This talk about "please use CW for many types of content" and the claim that it's part of Mastodon culture had me thinking of the analog: when a country receives an influx of immigrants, there is that tension between demands to "respect local culture" and "respect incomers' culture" (i.e. multiculturalism).
I'm with the intrinsic justification for CWs (i.e. avoid triggering people) to a reasonable point, but the "cultural" argument feels shaky to me. 🤷
Just a reminder to folks that are here from bird site, please include your mastodon handles in your profile over at twitter so folks who follow you can migrate here.
Fedifinder here doesn't just help you track your followers over to here, it'll also tell you if it can find your account in your own profile to help *your* followers too
The tool looks for your mastodon handle in either:
1) Your display name (tho locked you're verified)
2) Your bio
3) Your pinned tweet
Looks like @[email protected] is right - the wall is coming tumbling down
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2022/11/05/twitter-when-the-wall-came-down/
I have made the decision to leave Twitter.👋
At this time I am convinced that this platform is no longer safe for me, or my community. I do not intend on contributing any more content at this time.
The health of the greater "we" is more important than the smaller "me".
As far as I can tell, if one's server here disappears (or is compromised), that's pretty much it for your account, your follows, your followers, and your message history.
That seems like the opposite of how a distributed system should behave (but very close to Lamport's whimsical definition).
Perhaps there could/should be a way for users to mirror their accounts to an unrelated backup server?
"Let's take the kids to a choral music concert; it'll be good to expand their horizons"
Pretty church, lots of people. 15 minutes in, during a lull in the singing, the 7yr-old loudly proclaims: "I'M SO BORED"
🙈
Pwnallthethings
Andrew Randall 🇺🇦
Ivana Stradner
Jess Wade
Addy Osmani
Mieke Roth
Matt Blaze