Jer Warren ✔️ @nyquildotorg@mastodon.social
Mobile-addicted. Web-dependent. Digital Plumber. Nerd.
JavaScript is a meme not because it's bad, but because we are going hog wild building all kinds of junk to work around the fact that we're using it way outside of the browser for small scripts like was originally designed.
And we're spending a lot of effort building a lot of tools that kind of churn after so long and AFAIK don't do much more than GNU Make and shell scripts.
Probably gonna get people arguing about that one lol
I'm really going to miss legal marijuana when we merge with Russia.
Thanks, NSA. Again.
Mastodon's reply mechanism could use some more thought. It's not helpful to show only local replies when clicking into a thread; I keep ending up looking like a jackass by replying the same thing as a bunch of others.
controversial opinion: roundabouts / traffic circles are terrible (at least here in America.)
Watching Netflix's The OA finally. Should be working, but was up all night with an elderly puppy who had to have 29 teeth extracted yesterday.
[extremely woke hot take voice] here are the ways in which i believe mastodon could be improved by making it not mastodon, and instead making it twitter
Hello everyone I'd like to introduce the new @ambassador from https://a.weirder.earth
This is my attempt to fix the followbot problem. If you're an instance admin, you can install an ambassador bot on your instance.
The bot will boost the most popular toots from your instance. Someone can follow your ambassador to have your instance's best content added to their federated feed.
Feedback welcome, code here: github.com/mbilokonsky/ambassador
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Many of my friends tell me that they have no interest in Mastodon because it "won't help their brand or business."
Good. Excellent. Wonderful. Social networks are for people.
While some folks can be a bit screamy in their virtue-signalling, I am increasingly impressed with the number of people I see on Mastodon/Ostatus having open-minded, non-confrontational, logical, and even courteous-if-not-friendly discussions from divergent places on various social and political spectrums.
That's just plain fucking inspiring.
is pronouncing CoC as "cock" against your Code of Conduct?
I've been seeing people complaining about bot followers, which I totally get.
I was just in the shower, though, which tends to serve as my Thinking Spot, and I realized that at least some of these bots are following for good.
Remote Mastodon instances only ingest your content from your server if there's one or more followers of you on that remote instance.
So the more people on different instances follow you -- robots or not -- the more people will see your content.
Oh yeah another tip for newbies: there is a Twitter-to-Mastodon import tool to find people to follow. After you use it to link your Twitter and Mastodon accounts, then others will be able to find you too.
Alex Payne, (engineer who helped scale Twitter), way back in 2010: "Decentralization isn’t just a better architecture, it’s an architecture that resists censorship and the corrupting influences of capital and marketing.
"At the very least, decentralization would make tweeting as fundamental and irrevocable a part of the Internet as email. Now that would be a triumph of humanity."
Mastodon Bechdel test: Does your instance have:
- A non-bot talking to
- Another human about
- Something other than Mastodon?
has anyone found a good technical description of how Mastodon federation works? "Your instance gets toots when one or more people on your instance follows one or more people on a remote instance. This suggests to me some incredibly terrible inefficiencies.
I'd love to be wrong, though. I just can't find any docs.
technical note about this tech as I see some confusion/misconceptions:
Admins of your instance have complete control over your account. Really, we can read all the posts (including DMs) and we can even impersonate/hack your account with ease.
Make sure you trust your admins.
Here on toot.cat we have a CoC that applies to both admins and non admins. Admins are expected to abide by the CoC and not oppress users as well.
It's remarkable the degree to which the Popular Mechanics piece on #Mastodon misses the point.
Brand confusion/name squatting can be serious problems--IF you're using the platform as a serious marketing tool.
Most of us are here precisely because we were sick of being on a platform that was a serious marketing tool. So maybe the lack of professional tools to promote and protect your brand are mostly a feature (and I say that as an IP lawyer who kinda takes brands seriously).
I have zero followers so why should I even post here?
