Props to him on nailing messaging tho. Essential activist skill, and he’s crushing it

ENSHITTIFICATION the book I guess lays out a framework, but the references are all his own covered territory

Kinda hit a wall w/ messaging tho. In the last few months I read INTERNET CON and CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM, and listened to the CBC podcast

OK, glad I made the drive. Seeing Doctorow speak with the same speed + enthusiasm you hear on his audiobooks + interviews is pretty cool

Thank you to all of the contributors to Mastodon 4.5! As always, we also appreciate your donations and support as we continue to build a better social web for everyone.https://joinmastodon.org/donate

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115503006012708370We recommend that server owners update their Mastodon installations to bring these improvements to their communities as soon as they can. There are a lot of great updates, now ready for everyone.

Among many tweaks, and some polishing of the web interface, Mastodon 4.5 also now supports the use of native emoji 🎁

Server owners can do more to manage and showcase their community. Mastodon 4.5 has settings to define the visibility of different feeds (timelines), and also the ability to set the default landing page to the local feed. There are also new tools for restricting problematic usernames, and improvements in the moderation interface.

The Fediverse feels more vibrant when conversations are buzzing! Mastodon 4.5 fetches replies from other servers to show you more complete conversation threads - another much-anticipated feature.

Mastodon 4.5 brings Quote Post authoring features to everyone. Note that you can manage whether or how your posts are quoted by others, both globally on the new Posting Defaults page, and individually on specific posts. You can also revoke the use of a post. We wrote about this in more detail a few weeks ago: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/

We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5

car dependency and car culture ruin Miami for me

that’s an hour to only travel 16 miles

Going to see Cory Doctorow’s book talk, but loathe having to drive an hour to get there

thanks @lafe@tilde.club!

init to begin it

Der einzige Spielzeugladen der Stadt wird zum Jahresende geschlossen. Das muss man sich mal vorstellen: Eine Stadt ohne Spielzeugladen. 😥

(#pwczntq) @bender@twtxt.net is macOS 26 running smoothly? I’ve heard some issues with memory for the first release (docker related IIRC)

(#43tf7cq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Kommt auf meine Leseliste. Ist ja eh bald Winter.

Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users

HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The Output Tag
https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag

Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/

Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/10/ryanair-flight-landed-at-manchester-airport-with-six-minutes-of-fuel-left-flight-log-suggests

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘Chat Control’ bill
https://www.politico.eu/article/one-man-spam-campaign-ravages-eu-chat-control-bill-fight-chat-control/

A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Reddit Moderator
https://larslofgren.com/codesmith-reddit-reputation-attack/

We found a bug in Go’s ARM64 compiler
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-found-a-bug-in-gos-arm64-compiler/

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-computer-use-model/

anyway sup friends i hosted an IRC server

whyyyyy is my discover page only showing 7 twts!!!

(#s2lah7a) This looks so huggable, it feels like a plushie! 🥰

After seeing so many resolutions, I think you’re only missing a matrioska version of it. 🪆

(#altkl2a) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, the format is just an idea of how it could work.

The order of SOURCE > POST does make more sense indeed.

(#cqzexoq) @prologic@twtxt.net thanks, I already follow @important_dev_news@n8n.andros.dev too.

BTW, the feed on https://feeds.twtxt.net/ seem down? It says it’s in maintenance.

(#cqzexoq) @prologic@twtxt.net Me neither, if there’s any important news others usually tell me anyway. 😌

While working on the Discoverability for my twtxt client (it runs client-side) I found out that Chrome doesn’t allow to set a custom user agent. 🙃

I thought it was a general thing for browsers, but it that was actually allowed in a newer specification, yet it’s still not implemented in Chrome, it does work in Firefox though.

(#s5wriqq) @zvava@twtxt.net I kinda fixed the issue by not stripping the timestamp at all.

Seems that more feeds work correctly this way. 🤔

(#jdhwlna) @thecanine@twtxt.net With a progressive web app (PWA) you can have a native like experience without having to trouble yourself with building a second project that act as a client.

You can even “wrap” it into a packaged installation and publish it on stores, theres even projects to streamline it https://www.pwabuilder.com/.

(#dvw775q) My proposal is taken from https://texudus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ BTW.

(#dvw775q) @zvava@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I also think a location based reference might be better.

A thread is a single post of a single feed as a root, but the hash has the drawback of not referencing the source, in a distributed network like twtxt it might leave some people out of the whole conversation.

I suggest a simpler format, something like: (#<TIMESTAMP URL>)

This solves three issues:

• Easier referencing: no need to generate a hash, just copy the timestamp and url, it’s also simpler to implement in a client without the rish of collisions when putting things together
  
• Fetchable source: you can find the source within the reference and construct the thread from there
  
• Allow editing: If a post is modified the hash becomes invalid since it depends on [ timestamp, url, content ]

(#fzmmn2q) @zvava@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de I also was wondering how to handle this.

Currently my regex is like this: /@<((?<nick>[^\s]+)\s)?(?<url>\w+:\/\/[^>]+)>/g

It takes everything until the space and the nick is optional.

Hello everyone! 👋

After a long while away, I’m back on twtxt with this new feed.

Some of you might remember me as justamoment@twtxt.net, that was a test account I made for trying things out, but I ended up keeping it more than planned.

I also tried other social platforms in search of a place that felt right for me.

In the end twtxt was the one that ticked all of my boxes:

• Slow social: it act more like a feed reader and I really appreciate that there’s no flood of content that I can’t keep up with.
  
• No server needed: I absolutely love to have total control over my content, I tend to avoid having moving parts that might break, plus you can put your feed under version control and it’s all backed up.
  
• Ownership: I can put my feed anywhere I want and nobody can decide if I can access it or not.
  
• For hackers: a single .txt file allows me to join a community, how cool is that!
  

This is why I decided to build my own twtxt client, one that allows you to decide how the feed is presented on your “instance”.

It’s still in the making but I’ll try to share a bit of it once I defined how things should work.

Coincidentally, I discovered that @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com and @zvava@twtxt.net were also building a twtxt client, seems like twtxt is set to grow!

Hello world, everyone!

(#sdu5kcq) @prologic@twtxt.net hiiii o/

So, in addition to HTTPS and Gemini, my twtxt should now also be available over Gopher (gopher://hashnix.club:70/0/~dce/twtxt.txt). Not sure who, if anyone, would need this; but since my tilde provides Gopher hosting, I’d may as well mirror my twtxt there as well.

You know, I think I do actually like it here better than my other social media. It’s slower and quieter, but it feels more organic and nobody’s trying to sell me anything, promote their podcast, or change the way I think. It’s just… nice!

(#52esljq) @prologic@twtxt.net Hi!

(#3v5elqa) Also not sure why this post is duplicated on twtxt.net. Ah, well…

(#3v5elqa) Also not sure why this post is duplicated on twtxt.net. Ah, well…

(#bunbmvq) This would have been neater, but evidently my client foesn’t support multiline posts.