geewhizThe notion that every street in a city grid must be open to cars is just absurd to me. Its such an extreme position to take that no less than 100% of roads be allowed for cars. What we really need are pedestrian only corridors where one can travel on foot and not be constantly dodging traffic. Theme parks manage this and their entire business is to extract revenue from a captured audience. If it was bad for business we wouldn’t have spaces predicated on this model. #Urbanism
Simeon Nedkov
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@outofcontrol Banning everyone is very effective moderation as afterwards you won't have to do any.
Dan moved, see pinned toot"Being good at computers and websites" and "Being good at running online communities" have nothing to do with each other. Nothing. N O T H I N G.
Get yourself an admin who hates computers and programming and everything to do with that whole business. Get yourself an admin who knows how to spot total bastards, and who has the spine to get rid of them BEFORE they hurt people, not AFTER.
@Geert Thanks, I'll check it out.
@Geert I don't mind it, actually. I hacked my brain by telling it that as long as I'm hearing it I'm alive and well.
I'm very lucky that this works as I've read about people suffering enormously from it.
Which hearing aids are make it disappear? Are you using any?
My Active Noise Cancelling is called tinnitus. ✌🏻
Want to get verified on Mastodon?
Do as @Vivaldi and team do.
Link Mastodon profiles to your organisation's team page. 😍
(Standing up your own instance is optional.)
@xenogon @atomicpoet Yes, spot on.
We need to normalize the idea that creating, maintaining and hosting these things has a cost.
That’s why I’m happy with GH Sponsors, Open Collective, etc.
I’d like to see something in this vein on Mastodon itself. A donate button in the web app next to the settings button?
Independent State of Grace
I spent some time browsing #FediBlock and noticed that a lot of the reporting work is manual.
Reporters craft toots that have to be picked up and acted on by admins.
I'm wondering, could this process be streamlined?
Would it be possible/feasible to give admins anonymous and aggregated insight into which accounts and servers people have blocked and use that list to investigate further and/or block instances.
Admins may have to look at individual reports less.