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@nick Right. But how often does this really happen though? I mean I've heard of admins getting into a beef and cutting each other's server off, but I doubt that this is something most people have to really worry about.
The issue here would be with people being immature, something to talk about your admin with.
Clearly there is a net benefit here.
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@nick I don't think I have the authority to speak on that, sorry.
It seems to me that folks who rely on them do so for their safety. I think that's a great thing about the fediverse, that we can all tailor our experience.
And if some people want to block off portions of the network to feel safe, there's no real harm, there's still plenty of people to interact with.
Unless there's something that that I'm missing?
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@naan@sakurajima.moe My pleasure!
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@naan@sakurajima.moe Yes, absolutely!
Just consider this as a bit of an experiment, sort of a replacement for Google Sheets that some people use for this purpose.
It would be best to check with the folks if they're okay to be added to such a list, as they don't really get notified, which is something I am looking into next.
I am also noticing an issue when adding accounts with some non-standard Mastodon servers, so if you see a blank space, that will be likely the reason.
Hope this helps!
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@lambalicious Right, yes, that is how, in part, this works. If you look at the source code, the "ad" uses a bunch of classes that a typical ad-blocker would pick up on.
Also, the "popup" shouldn't take up much of the screen, just a bit of the space at the bottom. I will have to look into all this, thank you for reporting the issues!
Hm, limitation really does breed creativity. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpZ9zcKSFs8> #games #videogames #youtube #PCGaming
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net Fair enough!
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@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de That's good! And we have to, collectively, put in the effort to keep it that way!
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Happy to trade some of the racists and mansplainers for a few folks who are into pottery and knitting and keep the numbers the same for example.
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I do want to say that I don't think we necessarily have to make the fediverse "grow bigger", but I do want to see it become more diverse, and welcoming.
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@recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca Yes, thank you for sharing!
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@recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca Okay, I did not expect that.
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I would suggest blocking accounts that do that, if that's an option for you, it's not really a fault of the people whose post are being reposted to where you can see them.
Also, I am still puzzled by the original response suggesting that a quote from a book is a "click bait headline". Definitely not intended that way.
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I'll reply here without tagging you, I was not aware of you having blocked me, or that Lemmy does not respect blocks.
First, I don't know too much about how Lemmy works, clearly, I primarily use Mastodon myself, and I did not go out of my way to have my post show up at that link. It looks like this was reposted by a bot because of the "history" hashtag that I used?
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@givesomefucks I'm sorry, would you mind elaborating?
(Just to add in case you do: Sorry for upsetting you, and I wish you a pleasant rest of your Saturday!)
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Also published on this day, but in 1953, the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, inspired by the book burnings in Nazi Germany.
"So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressions."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
#Fahrenheit451 #BookBans #books #bookstodon #literature #history #dystopia #OTD
"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel … it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags." Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre was published #OnThisDay in 1847. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre) #JaneEyere #CharlotteBronte #feminism #books #bookstodon #literature #history #OTD
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@julian@fietkau.social Thank you!
Very detailed notes, and some things I've also been thinking about as well!
And thanks for notifying me, I will have to catch up on there.
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@tom@tomkahe.com I think I'm just going to keep things simple for the time being.
I think having the field to put in your home server on the page helps already. And it's saved for your next visit!
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@Alien_Sunset@dice.camp Very fair point, and typically I avoid that, but I've been having some thoughts about the whole "too hard to pick a server" thing recently and how to best address that.
I won't get into it much here, but for the time being, I'm just going to switch out the link for instances.social.
Thank you for calling this out!
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@ernie@writing.exchange @glitchdotcom@mastodon.social @eleventy@fosstodon.org Luckily that seems to be the default, but definitely worth stressing this, thank you!
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@ernie @glitchdotcom @eleventy Interesting idea, let me look into that!
Another idea I'm playing with: a fediverse starter pack. <https://fediverse-musicians-starter-pack.glitch.me> Made with @glitchdotcom@mastodon.social and @eleventy@fosstodon.org. #fediverse #mastodon #StarterPack #FediverseStarterPack
I wrote an open letter to artists and other creatives who are thinking about giving the fediverse a chance: "There’s a better way!" <https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/a-fediverse-invitation-for-artists/> Feel free to share, and be sure to add your signature! #fediverse #mastodon #creatives #artists #musicians #twitter [#x](https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/x)
"In the wake of that change, X competitor BlueSky announced that it had seen more than 100,000 new signups." <https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bluesky-x-twitter-elon-musk-block-b2630894.html> "It didn’t even crash when all of Brazil showed up in August." <https://mastodon.online/@alexwild/113322661686107887> We might be seeing some new folks show up today, so let's all give them a warm welcome! #fediverse #twitter [#x](https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/x) #welcome
"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel … it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags." Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre was published #OnThisDay in 1847. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre) #JaneEyere #CharlotteBronte #feminism #books #bookstodon #literature #history #OTD
Also #OnThisDay, but in October 1940, Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator debuted in New York. "We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone." <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20> <https://libcom.org/library/great-dictator-speech-charlie-chaplin> via <https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/113311136536087621> #history #film #antifa #antifascism #otd
The Black Panther Party was founded #OnThisDay in 1966. From a 2016 article commemorating its 50th anniversary: "The work of the Black Panthers remains important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the problem of police brutality has long been with us [...] Second, the BPP offers a good model of grassroots activism and ideology in practice." <https://jacobin.com/2016/10/black-panther-party-fifty-year-anniversary-founding> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party) #history #BlackHistory #BlackPanther #BlackPantherParty
After nearly two years of actively being in the fediverse, I figured I'd put together my own guide for Mastodon, the platform I'm the most familiar with as a user. <https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-join-mastodon/> #mastodon #MastodonGuide #fediverse
What are some other popular sites, like GitHub, that let you verify your account on your fediverse profile page? <https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/verifying-github-on-mastodon> #fediverse #mastodon #verification
The first live TV broadcast from an American spacecraft was performed by the Apollo 7 crew #OnThisDay in 1968. "It began with a view of a card reading "From the Lovely Apollo Room high atop everything", [a reference to 1930s radio broadcasts] [...] During the seven-minute broadcast, the crew showed off the spacecraft and gave the audience views of the southern United States." <https://youtube.com/watch?v=z8-M5Z-Ipro> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7) #OTD #space #history #nasa #LiveTV
#TIL about the British suffragette Margaret Travers Symons who, #OnThisDay in 1908 became the first woman to speak at the UK parliament. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Travers_Symons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Travers_Symons) #OTD #history #women #WomensHistory #WomensRights #suffragette #feminism
"The first American alarm clock was created in 1787 by Levi Hutchins [...]. This device he made only for himself, however, and it only rang at 4 am, in order to wake him for his job. The French inventor Antoine Redier was the first to patent an adjustable mechanical alarm clock, in 1847." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_clock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_clock) via <https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/g38300892/who-invented-these-everyday-items/?slide=2> #TIL #technology #inventions #history #AlarmClock
"On October 12, 1964, [engineer and electronic music pioneer] Bob Moog unveiled the first modular voltage-controlled synthesizer [...] What Bob designed was not wholly new, it sprung from a powerful new combination of existing ideas. The concepts, when combined with some elegant design choices, made a very powerful and revolutionary new system." <https://www.moogmusic.com/news/early-years-moog-synthesizer> #OnThisDay #OTD #music #history #MusicHistory #moog #BobMoog #synth
Northern lights, looking breathtaking even without the colors. via @southpoleviews <https://botsin.space/@southpoleviews/113286013134753674> #NorthernLights #aurora #AuroraBorealis #nature #night #photography #BlackAndWhite
@_elena@mastodon.social does a deep dive into "the mindful, considerate culture of the Fediverse, focusing on the use of alt text and content warnings". "Web accessibility is a fundamental human right." <https://blog.elenarossini.com/beyond-technical-features-why-we-need-to-talk-about-the-values-of-the-fediverse-part-2/> #fediverse #accessibility #AltText
Not sure if it's worth opening a Github issue for this, but a neat addition for the list of Mastodon servers on <https://joinmastodon.org/servers> would be showing when each server was created. Maybe even with a "Celebrating their anniversary today" section. #mastodon #fediverse
Oh nice. "We’re experimenting with potentially changing to a new parser for posts, which will be more modular and enable features like basic text formatting." This is going to be *very* useful. <https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/trunk-tidbits-september-2024/> via <https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/113283988215699567> #mastodon #fediverse #MastodonEngineering #formatting #FortmattingPosts
Sister Rosetta Tharpe died #OTD in 1973. "She was there before Elvis, Little Richard and Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. It was Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, who turned this burgeoning musical style into an international sensation." <https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE> <https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/544226085/forebears-sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-godmother-of-rock-n-roll> #OnThisDay #music #history #MusicHistory #WomenInMusic #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #RockNRoll
What now? "[The industrialist Henry Ford] believed that Jews invented jazz as a plot to corrupt society. [...] As a result, he used his wealth to promote square dancing, through books and square dancing events. Ford also promoted square dance classes in public school, which were present in half of all American schools in 1928 as part of the standard physical education curriculum." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Western_square_dance#History_of_modern_western_square_dance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Western_square_dance#History_of_modern_western_square_dance) via <https://noc.social/@todayilearned/113273481758370176> #TIL #history #antisemitism #SquareDancing #HenryFord