Not content with banning native third-party apps, Twitter has continued to cripple their API and move to paid plans for very basic access. I was committed to support Twitter cross-posting as long as possible because there are still Micro.blog customers who want to keep a foot in the Twitter world. But we knew it couldn’t last forever.
July 15th will be our last day to support cross-posting blog posts to Twitter.
1/BREAKING: We were featured in this @restofworld article about the grave dangers of AI machine translation. These tools are on the rise, increasingly used by for-profit government contractors and aid organizations that work with refugees & migrants. bit.ly/41Z9Sxu 🧵
I get to say whatever is in my brain the instant I think it, and I am unpredictably rewarded with many hearts and such, and there’s a never-ending stream of new stuff to read and watch and interact with, of COURSE I like it and hate it and can’t stop
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ADHD brains are different.
When you ask someone with ADHD to focus and concentrate on a task they aren't motivated and interested in, the brain looks more like it's asleep than it looks like it's concentrating.
It's not laziness. It's neurology.
#TikTok https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJujMHUB/
I’m not sure how widely this is understood. It’s not that the chance of getting sick is actually low now, it’s that our leaders have decided that it’s time for us to just be cool with getting sick a lot now, and we’re all being socially pressured to act like it’s weird not to be.
twitter.com/tryangregory/s…
FOSS licenses come in two approaches. The distinction is _who_ is granted the most freedom:
- in "copyleft" licenses the emphasis is on the end-user, ensuring that they are _always_ passed the four freedoms;
- in "permissive" licenses, the emphasis is on other developers/programmers, including allowing them to _not_ pass on the four freedoms.
Is disappointing people still mistake this as being a difference between #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource because each has always supported both types.
so if you're wondering why black twitter found bluesky more accommodating, the bluesky reps are (at least making an appearance of) actively listening to their concerns, while providing some of the tools they need (e.g. quote posts) from the very outset.
at the same time, mainstream mastodon:
* has no quote toots and not even a timeline to implement, despite existing implementations of the functionality being deployed elsewhere,
* has abysmal search functionality and nixed complete improved search implementation out of pure spite, because gargron is a spoiled manchild,
* has no way to share moderation burden across the instances,
* has no ability to set up an instance with blocklist/allowlists by default,
* the moderation interface is terrible, the tools are of abysmal quality, giving no way to communicate back to the original reporter using the very same interface,
* onboarding is a russian roulette,
* and to make it even worse, there's no way to move your content betwen servers, so every single time you choose your server wrongly, you lose all the work you put into it
…and in the general case mastodon admin and/or moderator is very, very white and very entitled.
(and every single time you say any of this, your voice is being drowned by the hooting of the fucking sea lions.)
while gargron's current priority is to provide dedicated mastodon ios apps. which should be, frankly, the least of his priorities.
TL;DR: I'm going to leave Meta's social networking platforms (Facebook, Instagram) on June 16th, 2023. This website, byJP.me, will always show good ways to reach me and find out what I'm up to — please say hello if we haven't chatted in a while!
I'm pretty fed up of Facebook and Instagram. I barely use them, but when I do I binge, and end up feeling terrible afterwards. I'm familiar with how sites like these use data analytics to group humans into buckets according to the best ways to maximise dopamine release, and the percent of our day we spent on their sites/apps, and it makes me itch.
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the screenshot of the ceo of #bluesky #blueskysocial saying "we didn't do blocks because they're hard" is a straight-up admission to not being serious about solving the nazi problem. sorry, you <i>can<b>not</b></i> recover from this by ONCE MORE AND YET AGAIN FOR A JACK-DORSEY-RELATED VENTURE, implementing blocks as an afterthought. bluesky is irrecoverably fucked.<br>
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EDIT TO ADD: per https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/110278426748225990<br>
<blockquote> the bit they left out is that the person this was in aid of was Matt Yglesias who had a flock of trans posters tell him to fuck off, then fuck off some more<br>
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so I’ve never really been Very Online, and these last few months on Bluesky have been by far the most time I’ve ever spent around shitposting, weird twitter, tpot, whatever it is
can I just say…it’s a …
I can't really parse people defending BlueSky solely because Jack Dorsey is there.
Nor can I defend "it being better" because it explicitly has features that anti-abuse advocates have been saying for years has persistently used as vectors to run attacks against them.
There's people here that do claim publicly to care about people, especially Black people, that have run there, praised it contrary to the above and are prime examples of the false nature of ally ship. Once it's convenient or enough people of their class are ready to jump, they flee frantically.
In a way, good riddance. But also, I'm keeping receipts. I refuse to let people continue to enable abuse and harm for their protection of their social capital.
this is literally the most peaceful form of protest and the Government is seeking to criminalise it because their objection is not to the format that protest takes, it's to the fact that protest happens at all
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⚠️ Slow walking protests cause serious disruption.
New policing powers will ensure hardworking everyday people will no longer be collateral damage to disruptive protests.
ALL protest is disruptive, because it's protest, and that is the point. But *walking slowly* is not violent, or damaging to property, or dangerous. The objection here is that the protest happens at all.
I am really not a fan of all the managers & leaders posting "Oh, it was so hard today because I had to lay people off."
It's 100x harder for the people who got laid off. Yeah you made some decisions and had some conversations. But you aren't the one who suddenly lost their job, who may not be able to make their mortgage or provide for themselves and their family, who is wondering if their career and experience is valid.
Stop with the "woe is me" as a leader. It's a bad look.
BlueSky Terms of Service gives Jack a 'perpetual' & 'irrevocable' license to all your content (posts, name, likeness, pics)
BlueSky can delete your account for any reason, but may refuse to delete it if you ask
You can't screenshot BlueSky
All disputes = individual arbitration
Predictions are fun and social networks seem to be in a period of turbulence, excitement and of course, decline. This is what I reckon it might look like in 6 months: Twitter will be like Facebook:…
What's that you say? Bluesky crossed a few hundred thousand users and immediately started having moderation issues? You don't say! Who could have possibly predicted? etc.
Jamie Tanna
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