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Following Sports on Mastodon

Since I refuse to engage with Twitter when able, I'm enjoying Mastodon for my Women's World Cup coverage conversation. My top advice is to follow the hashtags for the sporting event(s) you care about. This means that posts using that hashtag, by anyone, will appear in my timeline as if I was following that user.

So I'm following #WWC, #WWC2023, and #FIFAWWC and getting a nice and manageable amount of posts about the Women's World Cup game right now.

The other thing I did was for posting. I installed an app called Espanso (props to Adam Gessaman for the recommendation.) The reason being I can now type a shortened string and have it put in the above hashtags to ensure my post reaches other people interested in the topic. The hashtag usage is critical for Mastodon given it's search limitations.

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LinkedIn is Weird

In response to this post by Rand Fishkin:

I wrote the short and unhelpful, "LinkedIn is weird." I didn't know how better to say it in the moment and after sitting on it for a dozen hours I think I have a better way to say it.

LinkedIn is a professional network, and is filled with people attempting to be professional in a way that feels like nearly endless peacocking. Splaying of their tail feathers and strutting around. It's performative in a way that other networks can't be due to the AFK nature of the network.

That is why I feel it's weird.

It's not bad (at least, no worse than any other network.) And it has its definite values professionally. I've been in my job for over 11 years, but for those seeking work it levies personal networks and also provides professional job hunting tools.

Not bad, just weird.

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It's kind of funny and kind of not

They're 100% right on the entirety of this list.

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The Four Twitters

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To Delete your Threads account means Deleting your Instagram account as a whole

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Founder of Mastodon answers questions about Threads

The finishing paragraph outlines his stance on it:

We have been advocating for interoperability between platforms for years. The biggest hurdle to users switching platforms when those platforms become exploitative is the lock-in of the social graph, the fact that switching platforms means abandoning everyone you know and who knows you. The fact that large platforms are adopting ActivityPub is not only validation of the movement towards decentralized social media, but a path forward for people locked into these platforms to switch to better providers. Which in turn, puts pressure on such platforms to provide better, less exploitative services. This is a clear victory for our cause, hopefully one of many to come.

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Social media is all about moving goal posts

An excellent observation regarding the growth of new social media platforms. The goal posts will continue to move.

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Millenials will not be held hostage by services

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I spent yesterday trying to get the DNS change needed to verify a domain name account change for Bluesky. The issues were all on my end, but I eventually figured it out.

The biggest issue was that I forgot that I no longer managed DNS for this domain with the domain registrar, and so when I made a change there it wasn't actually a public thing. Once I realized that, I made the change on my own domain and kept waiting for it to proliferate, only to realize this morning I had typoed the subdomain for the DNS verification. It's 'atproto' but I had typed 'atphoto'.

As soon as I realized that, it was just a minute before I could get the domain verified.

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Twitter's issues cause another spike on Mastodon

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Testing Bluesky embeds

It's a lovely simple structure, if it works. I had a post for this before but pulled it down while triaging some of the site oddities this morning.

<iframe src="https://bsky.link/?url=[Post URL]"></iframe>

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I am now on Bluesky

Update:

Now I'm on Blue Sky as trickjarrett.com.

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