Websites which have opinions about how the local part of an email address should be constructed can get in the sea.
It's entirely up to me what my localpart looks like and I'll put + signs in it if I want to.
I'm curious what the real rationale is here -- I mean, what difference does it really make to them?
🔓 ODEMYKÁM — zasloužíte si mít možnost tohle číst → Respekt: Kdo se bojí Lindy B. Dejte si to celé.
respekt.cz/tydenik/2024/47/kdo…
Kdo se bojí Lindy B.
Proč podcasty Krása a Slast Lindy Bartošové vyvolávají takové emoce. A proč mě mrzí, že jsem ji neznala jako mladá ženaIvana Svobodová (Týdeník Respekt)
Yup, I’m calling it.
bsky will prevail where Mastodon failed. The recent migration triggered the critical mass of Chaos Muppet Energy that Masto’s culture works so hard to extinguish
Like a climactic moment in a Zelda game where the accumulation of artifacts and switches pulled channels mystical energy.
I will see you over there!
Welcome to the RB family, Canta 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/org.s…
Canta allows you to uninstall any app from your device, even if you don't have root access.
Once more, joint efforts by IzzyOnDroid and the author led to a successful RB 
RB status at IoD now: 341 apps (28.2%)
After consolidating all of the dependencies that #FeatherWiki uses into the project itself and stripping all the features it doesn't use, I managed to shave off 4 more kilobytes 🤯 Now I can use that extra space for some quality of life features like CSS variables for easier theming & extra settings toggles!
What other small-but-helpful addition would you like to see added to the Feather Wiki core? (no, I still won't add search to the core)
Beautiful Focus Outlines
A weekly dose of web accessibility to help you bring it into your everyday work.Accessibility Weekly
Eurasian Nuthatch, oil on wood panel, 20x20cm, Conny Duck November 2024
In other news, Arcane is in its home stretch, and it’s running on maglev: 500 kph of smooth ride. You can definitely see all the shortcuts they took to avoid spending another year (or six) on the series—the montages abound—but the quiet moments and character work are still the real highlight.
Scientists have discovered that Kenyan mealworm larvae can digest polystyrene, showing promise as a tool in addressing plastic waste management 🪱♻️
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."
— Matsuo Basho
#JapanesePhilosopy #philosophy #JapaneseReligion #japan #MentalHealth #mindfulness #mindfulliving #bettermentjourney
If you, like me, are bored to death by the current levels of cinematography in seasonal anime slop, do yourself a favour, and watch Dandadan. Go into it blind, but give it a chance for the first arc of four episodes. Then, once you reach episode 7, you’ll see what Science SARU has cooked.
Dandadan Production Notes #01-04
Now that the first arc of the Dandadan anime is over, we can look back at how it represents its series director's extraordinary obsession with internal logic, the way that has enabled creative choices, and also the limitations that its team has to na…kViN (Sakuga Blog)
Ninja Warrior in a Japanese Outpost Town
#ComfyUI #AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt #synthography #TrainedAlgorithmicMedia
This afternoon, an acquaintance joined a Mastodon instance and asked me which "celebrities" are present in the Fediverse, as if it were important to determine the value of a social network based on that.
I told him that the most important user in the Fediverse is him. Just as it’s you, reading this. Someone who has decided to interact with others freely. Who has chosen to trust their administrator (or create their own instance) more than they trust those who run traditional, monolithic, centralized social networks.
So, I want to thank all the friends of BSD Cafe, whether local or not, for being here and making this place what it is. And I thank all my friends in the Fediverse, who make my timeline lively, interesting, intelligent, fun, and thought-provoking - every day, at any time.
#BSDCafe #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialNetworks #SocialMedia #Community #Trust #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #JoinTheFediverse
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •What threw it over the top for me was catching wind of a developing news event in real time—the Nazi party at MSG
with the blend of straight facts, analysis and jokes we used to get from Twitter
A range of voices broad enough there to really deliver. How exciting
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •update two weeks later:
Yup. Bsky is where it’s at. It feels like Twitter used to feel, the vibes are positive, the voices are diverse, it’s easy to get the kind of content you need
Moreover, the product quality gap compared to Masto is yawning ever wider, with user-made feed algorithms, block lists, and starter packs
Whatever advantages Masto had from its early lead are exhausted, and as it relates to time and attention, I will not be betting on its success
hachyderm.io/@danilo/113367189…
bsky: @daniloc.xyz (@danilo@hachyderm.io)
Hachyderm.iobsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •I do hope you will consider joining bluesky, as not all of my favorites have made the migration yet
If you abandoned it previously, as I did, give it another look. Journalists and scientists in particular are moving over, providing an insightful foundation for discussion and enriching the quality of feeds
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •My favorite anecdote on the superiority of its product design culture:
For years Masto has avoided quote posts, with much wailing and gnashing of teeth in a conversation that goes in circles, to the detriment of making things people want
Bsky shipped a thing where you can just detach yourself from any quoting post you feel is acting in bad faith, or otherwise brings you attention you don’t want
Sorry, man, they got the juice
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •Again, the juice.
Bsky is the number one free iOS app in the US right now.
Mastodon is the 184th most popular app in the social media chart. Here are some apps that rank ahead of Mastodon on that chart:
- Pengu, Virtual AI Pets, #20
- Plenty of Fish, the fifth tier dating app, #29
- Skype, #33
- Letterboxd, #38
- Potato Chat, #48
- BeReal, #55
- Yik Yak, #59
- 3Fun, for arranging group sex, #92
- Fizz (???), #95
- Ubisoft Connect, #162
Masto’s leadership fucked the dog here.
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •Reasonable people can disagree about the growth and funding strategies for a social media platform.
But Mastodon being less popular than a superfluous companion app for a game publisher no one likes is just poor stewardship.
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •tired: bluesky will be enshittified by financial incentives
wired: mastodon is already enshittified by poor management
inspired: bsky is adding a million users a day and now tops the Android list as well
User-built algorithms, a chronological timeline, a great blend of safety and product features
Plus a much more diverse slate of conversation topics and contributors
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •Bluesky now growing at a rate of 12-13 users per second
So why am I beating this drum?
Mastodon’s failure to capture Twitter’s collapse is instructive as a once-in-a-generation cautionary tale
Product design matters, protocol ideology is not enough, and disliking capitalism is not an exemption from economics
You will read a lot of copium about the fediverse still being viable, but it is now the smaller development target. That has consequences.
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bcounter.nat.vgbsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •And I think the short version is this:
A professional team of 20 people, fully funded and paid a proper full-time wage, is an objectively more effective approach to building the future than one grumpy bottleneck guy making $60k a year and a bunch of other people looking on with wishful thinking
Disliking venture capital is NOT ENOUGH. You have to figure out a different model that still can fund enough deep, sustained, collaborative work to build a thing people want
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •This is the mastodon energy in a nutshell, yup
“Love this crummy platform or get lost” is exactly how this happened
The final nail in the coffin here will be the culture.
freeradical.zone/@alltherum/11…
What's it to you?
2024-11-15 20:16:23
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •But I think the thing that REALLY sticks in my craw is:
- Elon Musk is fundamentally an evil figure who must be stopped
and
- I don’t WANT to defeat Twitter
are mutually incompatible positions. If the place is really that bad it must be destroyed. And the way you do that is by displacing it in its niche
Building the Twitter killer is a moral imperative.
Instead the dominant Masto vibe is “Elon is terrible therefore let’s build a culturally marginal alternative with bad financials”
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •This is kind of a microcosm of Masto Brain:
Bluesky has optimized safety and social features first ahead of client performance—eg reply gating, blocks that completely deny trolls access to your post’s audience, starter packs to bootstrap your social graph
while deferring client performance
An exercise for the reader to project whether Masto successfully applies these platform fundamentals before Bluesky invests in the nuts and bolts of client performance
toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/1134923…
Alex Russell (@slightlyoff@toot.cafe)
Toot CaféWhat's it to you?
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz • • •you sound like an investor.
*sees you have a pinned toot pimping AI*
Yeah, you've definitely made the right choice in leaving.