Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Hot-takes on how "bad" fedi is by people who joined a week ago remind me of this seminal piece of deep insight:
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

> Six reasons Mastodon won't survive

It was published 5.5 years ago (and counting).

I want David Cronenberg to design the new USB standard, so all the ports and plugs sigh and moan and writhe before finally accommodating each other’s anatomy in a blissful, disturbing union that allows charging and data transfer to occur effortlessly between all equipment.

If #Mastodon existed in the 1980s! Please boost this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV8Q0WOYoag

Hi everyone,

As of right now, I've identified 18 members of Congress/ committees/ office on #mastodon, of which 8 are confirmed as authentic.

The list is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1egupogzhZgPgcM1NcIxBC4iW2xgvs1qJPAG568YaCuY/edit?usp=sharing

#legislatures

Remember What They Took From You.

One of my favorite images in the category 'Future of Work'. From 1930!! 😳

"The futuristic world as envisioned by Echte Wagner advertising cards, 1930. Wireless Private Phone and Television."

Source: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/futuristic-visions-cards-germany/

#futureofwork #work #tech #innovation

How much public space we've surrendered to cars (Swedish artist Karl Jilg)

IN DEPTH: We previously reported that the GNU Image Manipulation Program would be renamed to LIGMA, as a result of long-standing controversy over its name. This article from our sister publication Fast Developer World covers the story in more detail. https://www.wpfastworld.com/11/23/open-source-graphics-editor-gimp-will-be-renamed-ligma-small-tech-news/

In the few weeks since I've returned to both Tumblr and Mastodon (following the slow death of the bird app), both of my timelines have been a veritable tapestry of what I tend to call the "weaponization of white weirdness"

specifically the fear of white folks who dominate specific subcultural spaces that the inclusion of more people who weren't already part of a subculture will somehow alter the cultural aesthetics, mores, etc

very "there goes the neighborhood" syndrome

While following a lot of people can populate your Home feed significantly, sometimes people (like me) end up boosting a lot and that can unexpectedly hinder your own experience.

So if you like someone's specific posts and don't want to follow their boosts, you can go to their profile under the [...] button, and select the "Hide boosts from account" button.

There is no algorithm on Mastodon. You have ownership and control over every filtering decision instead of some robot.

#TwitterMigration

Notable that Marc Andreessen backed Elon’s Twitter takeover and is now also backing Post.news, Twitter’s main competitor outside Mastodon. Once again, you think you’re given a choice but the rich get richer either path you take!
#technology #tech #twitter #elon #musk #twittermigration

If you a running a Mastodon instance and are looking for a good way to take donations/recurring donations, I can help you avoid the Patreon 10% Venture Capital tax via a site running Ghost and Outpost. Not a biz offer, we will run this for free as a way to give back to #fediverse.

And if you already have a patreon, we can help you gracefully switch to something better without upsetting what you have set up now.

“Everything is a file”

Computing: Paradigm that underlies the incredibly successful Unix operating system

Woodworking: This is the worst workshop ever