J. Nathan Matias @natematias@octodon.social
Building public interest, independent research on online safety & fairness. PhD Candidate, MIT Media Lab. Harvard BKC. http://civilservant.io natematias.com
Oooh. On the list for after the dissertation. Via Nnedi Okorafor
"Etabo dreams of being a camel racer. One day he might even beat his older brother when they race"
https://www.lantanapublishing.com/shop/books/wooden-camel/ https://octodon.social/media/u6xqHYjxc19hhBnzDrQ
Me right now:
Finishing the hat. How you have to finish the hat.
How you watch the rest of the world from a window... while you finish the hat.
Mapping out a sky. What you feel like planning a sky. What you feel when voices that come through the window go until they distance and die, until there's nothing but sky.
...
Studying the hat. Entering the world of the hat. Reaching of the world of the hat like a window...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uf-PikY4mQ&feature=youtu.be&t=1m23s
@goncalor @joshmillard apologies if I should have used CW to mention emacs extensions
@joshmillard @goncalor has anyone tried the GnuSocial emacs extension with Mastodon? https://github.com/bashrc/gnu-social-mode https://octodon.social/media/IZ2MdxAzgWY6cPWqmEw
@goncalor @linguangst I have a copy of this on my shelf. I am clearly on the wrong instance ✨ ✨
@sixohsix cyberfeminism TLDR: (1) the internet has created an opportunity for liberation from gender-based oppression. (2) the internet also perpetuates gender-based oppression in complicated ways
Although Wikipedia article could use some love and updating, it's actually an okay intro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberfeminism
@lolkat tab bankruptcy plugin is the best
@CobaltVelvet I can't help moderate, but starting in a week or so, I would be happy to help with community moderator relations & feedback on moderation strategies
It may be a good time to ask that: does anyone here want to be moderator?
Here it would just mean going through reports, and maybe watching local timelines to rule and help people.
It's not for now, I'll just start making a list for that day.
Hi everyone. I'm a Guatemalan-American who likes reading, making music, sailing, cycling, and trying to help people be less terrible to each other on the internet. I'm a few days away from finishing my PhD at MIT on the topic. Back to writing!
just wanna re-iterate that if any people of color have requests for things the dev team can address to make Mastodon better for people of color then you always have an open eat with me and I will do my best to make it happen, so long as it is feasible within the OStatus protocol.
Heartened to see Tim Berners-Lee receive the Turing Award:
http://awards.acm.org/about/2016-turing
While the Web is ubiquitous, the gracious style of timbl's contribution remains notable and laudable.
@grok I presume this would happen?
Thinking about using links to other people's threads rather than boosting them, to add friction for others who want to add on.
On reddit, we have a convention of respecting other people's conversations by replacing "www" with "np" so people who follow the link have extra friction before they can comment or vote.
Thoughtful Mastodon thread started by @andybaio: "Prediction: Mastodon will likely outlast Twitter"
Prediction: Mastodon will likely outlast Twitter.
Historically, decentralized, open-source platforms and protocols with any adoption run forever, even if they rarely reach the popularity or cultural relevance of centralized platforms.
It seems likely to me that when Twitter eventually shuts down, people will still be running Mastodon instances.
Did you know Diaspora has 328 active nodes and 17k users? Hell, there are 3,652 active FidoNet nodes, and that started in 1984!
So... am I wrong?
woke up to #caturday, mood seriously lifted :)
@gargron maybe you could ask someone you trust to go through the emails and prioritize them?
@rj well, we can say something about octodon the sysop's priorities from the server stats dashboard https://munin.octodon.social/munin-cgi/munin-cgi-graph/octodon.social/main.octodon.social/mastodon_trans-day.png
Rule of Mastodition #17 : No one really understands (the) federation they only pretend to. So don't pay good latinum to somehow who says they can spread your toots.
