Notices by Matt Mascarenhas (miblo@mas.to)

@MsMadLemon Amazing! Love that you've kept it all these years.

@MsMadLemon Gorgeous! Wonderful love letter to preservation and making memories, I think.

Is that really a ticket from 1987, though?! 🚋

@somnius Thanks to @neauoire for boosting, Somnius yourself for posting and linking to the list, and to @ErikUden for compiling the list in the first place.

As someone who hasn't seen a single ripple of this spam wave, this is a real clear-cut case of "when the system runs smoothly for us, our way in to acknowledging there's a problem is by listening to those for whom it is gummed up". For which I must also thank my own admin @trumpet!

@Funktious @Marie_Ranquet @me We're probably basically the same age. Now you mention it, back on BCUK my circle of friends was actually mostly older than me. And here, there was a poll about this just the other day (that I now can't find), most people are from older generations.

And about being a lurker and holding back from posting, I polled this kind of thing myself: https://mas.to/deck/@miblo/110147513292819066

So maybe there's both a generational and a read-rather-than-write thing going on here.

@Funktious @me Yeah, I wonder if it's similar here to how things were on a small-ish community blogging site I was on years ago (blog.co.uk).

No "algorithm". We'd basically form our own little circle of friends by writing articles, finding other people's blogs in the directory, commenting on each other's articles, joining groups.

Maybe the people who didn't get Mastodon never really had that kind of experience?

@evan @monsieuricon Oooh, great, thanks! Link relations (https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-link) as a "qualified relation" sound ideal, letting us express the strength of the relationship.

I actually have a little pipe full of these dreams (https://miblo.net/ppic_notes.html) and getting the sense that AP may have it all.

Social web feature dream: The ability to relate (sets of) posts together to say "these posts are referring to the same thing".

I'd use this for these posts and their replies:

https://mas.to/@miblo/111380067627144896 by me
https://social.kernel.org/notice/Abq7z1gh5dhvxJdBUu by @monsieuricon

Sure, we have hashtags, but they rather work to put the posts into a pool of others also bearing that hashtag. I'm thinking of drawing a line between specified posts to say they're related.

Does #ActivityPub already have this, I wonder? cc: @evan

@klardotsh @neauoire @technomancy Oooh yeah, this history tree looks sweet. And I'm another keyboard navigator here, using qutebrowser for this despite its extortionate memory usage. I also do program in C, but am yet to contribute to any programs other than my own! Nevertheless intrigued to look into Netsurf, and maybe, just maybe…

@evan QY: Yeah, for the same reasons as them printing their own papers, hosting their own websites, etc. With the qualification that journalists should also get their own instances independently of outlets. Reasonable to have those hosted by unions, e.g. the NUJ, and / or maybe one global one hosted by the IFJ?