why are people titling all their posts about mastodon etiquette as boring things like “for mastodon newbies” when “mastodos and mastodonts” is right there

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

Jorf

Y'know, when I wrote this last week, I didn't expect that Musk would basically do the speedrunning in public the way he is. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

I've been talking with many friends considering moving to Mastodon, so I tried to writeup my thoughts about why and how to do that! it's not comprehensive, instead like a casual chat, but hope it's helpful!

feel free to share; feedback & q's welcome

https://gist.github.com/hartsick/f057cfb16657b93356e045c48b633f4f

I'm gonna tell my kids that this was the last Twitter employee to get laid off.

imagine deciding which engineers to keep around based on lines of code and choosing to keep the ones who wrote the MOST

Our lord and saviour Gorris

diagram of the trinity where it's Google Meet ≠ Google Meet (original) ≠ Google Duo on the corners, and all = Google Hangouts in the middle

Last week, a Redditor fine-tuned an AI image model on the work of one illustrator, sparking a debate about the ethics of reproducing a living artist's style. I talked to that artist to see how she felt about it, and the person who made it. https://waxy.org/2022/11/invasive-diffusion-how-one-unwilling-illustrator-found-herself-turned-into-an-ai-model/

If you are on Twitter and want to find people who have opened accounts over here, someone made a little tool that scrapes Fediverse handles (and email addresses, since a lot of people drop the leading @) from the Twitter bios and display names of people you follow over there

https://fedifinder.glitch.me