Hazelnoot [she/her]

Disclaimer: I administrate multiple Sharkey instances and am one of the project maintainers, so I’m likely quite biased. Please take my opinions with a grain of salt!

1. I’ve used Mastodon, Akkoma, and various Misskey forks (Calckey, FireFish, and now Sharkey). The former felt very much like a corporate platform, complete with the “polished feel” you’d expect. Someone unfamiliar could easily mistake it for Twitter. Akkoma is quite the opposite - it feels like an indie software hosting forgotten subcultures in a quiet corner of the internet. Misskey-based software is somewhere in the middle, and feels more like an MMO than a social network sometimes.
2. Mastodon moderation is clearly geared towards structured and (semi-)professional moderation teams. The mod tooling supports coordination between multiple moderators and records detailed audit logs for quick catch-up on a particular user’s history of staff interactions. Akkoma, again, feels like moderating a classic PHP forum backend. The tooling options are either high-level and barebones, or low-level but extremely powerful. Misskey forks vary, a lot. Vanilla Misskey has relatively poor moderation support, and is clearly meant for communities with a fairly “hands-off” approach. Calckey/FireFish improve this somewhat, and Sharkey has put moderation as a key focus with support for granular restrictions beyond just “silence or suspend”. Community wise, I feel that Mastodon users tend to over-report, and Mastodon admins under-moderate. Akkoma users rarely report anything, but admins set up intricate MRF rules to enforce detailed restrictions and limits. Misskey users report about as much as Mastodon users, while admins often over-moderate and jump directly to instance-level restrictions in response to minor user-level issues.
3. I do, at least in general. The quality of moderation on fedi is a mixed bag. A few instances do very well, some do well enough, and many more just moderate the bare minimum or not at all. I regularly see users complain of harassment from sources that have been known for years. No qualified moderation team should allow federation with poa.st, for example, and yet many do. But Beehaw’s staff have shown a commitment to their roles, and the community has consistently backed them up with reliable reporting and a solid effort to maintain the community health. I think our people could do very well in the larger fediverse space.

Isn’t that a classic corporate raid technique? Sell the company’s assets to you or an organization you control, then lease them back to the original owners.

This isn’t just about teens - the article shows that every age under 45 is less happy, and - excluding a brief bump in the late 20s - people just keep getting unhappy as they get older. There’s no “it gets better” age to look forward to.

oh so it would just be app-based MFA but without using TOTP. That makes sense

I’m confused about how this is supposed to act as a second authentication factor 🤔

Aren’t ideas like, the easiest part of making a game??

Just renewed my library card, and apparently it’s been 17 years since I last used it. The staff did a double-take when she read the date 😅

I never learned it, even though all my classmates did (2000s) 😅

what

same, I was ready for this to be some transphobic thing and was pleasantly surprised!

It would be a different beast if the school didn’t allow you access coursework on a personal machine without installing their bullshit, thats a huge issue.

That’s exactly how it works at many places. Students can only use a personal device if it’s enrolled in the school’s MDM, which grants them just as much control.

TIL that pluralistic.net is blocked on Facebook, and any links to it are automatically removed as “farming engagement”

That’s not entirely true. Practice is important, but homework actually has a negative impact on learning: https://hachyderm.io/@Impossible_PhD/112969358305278574

It’s good we have “Knewbies” in a sandbox when they start.

attention all companies: please stop making pet names for your employees, it’s weird

It really, really is

my employer has decided to license an “AI RDBMS” that will dynamically rewrite our entire database schema and queries to allegedly produce incredible performance improvements out of thin air. It’s obviously snake oil, but they’re all in on it 🙄

Another vote for the steam controller - it’s versatile enough to work comfortably with every game I’ve wanted to play.

My product manager is doing the opposite - pushing us to replace “bandwidth” and “effort” with “time”. We’re now expected to provide an accurate hour estimate for all work items, projects, and bugs. Getting it done later or sooner is penalized on the metrics.

I feel like this design would work pretty well even for a modern phone. Just flatten the bottom-right menu section and extend the screen over it, and you’d get a regular full-size smartphone with a slide-out keyboard and some handy physical buttons!

“good” is subjective, but I can recommend the Tomb Raider reboots.