L. Rhodes @lrhodes@merveilles.town
- Site
- lrhodes.net
- Academic/current events
- lrhodes@scholar.social
- Location
- USA
- @upstreamism@twitter.com
Writer/producer. Interests include #philosophy, #history, #civics, #film, #literature and #games. He/him.
Joined Mar 2019
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@jomo We'll keep an eye on the temperature, you keep an eye on our liability.
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"show, don't tell"
WELL SHOWING'S EXHAUSTING OKAY
@tao I'm that they've probably forgotten it?
@matilde Kobo has a DRM-free section: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/drm-free
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People have asked me if having local-only posting somehow discourages federated posting.
I finally did the actual queries on our instance database, and after about a year of having local-only as an option we are at almost exactly 50/50 local vs federated posts.
65% of our accounts have been active in the last month, which is on the high side of normal for an instance with 80 accounts.
We post about 2x more *federated* posts than other instances with ~40 active users.
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My theory is that having local-only posts encourages a stronger community, which encourages more posting in general, which leads to more federated AND more local posts.
I believe that offering local-only posts *strengthens* federation.
(Comparative stats above were collected by me looking at the instance/activity endpoint on similarly sized servers to Friend Camp.)
reduce > reuse > recycle
Picked up this brand of milk one day because it was the only 1 quart bottle in stock. Figured the old school heavy glass bottle was a gimmick, but no, you can actually return the bottle to the grocery store where you bought it, get a deposit, and the creamery will reuse the bottle. https://www.homesteadcreameryinc.com/our-products/milk/
Forgive the YT link, but I figured some of you would appreciate this house: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C7OPO334NDk
It's rentable, so file under #theCartographer maybe?
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Stupid fact:
The proverb "I hear, I see, I learn" is "Audio, Video, Disco" in Latin.
books etc.
You know who's good about including a blog roll on their blogs? University presses.
@rusty I try not to quote anything from the first five paragraphs so it looks like I read a lot of the post I'm linking to.
"I think of Spinoza, perhaps the most rigorous (or at least the most rigor-loving) philosopher in history, who chose to turn down an appointment at Heidelberg University to continue grinding the lenses whose dust would kill him." https://robertminto.com/2019/10/02/on-rigor/
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This is me and the #IndieWeb - as a geek but non-programmer the friction is just too high for me to stick at it. https://glenn.thedixons.net/giving-up-on-indieweb-again/
Fairphone, a Dutch company trying to manufacture and market a fair trade smartphone, faces hard-to-solve sourcing and human rights problems. https://mondediplo.com/2016/04/13fairphone
Now I'm daydreaming about how to optimize social media for e-ink, and wondering if that even makes sense. Maybe the underlying ideological assumptions of social media and low-impact technology are simply inimical to one another.
- Site
- lrhodes.net
- Academic/current events
- lrhodes@scholar.social
- Location
- USA
- @upstreamism@twitter.com
Writer/producer. Interests include #philosophy, #history, #civics, #film, #literature and #games. He/him.
Joined Mar 2019
