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  • TIL Chuck 'e Cheese still uses floppy disks for its animatronic shows in 2023. 💾 https://www.instagram.com/p/CnI6eU6rak2/

  • In reply to @davidbisset. Finally you might say "I don't care I like #Mastodon" That's fine. NOTHING wrong w/ that. I'm using it. Most are content. But M has cons I think need addressing (QT not a priority). There's no future where M is "the winner" because there isn't going to be a winner in…

  • In reply to @davidbisset. – My biggest gripe is that so much potential for Mastodon has been wasted. It's effectively unchanged since 2018. it doesn't have to conform to Twitter but it's still a "geeky" product. It could have been polished by IMO (being fully aware that M isn't a product with VC funding, etc.)…

  • In reply to @davidbisset. – That being said, #Mastodon just isn't ready for the "pre-masses" (to be fair Twitter isn't hugely popular by the numbers either). I'm a M user and i've said from early on – and still believe – M's onboarding is still not simple, and like it or not simple wins the…

  • Via theguardian: "Number of active #Mastodon user dropped >30% since peak and continuing slow decline"… https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/jan/08/elon-musk-drove-more-than-a-million-people-to-mastodon-but-many-arent-sticking-around Assuming that's accurate: – M isn't for everyone. Some bound to leave. #Twitter believe it or not still has value. – TechMeme: "M is a poor/failed product". If you wanted it to replace #Twitter, that's true. But it won't…

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    Whenever someone asks what it's like at times to tow my emotional baggage I'll show them this.

  • Encountering more items #Fediverse related now that i'm spending more time on #Mastodon. Soapbox – a "UI for the Fediverse" – has a new version (3.0). Looks on the surface very much like Twitter (or the Twitter I most commonly think of). https://soapbox.pub/blog/releasing-soapbox-3.0/

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    Doesn't look like much but i'm now pulling #Tumblr posts via #RSS into my social media "headquarters" project site. That makes pulling my site pulling in #Twitter, #Mastodon, and Tumblr live. Powered by #WordPress and some custom #PHP scripts. Maybe i'll do LinkedIn or Instagram next? Don't use them much but might be worth expanding…

  • I know it's easy (if you already know how) on the command line to do this BUT…. Want to rename thousands of files in folders without command line? Don't forget on the #Mac you have the Automater app. A decade of using my Mac and I think i used this twice. Don't forget it's there.…

  • This is fancy block'n with #WordPress but cool to see how it's done: "Building a book review grid with a Query Loop block variation" https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2022/12/20/building-a-book-review-grid-with-a-query-loop-block-variation/

  • TIL that if you are using #Mastodon on the web you can copy a photo into your clipboard and CTRL-V in the "compose post box" and it adds the photo right there. No need to save the image and then drag and drop. Don't know why I was stuck on that method. 👍🏻

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    Me waiting for this #WordPress site to load… …when it has 45 (half outdated and badly written and the other half of which it doesn't need) plugins. Oh and a theme written in 2017.

  • Interesting: Yark is "#YouTube archiving made simple" letting one continuously archive all videos and metadata for YouTube channels. https://github.com/Owez/yark Once everything has been downloaded, Yark will automatically give you a status report of what's changed since the last refresh. #Python

  • In reply to @davidbisset. That might seem obvious to some, but often people innocently forget it's how some people cope. Act accordingly.

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    If you use #Adobe and store files on their Cloud Storage system (local files ok) then take notice. Even if you are AI friendly your clients might not appreciate this. 🤦🏻‍♂️This should have been opt-in. 🗒️ Sidenote: Even since I got my new Mac Studio i chose not to reinstall Adobe Cloud and went with…

  • I could take it or leave QT on #Mastodon. But ultimately i'm with @gruber after listening to latest Talk Show. People are going to find a way around it, with a worse user experience. Do it but IMO enable blocks and filters so if i do want to use them (or let my posts maybe…

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    Fascinating look into the #YouTube earnings of a Lego building channel. Won't spoil the numbers, but they are not small. https://brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com/2022/11/19/my-youtube-earnings/