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Following on from yesterday's blog post about the new design for profiles coming in Mastodon 4.6... here is the video of @imanijoy recent talk at @fossdesign where they discuss the challenges and detailed thought that goes into the design of new features (and the redesign of existing ones). 🖌️

#FOSSBack #Mastodon #OpenSourceDesign #UX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxpTvbTy54

Imani Joy – A Solo Designer’s Survival Guide to the Fediverse #FOSSDesign

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The problem with Meta’s business model is that they’re beholden to shareholders, not their community. We are not publicly traded, we are publicly FUNDED.

Mastodon has no incentive to keep you addicted. Our incentive is to make you happy, and help you build friendships, because it’s the right thing to do for you, and it's the right thing to do for humanity.

If you believe in a better way forward for our digital social spaces, please help support us by donating: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

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Donate to Mastodon

Donate or become a sponsor and help us build the social web for everyone!

One of our maintainers and core contributors (Alexander @biodranik) met with Brewster Kahle @brewsterkahle, the founder of the @internetarchive , at a recent conference in Lisbon, where Kahle is looking for patrons/partners who may help with storing @internetarchiveeurope data on European servers. Please contact him if you are interested in helping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle

"When the telegraph emerged on the scene, the application to chess was almost immediate."

https://daily.jstor.org/the-first-e-sports-chess-by-telegraph/

#essay #chess #CableChess #technology #history

The First E-Sports? Chess by Telegraph - JSTOR Daily

Telegraph cables let chess clubs stage matches across continents, linking players and spectators in a new kind of long-distance competition.

JSTOR Daily
Understaffing as a form of enshittification

A way to shift value from workers, patients and shoppers to investors.

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SMEG, the newish owners of La Pavoni, want to force workers to relocate or else be laid off. Please contact SMEG ( smeg @ smeg dot it ) and ask them to reconsider. (Letter available in the ALT text of pic 3)

Thank you!

#Coffee #Espresso #LaPavoni #HandmadeInMilan #Italy #SMEG

🚨 The Conservatives (EPP) are attempting to force a new vote on Thursday (26th), seeking to *reverse* Parliament's NO on indiscriminate scanning.

This is a direct attack on democracy and blatant disregard for your right to privacy. No means no.

Take action now: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Happy birthday to one of greatest mathematicians of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether’s theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem and three specific applications of it, shown schematically, using pictures and 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #physics #mathematics #WomenInSTEM #mastoArt

Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — @merrittk

https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/

"You don’t own shit that you put on social media platforms. You don’t own your follower counts, you don’t own your posts. Stop giving away all of your shit to data harvesters and advertisers for free in exchange for the illusion of importance that comes with likes and a follower count. Set up a website..."

#website #SocialMedia #advertising #data #enshitification #web #internet #www

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck

Think about it: your parents gave you a Gmail address at 13. You used it for everything: games, shopping, school.

That data never disappeared. It got logged, cross-referenced, and packaged into a profile about you.

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