jordan silver 🔵

wrote about this and more reflections on this alternate internet of Chinese apps & design

news.spencer.place/p/the-chines...

Chasing goose wants to know which ideology you mean Jack

The tweet begins with the word “this” because it is agreeing with you.

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

The children yearn for the (data) mines

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

I'd like to say to these people, and this comes from a genuine place of a lesson I myself had to learn:

It is all right to have these sorts of thoughts. But they're inside thoughts.

Bluesky settings screen Automation Label surfdude29 (old) [bot icon] @surfdude29.bsky.social Add automation label to account This label lets the world know that this account is automated. If turned on, this label appears next to the account's name on their profile and posts. It can be turned on or off at any time. Show automation label [checkmark]

Bluesky profile there is a bot icon next to the display name

Bluesky info sheet [large bot icon] You have marked this account as automated. You can remove it at any time from your account settings. Okay Open settings

Bluesky info sheet [large bot icon] This account has been marked as automated by its owner Okay

if you manage an automated account or bot, you'll soon be able to add a 'bot' label (automation label) to the account

this will show a robot icon badge next to the account's display name everywhere that it appears in the app 🤖

it can be turned on or off at any time

looking good @thepope.dev 👌

Why is it shaped like an emoji and not a label?

Send him the notification but don’t actually add the record.

There's a focus, especially on the Fedi, around decentralizing "Bluesky". What they mean is redundancy around who/what controls the largest # of users creating + consuming the bsky.app lexicons.

While that's important, I think there's just as much power in reducing the dependency on the lexicon.

there’s something to be said about the timeline from google balls to this

Holy shit

LA Metro wants you to ride the D I talked to the team about building fandom for public transit.

the folks who work social for la metro are well aware what you said about their 'ride the d' shirt (and they're happy you said it)

It’s called Keeping Your Shit Together Thursday. It’s where you keep your shit together on a Thursday instead of crashing the fuck out and driving your car into the median.

Isn’t this just a CLI wrapper around public APIs that already existed?

“..up to 10% of all the crashes Firefox users see are not software bugs, they're caused by hardware defects!”

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I have it on good authority that at least one of the protocol designers is a plant from big domain put there to sell more domains.

a series of folders, with eyes and nose and mouth glyphs on them, loosely resembling a face. loosely

a lot of you are hesitating to update to macOS 26, which is too bad, because i'm over here making my new best friend: foldy

Blazing new trails in decentralized moderation (complementary)
Blazing new trails in decentralized moderation (derogatory)

Interestingly they seem to have switched the shift/caps/enter/etc keys to symbols the way the non US models have.

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

Okay I know I’m kind of ignorant but isn’t bluesky, who owns and controls the application code, able to hard-code an exception that simply doesn’t allow you to block the moderation labeler? If it’s not allowed by policy why is it allowed by app behavior?

What the fuck

twitlonger for bsky let's fucking goooooo unthread.at/@aka.dad/3mg...

I’m not sure if it’s uniquely American but the idea you have to shut down any discernment or nuance when you think about principles is the opposite of thinking.