Notices by L. Rhodes (lrhodes@merveilles.town)

You're not playing with the latest AI toy. You're training someone's AI business.

This modal should have a field where the server admins can specify other instances they recommend. (And Mastodon should check and display the status of account registration on those servers.) Then servers should form partnerships (rings!) with other similarly moderated servers to help distribute the impact when there are large influxes of new people to the network.

If you do any kind of online writing about books, I'm begging you, link to the publisher's page, not a store.

One or two accounts regularly posting things that don't interest you is manageable, but the more you add, the easier it is to lose the signal in the noise. With no algorithm working to keep you addicted, it's easy to let your Home timeline get overrun. Follow freely, but also be ready to unfollow for basic quality of life reasons. The Federated timeline can be overwhelming, but your Home timeline shouldn't be. You have to tend it like a garden, and a little pruning goes a long way. #feditips

Mastodon provides several tools for managing your timeline.

You can add notes to any profile. Why did you follow them? Are they a repeat offender? Remind yourself.

You can disable boosts on a per-user basis. Maybe you want to see a user's posts, but not everything that interests them.

You can temporarily mute an account while they get something out of their system.

You filter out posts with specific words, hashtags or phrases.

And when all else fails: block, unfollow, or mute indefinitely.

Admins of Mastodon: If you've been accepting new registrations, do you mind sharing roughly how many new accounts have joined your server since the Twitter news dropped? (Boosts appreciated.)

The threshold for discoverability on Mastodon is pretty high, so be generous about boosting other people. Sometimes you're the signal, and sometimes you're the path the signal takes through the noise.

Welp, it was fun while it lasted. Epic Games is eating Bandcamp. https://twitter.com/Bandcamp/status/1499068917947510788