Sean @sean@octodon.social
@MarkBennett true but there are permissions when writing a message. It is just less obvious.
Interestingly admins of instances, I'll assume, can read anything they want.
@MarkBennett pretty inexpensive to have an account. So early the switch cost is low!
@MarkBennett I wonder if it is your instance. I see things in octodon.social very quickly. I even have a 3rd party iOS app that gives notifications magically.
@MarkBennett forgot to get one 😕. Sorry!
@MarkBennett see any on your local or federated timelines? Should be _some_ activity there.
More JS news from March I'm linking out to in the deck:
- Glimmer "announced"
- jQuery 3.2(.1)
- Ember 2.12 (2.13 Beta)
- Polymer 2.0 RC
Oh, the late night crunch to complete a slide deck... Currently putting together the past month's news and speaker slides for tomorrow's JavaScript meetup (Exchange.js) in Edmonton.
Any notable JavaScript releases/general news the past ~30 days that pops top of mind?
So far:
- StandardJS 10.0
- Angular 4.0
- Visual Studio Code 1.11
About risk profile:
- Mastodon is like email because you can't delete federated toots
- Mastodon is like twitter in that Google's search bots index it, unless your admins robot.txt it away
- Mastodon is like being a teenager because the people that own your instance can see all your private stuff
Have a talk with your admin about their policies.
By default, assume everyone will be able to read your toots forever.
Great idea from @HedgeMage
"Let's play a game, to help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same."
yeah i mostly hang out on french-politics mastodon
@Lohenglamm "Discord - Free Voice and Text Chat for Gamers" is right in their title. Seems very game community centric... correct or just bad/old marketing on their part? I don't voice chat a lot, so perhaps not a good fit for me personally. Sounds cool though.
Hai! This idea of federation is pretty interesting. I'm interested to see the communities that emerge.
Late 1990's/early 2000's or so (for a few years) I ran an IRC server as part of a larger network, so I get the appeal of running smaller/niche instances.
