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Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t - Erin Kissane's small internet website
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t - Erin Kissane's small internet website
my goal here isn’t to plonk down a big pristine block of research, but to offer a conversational glimpse into what real humans—who were motivated to try not one, but at least two alternatives to Twitter—actually report about their unsatisfactory experiences on Mastodon.
In my experience, building cultural norms into the tooling is much more effective and less alienating than chiding.
Constantly being told I was somewhat dim because I didn’t understand how to do things or what the unwritten rules were.
This, I particularly hate and hope desperately I did not contribute to.
A lot of people in the responding group found the process of picking an instance, signing up, and getting set up genuinely confusing.
The Own Your Experience school doesn’t really grapple with the genuinely terrifying dynamics of mass-scale complex systems.
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t - Erin Kissane's small internet website
About rulesets - GitHub Docs
About rulesets - GitHub Docs
Rulesets help you to control how people can interact with branches and tags in a repository.
About rulesets - GitHub Docs
Top Apple Shortcuts For Plant And Nature Lovers
Top Apple Shortcuts For Plant And Nature Lovers
Are you a plant and nature lover looking to make the most of your garden? Look no further! This article will provide you with the top Apple shortcuts for tracking germination, monitoring growth, and more. You can easily take advantage of the iOS to ensure your plants are given all
Top Apple Shortcuts For Plant And Nature Lovers
Amazon’s Quest to Bleed Music Dry
Amazon’s Quest to Bleed Music Dry
Amazon has pillaged the planet in its quest for world domination. Music has not been spared.
pointillist shapes—a medallion, a rocket ship—they concluded, prophetically, with the
Amazon’s Quest to Bleed Music Dry
5 Tips for Posting on a Technology Forum
5 Tips for Posting on a Technology Forum
An online forum is a great place to ask questions and generally seek advice on what you want to do with technology. I spend a bit of time each day catching up on the latest discussions across maybe a half dozen or so technical fora. On some of them I am a heavy contributor, and on others I generally lurk, just gleaning insights and keeping up with the latest conversations. Having been involved with technical forums for the past thirty years or so I’ve seen plenty of good and bad practices, and in this post I am going to share five tips on what I think are valuable and practical considerations for posting queries to technical forums.
5 Tips for Posting on a Technology Forum
MacStories Unwind: How We Write
MacStories Unwind: How We Write
[audio_player src=”https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/0de98bba-5e4d-4879-94dc-8c76a3a88322/episodes/6b731c78-a3ce-451f-a4bf-61a5bc816596/audio/1e4081cb-df32-4a41-8175-abc2419ab8a7/default_tc.mp3?nocache” mime_type=”audio/mpeg” total_duration=”00:24:44” caption=”“] [subscribe_to_unwind] This week, Federico and I talk about the writing process, Federico recommends Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo and I recommend Hijack on Apple TV+. Sponsored By: Kolide – It ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
MacStories Unwind: How We Write