Korny Sietsma @ksietsma@toot.thoughtworks.com
Tech geek, polyglot coder, old-school agilista, interested in tackling the climate crisis, being a good intersectional ally, and coping as a parent.
Like to tinker in #rust #clojure #typescript and others.
Pronouns he/him
Joined Jul 2018
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So glad for the Australian election result - not just for the Aussies, and the climate, but also for the message it might send to other countries - we can fight against the apparently inexorable creep to the right.
On the positive side I've worked out how to have multiple accounts in the official app, and how to browse local timelines, so maybe it will suffice for now.
Newly repaired phone means re-trying all the apps. Fedilab and Tusky both fail to auth with toot.thoughtworks.com. Official android app works, but only by logging in twice.
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NFT scams, toxic ‘mines’ and lost life savings: the cryptocurrency dream is fading fast https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/12/nft-scams-mines-cryptocurrency-crypto-con
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Now also @korny - not sure if I'll just keep both going, or retire one or the other; depends a bit on how much pain I keep getting with SAML auth on apps on my phone
I solved today's #Redactle (#22) in 33 guesses with an accuracy of 39.39%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
(I won't always post these but was particularly lucky today)
@binarytango yes, if "before" includes "in the 1980s"!
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Before joining Mastodon had you participated or were active on BBS (dial-up) or forums (vBulletin style) in the past?
Boosts are appreciated for better sample sizes.
@ZiGraves Iain M Banks had a lot of gender fluidity in his Culture novels - technology allowed people to change gender pretty well at whim. No mention of anyone being nonbinary that I recall though.
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As one of the main Mastodon developers, I can't promise you that Mastodon will be a complete and exact Twitter replacement for you, but it may fit your use-cases, at least it does for me.
Just keep in mind that it is not exactly the same thing, some core design decisions are different (there isn't an unique centrally-governed website, but many interconnected servers operated by different individuals and organizations) and thus the tradeoffs can be different as well.
While I personally don't think Mastodon should aim at being an exact replacement to Twitter, I do hope Mastodon can be useful to more people wanting an alternative to Twitter! And I know there are lots of room for improvement, on things we do know, and on things we don't.
Also keep in mind that Mastodon is developed by only two core developers payed through a non-profit funded through sponsorship, grants and donations, so please be patient!
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Yesterday, the UK government has criminalised the culture and practices of Gypsy Roma Traveller people living in this country. https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/news/fft-statement-on-pcsc-bill/
All of us who are members of groups that have faced past or present attempts at government annihilation should stand together as allies. An attack on the GRT community is an attack on all of us.
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If you're trying to find people interested in a particular topic, the federation poses a problem: searching hashtags only works on the toots on your instance's database, so you'll only find some if others on you instance are already following them. The smaller your instance, the more difficult it is. One solution to this are group accounts. If you mention them, they boost your message so that all who follow them get a copy, and those boosts are federated. More here: https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2019-09-26_Groups_on_Mastodon
@judeswae nope, nothing unusual that I know of. I have raised an issue, they are asking for how to test SAML! :) https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/2462#issuecomment-1111195472
Not sure if you or @mheiber can help them?
Tech geek, polyglot coder, old-school agilista, interested in tackling the climate crisis, being a good intersectional ally, and coping as a parent.
Like to tinker in #rust #clojure #typescript and others.
Pronouns he/him
Joined Jul 2018
