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@manton Also confirmed it works fine to login to Frontpage, even though I’ve never touched Bluesky. So, yay!
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@manton Also, I kicked the tires on the AT Protocol setup. Minor niggles: (1) Shouldn’t it be cased “ATmosphere” (it’s consistently “Atmosphere” on the Web UI. (2) Lots of gobbledegook here for a first time user (DID? PDS? CAR?) - maybe a link out to some explainer would be good. (3) Unclear whether choosing a custom domain hosted on Micro.blog would mean using just the domain or @username + domain for a handle (so I left it alone). But all appears to have worked fine. Now I just have to figure out what it’s good for.
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@manton “Connections” would work fine for me. Or “Network.” Maybe noodle on the icon a bit too - the one we have now says “RSS” to me and it’s so much more than that.
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@JohnBrady These days I just presume Wile E Coyote is funded based on a business plan that says he’ll be applying AI to the pressing issue of capturing road runners, and that the money comes from private equity firms counting on all the publicity to flip their investment to bigger fools in a couple of years.
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@manton Gemini user count is pretty meaningless, isn’t it? The more important question IMO is how many paying users it has, and how many of those users would stick around if they had to pay.
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@manton It’s always easy for the PM who doesn’t have to write the code ;)
Don’t forget to animate it, so when I click on my Pixelfed server the paths light up in order…
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@manton In my dream world we’d have a graphical editor showing the web of “when I post to X, it flows to Y and Z via this protocol” with drag-and-drop editing….of course my dream world also includes you have a couple of full-time developers to put on this feature alone. But I do think you’re butting up against the limits of what can be done with just text.
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@JohnBrady The Penguin Classics KJV includes the apocrypha.
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@mitch I suspect if this were the 1980s the DSA would be criticizing South Africa rather than Israel - my feeling is that they’re more opportunists seizing on the currently top-of-mind issue than hardcore antisemites. Either way, though, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Pity, because I’d like to support some of their positions without supporting their candidates.
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@manton Thanks for mentioning xcancel - turns out there is a Firefox extension to automatically redirect on the client side.
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@MitchWagner I’m using uBlock Origin on Firefox. 99% of my browsing is desktop.
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@mitch I have a simpler algorithm: “No.”
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@roelio I’m old enough to remember when Google wanted to make it possible to find all the world’s information. Now they want to destroy it. What a wonderful world we live in.
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@mitch On the internet, no one knows you’re not a dog.
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@mitch I guess “robotic parking” sounds sexier than “automated forklift.” Surprised they didn’t throw “AI” in there.
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@manton For what it’s worth, micro.blog/discover/… feels like it could use some love. Not sure whether that’s a hand-curated feed or just doing a poor job of finding photos, but I personally find it unhelpful.
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@genehack I find that I can’t enjoy thunderstorms now that I’m in Eugene…too many new wildfire starts.
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@manton I think the appropriate “get off my lawn” comeback is “I joined Twitter when it was still easily possible to read the firehose of every tweet.”
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@jkratz Lynx, of course.
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@manton Fortunately it was a long time ago. And the guy issuing most of them wasn’t all that competent at life in general. Don’t know that the experience made me stronger, but it didn’t do much to make me change my mind on deeply held convictions.
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@manton Back when I used to be a minor celebrity, I got the occasional death threat. It was helpful to focus more time on hanging around with people who thought defending me from such nonsense was a worthwhile activity. If you’re doing the right thing, there will be enough folks with your back that the dopes don’t matter so much.
Even so, it’s hard to avoid picking at the scab. Best of luck.
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@ablerism Very nice. The black on yellow is especially striking.
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@manton There’s a simple fix: shut down Meta, confiscate all of the billions from Zuck & Co, and use the money to make some recompense to people & society. Not that I expect any part of this to happen.
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@mitch Similarly, this went around when I was in school mumble-mumble years ago:
The more you study, the more you know.
The more you know, the more you can forget.
The more you can forget, the more you do forget.
The more you do forget, the less you know.
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@manton But I know it’s eternally hard to try to be a neutral publisher and free-speech advocate. Overall I’m still quite happy with your vision & leadership.