Pablo SB @iPabloSB@qoto.org

A very helpful update from Twitter.

The Reddit AMA as we know it is dead. "The decade-old team of moderators running Reddit AMAs (short for “Ask Me Anything”) are hanging up their boots and will no longer organize the popular Q&As. [They] think Reddit’s poor site management is beyond repair." https://qz.com/reddit-amas-r-iama-protest-api-changes-steve-huffman-1850600843

Me: Mastodon is the best. People are friendly, there's no manipulative algorithm, and it's full of interesting content.

Journalist: Amazing, the headline of my article will be "Mastodon is social media's new hope".

Me: Also, there are no ads.

Journalist: Interesting. Let's change that headline to "Mastodon is a toxic cesspool that is already dead".

Es cierto que, para aquellas personas que dependen de tuiter para su trabajo, mastodon no es, en absoluto, un sustituto.

Pero la lección aquí creo que no debe ser que mastodon deba parecerse más a tuiter, sino que hay que replantearse el hecho de que tu modus vivendi dependa de una sola plataforma*

Esto es aplicable a todas las plataformas que dan trabajo a la gente.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of Mastodons

Breaking: US Coast Guard detects “banging” noises from hermetically-sealed Twitter.

@the_heruman

Twitter You can limit me to showing and seeing ONE tweet a day- I still won’t pay - I can get my transphobic, homophobia, death threats, far right baloney and unionists hate speech elsewhere

Today
* Reddit ends free API access.
* Twitter turns off anonymous reading.
* Youtube is talking about banning ad-blocking users.

The tech industry was living on cheep money and low interest rates, and now they're all afraid to let their precious content get used for AI training.

The walls are going up, the lawful corporate web is collapsing in on itself.

At the rural school district I last worked at, we had 1500 students, of whom 1,000 were free lunch and 500 were not. The cost of personnel (an entire department!), computers, and software for vetting students to make sure those 500 didn't get free lunch cost more than the cost of simply feeding them, already.

The GOP jihad about preventing those 500 from getting free lunch is not about taxes or expense, it's about being mean to children. #gop #antichild #school #lunch #meanness

Damnit! These signs keep ruining my weekend plans!

#weirdsigns #fridayfeeling #friday #windmill #tilting #donquixote #humor #humour #Funny

I asked ChatGPT about primes ending in 2 to make it prove a point and it proved the point far better than I could have hoped for.

Please do not be a fool who trusts ChatGPT with anything outside your field of expertise, and even then double or triple check what it tells you if you must use it.

Welcome, Stitcher users!

I started Overcast ten years ago in large part because I was afraid of Stitcher taking over the market with its proprietary walled garden (which was even more walled at the time, and was gaining significant traction).

I wanted to ensure that the open world of podcasting survived and thrived, even when faced with strong proprietary threats.

The names and players have changed since then, and the battle continues, but open podcasting remains dominant and healthy today.

ME: Make the paragraph go here
MICROSOFT WORD: No
ME:
MICROSOFT WORD:
ME: I'd like to speak with the paperclip

Please boost ​:boost_requested:​

As part of a wave of layoffs, I got laid off from my backend development job last month as the company's financials I was working with have been steadily decreasing. I applied for another job shortly after, and after a month of interviews and an honestly great response from their team, at the last minute, they told me that they were focusing their hiring efforts away from the US and towards Singapore. With Calckey donations, I don't have enough money to pay for rent or groceries. So I'm asking to #GetFediHired, I'm the lead developer on the Calckey project, and I'm a fullstack, multi-language developer. I have 3+ years of enterprise experience, and I work great on teams as well as solo. Resume and references available upon request.

I found an excuse to write about Tears of the Kingdom on @macstories 😄

If you're playing the game and taking notes, you have to try the TotK Travel Guide app by @jeffreykuiken. Great UI inspired by Apple Maps with a built-in note-taking system for locations in the game. Syncs with iCloud, has a single $4 In-App Purchase, and it supports the 3 different maps of the game. I love this.

My review: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/totk-travel-guide/

People who are like "The migration to Mastodon has failed!"

No it hasn't. I literally migrated to Mastodon from Twitter, and I don't use Twitter anymore, but I do use Mastodon every day.

I call that a successful migration.

Holy sh!t

“The words ‘cis’ or ‘cisgender’ are considered slurs on this platform.”

Hello @FediGarden @fediversereport @feditips would you help announcing a new (maybe the first one) #kbin instance in #Spanish https://kbin.fedi.cr/