Aaron Parecki

swentel https://realize.be/user/1 • Nov 12
I'm seeing that a lot as well on my instance. It makes sense in a way. Our instances *could* have done a look up for actors and/or posts and stored that information, for whatever reason.

What bothers me more, is that there are federated platforms out there (Fediverse.blog for instance) that just send out any post to my instance, while I'm not following anyone from that platform at all.

That's odd, and are those not even in reply to posts from people who you are following?

British Airways Flight 267 LHR to PDX in Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 4:17pm -08:00
dansup https://mastodon.social/@dansup • Nov 11
@aaronpk To ensure the posts are deleted, mastodon sends the Delete activities to all known servers regardless of follower relationships!

I don't see why it makes any sense to notify my instance about things that my instance has never been notified about before. That goes for both posts as well as accounts.

British Airways Flight 267 LHR to PDX in Wood Buffalo, Alberta • 16°F

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 3:15pm -07:00
mcg https://micro.blog/mcg • Nov 11
@aaronpk Combined deletes, delete+redraft and scheduled deleting of old toots.

It's more than that, most of them are account deletion messages from accounts that I've never seen before

British Airways Flight 267 LHR to PDX in Wood Buffalo, Alberta

Fri, Nov 11, 2022 3:13pm -07:00
Arne Babenhauserheide https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab • Nov 11
@aaronpk maybe people fixing up their toots multiple times?

Nope, the vast majority are account delete messages. There's one instance in particular that sends repeated account delete messages, but overall it's mostly deletes from accounts I've never heard of.

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 6:51pm +00:00
Agnes of the Dogs https://lor.sh/@AgnesoftheDogs • Nov 11
@aaronpk I’m killing my Twitter on Sunday so I’ll have to rely on you for trash fire updates

ok but hear me out, don't actually delete your account, just tombstone it so that nobody can steal your username. I did that with my facebook a few years ago.

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 6:32pm +00:00
Trevor Flowers 🌸🌸 https://xoxo.zone/@trevorflowers • Nov 11
@aaronpk I don't know for sure but I do know that some people auto-delete toots after N days so maybe that software is going wild.

from what I can tell, there's one instance that's going haywire sending me hundreds of delete messages per month for the same set of accounts. Other than that, I've been getting account delete messages for accounts I've never seen before. Seems not ideal.

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 6:14pm +00:00
Mike Jones https://twitter.com/selfissued • Nov 11
Wires

nice one! I was eyeing those wires myself but never got a good shot of them!

British Airways Flight 267 LHR to PDX • 36°F

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 6:13pm +00:00
Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦 Creative Entrepreneur https://twitter.com/robertoblake • Nov 11
Has anyone my network been a TedX Speaker before?

By one degree of separation: @anomalily https://youtu.be/LOEdqAlEQlY

Hillingdon, England • 61°F

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 1:43pm +00:00
Nick Farina https://twitter.com/nfarina • Nov 11
This is so surreal…Twitter appears completely the same to me as it’s always been. It’s just that the “main character” this week is Twitter itself. But like, everything works the same?

For now... the number of people who were laid off and also quit, and the stuff coming out from inside, it's not a good indicator

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 1:33pm +00:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 11
sorry yall this account is now a Twitter trashfire stan account 🔥

I just can't stop watching as it all comes crumbling down

I mean, we always knew it would happen eventually, it always does

https://indieweb.org/site-deaths

I just didn't expect the timeline to be so accelerated

Hounslow, England, GBR • 61°F

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 1:02pm +00:00
Thomas Michael Semmler https://indieweb.social/@nachtfunke • Nov 11
@theadhocracy because the site you referenced is aggregating links - what happens when the author changes the title, for example? Could this be solved with webmentions as well?

That's exactly how it works! If you update your post on your site, you can re-send the webmention to news.indieweb.org and it will pull in the new content. I built that site ages ago to demonstrate this exact idea of aggregating posts from individuals' websites.

Hounslow, England, GBR • 60°F

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 11:55am +00:00
dominik schwind https://mastodon.xyz/@dominik • Nov 11
@aaronpk to be honest I just pasted your domain name into Feedly a while ago. It seemed to have picked up the json feed and labels it as RSS. I'm using NetNewsWire as a client on desktop and on the phone.
So it might be Feedly that's making a mess.

Weird, because the JSONFeed also has the photo in it. I dunno! You can find all my feeds here tho: https://aaronparecki.com/aaronpk

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 11:37am +00:00
dominik schwind https://mastodon.xyz/@dominik • Nov 11
@aaronpk I'm not sure if you're aware: your RSS feed doesn't show the picture

It's an Atom feed, not RSS, but I see the photo there. What are you using that didn't find the photo?

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 10:56am +00:00
Addie https://twitter.com/EposVox • Nov 10
Substack noooooo

Wait are they doing this unironically?? Because Tumblr's version was just amazing 💯

London, England • 60°F

Fri, Nov 11, 2022 10:30am +00:00
Jeena https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena • Nov 11
@aaronpk what I like most about it is that it's a one time fee, not a monthly rent fee where you'd need to send it back once you want to stop paying for it.

new business idea: rent a blue checkmark pin for $8/mo

London, England • 59°F

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 12:53am +00:00
Dean Pierce 🌲🤖🚀👨‍💻 https://twitter.com/deanpierce • Nov 10
Watch this now become their primary revenue stream 😂

I mean at this point why the heck not

London, England, GBR • 58°F

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Thu, Nov 10, 2022 11:03pm +00:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Nov 6
Now *this* is a blue checkmark I would pay $8 for:

@superplastic https://superplastic.co/products/blue-check-mark-enamel-pin

UPDATE: I ordered one!

BUT, it will arrive in a week, so the meaning of the blue check will probably have changed 10 times by then, so who knows what the joke will really be about at that point

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Thu, Nov 10, 2022 11:02pm +00:00
tim cappasskey https://twitter.com/timcappalli • Nov 10
what's the equivalent of a subtweet, but in a blog post?

I'm pretty sure this was "vagueposting"? or maybe it was "vagueblogging"? It was definitely a thing before subtweeting was.

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Thu, Nov 10, 2022 10:31pm +00:00
Manton Reece https://www.manton.org/ • Nov 10
Rolled out another change I forgot to make with this morning’s Mastodon changes: your “about me” text from Micro.blog now shows up for Mastodon users too. (Mastodon will cache profiles so may take a while to update everywhere.)

✴️ Also on Micro.blog

fyi you can send out an Update activity to one's followers to trigger the remote instance to update the profile data. I don't think they'll update it in any reasonable amount of time otherwise.

London, England • 58°F

Thu, Nov 10, 2022 10:11pm +00:00
Jonathan Maus https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Maus • Nov 10
Looking for @BikePortland feedback: Would you be interested in listening to audio of someone reading our daily stories? Would that be interesting to you?

Or having an mp3 embed atop each story as an option?

Thanks for any feedback.

A short form podcast I could add to my Alexa morning flash briefing would be cool! (It just takes publishing a podcast feed) the challenging part is updating it daily

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Thu, Nov 10, 2022 4:19pm +00:00

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