Here is a detailed explanation of how and why I use Mastodon, how to follow me and other thread posters by configuring your own filters, where to get my material on other services or in machine readable form, Etc. if you don't like threads, I encourage you to unfollow me and get my work in some other way. pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how…
"Constructive feedback" isn't "I would prefer that you do things in a different way because that is my preference," however.
I'm fully aware that other people have preferences that are different from mine.
That's why I do 2-3/hours per day of unpaid administrative work to ensure that everything I post is available in other formats (including machine-readable ones) under the most permissive CC license.
If you don't like my feed, but you want to see the things in it that are not threads, why wouldn't you write a bot that ingests my feed, discards the threads, and republishes the rest? The feed is both labeled *and* licensed to permit this.
Surely this is as valid a response to "I have different preference from you" as "therefore you should work in a way I prefer, rather than the way you prefer."
@pluralistic Late Stage Techno-Capitalism is when the peasants argue amongst ourselves about how to use each other's attention in a polite and socially constructive fashion, and all the while, the machine hoovers our words and eyeballs up so everyone's wealth will continue in a torrent to the owners of our countries.
@pluralistic this is indeed a hilariously valid response. But also, I have come to really appreciate the CW labels you've added for your long threads. ❤️
@pluralistic @jorgecandeias I really don't get his problem. I almost *never* read blogs anymore but I love coming across one of your threads and then choosing to read it or skip it. Actually, I dont think I've ever gone to the long-form link you provide, and just stick to my phones mastodon client.
And... "considered blogging?" Is he that clueless?
@cavyherd @pluralistic @joncruz @jorgecandeias no, it was an XKCD joke first, then the EFF made it real at etech 2007 This thread was fun at the time xkcd.com/341/ and even funnier when Randall came to Google and Knuth asked him for the O(n log ( log n) ) proof
@KevinMarks @cavyherd @pluralistic @joncruz @jorgecandeias Munroe and the EFF issued a special donation tier reward t-shirt with a custom comic strip that year as well. It's in the back of my closet somewhere.
@Jeff Atwood Can't say I disagree, I think those who write long posts should consider something different than Mastodon, its not like there aren't other software in the Fediverse that support long posting, like... #friendica
People need to discover “Quiet public”. Post the first post in a thread public, then the rest Quiet Public, and the whole thing is available but only the first goes in people’s timelines.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netJeff Atwood
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Jeff Atwood
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in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •I love constructive feedback.
"Constructive feedback" isn't "I would prefer that you do things in a different way because that is my preference," however.
I'm fully aware that other people have preferences that are different from mine.
That's why I do 2-3/hours per day of unpaid administrative work to ensure that everything I post is available in other formats (including machine-readable ones) under the most permissive CC license.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •As I've said here before, I:
* post to scratch my itch, and
* believe foursquare in your right to both read and post in ways that scratch your itch, and
* provide the legal and technological means for you to scratch your itch with my posts, but
* I draw the line at not scratching my itch in order to scratch yours.
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •If you don't like my feed, but you want to see the things in it that are not threads, why wouldn't you write a bot that ingests my feed, discards the threads, and republishes the rest? The feed is both labeled *and* licensed to permit this.
Surely this is as valid a response to "I have different preference from you" as "therefore you should work in a way I prefer, rather than the way you prefer."
1970-05-04
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •quaff
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Democracy Dies in Dumbass
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> * I draw the line at not scratching my itch in order to scratch yours.
This. Very VERY much this.
@codinghorror
Jorge Candeias
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@pluralistic @jorgecandeias I really don't get his problem. I almost *never* read blogs anymore but I love coming across one of your threads and then choosing to read it or skip it. Actually, I dont think I've ever gone to the long-form link you provide, and just stick to my phones mastodon client.
And... "considered blogging?" Is he that clueless?
Jon A. Cruz
in reply to Jon A. Cruz • • •Blagofaire
xkcdJeff Atwood
in reply to Jon A. Cruz • • •Cory Doctorow
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •@joncruz @jorgecandeias
Visible from where I'm presently sitting (the only art Randall has parted with)
Kevin Marks
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in reply to Kevin Marks • • •@KevinMarks @pluralistic @joncruz @jorgecandeias
I'd wondered about the genesis of the cape-and-goggles motif. Hah!
So it's all actually the EFF's fault?
Kevin Marks
in reply to Cavyherd • • •1337: Part 1
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