Markus Silpala @msilpala@qoto.org
Male parental unit of two kids; married to their mother; resident of Minneapolis, MN, USA; lover of cats, climbing, human connection; writer of software and occasional coach of software teams.
Joined Nov 2022
This particular election night is sooooo full of hope and anxiety.
Election night is such a shit time to try to catch up on sleep.
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Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.
This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.
If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".
So #KeepFediWeird.
@SandyMamoli Ha! I had friends of many stripes.
@SandyMamoli Did you attend AIS? OMG. I was in 11th grade that year. Long blond hair and lots of heavy metal t-shirts.
I may just have to go find my yearbook now...
Taken yesterday evening: moon and Jupiter over Lake Harriet. Minneapolis, USA. Oh—and also @Treesha. She’s pretty great.
@SandyMamoli Hey there! I had not realized you came from Wien originally. In Autum 1989 I attended the American International School in Vienna.
Okay, this click, click, copy, switch-tabs, click, paste, enter, then-click is getting a little tedious.
I could _really_ use a one-click button or action called Follow This Mastodon Account Which Is On A Different Server Than Yours. Anyone got tips?
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Early worries I have as a journalist using Mastodon for #journalism:
1) Subpoenas & source protection: You're at the mercy of whoever operates your instance. I'm guessing most smaller instance admins aren't also lawyering up to protect newsgathering.
2) The owner of your instance can read your DMs. Be careful.
3) Publishers could effectively verify journalists by running instances from their official domains. They could surveil their journalists there too. Not every publisher is ethical.
@GeePawHill From what I gather, fediverse etiquette says not to do auto-cross posting. This also makes sense to me.
@testobsessed Big move indeed. I joined twitter just a few months after you. Have not yet made any moves to remove my presence there. Will see. Fediverse certainly has a lot of the fun, early feel like early twitter.
@freemo Thank you!
Looks like the block is bidirectional. From our public twitter chat:
@freemo @RonJeffries @GeePawHill
Update: Ron just told me (via twitter lol) that he did see my @ toots. So maybe it’s only the following that’s borked.
@freemo Do you know of any federation issues between qoto.org and mastodon.social?
I’m trying to follow a couple of my folks who are on that server. They don’t see my follow coming, nor even a follow request.
From my side, it shows that my follow request is Pending.
They also don’t see it when I @ mention them (@RonJeffries and @GeePawHill)
Do these issues sound familiar to you?
I’m sure there’s documentation of all this, and it quite amuses me how much I am NOT feeling an urge to find or read it.
So, I enabled the “advanced web interface” option. I see more stuff at once.
But now I can’t find my list of Follows and Followers.
Feels a bit like my parents looked, while trying to figure out the VCR controls.
@RonJeffries Nope.
Or, maybe? Now it says that I’m following you. But then it said that before. And then it said my follow was Pending.
Male parental unit of two kids; married to their mother; resident of Minneapolis, MN, USA; lover of cats, climbing, human connection; writer of software and occasional coach of software teams.
Joined Nov 2022
