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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Give me a random word?
I've been thinking of a way to share some of the over 50,000 photos, images, screenshots, etc. I have in my photos app.
I made a new plot in my #digitalgarden where I'll post photos based on a random keyword.
Give me a random word and if I use that word for a photos posts I'll give ya a hat tip (h/t) 🫡😀
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Managers: unusably slow websites are *expensive* websites. They cost huge amounts to built (usually), more to maintain than faster sites, and lose you money along the way (bounces, lost conversions, etc.). Reject the React/Next/Angular/etc. excuses, if only because they're unbelievably costly.
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laurenshof@connectedplaces.online ("Laurens Hof") wrote:
Fediverse Report – #136
The News
Newsmast, the UK organisation that helps news organisations create their own social media places on the fediverse, has taken a new direction. In a blog post founder Michael Foster describes how news organisations do not gel well with the original approach of either Mastodon servers or the channel.org communities. The finding of Newsmast is that this is too confusing and tech-centric for news organisations to really grasp. Instead, Newsmast is now going in the direction of apps, as “independent news publishers and campaigning organisations love the idea of having an app.” The product offering is that Newsmast creates a white-label of an app that uses their (fediverse-enabled) backend, which the news organisation can theme and customise to their needs. This gives news organisations an app, which is what they want and conceptually relate to, while also giving them a community that can connect to the wider open social web if they want to. Newsmast has already rolled out one of such apps, for the Media Revolution campaign. Foster says that they are about to start working with a UK-based Fediverse community for another such project, where the Newsmast white-label app will be used to create a customised app for the community.
A new paper by Christina Dunbar-Hester about her experiences dealing with targeted harrassment on Mastodon, describing what some of the moderation practices in a decentralised system actually looks like. She writes: “As currently configured, Mastodon values noncentralization, but it stops short of rewriting power relations to encodeheterogeneity (Suchman, 2002). FLOSS universalism and FLOSS relations of domination pervade both the user base and many (certainly not all) “power users” who assume control of and take responsibility for many of the parts of the network through moderationand administration roles.” The entire paper is worth reading, Dunbar-Hester concludes: “a possibility for a more accountable decentralized social media network might resemble Mastodon, but prioritize intentional, self-organized choices about equitable online sociality that foreground social power”.
ActivityPub Fuzzer is a new tool to help ActivityPub developers test their interoperability with other fediverse projects. Fuzzer is a program that runs locally, and emulates how other fediverse projects structure their messages. This allows a developer to test interoperability against a large array of fediverse platforms. The open nature of ActivityPub makes it so that interoperability between platforms is trickier than it might be assumed, with various platforms all having their slightly different interpretations of the protocol. Fuzzer is created by Darius Kazemi at the Applied Social Media Lab.
IFTAS, the Independent Federated Trust And Safety organisation has announced they are shutting down the IFTAS Connect community at the end of the month. The IFTAS Connected community was a place for fediverse moderators to come together and have conversations about moderation, share resources and more. IFTAS also runs their yearly moderator Needs Assessment survey, and one of the consistent findings is that fediverse moderators often struggle with guidance, toolings and burnout. Such a community was meant as a place for moderators to connect with each other and help towards those issues. However, IFTAS found that after 18 months of operating the place, usage remained low. It indicates one of the persistent challenges for fediverse moderation: moderation is largely done by each server independently, with little cooperation between communities which have a lot in common. There is a large potential in the fediverse for collaboration between communities, but making this collaboration happen has proven to be challenging.
WordPress is continuing towards becoming a full fediverse platform with their ActivityPub plugin. The latest update of the plugin now supports following a ‘reader timeline’, showing all the posts of accounts you follow from your WordPress account. There is now also support for Mastodon’s new quote posting feature, allowing you to quote post the WordPress post from Mastodon.
Matthias Pfefferle, developer of the WordPress ActivityPub integration, also talked on his podcast to Dave Weiner, creator of the RSS standard, about WordPress, textcasting and open web standards.
Bandwagon, the fediverse platform for music sharing, discovery and sales, shares their updates of the last few months, with various improvements to the platform across the board. Developer Ben Pate says that the next big priority is to add account migration. Elsewhere in fediverse music, a blog post on how to revive indie music videos on the fediverse.
A selection of tools for Lemmy, which gives you the option to view trends, threadiverse statistics, a leaderboard of most active users, stats on individual users, and more.
Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini has published an extensive fediverse starter guide. The guide explains what the fediverse is (via her excellent video), the various types of software that are available, the values of the fediverse, and why it matters. It is these last two points I think are noteworthy: the fediverse is inherently a political project, and it is important to understand the values of the network as a context of why the network exists and why people care about it.
The Links
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
- A blog post on how to map your bike rides using the fediverse wanderer.to platform.
- A blog post reflecting on the Labeling politics on Mastodon.
- The Fireside Fedi livestream had episodes talking about ActivityPub, the W3C and more with Ben Goering, and with Reiver about FediCon and CrowdBucks.
- Utrecht University (shout-out to my alma mater) wants their students to use Mastodon.
- Fediverse advocate Chris Trottier is in the process of setting up a PeerTube co-op.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-136-2/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I think the web could withstand some more video essayists. Give me something to chew on while I wash the dishes. I want to learn your take on an incredibly niche internet happening while I design a logo.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Mike Masnic has worked so hard to show ordinary people how impossible it is to run a giant social media platform, yet it doesn't appear to have occurred to him that perhaps we just shouldn't have for-profit venture capitalist-funded platforms with one billion users, even if a layer in the stack is decentralized.
Openness on the protocol layer with an infrastructure monopoly seems like a bad deal.
#Bluesky #Fediverse #decentralized
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/19/introducing-one-billion-users-the-social-media-card-game/
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SeaGL ("SeaGL 2025: Nov 7th and 8th") wrote:
📰 The Schedule Revealed!!!
Read all about it here: https://seagl.org/news/2025/10/01/schedule-and-keynotes
Or jump straight into it: https://seagl.org/schedule
#SeaGL #seagl2025 #linux #FLOSS #opensource #community #Seattle #open #libre #free #OSS #cfp
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hedders@mas.to ("Hedders") wrote:
X is where you find the people who think they run the Internet.
Bluesky is where you find the people who think they ought to run the Internet.
Mastodon is where you find the people who actually do run the Internet, and kind of wish they didn't.
(WIth apologies to Yes, Minister)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Tillamook cream cheese is pretty good
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wim_v12e@merveilles.town ("WimⓂ️") wrote:
I hope I can be forgiven for posting a #drawing for #drawtober that I made last weekend. I did finish it only yesterday. The odd colour is because I had to photograph it by artificial light, daylight having grown scarce here.
It's a portrait study of 1930s actress Anna May Wong.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Look at the response Nazis get when they visit a college campus. It's positively heartwarming.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/so-proud-of-my-alma-mater/
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
Lucian K. Truscott, whose father was an Army colonel and whose grandfather was a general, and who himself graduated from U.S. Military Academy, explains the loud racist subtext of Hegseth's attack on beards in the military.
I recommend reading the essay to get the full story — and note that Truscott quotes someone from the past who uses a raw, ugly racist slur term.
#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #dementia #WarriorEthos #racism
/12https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-great-mustache-revolt-and-the
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
"The silver lining is that every high-ranking officer stationed everywhere in the world now knows, without a doubt, two crucial facts they may only have suspected before Quantico:
1. Hegseth plans to bend the rules to deliver maximum 'lethality,' regardless of domestic and international law; and
2. Trump is mentally unfit to serve as Commander in Chief."
~ Sabrina Haake
#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #dementia
/2https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/insanity-at-quantico-will-make-it
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faduda@mastodon.ie ("Gerard Cunningham ✒️") wrote:
After the bubble bursts, they will tell you there was no way anyone could know it was going to happen.
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servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:
That Pete Hegseth Speech Could’ve Been A Spam Email For Boner Pills
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Donald Trump’s cure for drug prices is worse than the disease - The Economist
“three-fifths of the excess profits, defined as those that are above a 10% return on capital, are taken by others, including hospitals, and middlemen, such as insurers, distributors and pharmacy-benefit managers. Three pbms handled nearly 80% of prescription claims last year”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
that would suck
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emacsomancer@types.pl ("(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs)") wrote:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Ask a creationist for affirmative evidence for creation…and they bring up Pokemon.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/i-could-have-predicted-this-would-flop/
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STrekQuotes@nerdculture.de ("Daily Star Trek Quotes") wrote:
Happy Birthday to Avery Brooks. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Avery%5FBrooks #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9
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ryan@social.miyaku.media ("みやくモード") wrote:
2025LOOPTO01 on the deck, assist from nature #looptober
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thisisgww@threads.net ("G. Willow Wilson") wrote:
We are here.
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tek@freeradical.zone ("Tekniquelly correct") wrote:
JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI models.
Today I’m blocking JetBrains IDEs in our MDM. Then we can turn it back on for employees who show that they have a paid license and it’s configured to opt out of the sharing.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/09/30/detailed-data-sharing-for-better-ai/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
The flotilla has been seized. This is not a victory for Israel.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/israel-demonstrates-their-criminality-again/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Jamie Lee Curtis Gets Emotional on Maron Podcast Over Charlie Kirk Killing:
"In the interview, she also compares the Kirk snuff videos to the media coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination."
This is a pattern of behavior for Jamie Lee Curtis. I’m starting to suspect that perhaps she isn’t a very good person. https://amp.tmz.com/2025/09/15/jamie-lee-curtis-emotional-charlie-kirk-murder/
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sir_pepe ("Peter Kröner") wrote:
I am apparently going full joker for this next round of #webdev and #javascript conference CfPs.
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vmstan@vmst.io ("Michael Stanclift") wrote:
The problem with DNS jokes is it can take a while for everyone to get it.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Jacques Cartier reaches area now known as Montreal, Quebec, 1535
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: First robotics-based CAM, 1939
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869