franospa @franospa@qoto.org
Just a twitter fugitive lurking from the southern corner of Rome.
We should improve society somewhat.
The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.
Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit
Good thing there wasn't a minimum wage that was set higher than that little tyke's marginal productivity, or he'd have been unemployed.
who called it object oriented programming and not class struggle
basically, meta isn't trying to harm or harvest the fedi, the fedi is pretty irrelevant and it's not actually going to be able to do much. it's going after bluesky and it'll probably win.
The current phenomenon of large websites "going dark" in response to LLM scraping kind of reminds me of what happened with free-as-in-beer CI systems after people realized they could be co-opted to mine Bitcoin. Silicon valley hype cycles have significant negative externalities.
https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disaster.html
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.
Fun fact: you can bypass the read limit and read any tweets that another user has liked by clicking anyone's 'Liked' tab.
If everyone likes all the Tweets they see, they can form a replication mesh.
Just a heads-up, the iPhone/iPad app Metatext is no longer being maintained. The lead developer had to take a break due to health issues.
If you want a good iPhone/iPad Mastodon app, try Toot! (more info: https://fedi.tips/toot-for-iphone-ipad/) or Ice Cubes (more info: https://fedi.tips/ice-cubes-for-iphone-ipad/) or Ivory or one of many other nice Mastodon apps now available.
Metatext may still come back in some form, community developers are currently testing a new fork, but it's not quite ready yet.
It’s never not going to be funny that after years of hype about crypto-metaverse-subscriptions disrupting web2 incumbents, the backstop to Twitter’s sudden implosion was volunteers recreating Usenet with RSS.
Twitter formalizes blocking of accounts that exist only to reference content on other social media sites, including Mastodon.
Specific examples of violating tweets given in the policy:
> “follow me @username on Instagram”
> “username@mastodon.social”
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy
Risks to Mastodon with increasing popularity
Interesting comment on Hackernews regarding a possible scenario/long term risk should Mastodon threaten the corporate sphere of social media.
Cosa perdiamo se perdiamo Twitter | @brunosaetta
https://www.valigiablu.it/twitter-musk-cambiamento/
I have been using Git a long, long time. I have worked on Git clients and libraries. At some places I've worked, I am the person folks go to when they need Git help.
And yet, only today I learned you can pass -m to commit twice (or more) and it will do the right thing of making each successive message a new paragraph (which is useful for the convention of a short summary as a single first line and following paragraphs as a more detailed message).
Twitter was special. But it's time to leave
https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/twitter-was-special-but-its-time
Very useful information for US-based mastodon mods https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1593819064161665024
#Newbie question for #mastodon #polyglots:
Is best practice to make multiple accounts for different languages people want to use? Should I just pick one language so I don't get muted by non-francophones?
Est-ce que c'est de rigueur pour avoir plusieurs comptes pour chaque langues, si on les utiliser?
Thanks/Merci!
Hello, Mastodon
When it came time to reckon with social media’s failings, nobody ran to the “web3” platforms. Nobody asked “can I get paid per message”? Nobody asked about the blockchain. The community of people who’ve been quietly doing this work for years (decades!) ended up being the ones who welcomed everyone over, as always.
Is it just me, or is transitioning to a new social media platform super revelatory of all the little dopamine hits that other platforms provide that seem less emphasized here? It is educating me about how strongly I was enmeshed with other platforms.
These are things perhaps I knew intellectually, but now I get to feel them in action, and it hits different.
It reminds me a lot of this post, that genuinely articulated some differences in platforms I had only registered subconsciously.
Just a twitter fugitive lurking from the southern corner of Rome.
We should improve society somewhat.
