Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

I think the only thing I wanna put out there for newbies landing on fedi is not only do you not have to censor words to evade bots, algorithms and searcher arguments; doing so actively harms the ability of people who want to set up mutes OR enhanced notifications to do so on that content.

Yeah some people might have muted the word 'commission' because they don't want to be exposed to opening ads for whatever reason.

Please don't do that. You don't have to here. We're big on individual agency to see or not see what we wanna.

Someone else on another network said (and again, I think they meant it as an insult) that Mastodon is social media designed by people who think that social media is bad, and unironically yes.

Oh my goodness... a LOT of new people... 😮 Welcome! 👋

If you need help with using Mastodon and the Fediverse, have a look at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips

It's written for a non-technical audience, and hopefully answers most beginners' questions.

If you're looking for accounts to follow, there are lots of ways to do it summarised here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/

If you have any problems, ask me and I'll try to help!

to hell with executive function, this brain is now a worker co-op

US public wants climate change dealt with, but doesn’t like the options

People want both action and to keep using fossil fuels.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/us-public-wants-climate-change-dealt-with-but-doesnt-like-the-options/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This is your periodic reminder that, unless you buy and download the music you love, it will absolutely disappear out from under you at some point.

I failed to heed my own advice! This album is pretty obscure, sure, but now it's grayed out on Apple Music, and totally gone from the iTunes Store, so too late there. Bummer.

Today's gender is the sound of a dial tone.

Saved @naomikritzer 's new @clarkesworld story "Better Living Through Algorithms" for a quiet Sunday morning https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/ . It's as charming and inspiring as others have said.

In a similar spirit to her "Cat Pictures, Please" short story and Catnet books; also engaging with some of the same ideas as https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/maneki-neko/ Bruce Sterling's "Maneki Neko" (a story I find way less engaging) and Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age".

#scifi #shortstories

H/T @anildash

Incomplete thread of recent/current (AFAIK) information on long covid probability, prevalence, and prevention.

Because the gaslighting is getting to me.

1/N

looks like the votes are for the debugging manifesto poster (this one: https://wizardzines.com/images/debugging-manifesto.pdf). I'll set up preorders once we figure out how much it'll cost to print & ship them.