Adam @adam@librem.one
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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I'm just old enough to remember the start of ES (Eternal September) and I've got to disagree with you on this. The main access points for the pre-ES net were the universities. At the time these were still mainly havens for misfits, especially the people mucking around with computer networks. There were also a bunch of small ISPs, mostly non-profits and co-ops, also a havens for misfits. ES was the start of misfits on the net being policed by corporations on behalf of the mainstream.
@Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social are you going to post a tutorial about how you installed your own instance on a Rpi4?
@pastelscute @reuters@newsie.social @adamdavidson
Exactly, Reuters is big enough to run their own social.reuters.com instance for all of their employees. Having your actual domain there will verify to everyone that you are who you say you are.
@atomicpoet It smelled like a scam to me when I first saw it. I mean, a Google form?
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Hello Fediverse users, first I'd ask you go to to https://fedified.com/ so you can understand this poll and where it's coming from, please make sure to READ the information there before answering.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Fedified #Twitter #Centralization
And the question for the poll: How would you react at attempts to add a centralised layer onto of the fediverse that allows a group of people to dictate a verification system?
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The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.
For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).
"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.
There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.
It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.
Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.
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@alexstandiford Sleeping on the kitchen floor is totally fine.
@atomicpoet Totally. I'm excited to see the diversity more developers bring to the Fedi!
@aotearoa_ben Nice! I'll have to put that on the list for next time I'm back in NZ.
@shanselman Time to start over from the beginning I guess.
@icedquinn That's how people used to increase their follower counts on Twitter and Instagram.
Please @EvolutionGnome, make the UI redesign in version 3.46.1 an option. Leave the good design as the default so people can use it. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2139
@verita84 Oh gosh, that's awful! Hey, @Karlitschek, please take a look at these tips about making software easy to use: https://bookofadamz.com/general-user-experience-design-guidance/
@jugendverfuhrer I never liked #Gnome as a desktop environment, but Evolution was my favorite email/contact/calendar program until this 3.46.1 #UI travesty. I suppose I can use Neomutt, but that doesn't help with my Exchange server accounts.
@verita84 Oh no! I don't use @nextcloud yet, but why are people so bad at user interaction design these days? #UXfail
@matthew_d_green Yes, it's Mastadon with a Soapbox front end. https://pocketnow.com/trump-truth-social-network-removes-most-freedom-friendly-features-fediverse/
Bah! #GnomeEvolution 3.46.1 changed the #UI #Design and it's horrible!
The toolbar icons used to be easy to understand because they were labeled! Downgrading on Manjaro is giving me errors, too. :( https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2139
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"How it started"... "How it's going"
So how's that "unregulated, uninsured, un-tied to any govt" pride feeling now? #FTX #cryptocurrency_price_today
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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