ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@qoto.org

The Changing Online Language of Hearts - How to show a heart — the universal symbol of love — has shifted on the internet over the... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/technology/hearts-emojis-gen-z.html #videorecordingsdownloadsandstreaming #computersandtheinternet #emojisandemoticons #tiktok(bytedance) #unicodeconsortium #love(emotion) #socialmedia #generationz #googleinc #aolinc

@alaric @pluralistic As an illustration of this point -- I originally created this account int 2018 (I forget the impetus...maybe some scandal with Facebook). At the time, I didn't find much content that interested me, and I wasn't really into micro-blogging anyway, so my account sat idle for a few years. When Musk took over Twitter and drove off many people, I came back to Mastodon and found a lot more activity and have stayed active myself. I've also heard that some big institutions are exploring adding more support for Mastodon- they move slowly by nature, but I am looking forward to when they come fully on board.

@wmclark @pluralistic

I love 'enshittification' as a word. It could be applied to so many aspects of life in the UK. We're in a terminal decline, watched by laughing toffs from the private boxes of our very own 'Theatre of Nightmares'.

Unless, of course, we begin deshittifying. Starting with the toffs-in-charge.

The #tory 'government'

So, since JoinMastodon.org has decided to change the way servers are listed on their website — showing preference for large servers who do not have a manual review process to join —>

May I ask that you help us spread the word that people can join us at https://mstdn.games ?

We’re an all-inclusive #gaming community and our Local feed is amazing — absolutely the go-to place for all things #Games. Our Mods are top tier.

#VideoGames #TTRPG #Streamer #DnD #GameDev #Twitch

Follow your dreams, but not too closely, you might creep them out

Waiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.

Life hack: It's really bad for your health to stare at a screen all day. Mix it up by staring at different screens over the course of the day.

If you've noticed Mastodon.social being offline a few evenings this week, it was actually under DDOS those nights. When I asked, I was told the best way to help with Mastosoc's scaling and resiliency-under-pressure issues would be to help them fill this open job posting for a devops position with Mastodon gGMBH:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/290fd40f-125e-41fc-942d-f4ce59e6bda2

If you know anyone who might be qualified for this position, pass it on!

This is so distressing. Why was this obviously very ill man not transferred to a mental hospital? Disgraceful and wrong that he was kept in prison and took his own life https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41062820.html