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I think if Mastodon ever adds quote-boosting, consideration should be given to implementing it "inverted" from how Twitter did it.

So more like this: If I wanted to quote-boost something, it should show up however a boost appears (which I think should change, but that's a diff topic), but your comment is attached below it almost like an inline reply. This way the original boosted message is still front and center and your opinion you've attached is secondary.

#Win95HalfwayLine

16 years, 9 months and 4 days ago, Google launched Google Docs, a free online word processor, closer to the release of Windows 95 than today.

This map shows where the world's carbon emissions come from - population centers, flight paths, shipping lanes and high production areas.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-carbon-dioxide-emissions-around-the-world/

So #Tumblr has 135 million (!) active users who will join the #Fediverse in the next few months (if not sooner): https://www.tumblr.com/press
For comparison #Matrix has 64 million active users: https://news.itsfoss.com/matrix-sixty-million-users/
Tumblr also plans on adding Matrix support (probably after activating #ActivityPub upon the site).
How will #Mastodon servers handle the influx as Tumblr is a very media rich website (more more than #Pixelfed IMHO)‽ Any #MastoAdmin want to weigh in‽

Because direct messages are part of the feed in #Mastodon, I often realize they are DMs AFTER answering. This is a mishap in UI design that should be fixed.

In the meantime, here's a CSS for a clear pulsing indicator for private messages. If you are not an instance admin, you can use Live editor for CSS and the pin icon: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/live-editor-for-css-less/ifhikkcafabcgolfjegfcgloomalapol?hl=en

CSS (WIP):

.fa[title="Mentioned people only"]::after {
width: 8px;
height: 8px;
border-radius: 50%;
content: '';
display: inline-block;
background: #f15f5a;
order: 1;
animation: pulse-animation 2s infinite;
}

.fa[title="Mentioned people only"]::before {
order: 2;
}

.fa[title="Mentioned people only"] {
color: #f15f5a;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 8px;
transform: translateY(-2px)
}

.status-direct .status__relative-time {
color: #f15f5a;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
}

.status__visibility-icon {
display: inline-flex
align-items: center;
padding-top: 0;
margin-top: 0;
}

@keyframes pulse-animation {
0% {
box-shadow: 0 0 0 0px rgba(241, 95, 90, 0.5);
}

100% {
box-shadow: 0 0 0 10px rgba(241, 95, 90, 0);
}
}

#Mastodon #CSS #MastodonTips

For all my people following #BlackMastodon,

A few things I wanna say...

I want us all to throw out our arms for inclusivity, especially for our family in the jewish communities and the LBGT+ communities coming under attack so viciously and frequently, lately. I'd ask for anyone that know, please throw up some hashtags to follow to get those convos in our feed. All the bigoted, insecure haters flooding Twitter are looking for targets here on Mastodon, we want this fam wide and deep.

#1/3

You should have a brag doc.

https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/

If Millie Bobby Brown ever grows to 1000 times her size, she just becomes Bobby Brown.

I feel like this is true for lots of kinds of conversations and not just tech interviews.

People are correctly pointing out that, if you dig into the logic of basically anything, it falls apart, but that's also generally true of actual humans, even experts.

Sure, https://twitter.com/YossiKreinin/status/1599114477022064640 is ridiculous, but have you tried asking an expert coach on almost any topic why you should do X? I think the level of reasoning is fairly similar to what Yossi observes ChatGPT doing.

US: 62% of adults accept at least one of the following New Age beliefs: reincarnation, astrology, psychics, and the presence of spiritual energy in physical objects like mountains or trees

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/01/new-age-beliefs-common-among-both-religious-and-nonreligious-americans/ #PewResearch

Check out this cool elevation map of the contiguous US
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jslbn9/us_elevation_tiles_oc/

There is an effort underway to reframe work that attempts to address harmful disinformation — even work specifically aimed at mitigating malign foreign disinformation — as "censorship". If we accept that frame, we will enable the dismantling of the very nascent defenses that we've built over the past ~6 years, as our society has begun to realize the vulnerabilities that emerge from the intersection of technology, human behavior, and influence operations.

With #Twitter going to hell, I've seen many posts suggesting it's immoral to continue to visit. That doesn't sit right with me.

A lot of the very people who are made most vulnerable by the changes are the ones who needed that community the most, and may not have built the same supports elsewhere in such a short period of time.

I'm all for fighting back strong against the negative forces in the world, but we should hold on to the compassion and understanding that makes us better than that.