Turn Mastodon into your feed reader
Datenschutz bei Mastodon
HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social - There was a stretch when Elon Musk took over twitter and started charging for blue checks (lmao) and some of his sycophants started talking about “Veblen goods.”
A Veblen good is something for which demand increases as price increases, in contact to the neoclassical orthodoxy that demand decreases axiomatically with price.
Veblen goods are things that rich people buy to signal their wealth and status. Jewelry, fancy watches, yachts, Ivy League degrees. Things that cost many thousands or millions of dollars.
The idea that an $8 verification on twitter would ever be a status symbol for the rich was fucking ludicrous.
1/8
#Hashtag separators:
📋 #ZeroWidthSpaceHere
U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE
(does not prevent line breaks)
📋 #WordJoinerHere
U+2060 WORD JOINER
(prevents line breaks)
Bridgy Fed turns your web site into its own fediverse account, visible in Mastodon and beyond. You can post, reply, like, repost, and follow fediverse accounts by posting on your site with microformats2 and sending webmentions. Bridgy Fed translates those posts to fediverse protocols like ActivityPub and OStatus, and sends fediverse interactions back to your site as webmentions.
This isn't syndication or POSSE! You don't need an account on Mastodon or anywhere else. Bridgy Fed lets your site act like a first class member of the fediverse. People there will see your posts directly from your site, and vice versa.
Bridgy Fed takes some technical know-how to set up, and there are simpler (but less powerful) alternatives. If you just want your site's posts to show up in the fediverse, without any other interactions, consider an RSS or Atom feed bot instead. Or, if you want to cross-post to an existing Mastodon account, try Bridgy.
To appear in Proc. of ACM Computer Human Interaction Conference 2004, Vienna Austria
1
Slash(dot) and Burn: Distributed Moderation in a Large
Online Conversation Space
Wrote about my two #boardgames of the month over there at #bgg