Notices by Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)

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#DraculaCity #WeSellDraculas #AndThatsAll #monsterdon #dracula

@foone @cstross @SDWolf @tilton @wdormann @rakslice I can’t express how much the mix of rounded and square corners bothers me but it does xD

@foone I've got one of those! I like it! I was thinking of getting a second one for six pedals and that'd get you six - 3 left foot 3 right foot, is that less confusing?

@KydiaMusic Also possibly helpful:

If you want to do alt-text but hate _people_ telling you when you forget, there is a bot that will do so immediately:

@alt_text

(also https://mastodon.social/@alt_text - same bot different format.)

@foone Oh! OR: maybe white is used in the debug builds for debug output at shutdown. _Not_ taking it out is one less code change between test and ship.

That's definitely the kind of thing we'd've done.

@foone Maybe white (or black even) is used as a placeholder for transparency?

@foone Oh I thought it was the same technology! (And was thinking of the cable TV version)

@foone I wonder how many 80s kids grew up with macrovision kinks

@cstross An E.T.-branded tie-in mountain bike from Trek. Surprisingly didn't do very well, given how big a hit the film was, and now it's a collector's item.

@feditips @RufusJCooter @TechConnectify And I understand that, I really do, but none of this is unique to the needs of large accounts.

Not everyone has - or should be required to have - the kind of armour-clad skin some of us have developed. Why is adding the ability to curate your notifications a _bad_ thing for _low_ follower count users? Do those users never get negged? Do they never have a toot go a bit popular? Do they never get sealioned? Of course they do.

Why is having control over _what you get notified about_ ... somehow elitist?

I was in a discussion today with @TechConnectify and @feditips about reply toxicity here, and I've tried to make all of that into a coherent post.

I want to go to #MastoDev with a version of this, but need to let it sit overnight and probably rewrite it. But I also think it's something anyone interested in non-corporate-controlled social media needs to think about, because a fair number of people go "influencers, fuck 'em" and that's... not how I think this needs to be understood. If you don't care about them, fine, but care about their followers who _will_ follow them away.

Because like it or not, if you want to go against corporate-owned social media, you need these people too.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/11/18/even-on-mastodon-people-are-a-problem/

#meta #mastodon

Canada's Tories (#CPC) are going culture warrior, adopting bathroom bans, trans health care bans, and vaccine denialism;

Viv3k Ramasw4my, ignoring the plain text and intent of the 14th Amendment, declares he'd expel millions of US children;

M4tt W4lsh sics his misogynist army on a woman for posting about her Saturday; she gets death threats;

#Project2025 includes a plan to rapidly criminalise all #LGBTQ people; I walk you through the steps;

The #GOP know their abortion laws are hated but they won't change, so they want to rebrand. Watch for new terminology and know what it means! (They're testing "pro-baby")

That and all too much more at the usual place:

https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/09/11/fascism-watch-for-11-september-2023-the-raw-naked-quest-for-power-and-dominance-edition/

#fascism #FascismWatch #Canada

@GWillow Putting aside being called a “little Elon…”

(Hi, site admin. NOT at dice.camp)

One look at (not just) Florida shows the problems of social media as a public utility. Look what they’ve done in schools. Me and mine would _already_ be banned.

Really. I was _illegal_ in 19 states - I kept a no-go list until 2003 - and they want to make us all illegal again. And as they criminalise, they silence.

We would already be gone, with no place to go.

I _know_ you know this.

@GWillow There’s a reasonably well known problem called the Nazi Bar problem. It’s closely related to the paradox of tolerance problem in that if you let a any nazis into your bar, your bar becomes a nazi bar because they push everyone else out.

Mastodon is the _first and only_ social network so far to successfully use the nazi bar phenomenon _against nazis_. Defederation - site blocking - is what makes that work. Without it, the problem reverts to mass systematic harassment.

@GWillow I know you know this _personally_.

And it’s not fair and it’s not right and I’m still not wrong.

Federated social media has real issues. Not denying that at all. But _unlike_ the situation where your monolithic site gets taken over by fash - be it Musk Twitter or DeSantis Hypothetical Public Social - you at least _can_ hop over to another site and reconnect and rebuild.

You’re not just… done.

But that’s not the only argument against monolithic social networking.

@GWillow But with defederation, if you let your bar become a nazi bar, we stop talking.

Effectively, in federation - nazi bars kettle _themselves_.

I’m a site admin. The relative-to-twitter lack of harassment raids isn’t because they aren’t trying. It’s because Federation - which includes _de_-federation - makes it so much harder.

And yet, even they aren’t banned from social media. Nazi Mastodon is real. Just… contained.

That’s a real big baby to throw out with the bathwater.

If you stay active on #Twitter, I assume you’ll let the fash kill me.

If you pay for Twitter, I assume you’ll help.

#facts

From: @aral
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110101186949855394