Amgine @wsaewyc@librem.one

Small #rant:

Content is premier. Bots re-post or boost content, but *people* think about a topic, draw their own conclusions, then write about them.

One of the first clues an account is just a bot is if there is no original content in the account stream. If someone has not yet come out of their shell enough to say something in their own words, that is fine. But how can I learn anything about them if they simply sample other people's thoughts and express none of their own?

all those tags, and I forgot the bare #arm and #arm64.

Read the thread - issue with Metronome builds not being armv6 compatible

#AskFediverse: @yunohost has run into an important bug for #RPi0 and #RPi1 - apparently #Metronome builds are not #armv6 compatible. Can anyone offer some help/insight?

https://github.com/YunoHost/issues/issues/1423

#armhf #armel

Image of #Squeekboard in #KingsCrossTerminal - looks great but no cntrl key, which may not be necessary/useful since I know little about KCT.

August update of Librem 5: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-august-update/

#Purism #Librem5

Heh. Went #hashtag hopping through topics which interest me, got annoyed people were not over-wowing me with extreme accomplishments I can never hope to equal…

And realized I could instead be working on my own darned cool things. So good night, #fediverse.

I was reminded today of a post by @kyle where he said he was pessimistic about pressure from #netizens asking for some groups to be blocked from their internet experience.

And he was probably sitting at a browser using uBlock to do exactly that.

There is nothing wrong with wanting an automated method to filter portions of the internet. Could it be misused? of course. But publicly curated ad/malware/resource abuse/privacy/cookie blocking lists seem to do a reasonable job.

Almost forgot it's #FollowFriday!! I have not been very social this week

* @kezzbracey@mastodon.gamedev.place - Lovely human!

* @Fairphone - Phone makers who make social values-informed choices in their materials sourcing.

* @max - Lovely human!

* @francois - Lovely Human

#ff

One of the more interesting things I have been noticing lately is #insularity.

As a site grows in number of active users, they tend to interact *more* with other users who are not on the same instance. The largest instances with real people consistently drop to a bit below 30%.

My working assumption (without specific evidence) is #social people explore by conversation, exposing themselves to new ideas, people.

There are, of course, exceptions.

"What is up with this? I followed somebody but their toots are not showing up in my timeline!"

Maybe you *requested* to follow them. In the #fediverse people can choose to approve their followers, and your request might not have been approved, may even have been rejected.

It is a different world view here on #Mastodon compared with the bird site. How many followers is not a good metric here.

Ah, poor Max! still having problems installing #tor browser bundle for the #Librem5. Like everyone else on #PureOS. Maybe @torproject could help with that.

https://libre.video/videos/watch/9e1eefce-e64a-47c1-aec3-3e957adfb29c

#RunsOnLibrem5 #Purism

Runs on Librem 5, Day 32 - GNOME Archive Manager

https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/135b44f7-ab82-4678-9e37-566b0a421800

ArchiveOrg: https://archive.org/details/librem5day032gnomearchivemanager

#Purism #Librem5 #Linux #Smartphone #GNOME #GNU

Oh the embarrassment. Discovered @BabyWOGUE@mastodon.technology on teh don.

Since I am experiencing #Librem5 #video withdrawals, here is baby WOGUE's video on #Squeekboard from two weeks ago:

https://invidio.us/watch?v=UUr0_unooGc

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZWadyLVO4ZnMgLrRVtS6VA

#babyWOGUE #GNOME #Keyboard on #Purism's Librem 5 #devkit image

@QOTO
Not a report, but interested in your opinion. Qoto appears to be being used by Gabvertisers. E.g. DavidBond@qoto.org

They appear to be meatpuppets or similar mostly to advocate on behalf of, recruit, and increase SEO of Gab. Does this violate the Qoto policy against advertising?

@tengo You should be aware that Gab is gaming the fediverse using bots and other techniques to pollute the statistics. For some reason they seem to think SEO is useful.

Purism is not, itself, blocking Gab. Their app is a fork of Tusky, which is one of many which have chosen, based on the #ToleranceParadox, to block people logging into Gab.

You can read a bit about the Tolerance Paradox on en.Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

d'oh. Just realized I forgot the #ff on this thread...

And some more great accounts to #FollowFriday!

* @fssofdeath - Lovely human!

* @Framasoft - Defenders of the [digital] Universe | Les défenseurs de l'univers

* @wobin - Lovely human!

* @liferoadknitting@framapiaf.org - un humain charmant !

* @SecretlyPublicDomain - bot announcing #HathiTrust books which are actually in #PublicDomain, out of #copyright

* @Snowden - Lovely human!

@DestinationLinux had a reasonably extended discussion in 133 about #Purism's #Librem5, starting a few seconds before the 1 hour mark. Much of it revolved around how other online conversations are less about the #Linux (the #GNOME, #Phosh, #upstreaming, etc. work) and more about the company.

But hey, they had other things on their agenda.

https://destinationlinux.org/episode-133/