In my free time, I help run a small Mastodon server for roughly six hundred queer leatherfolk. When a new member signs up, we require them to write a short application—just a sentence or two. There’s a small text box in the signup form which says:
Michael R. Crusoe (@biocrusoe@fairpoints.social)
Oh, I like this part > No AI-generated text in human-to-human communication > When our maintainers volunteer their time to review your issue, PR, or proposal, they do not want to talk to a machine. This is a basic principle of respect. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine/116839550229253906
Expectations and preferences around community contributions/interactions · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #36552
There is a long-running pattern of conversations on issues/PRs around some features getting quite heated and sometimes turning into personal insults, venting frustrations, borderline conspiracy acc...
Indie social sign-in could go mainstream — Open Indie
Back in June I wrote about an exciting confluence of digital auth tech: ### Social sign-in for indies The focal point of Weird Net...
one of the most radical actions the @npmx.dev community took was talking with every single human being who joined our chat server. more than 500 people were welcomed, encouraged to join our open conversations, ask for guidance, share their own ideas, and jump into action when they see opportunities
Today, we're launching the ability to Bounce from Mastodon to any Atmosphere PDS you have access to, whether it be @blackskyweb.xyz, @eurosky.social, @transrights.northsky.social, @selfhosted.social, or even your self-hosted option! You can also bring an invite code when necessary 🎟️ 1/
Bounce Update: PDS Provider Migrations
blog.anew.socialoooo this is a new @atstore.fyi listing that just got posted a vouch based forum system
Caterpillars | at-store
atstore.fyialso hitting a few bumps with semble but Donna Haraway’s Situated Knowledges could be a really cool fit here
new from me: on recent discourse and drama on Mastodon. the software gives people the tools to create community via instances, with a wide plurality of cultures and communities. But what people want is a singular culture/community on the federation layer connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodo…
FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?
connectedplaces.onlinethis is really great, and i'm glad that you're thinking about it!! I just started building @atmobb.app and wanted to build a way for it to pull in topics from similar forums and landed on subscribing to a "topic" for those forums. very excited to see what happens!!
#ATProtoScience tools can enable sensemaking and maybe some nerdy jobs in the near future: "Similar to how social media made influencers... maybe there'll be influencers [as scholarly] sensemakers... [attendee: high need for cognition people]..." Yep, that's my dream job, @ronentk.me
From Social Network to Sense Making
www.youtube.comExcited to invite you to a panel I'll be on next week w/ @richardsever.bsky.social @joelchan86.bsky.social! We’ll discuss the future of open-access, new modular research tools (eg @discoursegraphs.bsky.social) and the role of social media in scientific discourse (@cosmik.network @atproto.science ..)
Frontiers In Research: Open Science · Zoom · Luma
luma.comDo you like bookmarking things and losing them in the Bookmarks hole? Or not knowing what your Bluesky peeps are bookmarking No? Then try semble.so (built on ATProtocol) and use social bookmarking to learn from the academic hivemind.
I kind of question any interview that doesn’t have a follow up to, “You have to show ID to walk in a restaurant.”
Aaron Rupar
Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
