SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
SecondJon
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In many senses, I find #qoto sets high standards for communication in #fediverse. You have enabled connected services, allowed 65K characters, you have robust policy, we can use markdown in posts, and you are also very welcoming, responsive, and open community!
SecondJon
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A few recommendations for life on Mastodon:
1) Follow anyone you think looks potentially interesting; you can always unfollow later, and they may lead you to new people via boosted posts.
2) Boost posts you think are worthy, so others can discover new content.
3) Don't obsess on replicating your Twitter follows on Mastodon; let it be its own experience, and grow it organically. Obvs follow anyone you miss from Twitter, but this isn't a 1:1 replacement; have fun, follow your instincts.
@DrNeve love this:
“How could anyone ever think it was a good thing to have set prayers, instead of praying from the heart?” To this song leader of many years, I responded, “How could anyone ever think that having set hymns was a good thing, instead of singing from the heart?”
For a few years now, we've used the BCP for morning (for the readings this is audio on the drive to school with the kids) and evening prayer (a great bedtime routine) and I'm working to personally add the palms throughout the day.
Structure is helpful and it seems a way to live out the communion of the saints.
Christianity is not a western faith nor a new pop contemporary faith.
In some way, we join alongside of others throughout time and space with the BCP.
It gets all timey wimey of you think about it?
Salesforce Development stuff... chat, flows
Working with #Salesforce chat first the first time in a long time.
Sort of clunky. Embedded/snap in chat doesn't handle dependant picklists. Visualforce prechat form doesn't seem to allow object field mapping to do this either. Bots cost more and have other limits.
My current strategy? Using a screen flow through an aura component including in the Visualforce prechat, using Javascript to pull the output variables into hidden inputs and auto submit the form. It's sorry of half way between a pre chat form and a bot.
I have field values being passed through but... They only appear on the agent #omnichannel hover. Once the chat is accepted, the values are nowhere to be found.
I remember running into this years ago, but don't remember the resolution. That's for today and tomorrow.
Then to see if I can get a flow to work in an LWC in embedded chat.
uspol, Trump
Is Trump playing chess or flipping the chess board over to dash all the pieces in the floor before storming away?
@Big_Diggity I once hosted a men's book club going through 25 Books Every Christian Should Read. With pipes and cigars optional. Called it "Book:Burning"
General pipe/cigar nights without the book discussion we call Holy Smokes.
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Hi there! I’m Josh, a #pastor turned #programmer who currently works as a #softwareengineer. I quit a #PhD in #theology for the sake of my #family and #mentalhealth. I’m an ordained #Anglican priest, but am currently on pause from #ministry and trying to discern my future in the #church.
I love #books #coffee #beer #pens #pencils #notebooks #pkm #tools #cooltools #howto #diy #homeimprovement #productivity #harrypotter #starwars #tolkien
@realcaseyrollins I went to reply to a post of yours Yates. Opened the thread to reply and....left. Multiple replies from someone that were incomprehensible. There were words.... It looked like someone put real effort into it. But it was unreadable. Bizarre.
SecondJon
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Some of y’all post incoherently on a platform designed for text posts, like what? I think you’re in the wrong neighborhood lol
SecondJon
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Pray for whoever delivered the sermon to you this morning. Your speaker has poured hours and hours behind the scenes to deliver up what they did, and they glorified God through every minute of it, not just what was seen on the surface this morning. Equally, there's no getting away from it, preaching is exhausting!
SecondJon
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The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.
For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).
"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.
There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.
It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.
Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.
@acbilson ha ha, yes. It's like...
Captain Ahab shouted in rage, lifted up his spear and... let's talk about spears. The giant Goliath had a spear when he fought David....😂
By the time I got done with the encyclopedia entry I had a hard time tracking back where I was in the story and what the tone was of the plot at that point.
Terraforming Mars took a couple of plays to really get it,and we enjoy it. We got one of the Dune tabletop games and setup took all the time we had to play that day. we need to spend time watching some videos I think.
@acbilson hello!
I really got stuck in Melville. I tried, with many hours, put that down a long time ago. Maybe I'll finish it one day
I thoroughly enjoyed The Brothers Karamazov, though that took me a few tries. I had the hardest time keeping track of all the characters going by different names. What solved this for me was reading Crime And Punishment on a whim. It's got a smaller cast of characters and then I was able tu track with Dostoyevski much better and I started over with The Brothers K and finished it.
Games with Littles.... That's difficult. My youngest is 3, but most of my older kids will play games now. The trouble is picking a game that they'll ALL agree to play. Our newest additions are Calico and Terraforming Mars.
@servant thanks for the tip! I'm on it.
I rarely see offensive content, even on the federated timeline. And I think I've never asked #qoto admins for anyone to be blocked or banned. Isn't censorship one of the major concerns (historically with the right, now with the left) on face and twit and others?
I've realized I don't see a bunch of offensive stuff here because
1. I choose to not be offended whenever possible.
2. I want to interact and not just to win some internet argument. Do people still try to win? I used get sucked in and rarely do these days.
3. I have readily blocked or muted individuals and entire servers (primarily for trolls and servers set up for... "adult Content")
My follows list spans across politics, religion, etc. I have strong convictions, beliefs, and rationale. And these aren't at risk from being exposed to yours that are different. In fact my ideas are clarified, adjusted, refined, and solidified by exposure and interaction with those who differ from me.
New and seeing offensive content?
Welcome to the fediverse. Use your personal blocks and mutes appropriately. Don't block everyone who isn't of your self identified tribe. Don't create an echo chamber.
We all have value, we all need grace. Even those who don't give you value or grace need them both.
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One kiddo's final soccer game canceled last week for snow,v rescheduled for today. Today is below freezing. Will we play? Kiddo asked to get on the treadmill to warn up beforehand.
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
