 Which percentage of customer experience people who send out customer satisfaction surveys actually test their survey ("canary" style) before blasting it out to everybody? Q: "How knowledgeable was the agent you talked to?" Well, I didn't actually talk to any agent. All I got was an e-mail which likely was a canned response. We have been so well supported by the community this year as our First 50 donors page shows: https://about.iftas.org/first-50/. A big thank you to every single person who donated, boosted and spread the word to keep us going! We appreciate every single one of you. The congressional budget office has predictions about global warmings impact on the us. TIL that one of the oldest forms of wall is woven. With some dirt on it. Which is why the German term is “Wand” — a derivative of weaving. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flechtwerkwand Wikipedia for the win.  @j12t interesting, I guess textile predates architecture by a lot. Tents, teepees, hammocs… What @mike and team at @Flipboard are doing with https://surf.social/ is really interesting. I'm checking out their beta and it's intriguing. It's social media, for sure, but IMHO different and better: it goes far beyond the monotony of the linear feed into far more focused experiences. It's like merging Twitter, RSS Readers, and Google News into something that looks and feel prettier than any of them. And might very well be more useful. There's a long waiting list but may be worth it.  on the wait list. hopeful. when tv started, they basically just filmed radio programs. it always takes a while to figure out the new medium. I think that's where we've been with decentralized social media. decentralized versions of the corporate platforms. but one thing that makes us special is the ability to allow users to pull them all together. the best stuff from anywhere, played in any app we want. one big culturally viral experience we all participate in.
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 @j12t I find it very nice if you turn off the automatic suggestions. It's very good at saving you the usual "shit, what's this obscure one liner that I know I'll find at the top result of google in a StackOverflow answer" dev cycle. Or just speeding up writing structured code that's logically related. Like if you define a "first_name" variable, you mostly likely also want a "last_name" and it's pretty good at picking up on that.  @j12t I would say to go for https://zed.dev/ instead! I love it, and AI integration works wonderfully, discretely, and it stays respectfully opt-in (for now). The Flipboard grand plan for the #Fediverse is making a public step forward today: https://surf.social I'd really like to see some use cases for some of these unicode characters. Like this one: ⤯ As opposed to this one: ⤱ A new non-profit for the social web is being announced today, coincidentally called "A New Social", by @snarfed.org and @quillmatiq . They already got press coverage in The Verge and Techcrunch! Congratulations!  @j12t @snarfed.org thank you so much! Appreciate all the advice you gave us as we were putting this all together 🙏🏼 Came across this proposal for standardizing cryptographic event logs, e.g. for social media including #Bluesky and #ActivityPub. Threads strong momentum continues -- now 300M+ monthly actives and 100M+ daily actives 💪 @j12t do we know what the equilibrium temperature is for the current CO₂ level? I’ve only seen temperature projections for future dates, without mentioning levels or equilibrium; it’s alright to have some sense of what to expect in 2050 with various potential changes in emissions, but I want to know where it will stop changing if we cease emissions at, say 430ppm. Wait, that’s only next year, we need at least a decade; maybe 500ppm. First they came for the journalists, who were very surprised to find themselves in a giant warehouse filled with minorities, immigrants, disabled, trans, and gay people.
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  “Ninety-two percent of retailers plan to invest more in social commerce this holiday season” Is there any social commerce in the #fediverse? https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/14/business/tiktok-shop-ban/index.html  Holy shit. The Russian gov send in an abuse request for the @Bellingcat to be removed from mstdn.social :amaze: I am not gonna comply, and have replied to Hetzner No way I'm gonna let the evils of the gremlin dictate stuff on anything I host UPDATE: Hetzner ignores their requests and we're in the clear: https://mstdn.social/@stux/113662573364116275  
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   @stux Turandot was written 100 years ago. A difficult piece, on several levels. For me, it is the last opera in the classical tradition. I saw it first in an outdoor production in Augsburg, Germany, decades ago when I was a young adult. Turns out they are still staging it in the same place! https://staatstheater-augsburg.de/freilichtbuehne And for those of you who don’t know opera, “Nessun Dorma” comes from Turandot. The piece that just about everybody has to sing these days if they are famous for some reason, even if they can’t actually sing :-) Warum es mit #X nun zu Ende geht Soziale Netzwerke sind wegen des Netzwerkeffekts nur schwer totzukriegen. Doch dem #Twitter-Nachfolger X von #ElonMusk droht nun genau das. Wie konnte das passieren? Welche Plattformen könnten die Nachfolge antreten? Eine Analyse über Aufstieg und Fall sozialer Netzwerke. #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Bluesky https://netzpolitik.org/2024/stirb-langsam-warum-es-mit-x-nun-zu-ende-geht/  @cwebber thanks for the reply! really happy for use to have these back-and-forth blog posts as an artifact. it sounds like it took a lot of time on your end, and I know it did on mine as well, but doing it "in the thick of things" made it real and memorable. I read the whole blog reply, but likely won't read the full summary thread (different media!). I'm not planning to do a full-length blog reply, but will post a couple quick comments here. and do hope to "be in conversation" going forward. @cwebber some other comments from atproto thread are bridged here: https://social.coop/@bnewbold.net@bsky.brid.gy/113648434828862415 |
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