The Pleiades (M45). 16 December 2022.
Canon 1200D
155mm focal length
f/5.6
ISO-400
20 exposures at 30 seconds each
Processed using Sequator.

#AstroDon #Astronomy #Astro #Spacee #Astrophotography

I did some more work on #DOStodon, the #Mastodon client for #MSDOS.

I added a splash screen, a busy indicator for network access, you can scroll the entries now, there is a profile viewer and you can like and boost.
Image attachments are now displayed, too.

5 years ago, I had to retrain myself on how to use social media.

Specifically, how to make stuff that I like without consideration of an audience.

This was a harder thing to learn—mostly because I had to convince myself that lack of engagement was a success.

When I berng this lesson up, other people often remark, "How pointless!"

But is it? I believe certain things should exist on social media just because.

And this is why it's important to do things that don't scale.

Social media #algorithms magnify societal biases.

Here's a striking example. Enigma is an #infosec conference that works hard at gender diversity. Yet the most viewed talks are almost all by (white) men. https://www.youtube.com/c/USENIXEnigmaConference/videos (switch to the "popular" tab).

If users are 5% more likely to click on thumbnails conforming to the stereotype of an infosec expert, the algorithm will reflect that in its recommendations, and also *compound* that bias over time.

This needs to be better known.