Anti-Musk: The social media site picking up a lot of X refugees in Australia
Bluesky is Australia’s top-ranked social media app in both Apple and Google’s app stores, firming as the social media website of choice for those quitting X. ⌘ Read more

**👋 Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:

• Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup
  

• When: 23rd November 2024 at …**
  👋 Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:

• Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup

• When: 23rd November 2024 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)

• Where: Mills Meet : Yarn.social

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The Australia Labor government, Albanese and the honourable Michelle Rowland federal member for parliament and communications minster are fuckin …
The Australia Labor government, Albanese and the honourable Michelle Rowland federal member for parliament and communications minster are fucking clowns. It’s stupid shit like this that’s the real problem with “big tech” social media platforms. These morons just simply don’t understand basic economics and basic business.

Why would a company like Meta, X a … ⌘ Read more

(#6fvrnqq) @slashdot Uh huh sure 😉 Bluesky, the “decentralized” social media platform that won’t steal and profit from your data huh?! 🤦�� …
@slashdot @feeds.twtxt.net Uh huh sure 😉 Bluesky, the “decentralized” social media platform that won’t steal and profit from your data huh?! 🤦‍♂️ ⌘ Read more

[ANN] The MAGIC Monero Fund got an application: ‘Build a plugin for embedding dApps into Wordpress websites’
Link: https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund/issues/38

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@prologic@twtxt.net what do we make of Labor’s proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven’t been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it’s broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

(#rp2j7xa) @aelaraji For context @wbknl@wbknl reach out to my on #Yarn.social on IRC to ask for an account on my pod 😅 Glad folks pay att …
@aelaraji @aelaraji.com For context @wbknl reach out to my on #Yarn.social on IRC to ask for an account on my pod 😅 Glad folks pay attention to the Join messaging 🥳 ⌘ Read more

(#b6juizq) @cuaxolotl what problem does building a social graph solve?
@cuaxolotl @sunshinegardens.org what problem does building a social graph solve? ⌘ Read more

[ANN] [Bounty] Create a Telegram notification bot for Haveno offers

Create an open-source Telegram bot that notifies users of new Haveno offers that meet user-defined criteria, such as currency, payment method, and price.

Link: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/161/

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@bender@twtxt.net I try to avoid editing. I guess I would write 5/4, 6/4, etc, and hopefully my audience would be sympathetic to my failing.

Anyway, I don’t think my eccentric decision to number my twts in the style of other social media platforms is the only context where someone might write ¼ not meaning a quarter. E.g. January 4, to Americans.

I’m happy to keep overthinking this for as long as you are :-P

[LTH] [0.15 XMR] Convert isometric token image from Wordpress to Monero icon

A new privacy focused hosting platform which only accepts Monero as a currency needs a conversion of this isometric logo of Wordpress, to be exactly the same however, using Monero color scheme and icon: https://file.io/clebBxqHX9UV

Link: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/160/

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**The call is on! Come join us!

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The call is on! Come join us!

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[LFF] [$255] My 3 months of server hosting is open for donations

Server costs for MoneroResearch.info, bchmempool.cash, Rucknium.me, fusionstats.redteam.cash, and Monero public RPC node at http://rucknium.me:18081

Link: https://rucknium.me/donate/

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‘It’s OK to poo at work’: Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

‘It’s OK to poo at work’: Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time
Now, it’s easier than ever for nonprofits to receive GitHub product discounts.

The post GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

GoPro is now a camera for movies and social, not just action
With smart swappable lenses, automated settings, magnetic latches and new modes, the Hero 13 Black is suited for more than extreme sports. ⌘ Read more

One book created panic about social media. But what if it’s bunkum?
Labor will push age-limit legislation for social media through despite the fact scientists and experts have said it won’t work. ⌘ Read more

[ANN] The MAGIC Monero Fund received a new grant application: ‘Monerotopia Buildathon 2024’

Deverick is asking for 4,000 USD to host a hackathon/buildathon to improve Monero integration in the BTCPay self-hosted merchant payment system, especially with BTCPay 2.0 coming up. Community feedback on this idea is appreciated :D

Link: https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund/issues/37

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[LFF] Monero meetup group in Barcelona (Spain)

Hello I am running the Monero meetup group in Barcelona (Spain) and looking for support to organize a in-person event before end of the year. The idea is to spread the word in the city about XMR what it is and why privacy is important. I am aiming for a more social networking environment to gather privacy enthusiasts but open to sugestions. I would like to ask here if you guys could help with some funds to rent a space if needed.

Link: [https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/monero-meetup-barcel … ⌘ Read more

Lol, this is actually a good thing by Apple. Doesn’t kill social apps at all, just prevents some harvesting of your entire address book by abusive apps like WhatsApp.

@prologic@twtxt.net

See https://dev.twtxt.net

Yes, that is exactly what I meant. I like that collection and “twtxt v2” feels like a departure.

Maybe there’s an advantage to grouping it into one spec, but IMO that shouldn’t be done at the same time as introducing new untested ideas.

See https://yarn.social (especially this section: https://yarn.social/#self-host) – It really doesn’t get much simpler than this 🤣

Again, I like this existing simplicity. (I would even argue you don’t need the metadata.)

That page says “For the best experience your client should also support some of the Twtxt Extensions…” but it is clear you don’t need to. I would like it to stay that way, and publishing a big long spec and calling it “twtxt v2” feels like a departure from that. (I think the content of the document is valuable; I’m just carping about how it’s being presented.)

Official yarn.social tool: git.mills.io/yarnsocial/useragent

Cela ne peut pas être ce que vous pensez que cela pourrait être. Impossible.
Pendant que les Français sont occupés par le petit théâtre gouvernemental et les gesticulations ministérielles grotesques destinées à camoufler l’effondrement économique et social du pays dans la violence et la misère, la situation sanitaire mondiale continue son inquiétante trajectoire. Cette trajectoire n’est pas nouvelle. C’est même une tendance de fond que quelques précédents a … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I cases of these kind of “abuse” of social trust. Then I think people should just delete their replies, unfollow the troll and leave them to shouting in the void. This is a inter-social issue, not a technical issue. Anything can be spoofed. We are not building a banking app, we are just having conversation and if trust are broken then communication breaks down. These edge-cases are all very hypothetical and not something I think we need to solve with technology.

The 10 best tools to green your software
Looking for ways to code in a more sustainable way? We’ve got you covered with our top list of tools to help lower your carbon footprint.

The post The 10 best tools to green your software appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Software as a public good
Open source software underpins all sectors of the economy, public services and even international organizations like the United Nations. How can all its beneficiaries work together to make the open source ecosystem more sustainable?

The post Software as a public good appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

‘Parents already have the tools’: Snapchat boss pushes back on social media ban
Tech billionaire Evan Spiegel is the first global CEO to weigh in and says parents – not tech companies – should carry most of the responsibility for their kids’ screen time. ⌘ Read more

If we’re going to ban kids off social, what on earth will they do outside?
Banning access to social media for young people is an honourable idea, but we need to make sure they have other things to do instead. ⌘ Read more

The PM is sigma, but his social media ban belongs in the skibidi toilet
Of course Albanese was right when he declared “parents are worried sick” about social media, but we cannot return to the golden days when it didn’t exist. ⌘ Read more

As a Gen Z wanting to get off social media, I lived for a week using a ‘dumb phone’
As a 19-year-old, I’m sceptical about the government’s proposed social media ban. But a more effective alternative is gaining traction among Gen Zers. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net One of your twts begins with (#st3wsda): https://twtxt.net/twt/bot5z4q

Based on the twtxt.net web UI, it seems to be in reply to a twt by @cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org which begins “I’ve been sketching out…”.

But jenny thinks the hash of that twt is 6mdqxrq. At least, there’s a very twt in their feed with that hash that has the same text as appears on yarn.social (except with ‘ instead of ’).

Based on this, it appears jenny and yarnd disagree about the hash of the twt, or perhaps the twt was edited (though I can’t see any difference, assuming ’ vs ’ is just a rendering choice).

@prologic@twtxt.net I guess I thought they were search engines. Anyway, the registry API looks like a decent one for searching for tweets. Could/should yarn.social pods implement the same API?

I just manually followed the steps at https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/twthashextension.html and got 6mdqxrq. I wonder what happened. Did @cuaxolo@sunshinegardens.org edit the twt in some subtle way after twtxt.net downloaded it? I couldn’t spot a diff, other than ‘ appearing as ’ on yarn.social, which I assume is a transformation done by twtxt.net.

@prologic@twtxt.net How does yarn.social’s API fix the problem of centralization? I still need to know whose API to use.

Say I see a twt beginning (#hash) and I want to look up the start of the thread. Is the idea that if that twt is hosted by a a yarn.social pod, it is likely to know the thread start, so I should query that particular pod for the hash? But what if no yarn.social pods are involved?

The community seems small enough that a registry server should be able to keep up, and I can have a couple of others as backups. Or I could crawl the list of feeds followed by whoever emitted the twt that prompted my query.

I have successfully used registry servers a little bit, e.g. to find a feed that mentioned a tag I was interested in. Was even thinking of making my own, if I get bored of my too many other projects :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, it works!

But when I tried it out on a twt from @prologic@twtxt.net, I discovered jenny and yarn.social seem to disagree about the hash of this twt: https://twtxt.net/twt/st3wsda . jenny assigned it a hash of 6mdqxrq but the URL and prologic’s reply suggest yarn.social thinks the hash is st3wsda. (And as a result, jenny –fetch-context didn’t work on prologic’s twt.)

Can this repairable smartphone deliver a perfect social media detox?
The HMD Skyline has a killer pair of special features, which may or may not be as good as they sound. ⌘ Read more

@quark@ferengi.one Check out this thread if you haven’t already: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/112464533481477428

I think we already know It’s likely to be a disaster.

👋 Hello @testtest@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

👋 Hello @nigergibe@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

👋 Hello @nigergibe@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

👋 Hello @nigergibe@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

🥳 NEW FEED: @paulasimoes@feeds.twtxt.net

@prologic@twtxt.net I think it was some mix of phish and social engineering. She didn’t have the multifactor enabled. But i think she had clicked a message that had a fake login. She talked to someone on a phone and they made her do some things.

I never got the whole story of how it happened.

Automating open source: How Ersilia distributes AI models to advance global health equity
Discover how the Ersilia Open Source Initiative accelerates drug discovery by using GitHub Actions to disseminate AI/ML models.

The post [Automating open source: How Ersilia distributes AI models to advance global health equity](https://github.blog/open-source/social-impact/automating-open-source-how-ersilia-distributes-ai-models-to-advance-glo … ⌘ Read more

The billionaire-backed ‘people’s bid’ to buy TikTok is gaining steam
A move to buy TikTok’s US arm could radically reshape the controversial social media app and its mysterious algorithms. ⌘ Read more

Kinda cool tool for bringing together all your timeline based data across socials.

https://github.com/timelinize/timelinize

Thanks @prologic@twtxt.net! I like the way Yarn.social is making all of twtxt stronger, not just Yarn.social pods.