Mastodawn

Aka Hige Aug 1, 2023

BBC Radio 4 Jul 31, 2023

Hello everyone! 👋 We've joined the fediverse as part of an experiment with our friends from BBC Research & Development. Read more about it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

BBC R&D

Aka Hige Jul 8, 2023

Eugen Rochko Jul 7, 2023

Mastodon went from 1.2M active users last week to 1.8M active users this week. That's not 70M users overnight, but it's something! 🙂

Aka Hige Jul 4, 2023

This Is My Glasgow Jul 4, 2023

I love this monumental curved Thomsonesque 1880s tenement on Nithsdale Drive in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #strathbungo #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowtenement #tenements #buildingphotography #architecturephotography

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Aka Hige Jul 4, 2023

@adambienkov
I can't help thinking the bigger story here is that a so-called anti-establishment anti-elite guy had been privileged enough to have an account with Coutts. Just ask any "real people" leave voters, how many of them actually know someone who got a Coutts account, let alone they have one themselves.

Aka Hige Jul 3, 2023

Alex Heath Jul 3, 2023

Looks like Meta is doing a pre-order launch for Threads, its Twitter competitor, in the App Store. Says it will be available July 6th https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id6446901002

‎Threads, an Instagram app

‎Say more with Threads — Instagram’s text-based conversation app. Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow. Whatever it is you’re interested in, you can follow and connect directly with your favorite creator…

App Store

Aka Hige Jul 3, 2023

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Derek Powazek 🐐Jul 3, 2023

And to be even more clear: No, it's not good that mastodon is hard because it keeps the rabble out. That kind of elitist, exclusionary attitude is poison to community building. Don't fall into that trap. We WANT people here, and we want people who are not necessarily fluent in social media tech, because those are interesting people with valuable things to say!

Aka Hige Jun 28, 2023

Nilay Patel

@theverge.space Jun 28, 2023

“In no small part, Mastodon’s culture is exclusionary.”

The eponymous Bloonface recently shut down their Mastodon instance, with a blog post discussing in detail the current culture clash gripping the decentralized social network as various folks contend with the launch of Instagram Threads, which will eventually interoperate through the ActivityPub protocol.

> [T]he people who are broadly “in charge” of Mastodon, as much as anyone is “in charge” of it, are those who are happy with it as is. So things like the follow UX do not matter to them, because they are already on big servers and have big follow lists already, so they have no insight into what new users go through. The new users have no real feedback mechanism, so they just leave and get frustrated, so things will never change.
> To strain the analogy to breaking point; rather than a nice desktop login screen, a new user to Mastodon on pretty much anything except a big server gets presented with the equivalent of the blinking white-on-black text of a barebones Debian login screen. This is not fine. No wonder people left.

https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/

Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor shown in leaked screenshots

Meta is working on a Twitter competitor that might be called Threads and talking to celebrities like Oprah and the Dalai Lama about being early users. It’ll be connected to Instagram and work with Mastodon.

The Verge

Aka Hige Jun 12, 2023

Richard Littler Jun 12, 2023

Raiders of The Lost Ark is 42 today. I didn't see it at the cinema. A few months after the release, my teacher rented the 16mm film reels & projected it in the school hall. It was timed so that the gruesome ending occurred after school finished, so that younger kids could leave.
#RaidersOfTheLostArk #cinema #movies

Aka Hige Jun 12, 2023

This Is My Glasgow Jun 12, 2023

Corner turret on St George's Mansions at Charing Cross in Glasgow.

Designed by Burnet and Boston in an Edwardian Barique Style and built around 1900, the details on this building are just sublime.

#glasgow #charingcross #glasgowbuildings #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #baywindow

Aka Hige May 17, 2023

Undiscovered Scotland May 17, 2023

The Dunmore Pineapple, one of Scotland's most remarkable buildings. Perhaps the largest stone pineapple anywhere, its top stands 45ft above the level of the walled garden to its south. It was built as a birthday present in 1761. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/airth/thepineapple/index.html

#Scotland #DunmorePineapple #Dunmore #Stirling #UndiscoveredScotland

The Pineapple Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland

Information about and images of the Pineapple near Dunmore on Undiscovered Scotland.