@sergioramos is your version of "remark-oembed" still one of the best ways to deal with e.g. YouTube links when using remark?
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@sergioramos Looks like I should investigate https://github.com/remark-embedder/transformer-oembed as a possible alternative.
Hi Mammuts! Or I suppose using a mammut (mastodon) isn't the same as *being* a mammut. 🤔 Nevermind.
I'm looking for people that like good online conversations. I'm sure many here are into that. 😄 I've gone exploring on various other platforms, and figured it's time to return to Mastodon and see how it compares. (Compares with what? Threads, perhaps?)
While I'm at it, I'm also looking for a graphic designer (gig work? paid by the hour?) or people with good taste who could evaluate what I cook up, or make recommendations around what I should try.
A question about Accessibility Tech:
I've seen an online community insist on people writing descriptions of the emoji they use. My guess was that this meant screen readers didn't support emoji well yet? I have some other theories too, and I didn't dig into the community's rationales.
I see here on Mastodon, alt texts for images are quite common. As with emoji, I'm then wondering about the same question: how good has assistive technology gotten? With the help of AI now, it could even start giving image descriptions? And/or is such tech pricey? What can the open source world provide, or what is available gratis?
Though of course only the original author, who selected their images and emojis, has direct insights into their own intentions, and thus remains the best author of any alt texts or emoji descriptions.
I liked this interview with Caitlin Moran, and was disappointed to see that the reviews of the cited book, What About Men?, don't look all that great:
Modern Masculinity Is Broken. She Knows How to Fix It. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/24/magazine/caitlin-moran-interview.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
If I'm looking for a book on this topic (improving or redefining masculinity), which books could be recommended? Potentially taking the time to read this book anyway, and see to what extent the reviews align with my own opinions...
I hope to write up my ideas around this - my first attempt showed me I'm rusty writing for an audience. 😊 What I hope to figure out in the next month or two, is whether this is worth doing at all:
It'd be a platform which is heavily focused on either getting people to understand each other, or disengaging asap (instead of inadvertently mutually trolling each other). Explicit mutual interest in bridge building and empathy, or explicit decision to disengage for clear, conscious reasons.
I initially wondered if it could be done through some cultural engineering / community leadership for some new community on an existing platform, but I don't think it will work without a custom platform - specifically supporting this concept. If I implement it and ever get it beyond a minimum viable product, it would place emphasis on emotions experienced - which means it could become as annoying as unsolicited psychoanalysis, if I got it wrong. 😝
Imagine there was a place you could go (on the internet) if you were interested in helping to actively depolarise human culture. What would it look like? Feel like? Does it already exist? How does Mastodon succeed or fail at this? If Twitter was a big source of polarisation in the past?
"Priya Parker has become the voice of what it means to gather in this world we inhabit now. She is helping remake the “how” of coming together — and more importantly, the “why.” Long before the pandemic, she points out, we had fallen into rote forms for staff meetings, birthday parties, conferences, shared meals. Virtual or physical, this time of regathering offers a threshold we can decide to cross with imagination, purpose, and joy. "...
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I find this very inspiring:
https://onbeing.org/programs/priya-parker-remaking-gathering-entering-the-mess-crossing-the-thresholds/
I'll toot the show notes.
"Priya Parker is a conflict resolution strategist and author of the acclaimed book, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters."
Her life and career inspires me, part of me wishes to be doing the kind of work she does.
My "career capital" lies in Tech though, having experience doing software and site reliability engineering at a big tech company. So where to from here? Find appropriate intersection?
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