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i'm seeing a lot of for new users but where are the for new instances? please boost those over here as well, or like… could somebody make a list?

being socialized male didn't make me into a man, it made me into a dyke

@noelle i think it was taught roughly correctly in my history class, but it was AP (also this was over a decade ago so, could be wrong)

iirc though they generally diminished its importance and placed a lot more emphasis on the Stamp Act, and the increasing amount of control Britain exerted over local governance (which the taxes helped to fund)

the tea legislation was like “yeah sure this happened and it sparked some things but people weren't actually declaring independence over tea”

@coriander what does your mom have against banging your head against the wall

@aescling of course not, why would i write httpd in execline when my friend has a perfectly good one written already

i don't want lego super mario i want lego super metroid

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Hacky folks, please resist finding ways to scrape the fediverse, build archives, automate tools and connect to people via bot without their consent. 

Just resist the urge. Because you're not going to think to check for robots.txt, but you ought to, that's how we communicate we don't want to be involved. You're probably not going to bother to read the various terms of service for the instances you touch, many of which explicitly ask you not to do any scraping or automated activity beyond normal use of the service. You're not going to know to respect people using the NoBot hashtag that was meant to prevent automated follows. You're certainly not going to parse user profiles and pinned posts to learn how people like to be approached, what will get you blocked, or even think to heavily throttle your activity because instances are falling over in response to load.

Whatever your thing is, make it 100% opt-in. Make it appropriate for a significantly more at-risk user than you are. Make sure it forgets things, purges info about servers it can't contact, can't operate in any sort of logged-in mode where consent is an issue.

We will straight up help advertise your cool thing if it respects users properly and takes the time to consider the safety and preferences of every person involved. There are a lot of fun, thoughtfully-designed toys! And there are a lot of people really tired of having to come and tell you off when you wanted to help, honestly. Help yourself and ask around before you flip on your cool new thing, let folks point out what you're missing.

“about by double” is about right too; that was my subjective experience of the increased rate of activity on our very small federated timeline

a significant number of that increase comes from admins boosting introductions posts and answering questions, causing them to federate to our server

thanks for your hard work, admins!

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if you’re wondering what Sidekiq looks like on a very small server…

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« Angelo Carusone, the chief executive of the progressive nonprofit Media Matters for America, said on the call that he had worked on several efforts to use advertiser boycotts to pressure social media companies to clean up their platforms. Usually, he said, some of the advertisers he solicits will turn down his requests, saying that reaching potential customers is a higher priority than making a point to Silicon Valley.

But after the activist coalition reached out this week to Twitter’s top 20 advertisers, including Anheuser-Busch, Disney and Procter & Gamble, Mr. Carusone said all the companies he had been in contact with had said they were either considering a spending pause or were implementing one.

The companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday.

“I’ve never experienced that before,” Mr. Carusone said. “And I think that’s the thing that’s most revealing, and demonstrates real consensus about the current state of the crisis that Twitter is in.” »

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« Many of the cuts were deep. The human rights and disability experience teams were cut back, said three people familiar with the decision. The internet technology team — which is partly responsible for keeping the site functioning — became “a skeleton crew,” two people said. »

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« Sandra Sucher, a professor of management at Harvard University who has studied layoffs for more than a decade, said Twitter’s cuts were among the most poorly handled that she had seen. While the scale was not unprecedented, it was unusual to see layoffs done so quickly without a detailed explanation provided to workers about who was being laid off and why, she said.

“This is a master class in how not to do it,” Ms. Sucher said. »

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« Twitter’s communications team, which was almost entirely laid off, did not respond to a request for comment. »

@aescling i believe at my workplace the deadline is December 1 so i expect vaccinations to continue until then

@aescling per NYT it looks like the rate hasn't peaked yet which is encouraging at least, even if the number is very low

@aescling i wanted to get it earlier obviously but i was some combination of travelling, busy, and/or experiencing allergies/mild sickness until now

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A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.