I know #fedi is full of spicy takes about #AI right now, and it's not my intention to contribute to the pitch or temperature thereof.

But effing seriously, mate, if you've seen the kind of unhinged, utterly antichrist (sorry, I don't know what else to call it) comments* made by the CEOs of companies like #Anthropic, and still think that making their "products" a part of your toolchain is a good idea, maybe it's time to yoink your head out of your butt.

(I almost have the gall to cc: @torvalds@social.kernel.org)

* I had a link to a Loops video with examples, but sadly, it has been taken down.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@limebar/113499513938110117

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For the third year in a row... let this be a thread where *you* reply with a link to *your* #art or #music or #shop

Find cool stuff "locally" here on #fedi. For your #holiday #shopping this year buy direct from #artists and #makers!

I want *you* to reply to this thread and drop links to your wares, subscriptions, services, sounds, sights, prints, etc. And I want *you* to buy from *them*.

Bonus: See the boosted post and the link under it for prior year links.

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♻️ Boost!

@DJDarren Twitter was losing money hand over fist when it was many times larger than the Fediverse is now, yet was never considered a failure, even when we were losing count of the number of zeros it was losing.
#Fedi may not be making lots of money, but that was never the point, but what IS the point is that a lot of people ate communicating over a network that is there to connect people, rather than make money.
And all without an algorithm manipulating us.

@kfort @dolanor @kaia I think there should be a new #fedi rule: only send pictures and videos you created yourself. Otherwise baseline risk of #AI #slop is above 50%

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/117562728460085886

Look, I'm not aiming to be a dick about this, but... add Pixelfed to the list of fedi apps with absolutely zero chance of supplanting its corporate counterpart.

Do you have any idea how many taps it took me to *find my own fucking profile settings*? Why is there even a way for a user to see their own profile *at all* without access to settings?

- and since posts are editable in a browser, why in the name of fuck not in the app!?

(also, I still can't edit the pics...)

#ux #fedi #pixelfed

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency » 🌐 2026-11-05 / 2026-11-05
@jwcph@helvede.net

RE: https://metapixl.com/p/JWcph/1023863153657824137

OK, what!? Pics looked right when sharing but now they're rotated every which way - and it doesn't even seem like I can edit the post in the Pixelfed app...

Imma leave it up to come back to it later. Sorry if it makes anyone nauseous 😂

#pixelfed

PixPrince of Northbridge » 🌐 2026-11-05
@JWcph@metapixl.com

Morning textures & moods on my way to work...

#Snapshot #MobilePhotography #nature

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trees in bright autumn colors against a blue sky

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Strings of spiderweb on top of a flat trimmed hedge covered in dew

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Dew covered spiderweb in a bush

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a cable arching out of the ground for some reason, covered in strands of dewy spiderweb and casting long shadows against a low sun

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A field, trees and bushes covered in morning mist, dew and maybe even a little hoar frost, illuminated by a low rising sun

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A single blue berry on the black branches of a leafless bush

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View down a path leading out of a small grove onto a misty field, the rising sun shining through the autumn colored, increasingly bare trees

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View across a mostly empty parking lot towards the rising sun, sending beams of light through the leaves of a few trees and the morning mist

ME: painstakingly tweaks a .GIF to fit in the avatar upload size constraints whilst maximizing quality

MASTODON: compresses the everliving snot out of it further, tosses 87.5% of the color palette & introduces bayer dithering

#mastodon #fedi

B... but... BlueSky is decentralized! It really is!

https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-blocks-links-to-major-leak-of-dhs-data/

#bluesky #mastodon #fediverse #fedi #censorship

I noticed there's a command "collect_replies" and it sounds like this would get the replies so they show up... but it doesn't seem to do anything?

I wonder if I'm misunderstanding how fedi works or what that command does. Can one instance A ask another instance B "give me all replies to that post!" even when the replies are from even other instances C, D, E etc.?

#snac #fedi #fediverse #activitypub

#Fedi #clients should really warn you when the boosted post you click on is over a month old. XD

@amin @kabel42 @thedoctor @sotolf @solusspider

The worst insult-to-injury is when you're looking for a coffee shop, you finally resign yourself to going to a scubrats because there isn't a DECENT one nearby, and when you get there, it's a FLIPPING TARGET.

Like, I want to sit down and sip a drink contemplatively while reading or writing or faffing about on #fedi, I don't want to go inside a grocery store to buy a beverage.

Aaaaaargh! 🤣

#Poll: How often do you browse your instance's home timeline?

(I think it's one of the most underrated features of #fedi, and how you like or dislike your instance's home feed may be a good indication of how good a fit you are for your instance (or how well suited your community is to you)

@rl_dane No, replying is never obligatory on #fedi because that way lies normalizing bad behavior like sea-lioning.

That said, I agree with the other side of your advice. It is a kindness to mark a post-only account as such, to use hashtags for posts by content, and to provide a useful profile with links and intentions. I think of the @MakersHour account as a good example of that mode.

If all you use #fedi for is posting the equivalent of an RSS feed, then please go ahead and mark your account as a bot.

Posting but never replying is a transgression against an implicit social contract.

It's bad, and you should feel bad.

#VagueTooting

#Poll ✏️

I sent a #ThoughtProvoker contrasting Opt-in vs. Opt-out for services that developers launch on our #fediverse.

Thought was that on a #Prosocial web people are fully in control of the services they want to use by opting in, thus providing #consent.

Opt-out is where in many cases de-facto a developer becomes the decider how your content and data is used. To fedizens its often unclear what services interact with their online presence, and in what way. Plus they have to discover the opt-out mechanisms themselves.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117285470634849684

My post got an angry reaction from a #fedi developer, who misinterpreted what I said. The devs I know act with the best intentions! Yet some are exasperated with "We can't have nice things with only opt-in".

Recently a discovery service was launched with opt-out based on Indexable flag and Bio tags.

❓ What should be the default for fediverse apps and services ❓

And while you're at it, vote on my other related poll:

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117291127690930513

https://tuba.geopjr.dev/

#Fediverse #Fedi #Software #Linux #Windows

For the people that think #Mastodon and other social web sites are “ healthier” would love to know your thoughts on this https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/problem-mastodon-fediverse/ #fediverse #fedi #opensocialweb

Fediverse is peppered with #cringy, delusional, self-hating twitposting. Some people's feeds read like a suicide letter demanding everyone else to commit suicide with them. Some twitfeeds exude the vibes of an assassin's hit list. Some twitfeeds smell like authoritarian extermination orders. Their toxic feeds should come with a Mister Yuk sticker.

Twitposter feeds run devoid of brotherly love and full of animosity towards things they don't understand. These twitposters seek to blame and punish innocent people for their perceived slights or suffering rather than helping others through their own suffering.

Twitposters try to classify and demonize others instead of viewing others as individual humans with their own individual destinies.

With this collectivist hateview of others, they concoct a delusional view of reality that justifies any oppression or atrocity toward the 'enemy' they have concocted, and often that enemy is the self.

#Fedi #Fediverse #cringe #twitposers #twitposting #twitfeeds #gag #MisterYuk

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @socialpsych@a.gup.pe @psychology@a.gup.pe

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A green Mister Yuk sticker with a circular black border. In the border are the words, 'POISON HELP' and a toll-free number for a poison hotline.