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Aaron Parecki

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  • Darius Kazemi https://social.tinysubversions.com/@darius   •   Aug 9

    @aaronpk Haha so says another self-hosted instance-of-one user :)

    As an aside, do you experience weird caching things? I do think most beginners should join a populated server because otherwise they are going to be seeing a lot of seemingly-blank profile pages when they click through to profiles of people who are mentioned that their instance hasn't interacted with before

    Aaron Parecki
    Yeah that's definitely a Mastodon caching issue. If Mastodon went and fetched a few posts from someone's profile it would fix it. I'm not actually sure why they haven't done that yet.

    My software isn't even Mastodon, I made my site interact with the protocol directly. So when I click on someone I just visit their profile page on their instance directly, so that avoids the issue for me.
    Portland, Oregon • 63°F
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    Thu, Aug 9, 2018 8:32am -07:00
  • Darius Kazemi https://social.tinysubversions.com/@darius   •   Aug 4

    I think the idea that a new Mastodon user is supposed to pick an instance based on affinity/interest is the number one thing that prevents people from joining. I think there needs to be a retooling of the messaging to make it about trust.

    People don't join email services because of affinity. They do because they trust. They trust Google will be around for a long time. Or that hushmail won't sell their data. Or that Hotmail is easy to use. Etc etc.

    Aaron Parecki
    I completely agree. I think it's because of the convolution of the account and the instance timeline. If you could just as easily follow an instance timeline from any other instance then all of a sudden it doesn't matter which is your home instance.
    Portland, Oregon • 64°F
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    Thu, Aug 9, 2018 8:14am -07:00
  • Jamey Sharp https://toot.cat/@jamey

    gonna start referring to libc as C's "runtime" and see how angry I can make people

    (inspired by the common assertion that Rust "doesn't have a runtime" which I think is just a bit nonsensical)

    Portland, Oregon • 63°F
    Thu, Aug 9, 2018 5:55am +00:00 (liked on Thu, Aug 9, 2018 7:55am -07:00)
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    Contributions from: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 10:24pm -07:00
  • Fire up your RSS reader. #BackToBlogging

    Portland, Oregon • 83°F
    Thu, Aug 9, 2018 12:28am -04:00 (liked on Wed, Aug 8, 2018 9:38pm -07:00)
  • Aaron Parecki
    at The Pixie Project
    Portland, Oregon • Wed, August 8, 2018 5:57pm
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    Time to film some kittens! — with anomalily
    Portland, OR, United States • 91°F
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    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 5:57pm -07:00
  • manton https://micro.blog/manton   •   Aug 8

    @aaronpk There is a tweet import! But I want to rethink it, because often importing thousands of tweets kind of overwhelms the normal blog posts. I may disable it until I can separate tweets out better.

    Aaron Parecki
    ah yeah, having everything in one list would definitely get overwhelmed with tweets! A simple way to start might be to have a separate page on the site that has a list of only articles.
    Portland, Oregon • 91°F
    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 4:24pm -07:00
  • Darius Kazemi http://tinysubversions.com
    100% related to this article that I'm going to try really hard to turn this into a promo-only account from now on. ("promo" meaning "promoting interesting projects or information"). If you want to engage with me as a person, follow me on Mastodon. (1/5)
    https://twitter.com/tinysubversions/status/1027270383181811713
    Portland, Oregon • 91°F
    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 10:46pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Aug 8, 2018 4:22pm -07:00)
  • Aug 8

    Expecting a lot of new Micro.blog users over the next few weeks. This week: Twitter mismanages how to deal with Alex Jones and Infowars. Next week: Twitter streaming API gets shut down for third-party developers.

    Aaron Parecki
    Seems like a good opportunity to make a tweet archive import for micro.blog! I'm seeing a lot of people deleting their tweets after downloading their archive.
    Portland, Oregon • 91°F
    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 4:14pm -07:00
  • Ben Balter http://Ben.Balter.com   •   Aug 8
    What do people use these days to plan complex, multi-stop personal travel? Are travel agents still a thing? Some fancy new app? Just internet a bunch and book it yourself?
    Aaron Parecki
    Google flight search + a cocktail + a few hours on the couch
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 90°F
    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 3:48pm -07:00
  • Jonathan LaCour https://cleverdevil.io
    That said, there has never been a better time to join the #IndieWeb and http://Micro.blog has made it easier than ever before. I can’t recommend it enough.
    Portland, Oregon • 88°F
    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 10:02pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Aug 8, 2018 3:03pm -07:00) #IndieWeb
  • Jonathan LaCour https://cleverdevil.io
    The service itself isn’t, but it’s built entirely on top of open standards like RSS, JSON Feed, Webmention, Microformats 2, Micropub, and other #IndieWeb tech. It’s the open web as it’s meant to be!
    Portland, Oregon • 88°F
    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 10:01pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Aug 8, 2018 3:01pm -07:00) #IndieWeb
  • Expecting a lot of new Micro.blog users over the next few weeks. This week: Twitter mismanages how to deal with Alex Jones and Infowars. Next week: Twitter streaming API gets shut down for third-party developers.

    Portland, Oregon • 88°F
    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 4:43pm -05:00 (liked on Wed, Aug 8, 2018 2:48pm -07:00)
  • Weird little piece of trivia I happen to know: in How I Met Your Mother, whenever Marshall (Jason Segel) travels to visit his family, they use a clip of PDX to stand in for MSP. (I studied a freeze frame, and you can totally see the word PORTLAND over the entry.)

    Portland, Oregon • 88°F
    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 2:26pm -07:00 (liked on Wed, Aug 8, 2018 2:31pm -07:00)
  • Andy Baio https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio

    The indieweb is looking better and better every day.

    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 6:07pm +00:00 (reposted on Wed, Aug 8, 2018 1:50pm -07:00)
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  • if these LA cats can fly even I will adopt one.

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  • Allison Parrish https://mastodon.social/@aparrish

    @Gargron whenever people use the argument that mastodon is somehow "too complicated" I like to encourage them to do a web search for "how to use facebook." there's like a gazillion tutorials, videos, online classes, training seminars, etc. the alternatives aren't inherently less complicated—it's just that tech folks have come to accept the way they work as the "default" and so that complication is invisible to them.

    Portland, Oregon • 82°F
    Wed, Aug 8, 2018 7:46pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Aug 8, 2018 12:49pm -07:00)
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

I've been tracking my location since 2008 and I wrote 100 songs in 100 days. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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