Notices by Roni Laukkarinen (rolle@mementomori.social)

Wrote a little writeup.

I quit social media for just over a week – this is what I learned
https://rolle.design/i-quit-social-media-for-just-over-a-week-this-is-what-i-learned

#Mastodon #SocialMedia #Fediverse

I get asked very often "how do you keep up with all the posts because you follow thousands of people?"

Well, I don't. And you shouldn't either. It's a general misconception that you should always be up to speed with the world.

Nobody can keep up with anything online. And we are not supposed to. If my mom calls me or I receive a traditional letter by mail, that's something I can keep up with. Not feeds or stories online. That is not the place of FOMO, every nanosecond we miss something.

I try to live in the present, I check my social media whenever I feel like it. I add the core folks to a list, but I don't try to keep up with them either. It's life.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't follow people or the followed folks don't matter. On the contrary. I follow anything or anyone that I show even tiniest bit of interest, that's the best way to make my feed most alive.

#Fediverse #SocialMedia #SocialWeb

Lots of new folks taken interest in to Mastodon, because of Meta. Let's welcome new people :happy_fox:

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Meta

@hedders

Because of X and Meta fucking things up once again, people are talking about abandoning social media, because there are no corporate free alternatives. Right.

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Fediverse #X #Meta

Today on Threads: Endless questions like:

"Where to escape from this?"

WHERE, I WONDER, TELL ME I WANT TO KNOW

#Threads #SocialMedia

@cragsand @MastodonEngineering @Mastodon @elk I think they are aware. 😅
I've been sending my ideas under issue discussions and pretty sure that couple of things we have today were inspired by other UIs like Elk and Mastodon Bird UI.

But things need to be built to core. The SCSS side of it needs major rework. I hope they find someone who is eager to take the task.

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

"Bluesky and Threads showed us very different visions for a post-X future"

Well, not really "very different". Nobody is talking about the truly different social media - The Fediverse and Mastodon, that is.

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/bluesky-and-threads-showed-us-very-different-visions-for-a-post-x-future-171046336.html

#SocialWeb #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialMedia #Threads #Bluesky

@ahimsa_pdx Also, a blind cane is not only for the completely blind. Disability is a spectrum.

Wtf? Thought this was a sarcastic joke article, but it's true: https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fprofiles.wordpress.org%2Fwordpress%2F&locale=en_US

WordPress.org Login Introduces Mandatory Pineapple Pizza Checkbox https://wptavern.com/wordpress-org-login-introduces-mandatory-pineapple-pizza-checkbox

#WordPress

My experience so far with microblogging services:

Threads: I'm in a wrong party and don't know what to say. I feel awkward, everyone is so happy with their gym selfies. Everyone asking endless questions and asking things from the algorithm. Lots of people use it like Instagram, every post is a selfie with a meaningless caption. Some are copy-pasting the same sentence over and over again for each line. Endless quote-post memes... What the fuck is this shit I don't even...

Bluesky: A Twitter clone, but still very barebones. Notifications are still not working, there are no hashtags and I don't find any relevant content to me in any of the feeds. It's mostly Facebook-like what's up in life, furry scene and AI photos. No news, no tech/web scene, no nothing. Not to mention it's still invite-only and won't support ActivityPub (yeah I know the reasoning behind that but for me it's mostly bullshit, I look forward to trying bridgy fed).

Mastodon and the Fediverse: Here I'm at home on my own server. Most content, most features. A community is friendly but has also lots of nitpicking, some angry dudes. Still the most safest, most healthy and most customized, but somehow the most hated network elsewhere. "Too techie", they say. "Too difficult", they say. "No algorithm", they say.

Nostr: Kinda promising, but way too obscure, strange and even techier than Mastodon. Too much crypto shit.

Well, that's that. Sometimes I feel like Internet is ruined. But I believe in the open social web movement and I want to see this grow.

In no other place I can write a status update as freely as this, as long as this or with a low bar as this. I LIKE this 100%. The same can't be said in those other places I'm experimenting with out of curiosity. There I'm the weird kid. Here I feel like myself.

#Fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Bluesky #Threads #Some #Mastodon

When I first started my server in 2022 I was worried I will be shouting in a void, because it sounded quite tricky to get seen in the Fediverse. But I learned very soon even a tiniest instance can be seen in the vast Fediverse just like a website can be indexed to Google after a while.

Today my small Finnish server knows 31137 domains which is pretty much the entire known Fediverse, give or take a few servers gone offline. Mementomori.social has 184 active monthly users (328 users in total), but we are very well federated. How? Simply by being very active and using relays.

Public statistics in JSON format: https://mementomori.social/api/v1/instance (you can get the stats of any instance by adding after the main URL: /api/v1/instance)

#MementoMoriSocial #MastoAdmin

Why are people from Norway so good at editing files in Linux?

Their ancestors are vi-kings.

I've said many positive things about Fediverse because I really think this is great for the Internet. On average much more positive impact, user-protecting features and more healthy community.

While saying this, I still think there's way too much of these two things in the Fediverse:

- Nitpicking
- Besserwisserism

And because of these two things I need to add definitions for them:

- Nitpicking: The finding or pointing out of faults in a fussy or pedantic way.

- A besserwisser: An unkind name for a person who thinks he knows everything. He had a reputation for being a bit of a know-all.

It shows as black and white opinions, pointing out something irrelevant, whataboutism or ad hominem attacks. I've seen this even prevent some good features being implemented. I've seen being harrassed over not doing something they are not aware of or not typing in alt texts. This is not a good thing. Let's be less of wise-asses.

Let it snow! ❄️

I have added snow to my instance during the winter holidays. It's a tiny JS canvas and fades out on scroll down. The snow is also respecting the system accessibility settings, it won't be there if you prefer reduced motion.

Here's the source code for server admins: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon/commit/9bf1563af50842a5f61b34b7cc095fb746e5d15b#diff-5fcd1b6168ec33e0eff0a05fcdeacfab68e261215bbdb719be6b3526173be770
See the snow yourself: https://mementomori.social

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #JavaScript #Coding #Programming #Snow #Winter #LetItSnow #MementomoriSocial

"Elon Musk is about to change the way you email for good"

Haha fuck no.

#Xmail #X #ElonMusk

@mammoth Out of curiosity, why?

There is no need to dream of paradise when you have already achieved it.

In this corner of my life, I am the most comfortable in the whole world. 🥰

Mastodon Bird UI v2.0.6rc for nightly versions has been released. We needed to move back to 2 level mobile nav, because it is no longer possible to use the hack after a slight HTML change.

Nightly changelog: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui/releases/tag/2.0.6rc

#BirdUI #MastodonBirdUI #MastoAdmin

It would be great to have the mobile nav more compact again. Its height feels too much on smaller phones.

In the original UI the header is way too cramped. In Mastodon Bird UI and Tangerine the screen estate is designed to be more well used, but lately the header hack no longer works, because the "tab wrapper" is inside the feed and cannot be shifted on top of the top bar "ui header" no more.

Any ideas @nileane / @renchap? Before sending an issue or PR request I'd like some thoughts on this.

The current version I'm running is the latest nightly.

#MastoAdmin #UI #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #CSS #HTML