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Against Fast Fashion and Towards a Proletariat Revolution (the goods are poor but the poors are good) Pleased to note that I have updated @hhra, my bot that posts excerpts from the amazing Hip Hop Radio Archive ( https://hiphopradioarchive.org/ ) which is itself run by @laze. The bot now keeps up with the latest updates on the site, which means its library of shows to post expands every time the website's does! What this means in practical terms is the number of radio episodes it pulls from is now doubled, from ~450 to ~900! Please read about Alaa Abd El-Fattah, the activist, blogger, and open source software dev. He is currently on full hunger strike in an Egyptian prison. #freealaa In case anyone's curious about where I work, I'm at Meedan, a not-for-profit that develops open source tools for fact checkers. That's not the only thing we do and if you want to know more, you're in luck: our 2021 annual report is now available. Go here and scroll to the very bottom and click "2021": https://meedan.com/mission Or just go straight to the PDF: https://assets-global.website-files.com/615e270f23c94c3fc683f12c/636145d496e1e4746701a9a8_Meedan_Annual%20Report_2021.pdf  @darius That is a solid mission and the team page indicates that it's a global team. Looks like a sweet gig! @darius I thought you were retired and living the good life off of The Lottery Collective 🙃 If you are on Twitter and want to find people who have opened accounts over here, someone made a little tool that scrapes Fediverse handles (and email addresses, since a lot of people drop the leading @) from the Twitter bios and display names of people you follow over there
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@darius @darius It's not working today, it seems. However, I tried https://pruvisto.org/debirdify (mentioned at the bottom of your link), which worked well, thanks Trying to take the temperature here - if I held a zoom chat where I talked about setting up and maintaining a Mastodon or Hometown server, would you attend? I would put the video online afterward too. This would not be an in-depth how-to, I would be outlining general steps and talking about the time commitment and some things I've learned re: governance or lack thereof. Anonymous poll
Poll
I'd attend if timing works and participate
51
14.4%
I'd attend if timing works and lurk
80
22.6%
I'd watch the video after
157
44.4%
I don't know why I'm voting in this poll
354 people voted. 66
18.6%
Voting ended 31 Oct 2022 at 16:25.
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 @darius I would set up something like friend.camp (I already run a IRL community in Tokyo) but probably don't have the time commitment to dedicate to it. Really interested in how that has been for you. I also just want to get off the mastodon.social server to help it cope. Maybe I should just join dolphin.town :-D #mastoadmin Does mastodon dot cloud still have a massive unregulated spam problem? I silenced that instance a couple years back because it seemed like they were just not doing anything to address it. But I'm seeing legitimate new fedi users pop up over there now...  @darius Speaking selfishly (as a user of mastodon dot social who is blocked by some instances because m.s is too lightly moderated, and finds this mildly annoying) I wonder if there should be some Larger solution to this problem, like a shared-across-several-servers/group-moderated allow-list of "trustworthy users from lax instances" or something Checked our server queues and the 28th saw us handle double the federated events as we did on the 27th. We are officially in another influx spike. On track to double yet again today. It'll die down, it always does, but the Fediverse always comes out of these influxes a little more lively at baseline, and a little stronger (imo) @darius so far most people I’ve seen migrate seem to enjoy it, with a few differences to learn. Curious about how long they stay long term. On my to-read list: this open-access journal article about applying Confucian ethics to the design of social media technology: Iiiinteresting, Mastodon changed the behavior for what happens when you are viewing the user profile on a remote server and hit "follow". Instead of the often-not-working "remote follow" action, you now get this modal that says "please copy/paste this into your client and hit follow"
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 @darius I saw that a couple of times last week... thought it was just a janky server setting in that particular instance. Appears it's a global change... Wowww, the Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World is really fucking cool. It's an interactive map that gives you a sense of the flow and time to travel of information/goods between different geographical points in the empire during different seasons and by different modes. Basically there are counterintuitive flows to a modern eye because, for example, crossing a mountain in the winter was an enormous task in a way it is not now. Here's how deep I had to go into the DOM tree to inspect text that I had typed into a text box on Twitter
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  We are having our yearly Friend Conf via video chat right now and I just like that we have a private event for our community to do show & tell, skillshare, or just be funny :) Highly recommend server-wide synchronous/live events like this for smaller servers. Feels good @darius We do this every thursday evening for an hour. One admin shares screen and we do updates, maintenance and new stuff together -- along with a lot of chit-chat 😆 Really enjoyed this bit of internet culture writing about the rise (and fall?) of emotionally-relatable "gradient accounts" on Twitter:  @darius the miscellaneous interpretations rolling out seem to be the usual— camp A: the rioters lit the prison on fire, they’re lighting everything on fire camp B: why would the rioters light their own people, who tend to be in that prison, on fire? the government is trying to kill them and blame the protesters Just learned of Bruno Latour's passing. He was an enormous intellectual influence on me. Hometown and my other projects would not exist if not for his book "Aramis, or the Love of Technology". https://theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/09/bruno-latour-french-philosopher-anthropologist-dies You can download Aramis in PDF form here: https://dss-edit.com/plu/Latour-B_Aramis-or-Love-of-Technology_1996.pdf |
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@darius Ah yes, the brave, lone voice in opposition. :(
@darius Can I ask a dumb newbie-to-Mastodon question? How do you get a "SHOW MORE" link in your post *and* a content-warning overlay? I was always under the impression that the "show more" was just some servers using different language for the content warning feature… but clearly this post of yours tells me that's not the case.