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smallcircles

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I'm Arnold Schrijver (he/him). Social coder. #FOSS, #HumaneTech and #SocialWeb advocate.

I help foster #Solutions that improve #Wellbeing, #Freedom and #Society

Let's #ReimagineSocial and envision a #Peopleverse where archipelagos, built by the #Commons, unfold the #HumanWeb. Delightful Realms of Creation, where only our dreams may hold us back.

Previously at: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech

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smallcircles, to foss
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Saddening me time and again is seeing individualism and fragmentation in #FOSS.

#Collaboration between projects that's so often low-hanging fruit, yet never happens. More anticipation of needs, helping each other, be stronger together. Yet it hardly shapes up to the extent that it could.

We seem to lack time to become sustainable, let alone 'win' from #Hypercapitalism. No time to seek collab as we prod on alone.

There are exceptions of course, and better collab tools are becoming available.

smallcircles, to loom
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Cap. An -licensed self-hostable alternative to :

https://github.com/CapSoftware/Cap

Implemented in and .

smallcircles,
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@guenther yes, that can be improved.

Loom is a screen capture service that is very easy to use, and quite popular.

Here's an example Loom recording of Angus McLeod doing an explanation about the ActivityPub integration in Discourse forum software he is working on:

https://www.loom.com/share/201777925be742f1be4624957b47257d?sid=fd31fe12-78a5-453d-a182-27c20c50164d

smallcircles,
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@guenther yes, guess you can say so. I don't know about all its (social) features, as I am not someone using it myself, but I get frequently passed Loom vids. Often used for giving feedback, where seeing the speaker in the circle is major part of the experience.

smallcircles, to random
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Virtue-based economy.

smallcircles,
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@konrad

Nope. That's vice-based economy :)

18+ smallcircles, to stackoverflow
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Bye bye, ๐Ÿ‘‹

(I decided to keep my account. My statement that SO has some of my work, yet stole it. But I will not, can not contribute anything more.)

smallcircles,
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Onwards we march towards decentralized Q&A on the fedi โœŠ

smallcircles,
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@janvlug over time I got a lot of benefit and also direct help from SO. But the enshittification was always looming.

It is the same for LI btw, where I have some uses for it (until a federated alternative arrives). I recently edited my profile indicating I'm not playing the LI game, though. Should still finish that, but my CV will be elsewhere ๐Ÿ˜…

smallcircles,
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@janvlug there used to be Flockingbird project under development, but the maintainer pivoted to building a job search bot + site, and then abandoned that.

https://github.com/Flockingbird

smallcircles,
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@ggpsv

@hobs did a search on non-federated codebases to build from: https://mstdn.social/@hobs/112414438147753719

And @andre reminded me of @retrospring that has several open issues on their tracker. Mentioned in this thread, also on the topic of finding alternatives: https://fedi.jaenis.ch/@andre/statuses/01HXH5R3NQ4FER2TXS68YVGGW6

smallcircles,
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@luceos @janvlug

Yes, I think so too. Creating some MVP might be a bit of a low-hanging fruit if one is already well-underway with fedi expertise.

jonny, to random
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Doing some research for a zine. Here's on detective agencies, spies, and sabotage in unions from "Boycotts and the labor struggle" (1914).

https://archive.org/details/boycottslaborstr00laidrich/page/n1/mode/2up

ccording to Miss Gertrude Barnum, one of the leaders of the strike, Morris Lubin, a young man supposedly a garment worker of Cleve- land, was hired by the cloak manufacturers of that city, through the William J. Burns agency, soon after the breaking out of the strike, at a salary of $10 a day, and was required to make daily reports to the manu- facturers* association. He was a clever talker, was elected into the union, volunteered as a leader on the picket line, and, by means of his energy, versatility and daring, soon became the idol of some of the younger element. His position in the union secure, he began to urge the strikers to less peaceful action on the picket line, arguing that the strike was the beginning of the industrial revolution and that mild actions were totally ineffective. His leadership resulted in many deeds of violence which greatly discredited the union. Some of his activities are thus described by Miss Barnum:
"Lubin led secret raids upon the homes of the strike breakers. He plotted unsuccessfully to blow up the hotel occupied by the 'scabs.' . . . He looted and wrecked other places. He was lavish in distributing lead pipe, blackjack and even revolvers to the hot heads of the union who were committing the outrages unbe- known to the officers. As a grand climax of his pro- gram of violence and bloodshed, Lubin planned an attack on a train bringing strike breakers into town. . . . Revolvers were furnished from his home. . . . They (Lubin and his followers) opened fire with their guns, shooting into the air, but didn't do any damage."
Finally a strike-breaker was slugged by Lubin and three strikers. The man afterward died. The vio- lence reported in connection with the strike aroused public opinion against the strikers, who finally lost. Miss Barnum believes, as a result of these deeds. At one time, In fact, the strikers were about to settle with a manufacturer when Lubin, Miss Barnum alleged, broke up the conference by throwing an ink bottle at the employer. On the trial for assaulting the strike- breaker, the "spy" broke down, confessed all, and was sentenced to six months' Imprisonment.

smallcircles,
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@jonny

Freedom erodes, crumb by crumb. But in the heart it cannot die.

18+ smallcircles, to random
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The horrible Apple ad is a good opportunity to highlight one of the amazing but also highly impactful animations by Steve Cutts.

In this video featured on the official music clip of "Are you lost in the world like me?" by Moby and The Void Pacific Choir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8

Content warning: animation contains scene relating to suicide.

smallcircles,
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Wake Up Call! โฐ

is NOT the Future!

Please allow the fabulous to elaborate a bit on that..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhR_zKUn6jc

Codeberg, to stackoverflow
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Anyone considering how to break the #StackOverflow #monopoly already? Any #federated alternative work in progress?

smallcircles,
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@naught101 @Codeberg @tauli

It occurs to me that while #LinkedData is a fairly bad choice as the extensibility mechanism for #ActivityPub protocol, it should be in theory a rather good choice for the knowledge network and navigation thereof, of the content aggregating into the various federated SO instances.

TBL once asked about using #SolidProject to create a #FAQ and I suggested adding federation to the mix:

https://forum.solidproject.org/t/ideas-for-a-possible-faq-solid-app/4627

Nowadays also @skohub comes to mind here.. ๐Ÿค”

douginamug, to firefox
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Sometimes I need to watch a video on youtube.

Even if I quickly go fullscreen, there's enough time to be enticed by the algorithmically-addictive video on the side menu.

What browser magic can I most simply implement to hide the side menu?

#attention #focus #firefox #youtube

smallcircles,
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@rosano @douginamug

Delightful humane design curated list has a bunch of #Youtube related things to try. Either an alternative client, or a 'declutterer' like Youtube Search Fixer (I haven't tested this one myself).

https://delightful.club/delightful-humane-design/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite-search-fixer/

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Hey, which app allows an to be used as a ?

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/112414539433136490

#โ“

smallcircles,
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#FediverseIdea 67

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/67

smallcircles,
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@Linux_in_a_Bit

It would be nice to give emoji more meaning this way. If also custom emoji are supported, then the "boost appreciated" #emoji can be filtered on, for instance. And #โ“ can be alternative for #AskFedi for instance.

smallcircles,
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@hazelnoot neither on Mastodon. It does not recognize as a hashtag link in the web UI.

smallcircles,
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@julian

Hmm, on your end.

First toot was a single 'loose' top-level toot, second one above to the thread, but no emoji showing in at all in both of these. And opening the link to your toot, leads to a login page on NodeBB.

How did it look on your end?

smallcircles,
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@mikedev as it should. Nice!

smallcircles,
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@tyil thus far only streams app supports them.

Why use emoji at all? I'm in favor of a culture that gives more care to emoji's rather than carelessly strewing them around.

They can convey meaning well, like the "boosts appreciated" custom emoji. They can be used in addition to other textual hashtags that aren't always as accessible in their meaning either. There are cultures around emoji use, that give meaning in certain contexts, and those cultures are part of social fabric and cohesion then.

smallcircles,
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@tyil fair points. I am suggesting emoji should be usable as hashtags, but not prescribing how they are best used. Like for public square broadcasts.. probably not so appropriate.

I have use cases for them, and they are in the realm of "personal social networking" where people know the context and meaning.

mcc, to random
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Well. I guess that's it then. https://antabaka.me/@mochi/112412569121873646

smallcircles,
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@mcc

Gender meanders beautifully. Why do folks wanna dam it in, make it straight? What's wrong with them? Rigid flow imagined in rigid minds. Unnatural.

alcinnz, (edited ) to random
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Developer's PSA: The way you & your culture do things isn't the way everyone does things! Be wary of cultural constructs, no matter how basic they may seem!

Time & dates. Text. Punctuation. Names. Addresses. Iconography.

What else am I forgetting?

P.S. This is also a politics PSA. Very topical to NZ right now!

smallcircles,
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@alcinnz depends how fresh it is ;p

smallcircles,
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@alcinnz ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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