byron @byronalley@mastodon.social
Entrepreneur, hacker, swing dancer
#Hashtags are great. They're not "cool" anymore, and idiots abuse them; but they enable platforms to be self-organized by the users without much tech skill.
With all of the anarchists etc. here, that kind of grass-roots understanding should be implicit.
#Trending #tags are BOTH crucial and dangerous. #Trends bring people into conversations, help onboard new users, and keep people coming back.
But harassment and abuse need to be fought at the platform level.
How can we have BOTH?
The best way to fight the power of Facebook is probably not to just #deletefacebook, but to subvert it.
Facebook works by letting you use it for free, in exchange for using your data commercially.
It survives because people keep using it for personal purposes, which it can then sell.
If you want to fight that, use your personal Facebook account for exclusively commercial purposes, without buying advertising. Promote your business, post affiliate links, and avoid it for anything personal.
Yeah, that's still a terrifying violation of our privacy.
This is evil.
https://torrentfreak.com/censorship-machines-are-destroying-the-internet-as-we-speak-180624/ straight out of #china playbook. They too delete memes, automatically without human intervention. #eu
Wow, FileZilla’s bundled installer includes a malware downloader and the dev defends it horribly.
If using FileZilla, uninstall and find something else. Even if this issue is fixed, the morally ambiguous and defensive response is very concerning.
Holy shit! Bitcoin now consumes 1 MWh per transaction. That's more energy than I have ever spent in a month.
Allons-y, tentons le coup !
#JeChercheUnJob de développeur PHP (Vanilla, Symfony ou Magento) dans le Nord (59) Idéalement un CDI en évitant les déplacement.
Etant donné que je suis une Personne à Mobilité Réduite, je suis dépendant d'une société de transport pour me déplacer.
Je suis geek, curieux, volontaire et surtout, je suis disponible immédiatement !
CV et informations supplémentaires en MP
N'hésitez pas à partager !
Because of the #youtube ban, #blender foundation is now testing #peertube as a video distribution model https://video.blender.org/
It's now Day 4 of Blender's videos being taken down by YouTube's content filter without explanation.
YT/Google has total control over who sees Blender's content, and there is no way for Blender to do anything about this.
#Article13 would mean automated content filters like this across the whole internet, controlled by large corporations.
Don't let this happen. Please PLEASE call/email your MEP to reject #Article13 today. The vote is tomorrow.
https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1008993261044817920
YouTube Blocks Blender Videos Worldwide
https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/
#newsbot
Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official. Here’s How That Could Affect You. #nyt https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/technology/net-neutrality-repeal.html #internet
Instead of enabling #hashtag #trending vs. making it hard to find tags and convos, what's the third option? How do we get the good without the bad?
1) Make hastags 1st class citizens, like posts -- eg. being able to report, block or mute them?
2) Instances blocking hashtags?
3) Auto-banning users by hashtag?
4) A downvoting system like reddit? Eg. upvote or downvote a tag to affect its trendiness?
5) Could trending tags actually *combat* abuse?
#Hashtags are great. They're not "cool" anymore, and idiots abuse them; but they enable platforms to be self-organized by the users without much tech skill.
With all of the anarchists etc. here, that kind of grass-roots understanding should be implicit.
#Trending #tags are BOTH crucial and dangerous. #Trends bring people into conversations, help onboard new users, and keep people coming back.
But harassment and abuse need to be fought at the platform level.
How can we have BOTH?
On that note, I guess I haven't said it lately: there are a lot of projects putting forward work into ActivityPub implementations right now. I'm very grateful for everyone across all those projects who are working on things. I know it's hard work. Not just programmers for those projects, all contributors.
For 3 years I put in a lot of stress and effort into activitypub, and many times I considered giving up. These days I'm glad I didn't. Thanks for making it worth it.
FLOSS community:
> hey let's put all our eggs in this one GitHub basket
> what could possibly go wrong
> GitHub is so convenient
Microsoft:
Ok, next question, can anyone recommend games involving cars and open-world driving, ideally where you can reskin the cars / do custom livery, that aren't Forza Horizon (and ideally have lower system requirements, around the 2gb VRAM and 8GB System RAM range)?
Trying to broaden a friend's gaming experience away from AAA titles, but he's fixated on cars so it has to be car-related, and he doesn't like games that are ONLY racing.
@h @alcinnz Here's fun fact: you can find the RSS of any Masto user by adding ".atom" to the end of their profile, so for example, your profile's RSS feed would be, https://social.coop/@h.atom.
Judge rules that it's a Constitutional violation for Trump to block people on Twitter http://thehill.com/regulation/389021-judge-rules-trump-cant-block-users-on-twitter
This is a really important time to push free and open source alternatives to #Patreon! I've considered using @Liberapay, but was afraid I had to use Patreon to get the network effect.
Please tell people about #Liberapay, post about it on Reddit (r/patreon), vote it up on Alternativeto, etc https://alternativeto.net/software/liberapay/
Please boost! This kind of opportunity to topple a near monopoly with FLOSS does not come often!
Are there other FLOSS #crowdfunding platforms?
