@meph … Asstodon. The NSFW version of Mastodon. But seriously, my Mastodon feed gets new content faster than my Twitter feed sometimes, now. It's awesome
@meph I love it as long as the excess gets tucked behind a fold, and unfortunately Astodon for iOS doesn't do it yet. It's especially comical when the whole thing is CW'ed and you have to scroll the whole thing four screens to get halfway thru to read it
@ionizedgirl Going absolutely nuts, super busy over here, but glad I can at least return to some meaningful work again and that things will get better :) I hope you're well!
Of course the forward-looking integrations structure of CommLab & sites like Hellsite introduces its own issues. Until better education and tools are provided by it, it can represent a centralization of data and identity vulnerable to admin misconduct. Core to the mission of the project is first mitigating, and then transcending those limitations, by assembling tooling and training, and spreading capabilities to freely move oneself and ultimately defeat 'vendor lock-in' in all forms.
LB/LRT: Mastodon is another federated network run by all of us, and that's why we need to build integral community strong enough to both support each other and hold each other accountable, as well as making zero-trust implements available to users wherever appropriate such as end-to-end encryption, which Hellsite does by providing access to the Matrix chat network to supplement the very not-private implementation of Mastodon DMs.
This took care of integrity, but not privacy. We mostly just pretended that sysadmins, sysops, and other people who *could* peek at our data "on the wire" *wouldn't*, even though we knew that, at least some of the time, this was going on. The fact that the people who provided communications infrastructure had a sense of duty and mission didn't mean they wouldn't spy on us - sometimes, that was *why* they peeked, just to be sure that we weren't planning to mess up "their" network.
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@ariadne I confess I actually ended up making a screen / mouse macro last time I needed to do this, lol. I thought getting API access was hard… Unfortunately I get the impression that deleting tweets only marks them deleted, and deactivating the account + waiting 30 days is what actually puts your data in the deletion hopper (who really knows?). If I could make a better expanded archive I'd nuke everything.
i was wondering how i could delete all of my tweets, so that mr. musk could not use them for ad revenue.
and, as usual, @caarlos0 has already come up with a solution: https://github.com/caarlos0/twitter-cleaner
@Robminchin One specific thing I've noticed every Black person say does not work for them is being asked to put a content warning on "political" toots. So unfortunately when you're a person of color, your life is political, and we don't appreciate being told to hide the way we're mistreated as this is a form of tone policing.
I'm concerned that I keep seeing Black people say that they've found Mastodon worse than Twitter for white supremacy. Being white, I don't have this directed at me personally, but it seems that a lot of moderation is aimed at enforcing civility rather than preventing racism. Is the Fediverse creating a classic 'white liberal' space where all ideas are allowed as long as they are expressed politely, no matter that that makes it unwelcoming to minorities?
@scanlime I've been saying LRT here and there, and it feels like 2013 all over again. ;) It's good to see the embeds work smoothly on web, incl mobile web, even for superlong videos. My client apps open a browser but will catch up in time
Hey if anyone has #PeerTube (video hosting on the fediverse) questions, I've been a user and admin since 2018 and I'm happy to help if I can.
@scanlime i'm learning! i'm fitting in!! 🥹🥹🥹
@scanlime LB? … Limp Bizkit?
@scanlime If I could just create a more expanded archive that included reply threads, etc, I would wipe out all my old stuff. If any of it'll even really get deleted any more
Dear friends, please make sure you've 2-Factor Authentification (2FA) activated in your Mastodon settings!
Apparently bad actors recognized Mastodon and the Fediverse as valuable target and started attacking the network. So make sure to use a strong password, at least 13 characters long! #security
Scrappy queer