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้ฐใ)@blogdiva this is how i became a hacker by association
iwein@blogdiva I see a pattern where people post a screenshot of someone else's toot instead of boosting. What's up with that? (honestly curious).
i'll make sure i relay your concerns to the managers @iwein but they're out on break right now.
since we cannot quote-post, i actually boosted and starred that toot.
but i'll let the higher ups know you are displeased ๐
people are so fucking weird, but it is a valid concern.
@Mastodon needs to either:
1. fix rendering of embedded toots
or
2. create a quote-to-comment feature.
and i really, really really want the developers to stop counting boosts as posts.
the content of boost do not get archived in your user database. so separate boosts from posts.
now is the time to differentiate @MastodonAPI from Twitter's mess.
rendering engagement as transparently as possible is really power.
i have yet to wade thru @Mastodon's code; but they definitely do something weird with embedding.
the Oembed specs are over a decade old and yet Mastodon.social is not turning urls into embedded postcards consistently.
am posting images of one toot from press.coop and boosted post from mas.to as examples.
why are some instances having their links render as embedded postcards and not others?
embedded rendering should be happening at the receiving instance (mastodon.social) not just the host
Woozle Hypertwin@blogdiva I have an urgent wish to dive into Mastodon's code. Unfortunately I also have a lot of other more urgenter wishes. Spare brain when... 
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thoughtfuldragon@thoughtfuldragon @Mastodon thanks for the heads up. i'll check them out for testing this week.
@[email protected] is not federating with mas.to I guess? I'm kinda of noob at this magical #Fediverse ๐
Luca Minudel@blogdiva then
- "nerd isolation" when people stay alone most of the time so they don't learn from each other
- "nerd contagion" people learn something wrong and spread such knowledge until it becomes mainstream
AJ@blogdiva ๐คฃ๐คฃ
pete@blogdiva that makes perfect sense, sometimes I'm the nerd, but mostly I just follow the nerd ๐ค
LangerJan@blogdiva Link to the original toot:
https://urusai.social/@ami_angelwings/109642299298605709
Youโre welcome
Ami Angelwings (@[email protected])
If enough people learn how to do something, it protects those that don't know how to, this is known as nerd immunity
Wendy MsGator ๐I frequently rely on this. I was once told never to do maintenance on a computer without supervision.
I wiped the OS and didn't make a boot disk before I did it.