Notices by Davey (davey_cakes@mastodon.ie)

@Ciaraioch sure look, the practically antiviral design of Mastodon is fuckin hard to do professional stuff on - apart from professional Linux stuff probably, but otherwise

@Antiqueight the fact that they've told you nothing is maybe a sign that they don't value people appropriately anyway.

But tech interviewing is so dysfunctional, it would depress you, and I know the state of it stops a lot of good people from leaving where they are.

@Antiqueight oof that's shit

@padraig @mastodonie @opencollective jesus that wasn't long going

@padraig this is really excellent

@doot

@damienowens the best bit about life is that moment when everyone says "you did enough, you can relax forever in plenty now". Makes it all worthwhile.

If you're posting about famous dickheads, and you include their name as part of the text, people who have set up filters to not hear about the same dickheads won't have to look at their stupid fucking faces.

Thaaaaanks.

#feditips

@NoraReed this is one of the reasons I like being on a server that only really got going in the last year, the l33t are already somewhere else, and it's hopefully more casual.

That doesn't mean it's above or immune to the same patterns or anything, and not everyone was able to maintain the will to live on Fedi with the amount of 🤦♂️ replies.

Lost some really interesting people that way, and yeah I'd say mostly women.

With the caveat that it deals with difficult topics (CSAM), I recommend reading this thread, https://hachyderm.io/@det/110769470058276368 as well as the report it's connected with.

I find the work to be valuable, truthful and worth taking into consideration.

However, I don't recommend reading the related articles in WaPo or The Verge. "Study gets badly mutilated in Reporting" #354263

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@hugo those people are assholes, but at least those accounts both appear to have been acted upon by the mods of their respective servers. One is gone, one is, I'm not sure, maybe locked.

Terrible people can get onto most websites, but server mods make a difference in how they respond. It's retroactive, so it's not perfect, of course.

Good mods are always ready to :yeet: a racist. Publicly documenting abuse has value too though, I agree about that, wheter QT or another way.

The "here whenever Twitter breaks" phenomenon is weird.

It's like a school friend who only wants to play with you when their bestie isn't about.

And they expect you to be excited.

And their bestie is a neo-Nazi.

@padraig @kd Orange Juice - Rip it Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPh89tD5pA

If this thing gets to 1000 boosts I'm going to declare victory and delete the server.

@kd

Well-intentioned people: let's wait and see if #Threads is, for example, a privacy nightmare

Facebook: we're not launching in Europe yet because right now it would be illegal

Right so.

#FediPact

I would have loved to have been a better host when it was all kicking off but it was about all most mods could do the keep the lights on and keep the flagrant hooers out.

Numbers don't matter, behaviour does, but that doesn't mean it wasn't disappointing to see nice people alienated away from here. Or people hearing horror stories, true or not, about what the place was. I still won't defend this place in other venues cus it would never be over.

Things I like about current #TwitterMigration vs last year

Mastodon Finishing School seems to have gotten the etiquette lessons out of its system.

Mods of smaller servers -✋- are much better at blocking horrible people/servers early and often. We're a little better at online safety, especially for marginalized folks.

Extant servers survived the November hug of death, systems are stable. No scramble for funds.

People are a bit used to the weirdness.

Remember folks, adding alt text to an image is a good and helpful thing to do, but nobody wants it to make you anxious about sharing things when you don't have the energy.

Also, you can edit your posts, including the alt text, whenever you want, so you can do it later too.

There's also tags like #ALT4me where you can signal that you'd like a little help - people can add descriptive text in a reply.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Actually added text to one of my own after writing this. 🙈

For the recidivist #mastodaoine and any new ones that might pop in, here's my quick guide to how tf to use this thing again: https://mastodon.ie/@davey_cakes/109525794316079346