I'm tired of hearing about AI, to be honest. I never cared for it. I don't respect people who use generative AI, and I despise companies that sell out people's data to train it. Yes, people will lose jobs to it, but the world will not be better for it. It's just that consequences are rarely immediately apparent in such complex systems.
@samhenrigold But how did it sound through headphones? The speaker is still not really an adequate way to listen to music on a phone, even if they made it better.
I was on @mike's Dot Social podcast to talk about Mastodon, #Threads (not the 1984 movie), and the social web. If you've got questions about any of those things, maybe we've covered them!
Mastodon is going to have a new intern thanks to @zdfmagazin. @ErikUden appeared on the show to talk about online privacy and received an unexpected prize. 🙂
I don't feel as strongly about quote posts as I did in 2018. Personally, I am not a fan, but there is clearly a lot of demand for it. We're considering it.
Please don't demand content warnings from strangers. Content warnings are a sort of social contract between an author and their followers; if you are not happy with how someone chooses to use them, do not follow that person or outright mute them, or mute words.
One of the most alienating experiences on Mastodon I've observed is when someone posts about something they're passionate about or is part of their identity and the first response is "please cw that" from a complete stranger.
@maiyannah@shel@santa@KitRedgrave i heard twig (?) was good. smarty is kinda old now. if there is something haml-like for php, strongly suggest exploring that
@Irick@KitRedgrave@shel@Rushyo i'm excited about that e2e thing. has anyone made an issue for what that project needs for a fuller integration? i got it in a mention but my mentions are a firehose :X
I know we're a long way to go, but I wanted to let you know that I've added a tangible goal to my Patreon! at $500 I'm getting an AC unit for the home-office, because it's barely May and it's already getting too hot in here!!
I appreciate all the support i'm getting, and I'm kinda at a loss for words at how many of you appreciate the work I put in to working here at Mastodon <3