shork @noiob@awoo.space
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it's voting day in america. remember to Lara Croft Go™ to the polls today
you'd think that people would get tired of RTing jokes that boil down to "haha Mastodon is complicated" onto my Twitter TL but apparently not, it's getting kinda annoying
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Valve's Gambling Problem – People Make Games
https://youtu.be/eMmNy11Mn7g
really sobering look at the CS:GO gambling industry, includes some interesting stuff about how Valve works, and PMG are planning on making a deeper dive into that
today's Sleepless Domain
omg kitty
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finally time to watch this :) https://youtu.be/L2xMi7inB28
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#mastoadmin help needed, boosts welcome. My own server’s redis process is refusing connections from other services because I suppose too much load. It starts and stops working again from time to time but most of the time it’s refusing connections and making my server throw 500 errors at most requests.
Apart from upgrading the server is there anything I can do to alleviate the situation right now?
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Wer Abmahnungen von Kilian Lenard wegen Google Fonts erhält, kann diese getrost ignorieren.
Der geehrte Herr Rechtsanwalt handelt rechtsmissbräuchlich und ich finde möglichst viele sollten das wissen.
https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/abmahnung-kilian-lenard-wegen-google-fonts-204526.html
mastosoc is really making the entire fediverse look worse because gammon didn't want to just close signups forever
everyone from Twitter signing up on mastosoc is annoying bc it takes ages to load any page from there just to follow someone
does anyone know how to get android to load the new app icons? my phone app is still stuck on the old one even though the play store shows the new one and both messages and contacts already switched
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meta, tipp for newbies
one of the under-reported features of mastodon is the NOTE-option.
you can add a private, only visible to you (and people with database acess, I guess) note to every profile.
so imagine somebody is grinding your gears with a mansplainy response. you want to block/mute them. you can add a little note like "muted for being a kacknerd". So you'll remember.
you can, of course, also fill the notes with heart-emojis. but I'd suggest to send those emojis as a DM.
oh come on, the Wear OS timers app can't run more than one timer?
should've probably posted this priv but idk
I value Twitter mostly for the people I met through there, but I've met many more great people through Mastodon. Sure, an instance may disappear at any time but like, make a linktree or a personal website, give your mutuals your discord or telegram, relying on a single website to keep in touch with people is on its way out
that said, "the fediverse is hard to use it as a marketing tool" isn't necessarily a bad thing. It sucks that i.e. artists can't find an audience as easily but also corporations or celebrities can't just go "we're here now, now you'll see our posts no matter what"
I've come to the realization that people like Twitter because it's kind of an internet phone book. Mastodon can't replace that for simple technical reasons and it hurts Mastodon to market itself as a Twitter replacement
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Hacky folks, please resist finding ways to scrape the fediverse, build archives, automate tools and connect to people via bot without their consent.
Just resist the urge. Because you're not going to think to check for robots.txt, but you ought to, that's how we communicate we don't want to be involved. You're probably not going to bother to read the various terms of service for the instances you touch, many of which explicitly ask you not to do any scraping or automated activity beyond normal use of the service. You're not going to know to respect people using the NoBot hashtag that was meant to prevent automated follows. You're certainly not going to parse user profiles and pinned posts to learn how people like to be approached, what will get you blocked, or even think to heavily throttle your activity because instances are falling over in response to load.
Whatever your thing is, make it 100% opt-in. Make it appropriate for a significantly more at-risk user than you are. Make sure it forgets things, purges info about servers it can't contact, can't operate in any sort of logged-in mode where consent is an issue.
We will straight up help advertise your cool thing if it respects users properly and takes the time to consider the safety and preferences of every person involved. There are a lot of fun, thoughtfully-designed toys! And there are a lot of people really tired of having to come and tell you off when you wanted to help, honestly. Help yourself and ask around before you flip on your cool new thing, let folks point out what you're missing.
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Toot, toot!
Tusky has opened an Open Collective, where you can support the development, translations and support work!
We offer a $12/ year tier, which is the symbolic "if everyone who uses the app can pay $1/month".
As well as, a backer tier, and a sponsor tier!
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