Living life with meaning and joy. Or aiming to, at least. Sometimes I miss and just sit on the couch.
Profile: Shameful ripoff of that holding-up-a-fist courage-baby meme.
Background: tbd. What? I got distracted.
The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
Over the last 6 weeks or so, there have been a few words that continue to stick out in my mind while using Mastodon:
1. Human-scale - for people looking for thousands or millions of followers, Mastodon won't really work with that mindset. Your posts won't stay near the top of our feeds just because you're more popular. I wouldn't be surprised to see small-scale brand pages start to use Mastodon effectively but their social media presence won't follow the usual format of a Facebook, Twitter or Instagram page. They'll have to stay relevant at a personal level to keep our attention.
2. Transparent - your personal, local & federated feeds are easy to understand how they're generated. Everything is chronological, meaning that you have the power to understand how Mastodon works and to shape it to what makes sense for you. Tend to it like a garden, and it'll reward you.
3. Calm - as a byproduct of 1 and 2, scrolling through Mastodon feels peaceful, enlightening and inspiring. 99% of the posts I see are on topics that I'm interested in, or am curious about. And better yet, knowing that I only have to scroll back through the last 8-12 hours since I last opened up the app removes the need for doomscrolling.
I'm really enjoying not being concerned about likes, retweets or replies. I've interacted with so many interesting and like-minded people and I look forward to how this place evolves.
I am so glad these are back in stock. At $400 for a prebuilt, this is … well out of the price range of "buy one in case I need a backup for my existing, working keyboard" but if you're in the market for a split, staggered, programmable, low-profile mechanical keyboard, this is kinda the only game in town right now and as a user of its predecessor (the cepstrum) I recommend Keebio extremely highly
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