Aaron Parecki

Ian K Tindale (parody) https://mastodon.cloud/@u0421793 • Nov 14
@aaronpk and your Fitbit didn’t need changing time zones back

Oh yeah good point, the Fitbit changed back automatically this time!

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Sun, Nov 13, 2022 5:46pm -08:00
Stephanie Stimac 🔮 Web Witch, DevTools PM https://twitter.com/seaotta • Nov 13
100% 😅 I had no idea…I thought I just had to go to the club world line but no…you can use the first first class line

Well crap now I want to go back to London just to try this 😅

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

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Sun, Nov 13, 2022 6:15am -08:00
Stephanie Stimac 🔮 Web Witch, DevTools PM https://twitter.com/seaotta • Nov 13
OH. I just found out Emerald Status means I get to use the first class check in at Heathrow with your own security line 😱

I’ve been standing in security lines for no reason all year 😅

Are you serious, I was just there on Friday and waited in the normal line I had no idea 🤯

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

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Sun, Nov 13, 2022 6:12am -08:00
stephen judkins https://twitter.com/stephenjudkins • Nov 13
Yep! I simply don't see how someone with millions followers practically would *work* with this protocol

Ironically the problem is already solved if the protocol worked the other direction, aka the web. We know how to scale websites to be able to be accessed by millions of people at a time.

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

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Sun, Nov 13, 2022 5:55am -08:00
https://polyglot.city/@Gemma/109334373495395723

it's so bad, it happened very quickly 😂

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 7:35pm -08:00
BADWOLF https://mastodon.social/@bad_wolf • Nov 13
@aaronpk yeah, it's because legit advertisers are fleeing Twitter.

I didn't expect the change to be so dramatic so fast

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 7:14pm -08:00
stephen judkins https://twitter.com/stephenjudkins • Nov 13
Reading about the tech stack undergirding most Mastodon/fediverse instances, and I am sadly not optimistic that there is a practical path to scale this past a small fraction of twitter's size in the medium term

It's actually worse than that, the protocol itself needs some serious work to scale it up too.

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

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Sat, Nov 12, 2022 6:59pm -08:00
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.

British Airways Flight 267 LHR to PDX • 36°F

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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.

British Airways Flight 267 LHR to PDX • 36°F

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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.

British Airways Flight 267 LHR to PDX • 36°F

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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

Hounslow, England • 60°F

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

Hounslow, England • 60°F

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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?

West Drayton, England • 60°F

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 10:56am +00:00

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