Fedi exclusively. I’ll never trust a corporate/venture capital funded platform again. A profit motive immediately compromises their users even if they are well intended in the beginning.
Mastodon is great, but to make it even better for professional use it might help if something like the "top-links" in the "catch-up" (Beta) window of #phanpy (phanpy.social/ ) is the home page by default for all users. These top-links are sorted by the number of times boosted by the ones *you follow*. This could be useful for #science, to highlight most important developments (e.g. publications) in your network. Now you easily miss them, causing some colleagues to leave.
@geertaarts > Mastodon is great, but to make it even better for professional use
Using Mastodon is only one way to participate in the fediverse. It wasn't even the first. There have always been a range of apps you can use, many of which have features Mastodon lacks;
@michaelcoyote I think keeping Mastodon as a main account and also building a community on BS that could be ported here if the enshitification of BS hits, might not be an awful idea. it might also be a way to educate people about the fediverse. #Mastodon #BlueSky
@Bam > I just wish the bridge operated by opt out rather than opt in
AFAIK it was. Then the Mastodon Homeowners Association dogpiled @snarfed.org until he made it opt-in. What I'd like to see him do is make the opt-in itself opt-in. So it's up to server admins to decide whether they want BS interop with their server to be opt-in or opt-out.
I suspect our server's community would prefer opt-out.
@alexisbushnell > the reason quantity over quality is important on other platforms is because of the algorithms on them
That explains how the habit develops. But not why people pick replacements that supply the habit, rather than liberating them from it.
While I'm glad you shared this, your reply is somewhat out of context. I was referring more to some people choosing a Xitter replacement on the basis of total population to be reached (quantity), over the values encoded in the tech (quality).
@alexisbushnell > when your business model depends on reaching the most people, the decision is made for you based on where the most people are
That logic makes sense in a broadcast world, where channels have fairly consistent audiences. But it totally breaks down in social media.
Total population tells you nothing useful. FarceBook still has a higher total population that anywhere. But there's no guarantee anyone will see your stuff there - even if they follow you - unless you pay to play.
Speaking here as an activist, writer and advocacy journalist for about 3 decades. If you think I don't want lots of people to read and share my stuff, you're imagining someone much more enlightened than me ; )
I first got active on the fediverse on Quitter.se. They ran a GNU social server, which could automatically crosspost to a Titter account. I set one up for that purpose.
Every now and then I'd login to respond to any comments that merited a reply, and compare the level of engagement with what I was getting in the verse. Despite the total population of Titter being massively higher, both the quantity and quality of engagement here was consistently higher.
@alexisbushnell > an amazing Fedi following won't get you paid
I beg to differ. I recently got my first paid subscription from a shameless self-promotion here. I regularly see people posting jobs wanted and jobs offered ads. As well as begposts along the lines of 'can't pay my rent this week, please drop cash money in this digital bucket'.
Will an amazing BlueSky following get you paid in similar ways? Probably. But it has nothing to do with the relative size of their total population.
@alexisbushnell > I meant in the way influencers make money - by selling ad space on their content
Is it mean to say that I simply don't care what happens to people who make money that way? Just like I don't care about what happens to any bacteria on my hands when I wash them?
Like the bacteria, this style of "influencer" floods the zone with shit simply by existing. If BlueSky is keeping away from the fediverse for a bit longer, that's the best argument I've seen so far for BS existing ; )
#Plastic rubbish on beaches, from space. "The satellite imagery tool developed by RMIT University scientists picks up differences in how sand, water and plastics reflect light, allowing plastics to be spotted on shorelines from more than 600km above" The Beached Plastic Debris Index is now a thing. rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2024… Thanks to rafaelatiengo.substack.com/p/e… for this news item
I'm a bit skeptic on anything that uses very hi-res worldview imagery, or any other vhr imagery. Availability and lack of a constant acquisiton configuration makes this type of analysis too costly to have any real application. It's fun that's for sure.
the only way I think it would be feasible is if you have free access to a very big catalogue, like some public institutions, but then again, each image would have a very different acquisition angle and/or GSD, and you won't be able to repeat the analysis frequently.
VHR imagery has too many limitations when your are not the DoD or a very very big company.
The Hind Rajab Foundation is devoted to ending Israeli impunity, and achieving justice for 6 year old Hind Rajab and all the victims of the Gaza Genocide.
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The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling th
The director of the besieged and under-fire Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza said his hospital has received phone calls from civilians trapped alive under buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes, but there was no way to rescue them.
“Sadly, the next day, their voices were gone, and they were counted among the dead, with their homes becoming their graves.”
Israel this morning bulldozed the last remaining building in the Umm Al-Hiran Bedouin village of the Negev (Naqab) desert, a mosque, to make way for the construction of Jewish-only settlements.
The Pakistani Health Department reports that at least 1.8 million people in Punjab, #Pakistan have become sick with respiratory and eye irritation ailments caused by chronic, record-breaking air pollution. apnews.com/article/pakistan-sm… #airpollution
A graphic showing 335 bullet casings arranged in a grid, representing the number of bullets fired into a car containing a 6 year old girl and her family. The text reads "I'm so scared. Please come." -Hind Rajab. The text below explains that the girl was trapped in the car with her slain family and that paramedics were fired upon while trying to reach her. A single teardrop is shown at the bottom of the graphic.
From a post On X: On May 21st, I published and translated photos about Eliran Mizrahi, a reserve soldier in the engineering corps who was always posting about the war crimes he committed in #Gaza.
Eliran Mizrahi, who fought in the Gaza Strip since October 7th, ended his life by shooting himself last Friday - two days before he was supposed to return to fight in #Rafah.
#Mizrahi, 40 years old, left behind a wife and four children. He was called up for reserve duty at the beginning of the war by Order 8 and worked as a D9 bulldozer driver, destroying Palestinian homes.
He entered the Gaza Strip and, according to Hebrew media, was exposed to dozens of anti-tank missiles, survived resistance ambushes, small arms fire, and explosive devices and mines.
After half a year of fighting, Eliran returned home. He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, but despite this, he requested to continue serving in the reserves. Shortly after his release from the reserves, he received another Order 8, and he was supposed to report again today.
Now, his family demands that he be buried in a military funeral. His father said, "The army took him, and the army should take care of his burial. We will not hold a non-military funeral. He remained in Gaza even when he was at home and was preparing to go out today for reserve duty by Order 8."
The end of a war criminal who participated in genocide (I do not share links on ShiTwitter where I found the original).
يوم 21 مايو/آيار كنت نشرت وترجمت صور عن إليران مزراحي، جندي احتياط في سلاح الهندسة كان دائماً ينشر عن جرائم الحرب التي يقوم بإرتكابها في غزة. (البوست مثبت)
إليران مزراحي، الذي قاتل في قطاع غزة منذ 7 أكتوبر، أنهى حياته بإطلاق النار على نفسه يوم الجمعة الماضي - يومين قبل أن كان من المقرر أن يعود للقتال في رفح.
مزراحي، البالغ من العمر 40 عامًا، ترك وراءه زوجة وأربعة أطفال. تم استدعاؤه للاحتياط في بداية الحرب بأمر 8 وعمل كسائق جرافة D9 وقام بتدمير منازل الفلسطينيين.
دخل قطاع غزة وتعرض -بحسب الإعلام العبري- لعشرات الصواريخ المضادة للدروع، ونجى من كمائن للمقاومة ومن إطلاق نار من الأسلحة الخفيفة ومن عبوات ناسفة وألغام.
بعد نصف عام من القتال، عاد إليران إلى المنزل. تم تشخيصه بأنه يعاني من اضطراب ما بعد الصدمة، ورغم ذلك طلب الاستمرار في الخدمة الاحتياطية، بعد فترة قصيرة من إطلاق سراحه من الاحتياط، تلقى أمر 8 آخر، وكان من المقرر أن يلتحق اليوم مجددًا.
الآن، تطالب عائلته بأن يُدفن بجنازة عسكرية، وقال والده: "الجيش أخذه ويجب على الجيش أن يعتني بدفنه. لن نقيم جنازة ليست عسكرية، فقد بقي في غزة حتى عندما كان في المنزل واستعد للخروج اليوم للخدمة الاحتياطية بأمر 8".
thebeaverton.com/2024/11/ameri… “I don’t understand what went wrong!” sighed the facility’s chief scientist. “I added a flawed constitution, an electoral system designed by slave owners, a biased and corrupt supreme court, and centuries of frothing racism, violent sexism, and misguided exceptionalism.
Israeli warplanes have bombed a house in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town, killing a mother and her three children, according to the Wafa news agency.
The Palestinian Information Centre (Palinfo) identified the mother as Shurooq al-Radhi, wife of Naseem al-Radhi, who is imprisoned by Israeli authorities.
![Palestinians view the damage after Israeli forces withdrew from the area around Kamal Adwan hospital in Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 26, 2024 [Reuters]](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/18104162 "Palestinians view the damage after Israeli forces withdrew from the area around Kamal Adwan hospital in Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 26, 2024 [Reuters]")
Kev
in reply to Jesse Skinner • • •twitter, threads, mySpace, Facebook: all will fall
Mastodon will be the little rodents with the little whiskers, hiding in the debris...
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Unknown parent • • •@admin_backup
From what I've read on Mastodon, Bluesky is the new Nazi bar.
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Strypey
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> Mastodon is great, but to make it even better for professional use
Using Mastodon is only one way to participate in the fediverse. It wasn't even the first. There have always been a range of apps you can use, many of which have features Mastodon lacks;
fediverse.party/en/miscellaneo…
Existing professional tools can be modified to communicate over ActivityPub too, see;
socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…
@JesseSkinner
geekysteven
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in reply to Jesse Skinner • • •@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote
in reply to Dreaming of dad jazz. • • •Strypey
in reply to @pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote • • •> keeping Mastodon as a main account and also building a community on BS that could be ported here if the enshitification of BS hits
*When* the enshittification of BS hits;
pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…
@michaelcoyote @JesseSkinner
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote
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in reply to Toni Aittoniemi • • •@gimulnautti
I just wish the bridge operated by opt out rather than opt in. So many Bluesky non-techies don’t understand how it works or why they should do it.
@JesseSkinner
Strypey
in reply to Bam • • •(1/2)
@Bam
> I just wish the bridge operated by opt out rather than opt in
AFAIK it was. Then the Mastodon Homeowners Association dogpiled @snarfed.org until he made it opt-in. What I'd like to see him do is make the opt-in itself opt-in. So it's up to server admins to decide whether they want BS interop with their server to be opt-in or opt-out.
I suspect our server's community would prefer opt-out.
@gimulnautti @JesseSkinner
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •(2/2)
Having said that, there's some benefits to people effectively having to choose either;
* actually decentralised social networks like the fediverse (or Nostr)
OR
* pseudo-decentralised social platforms like BS (or Meta's Chains)
It spares us having to deal with "influencer" types who think volume of noise is more important than quality of signal.
Strypey
Unknown parent • • •@alexisbushnell
> the reason quantity over quality is important on other platforms is because of the algorithms on them
That explains how the habit develops. But not why people pick replacements that supply the habit, rather than liberating them from it.
While I'm glad you shared this, your reply is somewhat out of context. I was referring more to some people choosing a Xitter replacement on the basis of total population to be reached (quantity), over the values encoded in the tech (quality).
Strypey
Unknown parent • • •@alexisbushnell
> when your business model depends on reaching the most people, the decision is made for you based on where the most people are
That logic makes sense in a broadcast world, where channels have fairly consistent audiences. But it totally breaks down in social media.
Total population tells you nothing useful. FarceBook still has a higher total population that anywhere. But there's no guarantee anyone will see your stuff there - even if they follow you - unless you pay to play.
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •(2/?)
Speaking here as an activist, writer and advocacy journalist for about 3 decades. If you think I don't want lots of people to read and share my stuff, you're imagining someone much more enlightened than me ; )
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •(3/3)
I first got active on the fediverse on Quitter.se. They ran a GNU social server, which could automatically crosspost to a Titter account. I set one up for that purpose.
Every now and then I'd login to respond to any comments that merited a reply, and compare the level of engagement with what I was getting in the verse. Despite the total population of Titter being massively higher, both the quantity and quality of engagement here was consistently higher.
#SocialMedia #fediverse
Strypey
Unknown parent • • •@alexisbushnell
> an amazing Fedi following won't get you paid
I beg to differ. I recently got my first paid subscription from a shameless self-promotion here. I regularly see people posting jobs wanted and jobs offered ads. As well as begposts along the lines of 'can't pay my rent this week, please drop cash money in this digital bucket'.
Will an amazing BlueSky following get you paid in similar ways? Probably. But it has nothing to do with the relative size of their total population.
Strypey
Unknown parent • • •@alexisbushnell
> I meant in the way influencers make money - by selling ad space on their content
Is it mean to say that I simply don't care what happens to people who make money that way? Just like I don't care about what happens to any bacteria on my hands when I wash them?
Like the bacteria, this style of "influencer" floods the zone with shit simply by existing. If BlueSky is keeping away from the fediverse for a bit longer, that's the best argument I've seen so far for BS existing ; )