@koboldskind Completely agree.
Tagged: Akkoma
@dinogami
And e-books that disappear unless I use a specific reader 😢
@AuntyChrist @pluralistic
@steveportigal We just need to set these platforms on fire and never look back.
More and more coming across "podcasts" that can only be listened to on a specific platform, not in my podcatcher (any app for listening to podcasts via RSS feeds).
If a podcast doesn't disclose its RSS feed, is it really a podcast, or just an audio show that happens to be published on a specific platform?
In my mind podcasting is about the listener experience and mode of consumption as much as the production experience. If I can't listen to it like I do 99% of all podcasts, then for all intents and purposes it is not a podcast.
I know most people don't think about RSS feeds at all when listening but I had to mention it here as it's the mode of distribution that makes everything I just mentioned possible, with regards to freedom of listening where I want. Not where someone else wants.
#podcast #podcasting
Very happy to see how much in agreement we all seem to be about this. Of course I expected nothing else from the fediverse 😊
@clacke @mrundkvist @danjac
@RogerBW
@vv0r
Speaking of podcasts, I had missed how @pluralistic has recently written about exactly this.
"Where others were cautious, Spotify was reckless. It bought popular podcasts and podcast networks, then severely enshittified their programs by locking them inside Spotify's walled garden. Audience numbers plummeted, demoralizing podcast creators who were uninterested in the future date when Spotify and its Magic Underpants Gnomes would figure out how to wring more money out of the tiny cohort that stuck around."
Yes, even the Obamas broke off their deal with Spotify.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/27/enshittification-resistance/
#podcasting
@Silhelm Ah interesting. I think I prefer to only start with the one question, and then I keep going into tangents - "but that is only true if this other thing also takes place..."
Your approach reminds me of my mindmapping though, where I jot down a topic structure and make sure I cover all the different perspectives.
Some of my most revealing posts have been where I have a dialogue with myself. It's funny how I can write responses to my own questions and those responses contain things I didn't think I could articulate before.
@carl Excellent.
Writing prompts really, really, really work for me when blogging. I need to remember this when I'm stuck.
The best writing prompt that works for me is posing the first line as a question, and then I answer it. Love helping and teaching, and apparently I love helping myself too 😁
@davor @Beantin
Ah, gotcha. Yes, some of my clients also expect it, and have their whole design system in there, which means I have to reinvent my offerings to avoid it. I'm too old and lazy to learn my umpteenth tool... 😅
I've personally only done pair programming sitting physically next to each other. And with devs I've spent some prior time with. To work remotely I would want to have met and shared an experience outside the screen beforehand I think.
@Beantin @davor
Seen lots of ads for UXPin but never used it. I will always argue that the browser is the only way of knowing how it will behave in the end. And will save sooo much time. But it's obviously not for all designers.
Also saved a lot of time like Beantin by just sitting next to a dev and talking our way through it.
I do feel that a lot of wireframe and prototype builders are missing out by not knowing about Keynotopia or the benefits of just going hardcore presentation software.
Some prototypes I've built have been Keynote documents with clickable elements that bring the user to different pages. When I export that to PDF all the click actions are maintained, so I have a clickable prototype contained within a PDF that I can send around to clients. It's super quick.
I really should do a course on this, it's pretty nifty.
https://keynotopia.com
@davor @Beantin
I'm very curious about your first post now. "Moving" from Figma to Balsamiq. Is it an actual move or a project where it makes more sense to use Balsamiq?
@davor I use HTML, like the lord intended. 😁
Jokes aside I have done a lot of prototyping using Webflow and sometimes plain HTML. Previously also Bootstrap. If I need something really quick I use Keynote.
@davor Hehe, I still haven't touched Figma. But don't tell anyone.
@youronlyone Ha! That is so bizarre. 😅
@clacke I agree with this sentiment, it does feel a roundabout way of looking at it and I haven't dug deeper into the forums to understand more about background or how it will actually appear in the interface.
What I would find interesting is if the idea is a view showing quote posts that is separate from the thread view but easily reachable from the thread view.
It's not unlikely that I would be interested in your tangent if I am reading the thread.
As I saw @nazgul point out, the tools for finding your Twitter friends’ Mastodon accounts will likely stop working next week, when Twitter API usage starts costing money.
You may want to run them again to find new accounts since you ran them last.
These are the four tools I’ve seen people use, in case you want to find your way back to the one you tried earlier:
Reading the changelog for the next release of Akkoma (the software I'm running instead of Mastodon).
This caught my eye:
"Quote posts are now considered as part of the same thread as the post they are quoting"
Yes, Akkoma has always had quote posts though I've never really used them. The interesting thing here is that now it won't create a completely new thread and they will all be transparent for everyone looking at the thread.
Will be interesting to try this out to see how it will work and look. I expect to be able to upgrade within two weeks.
Of course, it's yet another example of how different flavors of Fediverse software choose to implement different features. However it looks for me won't be the same way it looks for you, if you're on Mastodon.
Today, there are nearly 7,000 languages and dialects in the world. Only 7% are reflected in published online material. 98% of the internet’s web pages are published in just 12 languages, and more than half of them are in English.
76% of the cyber population lives in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, but most of the online content comes from elsewhere. On Wikipedia, for example, more than 80% of articles come from Europe and North America.
Related to an issue I'm having at the moment: Building translation features into your software is a question of #HumanRights
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200414-the-many-lanuages-still-missing-from-the-internet
@aral
Wow...
"We want to be able to choose the unethical route without you calling attention to it..."
It's just wild that people go to these lengths to silence anyone holding them accountabile to their own professings.
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@rlpaulprodn Huh. That is odd. Maybe it's a constraint in the app you're using. Sorry to have misled you then. This is how it works on my iPhone.
@rlpaulprodn
My understanding was that you were having trouble uploading to Mastodon and having to retry multiple times. My suggestion is that it may help when you upload to Mastodon to select a smaller image size of the photo you choose from your library.
Making the photo smaller within that step of uploading to Mastodon is what my post explains.
@rlpaulprodn
I have written here about how to do it on an Iphone on image upload. It's two taps :) Not intuitive but simple enough when you know it.
https://axbom.me/notice/AS8jpnx7joSGLHGk5Y