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How do you find the https://everynoise.com/ categories to fare at this?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_binding This comment thread gets to be part of today's lucky 10,000. :) ( https://xkcd.com/1053/ )
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> Large central services give reasonable stability as to not easily shut down altogether, having your account and all content removed. On Mastodon, this is a constant threat. I'd be interested to see the halflife of centralized serv
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Fun piece of Mastodon lore, of course, being that an employee of the Internet Archive was fired for a Mastodon post so "F*** Brewster Kahle" was then heavily, heavily, heavily posted/reposted on the network Having trouble fin
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To what were you responding?
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There are no stories of blogs going viral and the authors becoming celebrities in the linked post.
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Eugen, the CEO, feels similarly to you. A good chunk of the userbase likes that it's silly. Conflict has ensued.
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Moving the accounts you follow (and block/mute settings) is on that page under a different heading. Setting up a profile redirect is also on that page under a different heading. It is correct that moving posts/other data is not po
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https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/ Almost a third of American adults can't achieve computer tasks comparable in difficulty to "delete an email message." Only about a third can m
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https://instances.social/ already has a wizard that does a good chunk of this, though not, I believe, with username availability checking. There are a lot of different entry points and they don't all pursue the same po
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Followed accounts are easier to do manually; there's a simple export / import interface that existed before the account move feature. I will note that for you "as a content producer" the uniformly reverse chronological p
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https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#move The docs, for anyone wondering.
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FWIW, most of us don't pay that much attention to it unless it's an instance with a very good or bad reputation, and even then, new users aren't really presumed to know what they signed up for.
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> I would not want to watch 720p unless it was on a phone screen. This makes me feel very, very old. :)
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Unfortunately, with the former, you still really get both, since everyone starts the month uncapped...
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You're not exactly wrong – I don't serve out a json feed myself, even – but RSS/Atom are terribly underused for cases other than "personal organization of feed reading" when they could handle a lot of weirder poll
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I set my page length to something long (n>1000) and have a userscript that round-robin sorts the unread posts by feed, and it works pretty nicely for all but the most high-volume (e.g. Boing Boing) https://maya.land/use
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_... Valuable material in the disciplines of aesthetics and philosophy of technology on this.
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https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/ <- I think this is absolutely crucial to keep in mind with these discussions. Figuring out that you need extra accessibility tools, finding them, installi
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It can be used for microblogging, but it's set up well for proper blogging, and doesn't e.g. char limit you.
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> + There is almost little to no one on Mastodon to talk to. I have found that this is an accurate description of the first impression one gets; this is not true , but we're all so used to recommendation algorithms easing discovery
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Thanks for letting me know about the quote rule! While "pernicious" is IMO overdramatized, avoiding that shorthand is a sensible-enough community practice for a venue where people often skim and get heated about things; I won&#x27
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I'm wondering if we should even accept the framing of that as "fashion" and not "large-scale action spurred by a rational shared reevaluation of impact"
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I think this doesn't work well even if you have a really large screen. It's doing a style somewhat like https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ but doesn't scale the content to be sure it can fit on the
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> “Make your own home page” is an old appeal. It is older than the mid 90’s. Not even 1994, but 1992. On the internet, one year is equal to ten astronomical years, there is a century between 1992 and 1994. > So in 1992, the home page
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Also glass! This is an industry source because I'm not finding the county one I'd learned from earlier: https://www.gpi.org/glass-recycling-facts
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brb making "shill for Big Git Forge" t-shirt
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No, I am not trying to retort/rebuff, and this thread seems unexpectedly confrontational. The quotation paraphrases the context of the exchange, which I will again summarize in case it is not adequately clear in itself: There was a com
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The Witcher is my specifically chosen example because people famously lost their minds about the Netflix adaptation moving to cast characters in it as nonwhite. ...because It Is Supposed To Be Based On Medieval Poland, Of Course. So you can
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I have read that perceptions of pigs as dirty differing in various cultures comes back to whether pigs in that region were raised as garbage-scavengers or as wild-feeders. Fun to think about!

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