egalitarian advocate for men's issues
#maleadvocacy #egalitarianism #education
| kbin.social | https://kbin.social/m/men |
This is really fascinating. A company rebuilt Mastodon’s core functions with a new dev technology that flies in comparison to Ruby on Rails. https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/
(EDIT: They may not be open sourcing the dev tech)
Discovery here IS bad, and — I hate to say it — the solution to that is an (entirely optional) algorithm that surfaces potential follows and compelling content right out of the gate.
Algorithms aren’t inherently evil. Hell, “show posts in reverse chronological order” is in itself an algorithm.
What matters are 1) choice and 2) the intention with which the algorithm was designed.
#Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@mimsical/110865836818850808
/kbin project management costs, financing, future plans
I wrote the first line of code for /kbin on January 14, 2021. Around this time, I started working remotely and decided that the time I used to spend commuting to the office would be devoted to /kbin. Throughout this entire period, /kbin has been a hobby project that I developed in my free time. It was also when Lemmy started... #kbin #fediverse #kbinMeta
I wrote the first line of code for /kbin on January 14, 2021. Around this time, I started working remotely and decided that the time I used to spend commuting to the office would be devoted to /kbin. Throughout this entire period, /kbin has been a hobby project that I developed in my free time. It was also when Lemmy started...
Support #kbin!
So far @ernest has financed kbin through personal funds, and modest donations ($11,320) from buymecoffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin).
After much urging he has set up Patron (https://www.patreon.com/kbin_pub) and Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/kbin).
We can now support kbin on an ongoing basis!
Check out his post >>> https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/177112
It's astounding. kbin has facilitated #RedditMigration on a shoestring. But he needs our help now.
If you believe in open social media support kbin!
This is REALLY important.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Let that sink in. It costs less than accepting homelessness.
#Finland #Helsinki #homeless #cities #homes
https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
"My latest research has just been published. It [...] found that thinking masculinity is bad for your behaviour is linked to having worse mental wellbeing. [... And] positive views of masculinity are linked to better mental wellbeing."
This is why I oppose the usage of the term toxic masculinity and any negative generalizations of men as a gender.
#men #masculinity #maleadvocacy #boys #mentalhealth #wellbeing
Imagine being a boy today . The average boy is behind girls at every level of education. Boys are more likely to have their schoolwork impacted by ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders. They are 16 times more likely than girls to find school difficult due to being colour blind. Boys are more likely
More thoughts on this moment, & the #Meta and #Project92 debate...including three traits I think the moment calls for from both sides:
➡️ #humility
➡️ #empathy
and
➡️ #community ...
All three are needed now more than ever as we suss this out.
More here: 👇
https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/30/meta-and-the.html
cc: @fediversereport @fediversenews
@spreadmastodon @fediverseobserver
@mastodonmigration
The strum and drang of the conversation of Meta joining the Fediverse continue at it’s wild and intense pace: See this: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/06/3… And to me, for the most part, that is a good thing, this is a big deal and we as a fediverse family should suss it out. We have had big turns in the road before - and we sussed it out over time. We will again when the next bigtech go adopts ActivtyPub.
Happy Enshittification Day! 💥
July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ad-blockers, Meta & Google block news in Canada...
A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshittification, how corporate platforms die (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys), and every corporate site seems hell bend on its own destruction.
Celebrate #EnshittificationDay by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!
Ernie Smith
Jeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱
ernest
Mastodon Migration
Brent Toderian
Dan Wentzel 🏳️🌈
Mastodon
Tim Chambers