account to save the profile.

All media and news outlets that are unsure if it's worth setting up a #Mastodon account because they won't get enough followers: Take a look at Ars Technica (@arstechnica).

Ars established their account fairly recently (Apr 25, 2023) and have quickly gained a large following -- 118K followers!

- They actively post
- Their account is verified
- Their homepage has a link to their Mastodon account

Yes, media, you can be successful on Mastodon.

#Journalism #News #Media #Fediverse #SocialMedia

What New York City is currently experiencing is what everyone in the Bay Area experienced back in 2020.

Climate change is here, it’s impacting everyone, and it’s only going to get worse.

If we allow the oil and gas companies plus all the politicians they’ve heavily lobbied to continue as if nothing is wrong or that climate change is a hoax, we’ll have much bigger problems.

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ForestFires #NYC #BayArea

@renchap @szbalint @Gargron Any plans to permit other Mastodon servers to upgrade to nightly snapshots?

@Gargron still seeing v1.4.8 on the App Store ?