Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

In my opinion, every government, public entity, association, foundation, etc., that needs to communicate with the public should have its own communication channel, with full control over its data and the messages it delivers. When I read “my Discord server,” I feel like responding “there’s nothing ‘yours’ about it - tomorrow morning they could shut everything down, and you would have lost EVERYTHING.”. Own your data!

Sometimes, I read that instances are not opened because of “costs not balanced by the number of users.” But even public television channels are often economically unprofitable, yet they are considered an essential service for public communication. Open, decentralized technologies that ensure control over one’s data should be treated the same way.

#OpenData #OwnYourData #Fediverse #CommunicationFreedom

What I really want from technology these days is passivity. Physical buttons, and PASSIVITY.

No guessing, no anticipating, no predicting.
No autofill, no autocorrect, no autodrive and PLEASE God no autoplay.

Just be inert until acted upon!

Thinking about, if someone were to try to teach "Minecraft but i survive in PARKOUR CIVILIZATION" , the basically thirty pages of explanation that would be needed to make it make sense. It's so rooted in a cultural context… all the Minecraft mechanics you need to understand. Familiarity with the "Prison Server" concept. Enough knowledge of present day serialized media to recognize the video you're watching is stitched together out of shorter videos…

There is just something about the way Gemini capsules all have similar visual language by design and that I, the user, am in control of things like which font family is used, pleases my neuroatypical brain.

The page author decides the content and its structure. I decide the details of rendering, for the most part -- though Lagrange supports ANSI escapes[1] for foreground and background colour and font variant -- bold, italic, underline, etc.

I consider that a fair compromise between user and author.

[1] Hot take: If you write a Gemini client, you have two options for ANSI escape sequences: You can either implement them, or filter them out. Showing visual garbage that's never meant for human eyes is just lazy.