James Renken @jrenken@mastodon.sandwich.net
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Mastodon Sandwich maker. Site Reliability Engineer at Let's Encrypt. Retired attorney. Disclaimer maintainer.
Opinions are my own. Please don't take legal advice from the Internet!
Joined Apr 2017
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Had an interesting start to a conversation yesterday about Mastodon servers, and the driving philosophy under them.
And how you're either aiming to create a service or a community, and how these actually have different motivations and requirements.
And I thought that was interesting.
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Shadowrun Trilogy is on sale over at GOG. This is a steal. https://www.gog.com/en/game/shadowrun_trilogy
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realizing that GPU-rendered terminal emulators are so many levels of “you gave a teletype anxiety”
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OK who can help take Matt Mullenweg up on his offer to bring #Tumblr up to full #indieweb standards? cc: @humanetech
Not a joke: this is a very real opportunity... #openweb
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“卖安利”means strongly recommending sth in mandarin. And “大会” means a big meeting or a event
Because a main sns platform in china called Weibo recently starts to show its users’ ip in public without permission and users can’t cancel that. Then a lot of users decided to leave Weibo, and we seize the chance to “卖安利” recommend mastodon to them XD
And his guess was spot on! Based on that idea, a little bit more focused searching found an article confirming "卖安利" (selling Amway) is a colloquialism for making a pitch on social media.
https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2020/03/selling-out/
Hashtag approved.
A fun little success with multi-cultural/lingual moderation:
I was reviewing a trending hashtag: "长毛象安利大会". My instance lists trending hashtags only after mod review.
Google Translate said "Mammoth Amway Conference." Clearly "mammoth" is "Mastodon," but is this actually Amway? I wouldn't allow MLM to trend.
The posts didn't look like literal Amway. I have ~zero Chinese cultural/language competence. Time to ask friends.
@pstewart guessed it might be shorthand for "pitch something to us..."
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One of the unexpected joys of the fediverse over other places is the addition of weird domains appended on to everyone's usernames.
It makes the web feel like more than just four websites again.
It's both a signal of a smaller more intimate internet and also a larger and far more diverse internet at the same time!
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Oh wow, the European Union 🇪🇺 now has its own official Mastodon instance!
https://social.network.europa.eu/explore
You can follow lots of important EU officials on here including the @EU_Commission
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if you were wondering what happens when oulipo.social (doesn't allow the letter E) meets dolphin.town (only allows the letter E): https://dolphin.town/users/e/updates/2643
terrible people, comic violence
For example, we don't federate with k*w*f*rms any more, as of about 4.5 seconds after I found out they have a fediverse instance.
Welcome, new #MastodonSandwich folks! The federated timeline is getting a lot busier and more fun today, since you've been finding interesting people to follow.
If you see objectionable content on the timeline, please take the time to report it. You get to choose whether to forward your report to the instance the content came from. If an instance seems sketchy (or you don't care to look at it), just keep the report local and I'll decide whether to yeet the offending instance into the sea.
I'm planning to move Sandwich's status/outage updates away from the birdsite, ideally to something with an API and that people can subscribe to. But the SaaS options seem weirdly expensive or half-baked, and none of the open source options are actively maintained. Recs?
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listen, i'm glad everyone is here/back but platform metacommentary alone won't be enough to make this stick. you need to start posting inane nonsense
what did you eat today. did you see any cool bugs
#MastodonSandwich will be offline from 13:00 UTC - ~16:30 UTC today. Sorry about the trouble! A Mastodon security patch will be coming out during the very early morning in my time zone.
A couple of changes to #MastodonSandwich today:
Self-service registrations are closed because of a huge influx of spambots - but we'll happily give invitations to anyone, and any registered user can invite others.
We're spinning up the full-text search feature! It'll be available shortly.
Hi, folks! I've updated the #MastodonSandwich terms of service. They now incorporate Sandwich's master terms of service. https://mastodon.sandwich.net/terms
I've made some major updates to the #MastodonSandwich infrastructure. You'll hopefully see better performance. Enjoy!
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Mastodon Sandwich maker. Site Reliability Engineer at Let's Encrypt. Retired attorney. Disclaimer maintainer.
Opinions are my own. Please don't take legal advice from the Internet!
Joined Apr 2017
