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An oversimplified guide to setting up Mastodon | Sarah Higley
A very simple step-by-step guide to creating a Mastodon account, with a focus on accessibility.Sarah Higley
My goal is to produce #SVG images that respect dark mode, can be easily styled with CSS, and also allow either circle, square or no background.
I want to embed best practices of accessibility, and web sustainability in this.
So what can I do to improve these?
https://codepen.io/mgifford-the-typescripter/pen/zYjygjL?editors=1100
#a11y #SustyWeb #DarkMode
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/opinion/social-media-parents-children.html
Opinion | It Was a Mistake to Let Kids Onto Social Media Sites. Hereโs What to Do Now.
Changing a law to raise the age requirement for social media use could empower parents.Yuval Levin (The New York Times)
๐ก Raises an interesting idea about it causing or reinforcing cultural "learned helplessness" that crosses over into many other areas of modern tech-facilitated life. (Something @lightweight has long discussed.)
๐ Take a read this weekend and tell us what you think?
https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/awakening-moment-to-how-smartphones-fragment-our-attention/
My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span
I recently realized that absorbing the constant inflow of information from my smartphone, always readily available in my pocket to capture any free moment of attention, had fragmented my attention span.Tom Johnson
- #PreetiKotamarthi
https://thedecisionlab.com/insights/technology/brave-new-world-how-the-metaverse-may-shape-our-psychology
#MetaVerse #SocialMedia #DataFarming
Brave New World: How the Metaverse May Shape Our Psychology - The Decision Lab
The Metaverse is the hottest topic in tech and beyond. But if we donโt plan for the dawn of this new world, we risk repeating past mistakesThe Decision Lab
Before #Mastodon, before #socialMedia, before the #Web, we had the #BBS.
If you wanna learn from those who came before, here's a comprehensive 5-hour #documentary about bulletin board systems. ๐ค
(Of course, given the world back then it's mostly 5 hours of old white guys. So it goes!)
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=nO5vjmDFZaI
BBS the Documentary [Full HD]
The BBS (bulletin board system) scene of the 80s and 90s was a magical time. Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users whoโฆInvidious