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He didn't link to his mastodon at all, did he? Twitter is one of the reasons I became an engineer - I was able to follow and see the mutterings of indie game d

by jmoak3 4y ago

He didn't link to his mastodon at all, did he? Twitter is one of the reasons I became an engineer - I was able to follow and see the mutterings of indie game devs in Copenhagen (vlambeer, if anyone knows them). 15 year old me responded the most inane things to their posts, but it exposed me to work ethics, communities, and possibilities in the computing world I never would have found growing up in Kentucky. I taught myself how to code to make games. I left the state to get a CS degree (the state's schools didn't offer a dedicated one at the time), made a game, and I now work at a FANG. Without that online twitter community of people who really got what I was interested in, it might have been a passing interest. Even if I couldn't participate at the same level, at least I could watch them do so! I'll never forget watching Ferguson happen live, the Arab Spring, or even the initial days of Covid in Jan 2020 as I scoured it for morsels. I stopped using it a while ago, but this is so sad, feeling eulogistic.

cesarb 4y ago
> He didn't link to his mastodon at all, did he? Very indirectly. He mentioned that his mastodon handle was at his site, which was linked in his twitter bio, and had said handle as the first line (excluding sidebars); only the handle, no links at all, but it's trivial to construct the link given that piece of information.
- chipgap98 4y ago
  But handles are the thing they are specifically trying to stop people from linking. Cross posting content is okay, but not profiles
  - marcinzm 4y ago
    They are specifically trying to block whatever is annoying Elon at this particular second. Clearly PG's tweet annoyed Elon and that is the only thing that matters.
    - thombat 4y ago
      Or it's a flunkey, trying to anticipate what will displease Kaiser Musk today. Pity that flunkey: guessing wrong will cost them the job.
      - prawn 4y ago
        "Ban everyone that does this!" "Are you sure?!" "Yes" "Everyone?" "YES!" ... "Wait, not that guy!"
- wilg 4y ago
  I like that a "link" is now just information that another webpage exists.
- ehsankia 4y ago
  https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo... > Examples: > "follow me @username on Instagram"
  - meepmorp 4y ago
    Yes, but given the information in pg's comment, you could easily reconstruct the string "follow me @username on Instagram," which is very clearly a violation of the policy.
- hackerlight 4y ago
  In the doxxing affair, Elon said any indirect links count as direct links because it's effectively the same thing and it's an attempt to do ban evasion. I assume he has the same mindset/rationale here.
barathr 4y ago
The good thing is that many of these things are now happening at mastodon, among other places.
- mschuster91 4y ago
  Mastodon lacks one very important thing: global trends, the most important tool for minorities and the oppressed to call for attention. So many crimes got the spotlight because of that, and Mastodon by design can't replicate it.
  - barathr 4y ago
    Global trends are happening there nevertheless -- we've seen a few happen already.
    - mschuster91 4y ago
      Yeah indeed, but it's so much harder for something to gain traction on Mastodon vs on Twitter and its country specific trends.
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    Mastodon does have trending hashtags, which can be enabled on instances. There's no feed interface to that as yet, AFAIK.
- EamonnMR 4y ago
  It's hard to surface stuff there, got any good devs to follow?
  - barathr 4y ago
    Here are a few among many: https://mastodon.social/@b0rk https://mastodon.social/@b0rk https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza
ncallaway 4y ago
> vlambeer, if anyone knows them I absolutely love their "art of screenshake" lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U It really shows how there's a very high ceiling for polish and _feel_ when it comes to interactions. "Screenshake" is something that I'm sure a lot of people might look at and say: "oh, that would take 15 minutes to add", and if you're just talking about shaking the screen a bit, absolutely! But if you want to make the screenshake _really_ communicate a feeling and an emotion, there's so much more you can do.
phist_mcgee 4y ago
Nuclear throne is one of the best action roguelikes of all time

by jmoak3 4y ago

cesarb 4y ago

> He didn't link to his mastodon at all, did he? Very indirectly. He mentioned that his mastodon handle was at his site, which was linked in his twitter bio, and had said handle as the first line (excluding sidebars); only the handle, no links at all, but it's trivial to construct the link given that piece of information.

chipgap98 4y ago
But handles are the thing they are specifically trying to stop people from linking. Cross posting content is okay, but not profiles
- marcinzm 4y ago
  They are specifically trying to block whatever is annoying Elon at this particular second. Clearly PG's tweet annoyed Elon and that is the only thing that matters.
  - thombat 4y ago
    Or it's a flunkey, trying to anticipate what will displease Kaiser Musk today. Pity that flunkey: guessing wrong will cost them the job.
    - prawn 4y ago
      "Ban everyone that does this!" "Are you sure?!" "Yes" "Everyone?" "YES!" ... "Wait, not that guy!"
wilg 4y ago
I like that a "link" is now just information that another webpage exists.
ehsankia 4y ago
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo... > Examples: > "follow me @username on Instagram"
- meepmorp 4y ago
  Yes, but given the information in pg's comment, you could easily reconstruct the string "follow me @username on Instagram," which is very clearly a violation of the policy.
hackerlight 4y ago
In the doxxing affair, Elon said any indirect links count as direct links because it's effectively the same thing and it's an attempt to do ban evasion. I assume he has the same mindset/rationale here.

barathr 4y ago

The good thing is that many of these things are now happening at mastodon, among other places.

mschuster91 4y ago
Mastodon lacks one very important thing: global trends, the most important tool for minorities and the oppressed to call for attention. So many crimes got the spotlight because of that, and Mastodon by design can't replicate it.
- barathr 4y ago
  Global trends are happening there nevertheless -- we've seen a few happen already.
  - mschuster91 4y ago
    Yeah indeed, but it's so much harder for something to gain traction on Mastodon vs on Twitter and its country specific trends.
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  Mastodon does have trending hashtags, which can be enabled on instances. There's no feed interface to that as yet, AFAIK.
EamonnMR 4y ago
It's hard to surface stuff there, got any good devs to follow?
- barathr 4y ago
  Here are a few among many: https://mastodon.social/@b0rk https://mastodon.social/@b0rk https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza

ncallaway 4y ago

> vlambeer, if anyone knows them I absolutely love their "art of screenshake" lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U It really shows how there's a very high ceiling for polish and _feel_ when it comes to interactions. "Screenshake" is something that I'm sure a lot of people might look at and say: "oh, that would take 15 minutes to add", and if you're just talking about shaking the screen a bit, absolutely! But if you want to make the screenshake _really_ communicate a feeling and an emotion, there's so much more you can do.

phist_mcgee 4y ago

Nuclear throne is one of the best action roguelikes of all time