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thoughtportal · 1 year
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f-identity · 1 year
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[Image description: A series of posts from Jason Lefkowitz @[email protected] dated Dec 08, 2022, 04:33, reading:
It's good that our finest minds have focused on automating writing and making art, two things human beings do simply because it brings them joy. Meanwhile tens of thousands of people risk their lives every day breaking down ships, a task that nobody is in a particular hurry to automate because those lives are considered cheap https://www.dw.com/en/shipbreaking-recycling-a-ship-is-always-dangerous/a-18155491 (Headline: 'Recycling a ship is always dangerous.' on Deutsche Welle) A world where computers write and make art while human beings break their backs cleaning up toxic messes is the exact opposite of the world I thought I was signing up for when I got into programming
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If Staff ever implements the editing method from Mastodon, we'd be fucked.
Currently, on Tumblr, if you edit a post, all the former reblogs stay exactly the same.
On Mastodon, editing a post changes all the boosts and simply notifies the people who interacted with the post prior to the edit.
Now, can you imagine that on Tumblr?
Surely giving the OP the ability to edit their post after hundreds of thousands of people have reblogged it would be a perfectly balanced feature that I'm sure the Tumblr' userbase has never abused before.
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foone · 4 months
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If you want to know how bad the Explain Guys are on mastodon, I was joking about how if "a foone shows up at your door with a USB stick, shoot them, because the real foone carries floppies" and pointing at my avatar (same as the one I have here) to explain what type of floppy I'd bring.
Then someone misunderstood a joke I made about not knowing what a 5" floppy was (they're 5.25" inches, as far as I know no one made a 5.0" floppy) and decided to explain, to ME, about what 5.25" floppies were.
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Yeah please explain what floppy disks are to me, oh reply guy, I clearly don't know.
I didn't get my own chapter in Floppy Disk Fever, the book on nostalgia for and the modern reality of floppy disks.
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Yeah! Thanks for explaining what floppy disks are to me, dude!
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bjtitus · 9 months
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"I want to look for different social media! Where do I go?"
The previous version of this post (now deleted) contained false information about Cohost staff. I sincerely apologize.
Cohost (16+)
A clone of Tumblr.
Allows NSFW content. There are no rules banning AI-generated content.
There is no mobile app.
Dreamwidth (13+)
A clone of LiveJournal.
Allows NSFW content. There are no rules banning AI-generated content.
If Tumblr is a microblogging site, then Dreamwidth is a macroblogging site.
HTML/CSS styling is available for profiles.
the Fediverse
'The Fediverse' is an umbrella term for several interconnected social media, including Mastodon, Misskey, Lemmy, and several others.
NSFW/AI content depends on the instance you join - some may allow it, and some may not.
There are mobile apps, but the majority I have seen are only for Mastodon or Misskey.
Neocities
A clone of GeoCities.
Allows NSFW content. There are no rules banning AI-generated content.
Neocities is not social media; it is a web-hosting service. However, it does allow you to follow other sites and comment on them.
Basic HTML knowledge is suggested if you use Neocities.
Pillowfort (13+)
A clone of Tumblr with Reddit features mixed in.
Allows NSFW content. AI-generated content is explicitly banned.
A mobile app is planned.
Pillowfort has blogging features, but also allows you to join & blog to 'communities' based around specific topics.
Pillowfort is currently struggling with funds and relies on donations to stay afloat.
SpaceHey (13+)
A clone of MySpace.
Does not allow NSFW content. There are no rules banning AI-generated content.
A mobile app exists for SpaceHey.
HTML/CSS styling is available for profiles.
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micfool · 8 months
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My god, the idiot is actually going through with his ill thought out idea of "x the everything app"
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For those that don't know, here's a little bit of context:
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Look, I’m 52 years old. I used to be way more interested in how things worked. Now I’m interested in how they fail. I don’t care how good the administration of Bluesky or Threads is today— I care about what happens if it sours tomorrow.
Facebook has broken so many promises. Remember when Facebook opened up to the general public in 2006 with the promise of being the pro-privacy alternative to MySpace? Remember when they told us they’d never collect and mine our data? They are liars, and we shouldn’t trust them.
But a company doesn’t have to be run by venal scumbags to put its own interests ahead of its users.
Many is the tech CEO who reasoned that selling out their users was the moral thing to do, because the alternative was firing dozens or hundreds of people who trusted them, quit their jobs, and jeopardized their mortgages and kids’ college funds to come work for the company.
Seen in that light, selling out your users is actually an act of noble self-sacrifice, in which your loyalty to your friends trumps even your pride in delivering a high-quality product.
-Fool Me Twice We Don't Get Fooled Again: There's a crucial difference between federatable and federated
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knuppitalism-with-ue · 6 months
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Results from the #paleostream
Huracan, Mandaloceras (that's a cephalopod), Megalancosaurus and Melanerpes shawi.
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futurebird · 25 days
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Tube loitering
One of the downsides to connecting your nests using long tubes is "ant loitering" some ants like to just hang out in the tubes because they retain a little moisture and it's near everything. This will cause the tubes to get dirty and less attractive... hence my new invention of a "mid tube fan."
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Getting ants to do anything is next level. They respond to every change and not in the ways you'd predict. They are sensitive to temp, light levels and air currents in ways that aren't obvious. I just need to find a small enough fan and 3D print a little holder for it. 
I recently cleared out a tube that the cone ants blocked with sand, using ... the legs of dead crickets like rebar to reenforce the structure. They had made this whole barricade to regulate the air flow to the nest (hence I'd never recommend a fan on a nest tube)
I guess building a wall out of cricket legs (as struts) with a sand slurry like concrete... isn't any more strange than those early humans with their bone huts...
though I still find both creepy.
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thoughtportal · 1 year
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amnhnyc · 5 months
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This Fossil Friday, meet the Warren mastodon: the first complete American mastodon (Mammut americanum) skeleton found in the United States! This fossilized proboscidean was discovered in a bog in Newburgh, New York in 1845. It was remarkable for being preserved in the position in which it had died some 11,000 years ago—standing upright with its legs thrust forward and its head tilted upward, likely gasping for air under mud in which it had become mired.
Photo: Image no. 35140 / © AMNH Library (circa 1906)
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nights-at-crystarium · 8 months
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As a twitter/tumblr user since 2010-2011, I believe I have sufficient grounds to say that currently we as a community are living through the scariest, shittiest time yet. This post isn’t trying to fearmonger, no I’m not leaving tumblr until it literally keels over, but I suggest that we don’t put all our eggs in one basket.
If twitter/tumblr stay usable, great! In the worse scenario, you’d have kept posting on a new platform and stayed ahead of the curve.
This post shares my personal experience with three potential “new”* fandom places, and is aimed to help fellow content creators. I’m an artist fully depending on internet to survive, my reasoning may not apply to you if you’re a hobbyist. Do your own research, it’s always healthy. * Pillowfort and mastodon have been around for 5+ years, bluesky is ~2 years old.
Discovering new people to follow kinda sucks on all three platforms, twitter and tumblr are eons ahead, but, given the recent chaos and uncertainty, I’m willing to be patient, keep posting on those, and feel safer than I would’ve otherwise been. More baskets good, one basket bad.
All three have poor visual customization, don’t expect custom tumblr themes.
This list starts with the least popular, but most human and easy to join, and what I personally trust the most. All three allow nsfw if labeled properly.
✦ Pillowfort is a barebones tumblr. Intuitive, cozy, but currently very, very small. Be patient with its clunkiness or lack of some features, it’s made by an AO3-like team. I’d personally love if the fandom crowd managed to redirect its attention to it instead of the sus bluesky.
Joining: is free, invite-only, but the waitlist is nearly instant.
Lurk around on their official tumblr: @/pillowfort-social
✦ Mastodon, for me personally, is impossible to explain directly. I’ll use several comparisons.
- Discord but all servers can interact. You’re still on a server curated by some human(s) that might tell you what you can and can’t post, BUT, if you don’t like that server’s policy, you can move to a new one while keeping your followers. - Email, users A and B may be registered on different domains, still they can talk. It’s a weird comparison, but fediverse (please I’m not explaining THAT but it’s a good thing) in general looks like another email story: unlike big sites that come and go, it might stand the test of time. - Someone compared mastodon’s structure to xiv’s dc and servers, if you look at its domain names that way, it might be easier to understand.
Depending on user, mastodon may feel gatekeepy/snowflakey. I haven’t spent enough time on there to form a proper opinion yet, but a warning’s due.
An actually good and hopeful thing about mastodon AND tumblr: the two might start interacting in future. Ever lamented that your fav asian artists don’t use tumblr? If they use misskey, or any other place on the fediverse, it might be possible to follow them directly from tumblr in future, and vice versa.
Joining: is free, however some servers close for new members sometimes, and have human moderators reviewing your request.
✦ Bluesky is a twitter without Musk: today’s average internet user reads this, drops everything and already looks to register there. It’s still sus, but people flock to it like crazy. Most likely to become the next big fandom place in my eyes, even if I’m not happy about that.
I personally have no good feelings about bluesky. Same as twitter, which I hated even before the 2018 tumblr exodus, yet the crowd decided to make it The New Fandom Place, and, grudgingly, I had to give up and also join them in 2022. During the year I haven’t stopped despising twitter, yet, I can’t deny that it helped me survive. I estimate half of my patrons, and, hell, even tumblr audience, comes from twitter. So, if bluesky ends up being the next hot shit, I’ll have to keep up because internet pays for my living.
Joining: is free but hell, invite-only, the waitlist is a lie, your best chance to join is a direct invite.
This’s all I’ve got to say for now. If you have a correction or an addition, replies/reblogs are welcome!
Screenshots of the current interfaces under the cut, you may spy on my profiles o/
Pillowfort
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Bluesky
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pynkbites · 1 year
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Mastodon is having their very own Goncharov moment! Come, take a journey with me...
Gossip rag Mediaite recently reported on Elon Musk banning Mastodon's official Twitter account, @joinmastodon. Unfortunately, they somehow misread this as "John Mastodon" and assumed this completely fictional individual must be the founder of the decentralized Twitter alternative.
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In truth, Mastodon was founded by German computer programmer Eugen Rochko... who himself was amused, if somewhat bewildered by the news.
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Meanwhile, human creativity took root in this fertile new meme soil, and John Mastodon's lore began to grow...
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His identity is still unstuck in place and time, but you can imagine John Mastodon as the cool anarchist techno-chad who swirlied loser nerd Elon Musk in high school. As for anything beyond that, well... you know what they say.
Nobody can be told who John Mastodon is. You have to be SHOWN.
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And finally, my own small contribution to this ongoing lore-chaos:
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While yet nascent, I do wonder how far Mastodon's Goncharov-alike will go...
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foone · 23 days
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Mastodon is weird as a social media system. It's like 2/3rds weird Linux nerds talking about a remote execution exploit in systemd-resolve and getting doom to run on a furby, and 2/3rds trans girls posting explicit lesbian furry porn, almost as if just to show off that they can, on their social media that still allows NSFW.
And yeah I know that adds up to more than 100%, this is a venn diagram with a lot of overlap.
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treasures-and-beauty · 9 months
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Mastodon Ivory Amulet by Carolyn Morris Bach
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