Notices by simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net), page 6
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 13:40:44 JST 
simsa04
I wouldn't call the fediverse or its instances a place or places. In my understanding, or rather: in my preference, I view instances both as conversations (internally) and as doors into other conversations (regarding other instances and the fediverse as a whole). As they are doors, the metaphor becomes shaky, because nobody lives on a door sill. The image of a place also invites the view that admins are (or act like) landlords and users as tenants who have to "obey the rules" or are otherwise going to be dealt with ... like raucous tenants. What such imagery emphasizes is a hierarchy in favour of admins and mods, and omitts the equally important aspect that it is the users and their conversations that lend an instance its character, out of which often its reputation grows. As the dependence of admins and users is mutual, "place" becomes a less adequate metaphor. It also entails a conflation of the mere technical aspects of instances with their content and impact. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 09:21:23 JST
simsa04
The literalism of Mastodon – mind-numbing and reality-depreciating, isn't it? :-) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 05:32:15 JST
simsa04
Repeats by accounts on octodon.social now appear flawlessly in gnusocial.net. Nice.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 00:34:24 JST
simsa04
Thx. Will read. -
es0mhi@tilde.zone's status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 22:38:27 JST 
es0mhi
This statement should trigger a much broader discussion than I have time for right now.
Just a few brief remarks:
I, too, find approaching people via interests rather clumsy. Outside the net, I am first interested in personality (I use this fuzzy term here on purpose) and only later try to find out via which interests someone has become that personality. Moreover, here in the fediverse it apparently leads to the fact that many create different accounts for their different interests. Which I refuse to do (until now).
Since we can't "listen to the tone of a person's voice" here, don't necessarily learn about her mannors, the personality could be sensed in a different way. It would be helpful if people would express themselves more creatively. Simply boosting things, or spreading a link, a message, etc., is not enough. At some point, #GNUsocial was called 'statusnet' - an origin of which we hopefully emancipate ourselves - or not. Style would be of importance, style of writing, style of discussing. In a sharing culture, there is no room for style any more.
I find 'personal info' sometimes helpful after all. You say that we have learned not to share it on the net. Well, I have also learned many things offline about what I shouldn't do - and do them anyway.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 21:38:36 JST
simsa04
I wouldn't generalise that and I wouldn't see it that pessimistically. True, many people may behave the way they did on Twitter, but given the technical differences, screaming and trolling won't have the same effect as on Twitter. In the end, many will change their behaviour or return to Twitter.
I see federation as the main reason why the fediverse (even incl. most of the Mastodon network) is conversations-based, not claims-based. (It's "social media", not "scream media"). At least for now there is no way that one can accummulate favs and approvals by being obnoxious or doing outrageous things. And this is not just because the Fediverse is no silo – in fact, Mastodon run instances creating the Mastodon network pretty much are one – but because due to federation there is no one meta-instance in which a person can become famous.
In fact, I see the fediverse as an environment for learning to interact and disagree gracefully. And those who don't want that vanish into their respective corners or go elsewhere. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 11:06:43 JST
simsa04
I'm not sure this is the right way to proceed.
#Twitter is part of the U.S. disaster and emergency communications infrastructure. As
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/19/twitter-emergencies/ points out, about 1 in 5 U.S. Americans use Twitter. So it's here where people get their info, or from platforms that pass through announcements that originated on Twitter.
Also, as the article points out, :
« [O]fficials expressed confidence in their ability to spread messages and warnings without Twitter, using tried-and-true methods like email distribution lists and wireless alert systems [...]
“We’ve been sharing messages for a long time, long before Twitter came into existence,” said Karina Shagren, the communications director for the Washington Military Department in Tacoma [...] “We’ve always been modifying strategies, and we’ll do it again if we need to.” »
The main problem is not that Musk purportedly undermines Twitter's part in the disaster and emergency communications #infrastructure but that in the U.S. critical infrastructure is run by private companies. (Cf. the winter blackouts in Texas of 2021.)
Thus on the one hand it's a deeper seated structural problem (i.e., capitalism), on the other hand it's not something that is peculiar to Musk's handling of Twitter. In fact, given Twitter's share in the infrastructure, it may serve to Musk as further incentive to keep Twitter running decently. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 11:43:37 JST
simsa04
Twitter is part of the disaster and emergency communications infrastructure, at least in the U.S. People should keep that in mind when they shrug about the possibility that Musk may break ít. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 10:00:14 JST
simsa04
@ghostdancer @dvdmrsdn
I have mine in arms reach... but no puddle. :( -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 01:50:26 JST
simsa04
https://zirk.us/@shengokai/109393451840187827
« "Build your own instance," in essence, is a refusal to consider the possibility that we'd like to be our whole selves in community with others, rather than having to build our own walled gardens. On this view, it becomes a doubling down on the unacceptability for certain people to be authentically themselves within a digital social space. »
Wonderfully put. The "freedom" of the anti-social crowd. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 01:44:45 JST
simsa04
Thank you so much for stating this. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 12:07:11 JST
simsa04
Some came from Twitter to "the open sorce Twitter clone, identi.ca". I remember that I started with identica in 2010 and only later joined Twitter. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 12:02:14 JST
simsa04
It was Guadalinex with which I came nearest to experience something like a "community" of like-minded users: mutual support, a certain camaraderie, informality, and familiarity. Didn't experience that again since. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 11:56:54 JST
simsa04
Oh, DistroWatch has a torrent archive: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=bittorrent -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 11:54:14 JST
simsa04
Thinking back which OS I liked most, I find Windows 2000 and Guadlinex still to be my favourites. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 11:24:30 JST
simsa04
About 2010, on identi.ca. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 21:15:17 JST
simsa04
You already did very well, thank you. It was just to inform you about the glitch. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 12:16:20 JST
simsa04
@administrator
In the theme "neo-quitter" you recently added a small field to manually resize the message field, esp. when the text body grows larger. That works well when you write something in the "share your status"-field, but not when you reply to someone. In the reply-field the little bottom right corner is marked for groing but is not responsive for the mouse to alter the size of the message-field. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 12:11:02 JST
simsa04
The issue is less a max number of accounts or a max number of subscriptions but a max number of subsriptions that themselves have a high number of followers. And how would you come to fair guidelines or criteria for that? Perhaps the easiest way would be to either decrease priority of federating to such "celebrity accounts" ("first the little ones") or to federate to such "celebrity accounts" and only their followers to which the the first one subscribes to as well. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 08:23:28 JST
simsa04
Any attempts to rein in Turkey and Iran in their assaults on the Kurds in Syria and Iraq? At least against Turkey? Anything? NATO? What the cluster-fuck!
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