Posts by JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #B67bTNHEe1GUCqbUtU by JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social
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       If you're getting more posts in your timeline than you're used to, and wondering why some don't seem to be from or via people or hashtags you follow, check your preferences to see if "Show today's trends" is checked. You can uncheck it to make those posts go away.(Some folks have this checked when they're not yet seeing much from folks they follow. Unchecking it doesn't get rid of the 'Trending" link you can click on in the right column, but it does stop adding them to your default timeline.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B67gQZA0VOHbxphesK by JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social
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       @Gargron Thanks! I'll take your word that that's what it's meant to do, but do you know why I seem to be seeing different behavior?("Trending now" doesn't appear in my lower right corner regardless of whether I have it checked. I'm using the web interface in Firefox on a Mac laptop, which may have less vertical real estate than some other displays. "Trending" does appear near upper right in either case. And I was seeing unsolicited trending posts in my main timeline until I unchecked.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B6hNWCVxBsAxOIFXXM by JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social
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       From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943
       
 (DIR) Post #B6qp9mxq3EYsut2848 by JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social
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       Extensive discussion of the Wikimedia Foundation's layoffs, the wish-list team disbandment, and the  union drive, from various points of view (including some WMF representatives) can be found at the Village Pump on Wikipedia.  Discussion may eventually move to a dedicated page, but here's one starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#WMF_Community_Tech_team_has_been_disbanded,_engineers_laid_off