@Edent Whenever my bank calls me, I hang up and call them back myself at their normal customer service number.

Inbound calls from a bank? Never. Not on my watch.

You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank. You hang up and call back to the bank yourself. End of story. If the caller objects to you doing that, that by itself is an enormous red flag. You never, EVER take incoming calls from "your bank" seriously.

I myself have an additional rule that I always reject calls from unknown numbers, unless I expect one (delivery, taxi, etc).

@Edent "they are cursed and I cannot read documentation. But mostly the cursed thing.”
😂

@Edent the whole idea that Mastodon doesn’t support something and PixelFed does is frustrating.

ActivityPub servers should host all our vocabularies and apps show what they understand, but sadly Mastodon and every other app decided to forgo the Client to Server API and use something bespoke 😞

@Edent heads up! @davidroessli

I've been working on my own ActivityPub site (this one, socialsoup).

I want to allow user to add a location to their status / notes. Mastodon allows you to Mention users, and stores this in the tags property, as well as hashtags. Maybe this is a good place to attach a location too?

I'm definitely going to follow along with what you're doing here :)

@Edent I love this! If I had the energy I would love to re-implement the relevant site designs to my older blog articles.

@Edent This is brilliant

@Edent The article makes clear to me something I hadn't really formed into words before: this natural fluidity of names and anonymity in general is a leveller for the poor and disadvantaged. The idea that everyone has just one name (and should not be able to avoid using it) only helps the haves, not the have-nots.

@Edent It’s an interesting area. Even in the U.K. you can change your namely freely as many times if you like and without anything other than a signed statutory declaration of your new name. The power to change your name is an important right imho

@Edent This is great. And it’s another recommendation that everyone go and read “Seeing Like A State”.

In this case: standardized names have the effect of handing power over individuals to the government.

By maintaining the casual attitude to names the article describes, Nigerians are keeping out of their lives a state that may not always be benevolent, or even particularly competent.

@Edent I have opted in to search - If I boost a post from someone who has not opted in does their post become searchable on my timeline?

@Edent

> Nor can you find people who are talking about a specific page on the web.

Is this accurate? Searching for exact URLs of news articles to find people talking about them is exactly the use case I was looking forward to the most 😞

@Edent I recently bought a .social domain of the username I've been using in various places for nearly a decade, really just my initials, I just found out yesterday that it's the same username one of the columbine shooters used online apparently. I guess I need to bank on people not knowing just the same as I didn't.

@Edent why take the joy out of everything though?!

@Edent nice work. noted.

@Edent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grottas%C3%B6ngr

@Edent

Not about food but still a classic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VErKCq1IGIU

@Edent This sounds pretty much 1:1 with a book we read in kindergarten, Strega Nona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strega_Nona

@Edent Wonderful idea. Look forward to seeing what you come up with.

@Edent Thanks! and congratulations!

@Edent presumably it gave some specific advantage? UUID or GUID would work for globally unique, no?

@Edent Depends entirely on the app. In TeamSpeak you can configure sound from different participants to come from different angles ("3D sound").

@Edent @rauschma it has addons!!
And very soon to come much more. But it has ublock-origin!

@Edent I recommend using the Fennec fork available on F-Droid for more privacy! it should recieve the update soon if it is not already the case