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meh, I gotta edit reply tweets before the reader clicks like. Sigh.

#mastodonapi
Did the 4.0 release break all the old API code?

In #python world, there are 3 main patterns

- mastodon.py(broken for me)
- minimal-activitypub (broken for me)
- toot (cli)

Toot appears to be active and in use and unlike the other 2, have an explicit "grant this app access to my data" step.

I just want an API lib that does this (or just works)
https://github.com/ihabunek/toot/blob/master/toot/auth.py

Holden Caulfield (from Catcher in the Rye) hates Makefile. It is full of PHONYs.

. @timbooher your account is tweeting spam. With no moderation here anymore I guess soon everyone will.

I tried to take my glasses off to read a diagram on my phone. But no glasses. My mental model is visual zoom is removing glasses until you can see the small stuff

#mastodon meta

If gmail adopted activitypub, it would ddos all other instances and would have to be defederated. But also if 1 billion hippies made a nonprofit coop anarchist commune and implemented activitypub, mastodon would still have serious scalability problems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545541

epiphany- until search improve here, a tweet without a hashtag is "medium private"- public, but with degraded findability

IDEA: a way to share collections of mute words. Like I have to first learn about UK politics before I can mute it all and I'd like to skip straight to muting it all.

Also, if we knew our audience could easily mute a topic, then it would be safer to have a mixed topic account without people griping that I'm doing social media wrong, instead they'd be reading social media wrong... without mute words enabled.

Ah, the spammers have arrived. Multiple accounts all posting the same pro-Russia propaganda (letter for letter) and they want to follow me. Expect viagra and gambling to follow.

No ads here, but if no money is spent on moderation, there will still be ads in the form of spam

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IDEA
- YAML format for posts
- Keys are tags, maybe
Irony >
Sixty three different ways to do multiline text. What is not to love?
- Also compatible with json, which is what everyone thinks about first when evaluating a social media message box.

Crossposting from linkedIn -
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Even if you don't use Facebook anymore, you still need to secure it or people will use it for confidence scams. Both me & my wife were targeted using the personas (well live accounts) of past coworkers. I know managing old accounts is a chore, but it is your professional reputation that will suffer when "you" start to promote literal scams.

I think an old coworker's FB account got taken over by a confidence scammer. They've already violated 3 norms

- starting with "hi"
- not getting to the point at 2nd interaction
- keep up with pleasantries like I'm some sort of chat bot.

Or he's really bad at social media. I think more likely it is a confidence scam.

#isort to sort your imports
#pylint to yell at you for leaving in unused imports
pycln to remove the extras
black to fix the whitespace between imports

#pycharm then hides all of it in a collapsed region and you never see it.

#python

Is there a way to follow boolean combos of tags?

"#python #ide" nothing
"#python -#snake" doesn't work

old mypy: oh, man what is that. Please write `cast(str, thing)`

new #mypy, same code: oh please. I'm insulted. Of course that is a string. Remove the redundant cast. This... this... really hurts my feelings.

How not to flunk the tech interview.... advice for the mid to lower end of the skill range

#techjobs #techinterview

https://mattwalksintoabar.blogspot.com/2020/08/not-flunking-tech-interview.html

@TheNutrivore@mastodon.sdf.org it is the wild west. The bird site fired all the moderators, here it is just a few volunteers and server admins more skilled at tech than moderation. Also mods here gripe about moderation tools being way behind comparable platforms

folksonomy - the tag people think of 1st is the worst curated tag. The best curated tag is going to have lousy discoverability

#python - code + literal snakes
#pythonlang - code, but also people talking about tags, nearly 0 activity

Degrees of hiding/making filtering easy for your audience:

keyword/tag (e.g. spelling out tr*mp or el*n, knowing that many people have muted the term)

cw: UI friction to see the topic

warning in first tweet of tweetstorm (twitt*rs way of simulating CW)

posting content to entirely different account

posting content to different site (e.g. posting running to strava and not masto)

Self censoring altogether (because saying the word veg*n will summon the "mmm bacon" bros)

What's After Like? #kpop

The cameramen really wanted to show off their gear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0B7HDiY-10

So say we all... Elon Musk is an idiot (and always was).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVj4kZF-Fgk

Mall is packed. No parking. I thought malls were all dying.

@brandont #Strava because my social media addiction finally encourages me to do something useful

Lawyers don't like these licenses not because they are funny but because it is unpredictable how they would play out in court

#opensource

"GLWTS(Good Luck With That Shit) Public License"
https://github.com/ooguz/pfxposter/blob/master/LICENSE

Wouldn't a user, who has no role at all in moderation on small or big instances create 3 or 4 alts and cross post to deal with capricious defederation decisions?

I'm a card carrying liberal and I don't see the "racisms & bigotry"- duh, I don't follow anyone of that sort.

But the burden is on me to known it is happening & find the magic server where it isn't happening or *I* get defederated.

activitypup is a feed full dog photos

activitypub sounds like the kernel of community affiliation is what kind of moderation policies you like.

I think most people haven't even thought about that. Affiliation is family, work, religion, special interests (friends lists and roughtly tags)

I'm only posting my twitter-negative meta on twitter from now on. Hold me to it.

@msager one of us! one of us! one of us!

@stroz these new AI powered ones or the old fashion ones that remove all the background buzzing sounds but sometimes amplify the voices of people talking?

#mastodonpy
I'm stuck on auth...why can't login errors be informative

mastodon.Mastodon.MastodonIllegalArgumentError: Invalid user name, password, or redirect_uris: ('Mastodon API returned error', 400, 'Bad Request', 'invalid_grant')

ref: https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

5k #running is 1/2 endurance sprinting and 1/2 obstacle course running (getting around all the walkers)

META: you here for special interests or for your (para)social graph (to interact with friends & contacts & people)