Joshua Wood @wood@qoto.org
Software engineer, entrepreneur, photographer, and generally curious person. @altjoshwood/@heyjoshwood on Twitter. https://www.joshuawood.net/now
Joined Apr 2022
I’ve always favored subscriptions over Twitter’s advertising-based revenue model. Now I see what was apparent all along: they’ll take your data AND charge you for it.
Who watches the watchers watching the watchers?
Shocking that Home Depot is top of the list of Fortune 500s who have given money to election deniers. https://projects.propublica.org/fortune-500-company-election-deniers-jan-6/
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199,430 is the number of new users across different Mastodon servers since October 27, along with 437 new servers. This bring last day's total to 608,837 active users, which is without precedent the highest it's ever been for Mastodon and the fediverse.
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Any Black folks on this app?
Not saying there isn’t room for an industry-focused server, but that’s a bit different.
Another thought… there are already local-area servers, i.e. for a city or regional area. Maybe that’s where local/independent journalists should register, rather than on a dedicated instance. The purpose of local journalism is to serve the local community, after all.
Moderation and security seem like the two biggest hurdles for something like this, assuming anyone would join.
Idea: this could be similar to a professional association like NPPA or ASMP, open to anyone who agrees to the Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics. I'm an NPPA member, and their Code of Ethics is one of the reasons I joined. All members must agree to it. https://nppa.org/code-ethics
Thinking about setting up a Mastodon server focused on #journalism and #journalists. May have registered the domain “federated.press” … anyone interested in that? cc @Gargron
“When the ‘don’t take sides’ commandment meets a lopsided story like, ‘we have a two-party system and one of the two has turned anti-democratic,’ people in newsrooms hesitate because they are confronted by what feels like a conflict in their code: stay balanced vs. say what is” https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1587803678853025793
If this is finally the tipping point for the Fediverse, I’m here for it. Great to see more people from Twitter moving over.
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Want to cross-verify your identity on Mastodon but don't have your own website?
If you're on GitHub, you can set up something similar with GitHub Pages
1. Add simple index.html file to GitHub repo
2. Enable GitHub Pages in Settings
3. Link in Mastodon profile
4. Voila
This pretty much sums up what I was saying earlier. 😅
The fediverse today trying to explain to newcomers where they are.
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I'm a software engineer who builds and maintains one of the components which powers Mastodon: @sidekiq
Outside of work, I'm mostly concerned about our democracy, environment and climate change. I'm a massive fan of two wheels and own multiple #ebikes and an e-motorcycle. I spend my time advocating for safer streets and denser #housing. #bancars
I'm an investor in https://bikeportland.org.
I also love my wife, boy, cat and #dadjokes.
Mastodon has a lot going for it, but I worry the UX still has too much friction for normies.
Took the kids trick or treating in the rain. We’ve now fully embraced life in the Pacific Northwest.
So it seems like Counter Social is not federating, or something is broken. CS doesn't find accounts on other Mastodon servers for me—I tried mastodon.social and qoto.org. I *can* find CS users from Mastodon, but following doesn't work. Anyone know what's going on there? Nbd, just curious because I thought it was compatible.
Following status says “pending” for people I followed on other servers recently. What’s up with that?
Software engineer, entrepreneur, photographer, and generally curious person. @altjoshwood/@heyjoshwood on Twitter. https://www.joshuawood.net/now
Joined Apr 2022
