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I'd fallen for, and helped spread, what I now realize was a myth about quote tweets: That there's almost no research on them. Big mistake! Now rectified.
Here's my new post, digging into more than 30 studies with data on quote tweets. They don't settle all the questions. But there are answers, or at least partial ones, to most. It's still complicated, though.
It's a * very * long read, but there are summary points ....1/2
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#MissedQuoteBoost #QuoteBoost #QuoteTweets
Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some Myths - Absolutely Maybe
The first myth to dispense with: That there’s almost no research on quote tweets! I added to this misconception with my December…Hilda Bastian (Absolutely Maybe)
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I keep getting asked to support writing rich-text-formatted posts in #Hometown (we already read them just fine). I finally wrote down, in this comment on this Github issue, a short essay outlining all my concerns with doing so:
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Some of this is problems with Markdown, while some of this is problems with interoperability regarding any rich text rendering at all.
Allow optional Markdown and/or ReStructuredText interpolation · Issue #1274 · hometown-fork/hometown
Pitch Web-Interface support for a choice (similar to the choice for post visibility or post federation) to render a post via a Markdown->HTML or ReStructuredText->HTML transformation (support...GitHub
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@Darius Kazemi It might be interesting seeing how other activity pubs things do it for compatibility at the very least? I'm using friendica right now (yes I know, I'm no fan of PHP, but after trying like 40 different activity pub things it has the right mixture of features that I was looking for even if it doesn't really have the UI I would prefer, but Mastodon doesn't either) and it has the ability for four different types of Rich text, ranging from BB code like things to Mark down, and I forget what else is those are the ones I use.
Here is BB code bold
Here is Mark down bold
I honestly have no clue how it gets rendered out beyond, but I can mix and match all four different things in a single thing without issue and I've had no problems with such intermixing.
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This instance looks really good:
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Project Mushroom's newsletter service signup form is live!
Sign up as a Project Mushroom creator - and migrate your newsletter for free This morning, Twitter announced they are shutting down their newsletter service, Revue.Eric Holthaus (Project Mushroom)
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday
#JennaOrtega #GoldenGlobes
Fear The Walking Dead season 8 will come out in the US on 14 May. This will be the final season.
I'm currently watching season 7, because that has just come out for us in the rest of the world.
#FearTheWalkingDead
New blog post: "Retiring Pinafore" nolanlawson.com/2023/01/09/ret…
Probably not going to surprise anyone, but I'm stepping back from Pinafore. Thanks to everyone who followed along with this project over the years!
Retiring Pinafore
Five years ago, I started a journey to build a better Mastodon client – one focused on performance and simplicity. And I did! Pinafore is the main Mastodon client I’ve used myself since I fir…Read the Tea Leaves
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Is There Life on Mars? We Asked a NASA Scientist
Short NASA video about what we know of the existence of life on Mars. Imported from youtube.com/watch?v=T3-3RHYGjX…. This video is assumed to be public domain since all NASA videos are thought to be public domain. Original description:
Is there life on Mars? No, we have never discovered life on the Red Planet, but we have found lots of evidence that suggests Mars could have once supported life in its ancient past. There’s even a chance that Mars could be habitable beneath its surface. NASA astrobiologist Heather Graham explains more.
Keep up with all of NASA’s endeavors at the Red Planet: mars.nasa.gov
Producers: Scott Bednar, Jessica Wilde
Editor: Daniel Salazar
Credit: NASA
Mars - NASA Science
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and the seventh largest. It’s the only planet we know of inhabited entirely by robots.mars.nasa.gov
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A Viking was shopping at a supermarket when he came across an elderly woman in a wheelchair, almost in tears.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
"Oh," wept the old lady, "I want to have a look at the frozen puddings, but as you can see, there are three steps down into the chiller cabinets."
"No problem," said the Viking, lifting her onto his back. "I'll take you."
He strolled through the chiller cabinets with the woman on his back. She selected several puddings and put them in the basket he was carrying for her. At the other end, her husband was waiting with her wheelchair.
"I'd really like to thank you," said the elderly lady as the Viking set her back down in the chair, "but I don't even know who you are!"
He just waved and walked off.
"I was really worried about you," commented her husband. "What have you been doing?"
"I've been through the desserts on a Norse with no name."
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In this The Guardian interview the band B*Witched talk about 1998, just before they became famous, and what happened since. They recreate a publicity photo they did then.
I was a huge fan. Mainly of Lindsay Armaou. Still am. I had seen them about a year before their first single came out in something I happened to catch on video tape. I was struck.
B*Witched in 1998, photographer unknown.
B*Witched in 2022, by Simon Webb.
#Bewitched #B*Witched #LindsayArmaou
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B*Witched look back: ‘We can still do the dance moves – maybe not the bouncy ones’
The 90s pop sensations talk friendship, fame and double denimHarriet Gibsone (The Guardian)
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Even though B*Witched was one of the most real girl- (or boy-) bands at the time (actually talented performers, down to earth people), there's still some manufacturing going on as you can sense in that article. I dislike that aspect of pop music with a passion. Sinead was made 'the blonde one', Keavy had her personality and hairstyle assigned that she didn't feel happy with. But they were really young women, trusted the record company and went with it. I think other bands are manufactured to even much higher degrees.
The article doesn't mention it specifically, but when Lindsay talks about being 20 (and the youngest) when they started, we early fans know that is not what was in all the biographies... There she was 18, fresh out of high school was her origin story. I think ages 18-24 could be marketed better to high school kids than 20-26...
Instead of evangelising just let people be themselves and make their own decisions.
I think evangelising comes from doubting yourself after having made a choice that doesn't turn out to be very popular. You want others to also come over to your side so you don't look a fool being on your own. But just look at it from your own perspective: are you happy and getting what you wanted out of making your choice? Then that's all that matters.
I've long since stopped worrying about looking like a fool, since I do anyway. I'm always on my own in my choices.
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix season two
♲ @jennaortega@twitter.com:Thanks to everyone who made this upcoming season possible. This has all been pretty surreal
twitter.com/netflix/status/161…
For season two I have some outlandish ideas. They could go full meta and have Wednesday deal with toxic fandom Wednesday-style, after doing it Tara-style earlier. But I'm actually ready for a full season of Goody Addams. Possibly flashback, possibly dual persona, but we haven't seen nearly enough of this very strong character. Or she flees along the fields and mountains with Enid, eight episodes long.
I wouldn't be a very good script writer. I'd do one idea for eight episodes long.
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Scream on Instagram: "Your exit is fast approaching. #ScreamVI"
Scream shared a post on Instagram: "Your exit is fast approaching. #ScreamVI". Follow their account to see 148 posts.Instagram
#KatieDouglas #GinnyAndGeorgia
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Watch Max, Abby and Norah from Ginny & Georgia’s Audition Tapes
Here’s where “MAN” — minus the G for Ginny — began.Tara Bitran (Netflix Tudum)
#Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix #JennaOrtega
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https://twitter.com/wednesdayaddams/status/1611407377227456513
More torture is coming. Lucky you.Twitter
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Hashtags do not federate. Sure, they federate, tagging along to posts that are sent to servers of followers. And though you can't subscribe to hashtags, you can subscribe to hashtags, once they happen to have arrived at your server.
But the important use of a hashtag, to create an informal space around a subject you can explore and subscribe to, doesn't work in the fediverse. If I'm interested in "# AmazingSubject" and subscribed to it, and you post your amazing take about it with "# AmazingSubject", I won't receive it. Not unless some specific conditions apply like we're on the same server, or someone on my server follows you, or someone with the right connections reshared your post, or our servers are on the same relay.
But if you need the info about e.g. flood warnings, track a news topic in your job as journalist or security researcher, support customers tagging your product, or want the latest information about your hobby, this is not good enough.
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Ginny & Georgia season 2 is out today on Netflix. The trailer had a glimpse of Katie Douglas, so she's in it. But probably again with little screen time like the previous season. But knowing Katie she's going to make it count, again like previous season.
The series itself is totally worth watching, don't let my Katie focus suggest otherwise.
#GinnyAndGeorgia #KatieDouglas
Fear The Walking Dead season 7 has become available on Amazon Prime. This may sound like old news for those in other countries, but this is really how long we have to wait.
I'm now starting episode 6. So far this season of the (at least) three actresses I follow the series for, one could already be seen in a glimpse and had about one line, another had a good episode but was only in that one episode, and the other may not be in this season at all but is talked about.
#FearTheWalkingDead
- minicom
- startx
- pppd
- xf86config
- bitchX
- telnet
- icq
If you've used three or more of these in the past, congratulations!
You're old 🤗
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in reply to Hilda Bastian • • •...My take now? Making quoting easy is not a major vector for abuse or toxicity, and there are benefits.
That’s not to say that the quote tweet can’t be abused. Every form of tweet/post can be, and is.
The toxicity was already there, thriving in replies in particular, and amplified in all its forms by the algorithm, retweets, and hashtags.
Did the quote tweet make it worse? If it did, it may not have been by much - and in a couple of datasets, it improved civility.
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Unknown parent • • •@ChrisWere I hope bystander behavior improves so there's less mobbing.
I agree it would be terrible if the worst fears came true - I'd hope that would mean a change of course.
In the ideal world, the community would step in & help people called out for legitimate reasons to see what's wrong, edit/delete, & learn from it - and/or moderators if they had the time to do so.
If moderators don't keep out racists & co though, calling out is a way to show the instance/system is failing.
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