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Justin Pot

“This is the only room in the world where I can say I am confident multiple people here run Mastodon servers” Nilay Patel, The Verge #XOXOFest

Justin Pot

Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, added a migration feature for grabbing your images. I tried it out and wrote a guide: wired.com/story/migrate-move-i

Justin Pot

This week I'm researching CAPTCHAs. Do any of you know anyone who works in that space? I'd love to talk to someone who is trying to keep these things working in the age of AI.

Thorin Klosowski

@jhpot I make a living taking pictures of stop signs and traffic lights

Xela

@jhpot IMO captchas are a thing of the past. They have disadvantages re accessibility, re user experience...
Any other concept to prevent bots seems better.
There might be some strategies to use questions as text (riddle-like or "fill in the word"), but those still are a hurdle to humans and possibly no problem for bots (and AI). 🤷

Justin Pot

WIRED just published my beginner's guide to Mastodon! Thank you to the 100+ people who responded to my request for tips and advice for understanding the culture here. wired.com/story/how-to-get-sta

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Orde Saunders 🔟

@jhpot That's a really good piece of technology communication.

nounish

@jhpot that’s awesome! Congrats on getting that published! Super helpful.

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