@jaanus

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A person from 🇪🇪

I’m a designer, engineer, leader, manager, writer, maker, producer, dad, husband, and Estonian. Not necessarily in that order.

Please donate to 🇺🇦 until the 🗑🇷🇺 terrorist invaders are gone. You can give to https://ukraineaidops.org or any other respected charity that works for you.

My other Mastodon identity in 🇪🇪: https://est.social/@jaanus

Homepagehttps://jaanus.com
The app I’m makinghttps://justtact.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/jaanus

All right! I'm creating some community moderation feature requests on #Mastodon, and I'm going to drop links in this thread each time they're created.

The feature requests are:

1. Turn off comments
2. Lock comments
3. Approve comments
4. Flair profiles
5. Adjust crowd control

Will add updates!

I recently learned that German company Telefunken arguably invented the computer mouse. They offered a “Rollkugelsteuerung” (“rolling ball control”) for one of their mainframes in 1968, months before Douglas Engelbart’s “mother of all demos”. Telefunken’s mouse was also more advanced than Engelbart’s mouse as it used a ball instead of two wheels. (Photo credit:
Marcin Wichary, CC-BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/8399025@N07/2322838281 and https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2322836557/)
Unique mouse from Telefunken, pt. 2

Flickr

Is Twitter messing around with its API limits? At some point Tweetbot could retrieve up to 800 new statuses, now I recently saw only 200.

Wouldn’t be the least bit surprising if Twitter did that. Haven’t seen any info about changes anywhere (admittedly haven’t looked much).

I put together my own system for tracking the total number of Mastodon users over time, as reported for the instances tracked by https://instances.social/

It's a delightful (to me) combination of different tricks - git scraping, my git-history and s3-credentials tools, Datasette Lite and an Observable notebook to plot the chart at the end.

I describe how it all works in detail here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/20/tracking-mastodon/

Or you can jump straight in to play with my notebook: https://observablehq.com/@simonw/mastodon-users-and-statuses-over-time

Mastodon instances

7,106,543 accounts
+11,286 in the last hour
+223,457 in the last day
+535,657 in the last week
Don’t do social media, kids!
How the missile defense system works.

When you go to your Apple Music subscription on Apple Watch, the button has a truly hideous color combination 🙈

#uipolice

Delightful to see all the people and friends of 🇺🇦 show up here today. Even if bird site goes down, we can hang out here and keep hearing directly from people in Ukraine. Keep sharing. Keep donating.

Great exclusive by @michaeldweiss@twitter.

🇪🇪 captures and exchanges 🗑️🇷🇺 spy. He then escapes back from 🗑️🇷🇺 to 🇪🇪 because life is much better and safer here, 🇪🇪 treated him well, and he is against putin’s war.

World’s first: captured spy escapes back to the country that captured it.

Story: https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ex-russian-spy-flees-to-the-nato-country-that-captured-him-delivering-another-embarrassing-blow-to-moscow-010049616.html

Thread: https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1593409122099159040

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