Notices by Technology Connections (techconnectify@mas.to), page 2

@feditips @interpipes No. Not at all.

This is specifically about replies. There are currently no consequences for bad behavior on Mastodon unless the OP takes action against someone.

That's just not tenable for accounts like myself to engage in. I want a filter *on my replies* - I don't care what people say about YouTubers in their own spaces, but as far as I'm concerned, I should have at least some modicum of agency over discussions that I start.

@feditips @interpipes I would like to not see it. I would, in fact, like it to be shadowbanned - they can think their post is there, but nobody will see it

If that's too spicy a take, so be it. But that's how Twitter's Quality Filter worked and that's why I could exist there with 90K followers but being here with 30K followers is really starting to suck.

And please don't say this is a problem I need to solve. This is a culture issue the platform needs to work on

@feditips @interpipes Y'know what this sounds like, though? "Well, I don't think this is a big deal. Hopefully somebody else does. Good luck!"

And that attitude isn't great.

@interpipes @feditips "works on my machine" spilling into social media.

Whenever I encounter problems, I am inevitably told I should try different instance. Whenever anybody has problems, people say "maybe you should move instances"

I do not know why so many people fail to grasp this, but we are experiencing mastodon between instances far more than we are on our own. I hardly ever look at the home tab for mas.to, I look at who I'm following on the Home feed.

That in-betweeny space is apparently impossible to moderate.

So. Three folks I follow are echoing pretty much the same sentiment I've been trying to express and are spending less time here.

I'll preface with a reminder that you may very well feel my opinions are bunk. I am a successful YouTuber, after all, with all the privileges that entails.

But here's the brass tacks: it's harder for me to be here comfortably than it was on the birdsite. And to be honest, I think Mastodon's always gonna be this way.

If a post of mine gets a boosted to a broader audience, I am subject to harassment. I'm not going to sugarcoat that, it's harassment.

Sure, of the various kinds of harassment I have not been subject to anything serious. But it is exhausting and personally insulting, with one person telling me in no uncertain terms that they don't believe my job should be a job.

This. Fucking. Sucks.

And who's accountable for taming that? Nobody! Because it's between instances.

But at this point, it feels like that's what people want. There is no desire to make this platform more usable for people with larger audiences.

Christ, just the fact that notifications aren't stacked makes using this really hard as someone with a sizable following.

If the culture is that anti-growth, if it's to remain that fractured and rudderless, I don't see a fun future here.

Fin

And as much as I would love to be a cheerleader for this idea, well firstly, I'm not sure people even want me to be a cheerleader! This feels like a place full of hipsters that don't want people to find their fun coffee shop.

But even if people wanted me to help spread the idea of mastodon, or Fedi more broadly, to be honest there are just far too many caveats for me to suggest my friends and colleagues come here.

I would hope you'd be concerned by that.

So, I have been trying really hard to live within the space where nobody can reconcile whether they want Mastodon to be more popular or whether they wanted it to remain a bunch of small corners in personal sandboxes. But it's getting really hard some days, and because the stakeholders of this idea are so spread out and so disparate in their opinions, I'm not hopeful anything will get better in this regard.

Mastodon's whole existence feels tortured.

Are you ready? There's a new video out today and it's a doozy.

Watch as I lose my mind over a silly little fridge.

https://youtu.be/8PTjPzw9VhY

I never tooted about this but Consumer Reports picked up on my video and made a more professional stink about my car's brake lights!
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/brake-lights-can-fail-to-provide-fair-warning-on-some-evs-a9533519285/

And now! Hyundai just announced they will do a "field service campaign" to fix the issue starting in July. Yay!

@coin I was planning to do this in February! That was the actual one-year anniversary for me. But a trash can changed my plans...

Hi! I put together a rather long video in which I go over the first 14 months with my Hyundai Ioniq 5

Overall it's been extremely good, and the car has not required repair. Except for a teeny bit of bodywork... which revealed that the autobody industry is dragging their feet with EVs.

https://youtu.be/itAMIIBnZ-8

hey everbody

i made a new video. it's about how stereo sound works on vinyl records.

please provide me with positive reinforcement for holding back on chastising the youngins for continuing to call records "vinyls"

also please never ever do that you heathens

anyway, here's the linky-dink (i'm giving you, like, 10 minutes early access!)

https://youtu.be/3DdUvoc7tJ4

@scuba @ernie ohhhhhhhhhh
see when I looked at YT this morning, I figured I had subbed to a Tesla account years ago and reflexively hit unsubscribe.

Now I feel silly.

A short thread about DST which some people probably will not like but I feel like needs to be said:

So, the clocks right? What do we use them for? Well, we coordinate our schedules around them. Time as we use it now is an entirely human concept, and clocks are just a way to make sure we're all on the same page.

Clocks don't give a crap about what the sun is doing. We all know this. Sunrise, sunset, and the length of the day all move around with respect to our made-up human clocks.

Here's a new one:

Desktop is being wonky. So I go to reboot it. It's locked up in the "shutting down" state so I force a reboot.

Comes back up and it's being absurdly slow. Desktop icons appear than disappear. So I force a shutdown (read: pushed and held the power button). Then I notice... it's not completely off! Something's still making noise in there. Don't know if it's a hard drive or the power supply fan or what.

Killed power to shut whatever that was off, and now we're back in business.

i made this
Home Electrification: There's not a lot to do, and it doesn't have to be hard (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVLLNjSLJTQ

One of the sadder realities of today is that there's probably a lot of people watching my latest video thinking I'm some member of a globalist cabal or something since I want to, y'know, stop burning fossil fuels.