@liaizon @bigzaphod@mastodon.social Heh, yeah, this fediverse thing has been around a good long while

@mhoye@mastodon.social A label maker, you say?

@craigmaloney the AUDACITY

@socketwench Oh, I haven't explored the set of lil icons available on my label machine 🤔

@faho this week's fresh hell is Jamie Oliver's chicken satay skewers except the skewers are all splinters and you have a peanut allergy

@cwebber shelter in place if you value your bones and don't have a good flirt ritual

Nvidia Broadcast's eye contact feature strikes me as something that only someone with autism and/or ADHD hyperfocus could have created, but they did it as a horror thing and the rest of the team was like "oh that's actually quite pleasant let's ship it" :ohno:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRpbKe8q/

@fraying @danhon Maybe we need more heist-style family films

@lawremipsum@mspsocial.net Oh, sorry, I was being generally vague but maybe came off sneaky - it's this one I'm on right now

Hmm, well, that was disliked real fast. Should have run that past a smaller context first

@phasorburn@toot.phasorburn.com @thomasfuchs That's basically what I'm thinking?

Also probably worth tooting that sort of thing from my personal instance, so as not to annoy my local mods. :blobsadleft:​

@lawremipsum@mspsocial.net I mean, hi, it me. I know it's asking a favor, but would you mind lending me some clue about what's unsavory about my thing? (I promise I will go away if the answer is no)

@astraluma Yeah, same. Main thing is just "what was that thing I saw about that thing"?

@slightlyoff @simon @ivory @icecubesapp@mastodon.cloud That said, Elk as an app on my iOS homescreen works pretty dang well

@thegibson Yeah, I got this thing reading public events right now, but it would be easy to swap in public:local to constrain to just local stuff

@skippy @astraluma Yeah, I've also got a hankering to tinker with an activitypub bookmarking thing. But also yeah, that's more of a proactive collection thing than a recollection thing

@recursive YES

Don't want to pester the author further, but I read this today: "because I had the right to see it, I have the right to store it and search it indefinitely" is not a valid assumption.

That is interesting and surprising to me. I have decades of personal journals, photos, notes, letters, emails, chats, texts, etc. Some of these I wrote, some of these I received. I've considered them part of my private extended memory.

I kind of assume other folks do this too. But then, also, I'm willing to admit I have hoarder brain worms that need eviction.

@eli_oat Well, I guess what is surprising to me is that I don't share what I found so much as I recall it more easily. Then I might talk about it. But, I'm not letting anyone dig around in my private records.

Still, yeah, considering decolonization is a useful angle because I have those brain worms too

@eli_oat "The act of collecting is enough to trigger a power imbalance."

🤔 That's handy to dwell on, thanks!

I do have another fediverse search idea that I want to try: a bot that indexes for mutual follows.

That is, you follow it, it follows you - the public posts it receives from you go into the index. You stop following, it stops following - it deletes everything it knows about you. Toots don't end up in the index otherwise.

I want to build it as a "bare metal" activitypub server, independent of any particular instance. That's a little harder, which is why I got the personal timeline index working first as a Mastodon client.

But, I think indexing mutuals is closer to the "would you like a cup of tea?" model of consent. (Which isn't perfect either, but has fewer assumptions.)

(edit: Oh and, notably, this is the sort of thing Anil Dash blogged about)

Of course... 🤔 Maybe if I build this bot, it should be a Mastodon API client too? Then it might be easier to fold in existing Mastodon features & assumptions, react to moderation reports, etc