Notices by Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)

So there has been a possible assassination attempt on Donald #Trump...

https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5

Just...wow...huge feelings here of all kinds.

Please PLEASE if you are discussing this make judicious use of CWs and hashtags for everyone's sake!

@arturo182 @mntmn I dunno I think it really depends on the company. If they are open and community-minded and respect their customers they seem to do fine on the fediverse, even when they do not run their own instance.

The fediverse generally gets hostile when commercial accounts behave as they did on x-twitter or Facebook...just spamming with ad-like posts and limited interaction.

@Cheeseness If you follow @aral then you will see his unlisted posts in your home timeline. That is by design; unlisted only keeps such posts off public timelines and only sends them to home timelines of followers and those mentioned in the post.

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The manufacturers seem unapologetic about this enshittening. It is common for standard comprehensive warranties to be the absolute legal minimum...like one year...then they loudly proclaim they warranty the one part that never breaks (or never should) like the motor or pump or whatever for 5-10 years like they are doing us all a great favour.

Honestly if I were to come into some great fortune I would start a disruptive home appliance maker that built simple quality products with reasonable warranties that were repairable and came with full schematics.

So a little while back @pluralistic discussed the #enshitification of the internet and it has me wanting to remind people that the pioneers of enshitification, from which techbro VCs got their inspiration, was undoubtedly the large home appliance oligopoly.

My parents had appliances thgat lasted 30+ years before replacement.

The appliances I got with my house in 1999 have all been replaced in the past 4 years (that is, they lasted about 20 years)

The average lifespan of such appliances made in the 2010's is apparently a scant 12 years.

But it's more than that...in my observation they are not only less durable, they objectively do an inferior job performing their actual purposes.

My new dishwasher looks spiffy and runs quiet but has a filter that needs cleaning 3 times as often and can't clean hot chocolate residue out of a mug.

My new fridge farts and also has some sort of disposable filter to replace.

My new clothes washer can connect to wifi but sometimes has a hard time rinsing.

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PSA to all admins: I highly recommend a #FediBlock of #mastinator (ie. the entire mastinator.com domain).

Mastinator is a service that allows a person to anonymously follow people on the fediverse. No big deal you think? Your public posts are probably already anonymously viewable from your public profile anyways and all it is doing is aggregating public info? That is what its creator claims---it is just a convenience service!

Well no, it is mode concerning than that. It does this aggregation by following any account a mastinator user types into its service then replicating *all* your non-DM posts into a sort of "proxy inbox" in the mastinator.com domain that is completely out of your control and viewable by everyone!

In other words, if you are followed by mastinator.com it effectively turns your follower-only posts into public posts and lets people you have blocked keep following you by following the mastinator replica of your posts!

Innocent intentions or not this violates user consent.