Posts by ummjackson@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AXG6KLSwfppyUIItqy by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-01T18:23:03Z
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The "you have to pay to view content, because AI companies are scraping us" line we're seeing from social media sites like Twitter and Reddit is just a convenient excuse.This is simply decades-old unsustainable funding models and dried up venture capital runway finally coming home to roost. Plain and simple.
(DIR) Post #AXKKIXvhXS7mYSd8XQ by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-02T16:35:46Z
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You can totally still view tweets logged out... examples:View a profile: https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-name/ummjacksonView a tweet: https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1415353985406406658Just change the username or tweet ID to whatever you'd like.
(DIR) Post #AXPurYKcbWQA4q4tGa by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-05T23:59:53Z
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@mmasnick @Gargron "XMPP did not exist on its own outside of nerd circles" is the funniest thing I've read today.
(DIR) Post #AXPurZu6l4OuxBgkDY by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-06T01:14:34Z
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@Gargron @mmasnick oh no I agree, it’s funny because it’s absolutely true… yet people these days romanticize how popular it was a lot.
(DIR) Post #AXQtO6WKchY5vCFTCy by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-06T23:16:26Z
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Is something broken on .social? I just started seeing posts from people I do not follow in my Home feed. Have made sure they're not boosts/replies. [Update: I'd accidentally followed a hashtag, false alarm!]
(DIR) Post #AXQtOPpooTQTp8Vnii by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-06T23:18:19Z
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@Gargron Not that I remember... where do I even go in the web interface to find that?
(DIR) Post #AXQtORHVR1ASJITQW0 by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-06T23:19:42Z
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@Gargron Oh weird, I was somehow following #twittermigration but don't remember ever clicking that. Fixed now.
(DIR) Post #AXT2fT8x3Km0uaaUMK by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-08T00:10:08Z
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@ariadne Is there literally *any* decent domain registrar though? I have struggled to find one.
(DIR) Post #AXVzFsIdBRPv0y6CES by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-06T23:32:47Z
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Is there an easy way to check how "defederated" the .social instance is?
(DIR) Post #AXbWZJMM7Oyj1eG8BM by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-11T18:50:49Z
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Personally not a fan of the @username@instance.tld format that the fediverse uses... especially the @ at the beginning, which is entirely redundant.Much prefer the simple instance.tld/@username format.
(DIR) Post #AXbWfP2ZuRl8Nlufpo by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-12T00:44:59Z
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@Gargron I’ve thought a bit on this… I think it’s that lack of consistency in how it’s used across the app that has made me dislike the @ up front. See 3 examples below of user handles being displayed in different ways. Your reply from same instance, a reply from external instance, and the reply authoring screen (where the @ is omitted) I think the key to adoption of this format is presenting it consistently as @username@instance.tld everywhere.
(DIR) Post #AXrF9xgtt6W9zPBhtg by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-07-19T16:28:22Z
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What's the most lightweight / low resource single-user instance ActivityPub/Mastodon implementation?
(DIR) Post #AZHcUk2GGzuWv9t8PQ by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-08-31T07:32:00Z
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Wishing I'd come up with the term "grift shift" https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2c4fad0w6irk838pca3gg/portfolio/money-is-pouring-into-ai-skeptics-say-its-a-grift-shift
(DIR) Post #AaghWJ7uJd43WVjDdI by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-10-12T07:16:34Z
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Somebody should create a virtual/software version of the Tascam Porta One you can run on an iPad or in a VST host. I suspect a lot of people would buy it.
(DIR) Post #AamHkLWeb8EUZL7pvk by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-10-14T21:32:33Z
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Dropbox enabling this by default = not cool. Guess I need to finally set up Syncthing or similar and do it all myself.
(DIR) Post #AamHkNNVi66iJYrYxM by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-10-14T23:31:09Z
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@Ailuridae I just don't like the idea of my private/personal files being sent plain and unencrypted in any shape or form to a third-party. It's a security and privacy issue waiting to explode a few years from now. Watch them say "oh we accidentally had logging enabled" 12 months from now or something.
(DIR) Post #AamPy49emKmqNiQDBI by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-10-15T02:15:29Z
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@Bernard @Ailuridae Thanks for the pointers, appreciate it. I've heard good things about Nextcloud, will check it out! :)
(DIR) Post #Abg7hraVG2MopV4UAi by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-11-10T23:12:59Z
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@tante https://codeberg.org/
(DIR) Post #AcFns29h4i4UkB7HEW by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-11-28T04:06:41Z
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Just shutdown https://feditrends.com because it was getting close to zero traffic. If you want essentially the same feed of stuff (just more of a firehose), here is a Google Sheet with the most recently trending domains and associated RSS feeds: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fNDz6yqcsSxwBJazuaQvc6dF2c6l8LWwct-6h_7BEV4/edit?usp=sharingThanks for everyone who encouraged my building of the site originally, I hope some people got some value out of it.
(DIR) Post #AcFo2VyV3tKu7gsW1o by ummjackson@mastodon.social
2023-11-28T04:23:55Z
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@Bernard It was fun to build and I rearchitected it a few months back to run locally on a Raspberry Pi with Cloudflare in front of it, which was a nice learning experience. Just didn't want to keep putting any energy or electricity into something nobody is using though. :)