Aaron Parecki

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Alex Vranas https://twitter.com/breakdecks

Mastodon may not replace Twitter, but at least it has better leadership.

Meet Eugen, CEO of Mastodon Social:

London, England • 55°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 1:02pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:30pm +00:00)
Amy https://twitter.com/lolennui

every explanation of mastodon makes me feel like I’m at a party and someone wants to play their elaborate card game everyone’s too drunk for

London, England • 55°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 3:57pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:30pm +00:00)
jacqueline https://chaos.social/@jacqueline

everyone is jeering at elon musk, but whom amongst us can say that they’ve never spent too much money on domain name that they don’t know what to do with?

London, England • 55°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 3:28pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 10:18am +00:00)
Geraldine https://twitter.com/everywhereist

I now understand why my mother left the 12:00 flashing on her VCR

London, England • 56°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 7:10am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 9:09am +00:00)
FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF https://twitter.com/sofarrsogud

I heard twitter is now down to a single employee on a bus who has to keep it travelling at over 50 miles per hour or the site will implode.

London, England • 56°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 5:06pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 9:08am +00:00)
Mastodon https://twitter.com/joinmastodon

What if I told you that on Mastodon, you can verify yourself, by yourself, for free... 🤫 https://twitter.com/JPFosterson/status/1588957399208976385

London, England • 56°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 6:20pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:26am +00:00)
Sam 0xEACD https://twitter.com/samuelgoto

And, hey, if you look at my blog (http://code.sgo.to) you'll probably paint me a knowledge graph kind of person. That is, I probably have an unbiased agenda, but I don't think knowledge graph technologies should be applied to every single problem in the world (e.g. this).

London, England • 56°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:09am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:09am +00:00)
Sam 0xEACD https://twitter.com/samuelgoto

Can confirm.

I wrote a significant part of the processing pipeline (10 years ago, likely replaced) as well as the schemas that are used in search (also 10 years ago, but likely still used) and we wouldn't know the difference between JSON and JSON-LD.

London, England • 56°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:06am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:07am +00:00)
Elon Musk https://twitter.com/jephjacques

what is this. do I have to buy another webside

London, England • 56°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 6:07pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 10:28pm +00:00)
fuuma https://hackers.town/@fuuma

Make the net weird again. Hand write sites like it’s the 90s. Pick interesting domain names and make fan sites or random knowledge known to everyone. Don’t monetize anything. Spearhead new protocols like Gemini. Make mods for games on your site. Make FAQs for obscure games no one knows about. Make public software services available to anyone. Make a news site about a really random subject. Create music in all kinds of different formats. Most of all, do it because you want to!

London, England • 56°F

Wed, Nov 2, 2022 1:45am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 9:13pm +00:00)
// mastodon.social @hongpong // https://twitter.com/HongPong

I'm stunned how the elusive dream of #indieweb is moving this fast, purely via self destruction

London, England • 56°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:39pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:49pm +00:00) #indieweb
Corvidae of Reckoning https://twitter.com/joshmillard

elon musk fucking this place up so bad even Rick Astley's considering giving it up

London, England • 55°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 6:59pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:35pm +00:00)
William Bartholomew https://twitter.com/iamwillbar

It is impressive how hostile this is to subscribers, non-subscribers, advertisers, and Twitter as a business. It takes some real talent to equally disenfranchise all of your customer segments.

London, England • 55°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:19pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:31pm +00:00)
Liza Daly https://post.lurk.org/@liza

This is like everyone simultaneously wandering around the cafeteria holding their trays looking for their friends.

London, England • 55°F

Fri, Oct 28, 2022 11:15am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:07pm +00:00)
Arynn Crow https://infosec.exchange/@arynn

Requisite identity wishlist for Day 1 on Mastodon: password manager support on the app and FIDO2 MFA, please! For most users, this would be a great place for passkeys.

London, England • 55°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 3:18pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:02pm +00:00)
CNBC https://twitter.com/CNBC

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to 'ignore' Web3: 'Web3 is not the web at all' https://cnb.cx/3E1HYYs

London, England • 55°F

Fri, Nov 4, 2022 3:09pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 5:56pm +00:00)
Simone Giertz https://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz

nothing like a badge that just says “I paid $8 for this badge”

London, England • 54°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 1:10am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 3:04pm +00:00)
Corvidae of Reckoning https://twitter.com/joshmillard

And that has it's own difficulties: it's not as universal, it's not as one-stop, you have to go find your own place instead of going to The One Place Where Everything Is. But for most of human history that's how it's worked, and centralizing it hasn't actually gone great!

London, England • 47°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 4:08am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 8:29am +00:00)
Corvidae of Reckoning https://twitter.com/joshmillard

So what happens if everyone can't go to Mastodon? Or to cohost? Or to whatever? What happens is a fractionalization, a balkanization, where instead of 1 big cohort you get a dozen or a hundred or a thousand smaller ones. Which: scales better. Which: is more healthy.

London, England • 47°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 4:07am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 8:29am +00:00)
eevee ❎ https://twitter.com/eevee

on the one hand, ux is good yes ok. but also path of absolute least resistance is how the web condensed into three fucking websites. you think it's too complicated that you have to pick the equivalent of an email provider? you would've starved in the jungle of the 90s internet

London, England • 46°F

Fri, Nov 4, 2022 8:45pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 8:04am +00:00)

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