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One of the best hashtags on this platform you can follow is #Mosstodon. You will just see calming amounts of green-covered surfaces in nature.

My latest for WIRED: The Mastodon features Elon Musk should steal but won't because he hates you

wired.com/story/mastodon-featu

Posting this here tonight for you all. Will post on Twitter tomorrow. We'll see if I have a Twitter account still on Tuesday. #TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration

Mr. Rogers gave me unrealistic expectations for the relationships I’d have with my neighbors

The reason Mastodon and the Fediverse is spread out on so many servers is it protects it from being taken over by anyone. Not even the richest can buy this place.

Centralised services like Twitter are incredibly easy to buy out. If you move from Twitter to another centralised service, sooner or later that will get bought out too.

The point of the Fediverse is to break this buyout cycle, to let people be permanently in control of their accounts. More info here:

➡️ fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fed

Andy, Matty, Denis, and Cody kept me moving and safely working out at home in 2022. My Peloton year in review.

This is also an interesting generational thing. Until the advent of the internet, relatively few people lived in high-information environments. *Most* lived in high-relationship environments, and social mores were built around that. Millennials (and younger GenX) and every subsequent generation have grown up in an era where high-information mediates relationships, rather than the other way around.

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I really appreciate that the @auschwitzmuseum reminds me daily about the extermination camps. It’s not intrusive, and not unduly upsetting. But it gives me a daily moment to reflect on the human losses of the Holocaust and the bigger crises of humanity before and since. Thank you.

If any of you post this photo doxing me im gonna buy your mastodon server

“But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.” —Patrick Geddes

I remember the night I visited San Francisco months before I lived there and left a voicemail for Arthur: “I feel like I’ve reached a magical intersection of time and space where I can resonate.”

I love that I get to legitimately say, “Of course I’m precisely on time. I’m a Swede,” now.

“APIs are as much about hiding complexity as they are about exposing capability.” —Mehdi Medjaoui

“The public doesn’t understand their city’s complexity and they don’t care about it. Similarly, users don’t care about your system’s complexity. They’re not internal to your organization. It’s not their job.” —@civicunrest

@seldo one of the best tweeters (and friend) ever

@civicunrest for civic tech stuff

@Techmeme my favorite tech news curator

@hn500 orange site tech news curation without having to visit the orange site

If anybody is curious…

Me and @agiletortoise started a Mastodon Instance for indie apps 🙂

It’s for apps and not people 😇

👉 indieapps.space

I didn't know the UK has regulation requiring banks to show they are not locked in to a single cloud provider, and that their critical services are portable. I wonder if they have similar regs for government services...

(Slide from Matt Roberts at IBM)
#apidays #apidaysparis #govtech #apis

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

@civicunrest on APIs transforming govt:

• City govts all do similar things, but tools/practices vary greatly for no good reason. They reinvent because there hasn’t been a better way.
• Most govt APIs so far focused on exposing data, not capabilities
• Legislation, internal needs and policies, and product innovation (competing with private sector) are changing this!
• Early progress in cooperatively built/maintained software, investment in open source components, and data standards

Quotes from Erik Wilde’s talk at

“Nobody wants APIs. They want to get stuff done. Everyone needs APIs, but APIs are not the important thing. The important thing is the capability we wrap in the API.”

“If you wrap something super duper useful in a badly designed API, people will still use it! They won’t be happy, but they’ll still use it.”

Erik reached same conclusion I did about developer experience. is important, but does not matter as much as API providers want to believe.

If you have a productive, hacking cough do 👏 not 👏 attend 👏 a conference in-person. You are a biohazard. JFC… Did the pandemic not teach y’all anything‽

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