Notices by Jonathan T (jonnyt@mastodon.me.uk), page 2

@thisismissem @GossiTheDog @vmstan NB. hCAPTCHA is not accessible. Please read the real world experience of screen reader users as to why - here's a starting point:

https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/111958354127776691

@thisismissem @GossiTheDog @vmstan That doesn't excuse people from keeping on recommending it as a solution. It isn't one. Stop recommending it.

@evan Least worst.

If the data was truly anonymised, Palantir would not be buying it.

#UKPol #UKPolitics

@noondlyt @feditips @boris @seachanger @LoganFive All the iOS apps I have used open links in app as if they're just any other post in the app and bypass the dreadful UX of the Mastodon PWA. Whatever they're doing is something the PWA desperately needs to find a way to emulate because it is single-handedly one of the most user-hostile experiences I have ever experienced on a social media site, excluding moderation issues.

@davidallengreen @goatsarah Their arch-nemesis, Burgundy Passport, constantly threatens to take away their Sovereign Tea. The rotter.

@wim_v12e @mudasobwa @mac @thomasfuchs And this is the point - let people and teams who work better and more productively at home, work at home; let people and teams who work better and more productively in the office, work in the office. Don't force one group to do what the other one finds best because it's stupidly counterproductive and actively harmful to your organisation. This is hardly a revolutionary concept.

@mac @thomasfuchs And if you really want to see my productivity sky rocket, give me a 4 day week, dammit.

@thomasfuchs @RetroWizzard Again, I'm not disagreeing that being assigned an instance rather than having to pick one is the wrong approach but just shoving everyone into the same 'generic' instance may also not be the best way to do it. Using mastodon.social as an example - they did struggle back in November with moderation when the first and second large influxes from Twitter occurred and it almost got them defederated by a lot of other instances at the time.

@thomasfuchs @RetroWizzard But it doesn't though. They'll go back to where they were before and tell everyone that this place is terrible - and they'd be justified in doing so - and you'd get more people not even bothering to try joining.

I don't think the instance problem is one that is trivial to solve.

@thomasfuchs @RetroWizzard I don't disagree with you but how would that work in practice? A 'generic' instance in this case would get very large, very quickly. And that would mean that people's experience of Mastodon would also have the potential to get very shitty, very quickly due to the prospect of a lack of or poor moderation. Thus the experience could be worse than they would have had from randomly being assigned an instance or choosing their own.

@technomancy @cwebber The article was good but, ironically for me, it was the bits about the ‘old ways of doing things’ that I thought were the worst about it (e.g. the bit about moderation was laughable, given how crap all the major social media platforms have always been and continue to be at that).

Unaware of the Denny’s incident but I’m a relative newbie here (joined last November). Also, HTHR?

@technomancy @cwebber It shouldn’t be. They will get accommodated here in the exact same way Gab was. That is, they’ll exist but most people will never see anything from them (unless what they do here is, slightly improbably, actually useful or interesting).

@thomasfuchs Are there any mechanisms in place to stop that from being misused for abusive messaging? Because it seems ripe to be exploited that way, if it's trivial to set up.

@thomasfuchs @wim_v12e @mudasobwa @mac It's mostly that many businesses are paying large sums of money for office space that isn't being used and many landlords (aka obscenely wealthy people who own the politicians) are shitting themselves at their entire industry collapsing when those same businesses near the ends of their leases and decide to go somewhere smaller and less central.

@wim_v12e @mudasobwa @mac @thomasfuchs (Sorry, my comment wasn't aimed at anyone in particular other than clueless CEOs and politicians who keep pushing for a 'return to the office' for no good reason and plenty of stupidly bad ones).

@mac @thomasfuchs And also, the 'I'm significantly more productive now and therefore better for the organisation I work for than I ever was before' people like me.

If you want to see me being a worse worker, just bloody observe how much less I get done on the days you make me go into the office versus the days I don't.