um… did my bio get deleted?
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2·3 months agoProtip: get dry marsala and do not use bottom shelf, use one up from bottom shelf (yes, even for cooking)
1·3 months agoThey could do it on the back end and leave it as “notes” on the front end, though.
Switching out notes for a Twitter-like UI ruins something which made Tumblr Tumblr.
Comments on their post about it are about 99:1 against, but they’re not gonna switch back.
No, Wafrn is completely separate from Tumblr. And as far as I know the horrible redesign to make “notes” more like Twitter has nothing to do with the Tumblr-on-Wordpress/ActivityPub migration, which last I knew was indeed shelved.
Did you see Automattic is in the process of rolling out a split from “notes” into likes, reblogs, and comments? 🤢
Nostr is a lot smaller than fedi so these questions are still being answered there, and they do have their own problems with spam. Since users are identified by keys and can theoretically pop up and start posting on any node, it makes some questions of handling spam and abuse potentially function a lot differently than they are on fedi. If you were gonna do a shared blocklist it would need to be a shared blocklist of keys, etc. As for the emergent properties of that and how it affects the character of the network… probably just gotta keep watching how it plays out.
Nostr offers this (completely portable identity) without centralizing anything, that’s the selling point. Similar to cryptocurrency, your Nostr account is tied to a key. If you possess that key, you can connect to any Nostr node (assuming you meet their criteria - some require payment, some might have banned you, etc) and post to your account. This makes individual Nostr servers wayyyyy less important than servers are on fedi, and cuts fedi style inter-instance drama off at the knees, because servers are really just conduits for posts to flow. Yes they can differentiate themselves on e.g. uptime or performance or spam filtering, but at the end of the day they are just a conduit, not a community like fedi servers can be and often are.
Right now on fedi it’s a pain in the ass to move accounts to a different server, if the one you are on supports it at all. Identity is only poorly portable at best. Mastodon only kinda sorta supports it in a janky way and there are plenty of bugs. Whereas on Nostr, which servers carry your posts doesn’t even matter nearly as much as it does on fedi, where it matters a lot. It doesn’t matter 0% on Nostr, but the importance is vastly de-emphasized.
It’s just different approaches, with different advantages and disadvantages. Censorship resistance from the perspective of the user is a much more emphasized goal in Nostr’s design.
Because implementing that shit is hard.
Nostr definitely has some interesting/good implementation details, and on a spectrum of ease of censoring users, Bluesky is on one end, Fedi is in the middle, and Nostr (if it gets big enough) is on the other end.
But also with Nostr, I really hope you backed up those account keys, because if you didn’t and you lose your device, your access to that account is gone forever.
Every way of decentralizing a social media system has advantages and disadvantages.
I’m very excited for this as somebody who’s been on microblogging fedi since right about the time of the OStatus switchover.
There doesn’t have to be a “winning” protocol because insufferable obnoxious Twitter refugees need a home, and that home is Bluesky, which keeps literal millions of them the hell out of my fedi.
It’s a good thing.
2·5 months agoSadly I’m a tab hoarder so I never hit Quit :(
Great find!
There’s also a bug tracking this at Mozilla, which definitely needs more info.
50·6 months agoyes yes, the Daily Mail is awful, but you have to admit they have a knack for roasting shark-eyed soulless narcissist climbers like Jessica Mah (and apparently also like every single fucking person she surrounds herself with): https://archive.ph/263Z3
Mah, hailed by Forbes as a “wildly successful serial entrepreneur” who launched her first six-figure business in middle school, has built a business empire worth over $500 million. Despite these accomplishments, the 32-year-old describes herself as a “struggling entrepreneur.”
“Does my life sound like a fairy tale? When I hang out with aspiring entrepreneurs in college, they say they want my life. But my best friends who know me best almost always say they would HATE my life,” Mah wrote candidly in her post.
She revealed working a minimum of 60 hours a week and grappling with what she calls “accomplishment dysmorphia.” Mah also shared deeply personal struggles, including the pain of losing an ex-boyfriend to suicide and her ongoing battle with comparing herself to others.
gee I wonder if the boyfriend killed himself due to ending up with a relentless shark-eyed clout chaser with a soul so dark & empty a thousand universes in full bloom could never hope to fill it 🫢
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OH DEAR: https://archive.ph/263Z3
these are the people I wouldn’t deign to eat when the time comes, even if I were starving.
and that time… it is coming.
it’s really true. Facebook is bad. Instagram is real, real fucking bad. but LinkedIn … every server that powers that site, and every “person” who posts on it unironically, all need to be reduced to ash, ground to fine powder for good measure, and then shot into the sun. it’s the absolute worst of humanity collected in one convenient location.
Luigi style 👍
no no see, she’s founded three six-figure companies since middle school
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft brown eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that LinkedIn clout chasers were no longer even remotely human.
edit: :jesus-christ:
healthcare pls
https://bird.makeup/@davidmdraiman/1802728061541990478