Greg Spradlin @spradlig@qoto.org

Locked out of my Twitter account for telling folks I’m on Post and Mastodon. 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1604588443010482176?s=46&t=tl57_tRJeNEGnUy6VekkCA

like lol dude he’s been baselessly accusing individuals of pedophilia and rolling out the welcome mat for literal Nazis but the link thing is fucked too

Start with the user experience and work backwards to the technology you need.

Steve Jobs once famously said, "you've got to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology. You can’t start with the technology then try to figure out where to sell it."

This quote has stuck with me. We should focus on who we're building for, what problems they have, and whether our current options available are falling short.

#softwareengineering

Oh this is too good. Since Twitter is now blocking Mastodon links, someone has created a link shortener to hide them. Gotta love the URL:

https://spacekaren.sucks/

@xor »New Twitter rules don’t mention YouTube so feel free to share!! https://youtu.be/GBDpPVTolvs «

https://mastodon.social/@JxckS/109536576764917403

I think all those “How to Mastodon” articles are going about it all wrong. They start by explaining federation and talking about how to choose a server. Yes that’s the first step but it’s also where we lose people. Just put that aside. Start by talking about how you use Mastodon, all the great apps, the culture, etc. Then end with the first step, that “all you have to do is pick a server to get started” and explain how. You have to hook a fish before you can reel it in.

Who is Taylor Lorenz and why should we care?

She's a technology columnist for the Washington Post, suspended this evening from Twitter apparently for asking Musk to comment on a story involving Musk. Musk is demonstrating that he can extort censorship from the media with the ban hammer. Taylor was targeted to be an example. Other journalists are put on notice it's not them...this time, and reminded to toe the line. This is about press freedom. That's why we all should care.

#twittermigration

#MastodonNews Dec 18, 2022

Another nice Mastodon/Fediverse explainer...

The Hill: How Musk may reinvent the internet without even trying >>> https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/3778329-how-musk-may-reinvent-the-internet-without-even-trying/

[Musk's] new Twitter policies and the digital refugees he created, most fleeing to the heretofore obscure Twitter-like platform Mastodon, could give birth to a very new type of social media experience.

Mastodon uses an open and free social media protocol, ActivityPub...

#twittermigration
More News >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#cfd1

@Omer - join Mathstodon! As far as I can tell that's the only instance of Mastodon that renders LaTeX, which is what I'm using here. I can write simple things using unicode, which everyone can read:

Φ² = Φ + 1

But fancy equations require LaTeX. Sorry, that's just how math works.

News orgs on Mastodon/in the Fediverse.

News orgs host that their own instance:
@TexasObserver
@TucsonSentinel

News orgs that have created official Mastodon/Fediverse accounts:
@ProPublica
@texastribune
@damemagazine
@COTimesRecorder
@rferl
@msfreepress
@Chron
@themarkup
@TheConversationUS
@sfstandard
@sfgate
@sfchronicle

If anyone knows of any others, please let me know.
#News #FollowFriday

Anyone still on twitter please tell people to follow me here!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I didn’t have a chance to post about my Mostodon bc Musk was banning links to it #twitter #tech #technews #twitterexodus #TwitterMiragration

Algorithms and simulations (2/n): The Poisson disk sampling algorithm: https://github.com/neozhaoliang/algorithms-and-simulations/blob/main/poisson_disk_sampling.py

The algorithm will ensure that each cell in the grid contains at most one point and that the distance between the closest pair is greater or equal to a given threshold (length of the cell diagonal).

Click the window to restart the animation, and press 'p' to save the screenshot.

So @taylorlorenz got suspended on Twitter for daring to ask a question of billionaire baby so it's a nice time to note that she's on Mastodon and give her a welcome!

In 20 minutes, the Montrose Trio plays #Tchaikovsky in #Vienna https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_montrose_trio_plays_tchaikovsky_in_vienna/73149/ #wch

Right now, the Montrose Trio plays #Tchaikovsky in #Vienna https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_montrose_trio_plays_tchaikovsky_in_vienna/73149/ #wch

Anyway, just to spite you, here it is again:

https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/badges/

So there.

Who's the toughest?

#JohnMastodon, #BillBrasky, #ChuckNorris, #PaulBunyan

Boost this poll, dammit. I want to be Fediverse famous just once.

Friendly reminder that there are way better places to give than the #SalvationArmy this #holiday season. You’re not donating to a charity, you’re helping an extremely conservative Christian denomination who has a history of being anti-gay, anti-trans. Support mutual-aid networks, your local food bank, or even Goodwill.

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We were just banned from Twitter.

It is disappointing but something we expected to happen.

Our crew is in a very healthy place and our work disrupting fascist organizing in so-called Colorado will continue, though we will probably emphasize IRL work even more.