@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social @hankg It’s bizarre seeing people saying “I’m sick of this walled garden owned by an asshole billionaire, I’ll go join this other walled garden started by an asshole billionaire.”
Prepping my tiny open source violin.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Parrot and coffee enthusiast. Programmer in Go and JavaScript and other things. If it bleeps I probably listen to it.
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…I'm currently trying out an account on a different instance, and will likely redirect this one soon. You shouldn't have to do anything.
I thought about setting up my own instance, but I'm not quite ready to do that just now. Maybe when GoToSocial is more mature.
Defederation is a feature, not a bug. Yes, it makes the network messy, but human social interaction is messy. Freedom of association means freedom of dis-association.
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Update: It seems it doesn't delete *all* tweets. If you know the URL of an ancient tweet, or can find it using search, you can still go to that URL and see the tweet.
However, it does make your profile page show up with no tweets and no way to page back further.
To truly delete everything, there's a commercial service https://tweetdelete.net/
Supermarket conversation with my wife:
"We've gotta get these."
"Why?"
"Because they're updog."
"I don't get it."
"They're made from updog!"
"What is updog?"
So, $4.78 well spent.
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I took a look at using my developer account to generate a suitable API key and script, but apparently they shut off all the developer accounts recently and want everyone to re-apply through a new system that requires that you describe what you're planning to do and get manual approval.
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@ubiquity75@dair-community.social @josh@sciences.social @dansinker@omfg.town It’s an opinion I’ve been developing for quite a while now. There’s Dunbar’s number, and there’s the problem of context collapse. Combine those, and add in a structure that rewards pile-ons, and you have a factory for manufacturing abuse. And that’s before you even introduce algorithmic bias to the timeline.
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@josh@sciences.social @dansinker@omfg.town @ubiquity75@dair-community.social Are there any good estimates for the maximum safe user-to-moderator ratio? I kinda suspect that an instance with 100,000 users can’t possibly employ enough moderators to do a good job. Maybe social media as currently implemented (flat networks with everyone broadcasting worldwide) is just inherently bad.
@jalefkowit@octodon.social @timbray@mastodon.cloud My suspicion is that Twitter's design optimizes average engagement, but that people like those in this thread are decidedly not average.
Kinda like how radio stations play pop music chosen to optimize popularity with the average person, so I stopped listening to the radio.
Or how movie studios started churning out superhero movies and other effects reels optimized for commercial success, and I stopped going to the movies. (Even before COVID-19.)
@scanner@mastodonmusic.social On a related note, I still can't work out what Robert Fripp might be like in person. Sometimes he seems stern and perhaps a little pretentious, sometimes very self effacing, and sometimes dressed up in a bee costume dancing around his back garden. It's very confusing.
I did discover I had completely the wrong impression about Don Joyce, but sadly only after I'd missed my chance to chat with him.
@scanner@mastodonmusic.social I listened to a podcast recently that revealed (to me) that Hendrix was actually a really shy and private person. That really surprised me, given the stage presence.
@Concretism@mastodon.social @faexoptim@mastodonmusic.social I think you need to allow for historical context.
What I really don’t get is the adulation heaped on YMO. They made two good albums.
@scanner@mastodonmusic.social I remember having nightmares about it.
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@munin@mastodon.social @munin@mastodon.hasameli.com That's how the NodeJS ecosystem is. Colossal dumpster fire. https://mastodon.social/media/7qOohlaAUYDa-tZMS00