BeAware, 2 months ago to WWE

ANYWAY...enough of my negative rants.

Who's ready for WrestleMania?!!?!??!

I'm super excited tbh. I haven't been this excited for a WrestleMania since 30 and that was mainly because I was in attendance...🤣

Let's just say, WWE doesn't hit THIS good anymore. Gotta enjoy it while it's here. We know it probably won't last long, considering their history...😬

🤷‍♂️it's WrestleMania 40 Weekend!! Let's gooo!!!!

#WWE #WrestleMania #WrestleManiaKickoff #ProWrestling #ProfessionalWrestling #Wrestling

BeAware, 2 months ago to random

Honestly, the nastiness here towards totally normal concepts and technological advances would have pushed me out LONG ago if I would have had to rely on another instance...

Having my own domain and seeing BeAware.live attached to all my stuff has a weird hold on me...🤷‍♂️ https://mastodon.online/@Btph/112220476771617091

BeAware, 2 months ago to fediverse

Ya know...all the fear mongering on Fedi is starting to tire people out...

Lots of people just don't want to be here anymore because of the way a lot of Fedi users treat normal everyday things as EVILLLLLL!!!

You're doing the very thing you fear the most when you talk shit about Threads (and other things most of you deem evil) and pushing people to those platforms.

I am on both and literally seeing it. I have users that follow me on both platforms that say they're considering leaving Fedi because of how normal it is there.

No brigading. No blatant misinformation. No bullshit drama about Fediblock. Just normal, SOCIAL media.

So, those defederating from people that federate with Threads are literally and already killing the platform you claim to love so much...🤦‍♂️🤬

A lot of you need to look in the mirror.

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Threads

RxBrad, 2 months ago to random

Someone followed me on Threads? What kind of weirdo would follow me on Threads?

#subtoot #🥖🐘

BeAware, 2 months ago to lemmy

So, @eatyourglory and I were discussing Lemmy and he had a good question/idea. Could Lemmy communities technically be subdomains? Like instead of Lemmy.world/c/example, it could be example.lemmy.world?

Would this be something that could be theoretically built into Lemmy or is there some kinda technological limitation, making this not a thing..? I think it's a neat idea.🤷‍♂️🤔

#Lemmy #Fedi #Fediverse #Threadiverse #ActivityPub

verge, 2 months ago to random

Meta asks court to dismiss FTC’s monopoly claims https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/5/24121968/meta-motion-for-summary-judgment-ftc-monopoly-lawsuit

BeAware, 2 months ago to fallout

Oh, boy!

For those gamers out there that are fans of the Fallout franchise but was always hesitant to try Fallout 76 because of the bad reviews at launch....if it's not yet, it will be FREE to claim sometime this month for Amazon Prime members!

I know a LOT of you have Prime subs. May as well get some free games and give it a try! It's really fun multiplayer shenanigans, but if you'd rather a more story-focused game, there's LOTS of quests, not to mention the new Atlantic City update!!

What are you waiting for?!? Claim that game and rise to fame! Hope to see you in Appalachia!!

#Fallout #Fallout76 #PrimeGaming #AmazonPrime #Gaming #Games #Gamers #VideoGames #PCGaming #FreeGames #GameDeals

schizanon, 2 months ago to mastodon

Toots should have a label that tells you whether they came from a profile you follow or from a hashtag

#mastodon #fediverse #socialMedia #featureRequest

verge, 2 months ago to random

Meta will require labels on more AI-generated content https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/5/24121978/meta-ai-generated-content-label-requirements-deepfakes

BeAware, 2 months ago to random

Every time I see the phrase "reply guy", I can't help but get absolutely pissed cause WE'RE ON SOCIAL FUCKING MEDIA YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOONS!! HOW ELSE CAN YOU BE SOCIAL IF YOU CAN'T FUCKING REPLY?!?

Thanks for coming to my FED Talk about why naming things like this is dumb as fuck.

Sincerely,
A "replier" (whatever the fuck kinda insult is that...)

atomicpoet, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to fediversenews

So far, I’m not liking how Threads posts render on my Akkoma server.

Too much of it is no text – just a big ginormous paperclip.

And what is that paperclip? Well, when I click on it, it opens up a new tab to reveal… a screenshot of a Tweet.

All of this could be bloody avoided if Threads people put the contents of the tweet in their posts. Or even better, if Threads actually rendered these pictures in the post and put in alt-text as well.

I’d tell these Threads people how bad these posts look on the Fediverse, but none of them can see my replies. Thanks, @zuck!

(Also, if the link to the post doesn’t show up, don’t blame me. Blame Threads. You don’t need to click it anyway since I’m providing a screenshot of what I’m seeing.)

@fediversenews

RE: https://threads.net/ap/users/17841445114285241/post/18424180516023009/

BeAware, 2 months ago to fallout

I am SO nervously excited for this, I can't even begin to describe it...😬😅

https://press.coop/@GameSpot/112219337791940748

#Fallout

dgar, 2 months ago to random

Poor Winnie.

You fart in public once, and you’re stuck with a nickname for life.

AAKL, 2 months ago to ai

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panos, 2 months ago to mastodon

Small rant about small character limits in fedi, like #Mastodon's 500 limit, just because I had this discussion recently.

I think it makes no sense for the #fediverse. This is a criticism towards #ActivityPub as well, which defines notes as short posts, around a paragraph.

How did "microblogging" came to be? In the early internet we had no limitations like this. If you wanted to post something (say in a forum), you could usually just write what you wanted, as long as it needed to be (there might be technical limitations, but not a conscious limit of "you should express yourself in under xxx characters". How did this become a thing?

#Twitter started as a platform where you could post via SMS, hence the initial character limit was 140. But nowadays we don't have technical limitations like that. So why do software designers still feel the need to restrict users in such a way? I believe it is a failed concept, one that has been surpassed in practice. If people want to write 1000 or 5000 characters, they will. And they do. That's how "threads" are born. OK, sometimes a person consciously wants to split a post in parts, but most of the times it is just to go around the platform's character limit. So if the goal is to have a platform where people express themselves in 500 characters or less, then this design fails hard, because you can't force people to do that if they don't want to. If I want my posts to be short, I will make them short, no need to restrict me. If I want to make a longer post once in a while, I will also post it, I will just have to hit reply as many times as needed for all of my text to reach my followers.

The problem with this, besides that it's impractical and gets in the users' way, is that it actually does the opposite of what might be expected: Instead of not serving long texts to users, you serve them in multiple posts, creating clutter in the timeline. And this way they can't avoid getting the whole text in their timelines, even if it's something they are not interested in!

The simplest and most obvious way to handle this is letting users write their posts, however long they want to make them, and only show the first xxx characters in the timeline, with a "Show more" button. This way users can express themselves in the way they prefer (it's their wall/social feed after all!), and their followers are not served several consequential posts about something they might not care about. It's one opinion, one post, it should come to my timeline once, and then I can decide if I want to click on it and read all of it.

It's funny, but my early fediverse experience was vastly improved when @atomicpoet moved from mastodon.social to calckey.social. I loved reading his posts, but they tended to be long, so I would be online and a new post by Chris would come, and I'd be like "oh here we go again". Because it would fill up my timeline, and it wasn't practical either, because I would read the first paragraph, then wait until Chris typed the next paragraph, and in the meantime I might have seen other things and I had to go back to what I was reading 5 minutes ago and then wait 5 more minutes for the rest of his train of thought. This is not how any of this should work! A person should take their time and write down their thoughts, and then post them on their account. And I should be able to see the start of that post, and click on it and read it at its entirety if it seems interesting to me.

Why are we keeping up with an unnecessary limit, when there is no technical reason for it any more? Plain text takes practically zero disk space (and will take up the same space -basically more- if split in different posts). We post photos that take up kilobytes or megabytes.

When users are forced to go around your design in order to communicate their thoughts, this means there's something wrong with your design. There are people who prefer writing shorter posts. There are people who sometimes want to post something longer for their followers to read. It's still a post, it serves the exact same purpose, it's not like "posts MUST be short, anything over a paragraph is a blog post". I regularly write longer posts, because I want to expand on my thoughts. It doesn't mean I care about keeping a personal blog, or that I think anything longer I write is blog-worthy. I might be talking about whatever, and it can be as significant (or insignificant) as my one paragraph posts. It's even more futile to try to enforce a limit like that in an open network as the Fediverse. People will just build tools to overcome it, as has happened, and many platforms offer much longer character limits. Many Mastodon servers have also manually changed that limit, kolektiva.social for example is a Mastodon server with a 10K character limit. It comes from an actual need, people might also want to post an announcement or whatever longer text.

Basically, the only real reason I can think of for limits like that to exist in today's platforms, it's because short content is more easily "consumable". So I get it as a choice for #X or #Threads, they want addictive, fast-to-read content, witty responses etc to keep their users in their platforms for longer, to show them more ads and keep tracking their interactions for longer. And this is probably how they found out that this restriction is good for them and makes their platform more addictive. It's easier for them to "sell" easily digestable content. It makes sense as a design choice, for their corporate targets.

But why on fedi? If you don't care about longer posts, you can ignore them and not open them. If you prefer following people who only write short posts, then do that. If you don't like that I write longer posts, feel free to unfollow me, and customize your fedi experience to your needs. But why have made-up restrictions like that forced upon users? Are we building something for easily digestible content, trying to make it as addictive as possible, or are we here for communication, according to the users' needs?

BeAware, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to fediverse

HIGHLY recommend Fediblock for user '@MKULTRADiamond' as they're tagging random users and spamming porn with no CW. Receipts attached in the screenshot.

Edit: The whole instance is Freeze Peach. Toss it in the trash.

#Fediblock #Fediverse #Fedi #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

nano, 3 months ago to random

WARNING TO ALL FEDIZENS

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE USE https://doubledouble.top/

doubledouble.top is a piracy website that allows you to freely and very easily download any piece of music in lossless quality from most of the popular streaming services without paying the corporations!!!

please, think of the copyright holders, shareholders, and maintainers of the streaming services before using doubledouble.top!! they’re people too!!!

/s :3