Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

"Firefox won't work unless you enable...."
It has been a while since I have seen this (inaccurate) message for any app.

First time I've seen it for #Firefox and it happens as a result of opening a github link to unsub from a repo somebody subbed me to.
Does anybody know what is happening here?

@swansinflight@mastodon.nz @wolf480pl

I wonder if one could still move away a little more from the previous toxic behaviour of "social" media on fediverse.

* One might question the concept of blocking people, In fact you are blocking accounts (that may not really be people).
* I do wonder about the use value of the federated timeline. Blocking accounts might be a way to have your timelines be happier places.
* Muting those that respond with noise to threads you end up on might work better than blocking?

@emacsen

Your post makes me realise how little I have poked around in the mastodon backend. I didn't even know for example how the links to toots (on the minutes/hours/etc ago) top right are formed, but I see they are in the uri column of the statuses table. So, maybe you could do some fancy redirection on your new emacsen.net to urls that should go to mastodon, like /users/emacsen/statuses/*. I don't suppose that would conflict with any of your new content.

@emacsen
Do you want to change your username, or just the address of the (web interface) of the instance?

I would have thought if you do not want/need to change the username, then it just works with a redirect in https://emacsen.net/.well-known/host-meta to https://mastodon.emacsen.net/.well-known/host-meta but, I also would have thought there's people better versed in activitypub than me on the thread.

@humanetech @aral @jande @NGIZero @EC_NGI

Trying hard to wrap my head around this one:

"If an SDO’s OSS project becomes fundamental to the way standards are implemented in the marketplace, the lack of participation from these innovators may (i) deprive the community of valuable contributions, and (ii) skew the resulting SDO-approved OSS implementation in a way that is no longer vendor neutral."

I wonder what counts as participation and contribution in the mind of the writer. Only €€€ ?

#subvertising

@humanetech @NGIZero @EC_NGI
"Two months after Trump launched Truth Social, the European Union followed suit...."

The way the presentation of this information on the EU Mastodon projects was phrased is bizarre, vaguely slanderous.

There is an agenda behind this piece but I'm not sure what it is. I'm not convinced that Michael del Castillo of Forbes staff knows what it is either.

@Blort @EC_NGI @cwebber @NGIZero

I do notice over the past few years that whenever "rabble" is a feature of a mainstream media piece, it is not short of inaccuracies, and has left me wondering what he is actually up to, if anything at all other than providing click-bait headlines.