#meta 2018-03-06

2018-03-06 UTC
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tantek wow great episode of TWITIWAE
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tantek schmarty++
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Loqi schmarty has 17 karma in this channel (73 overall)
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tantek we're getting pretty good at documenting both the latest indieweb developments and social media drama
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tantek should probably document Hiveway per https://medium.com/we-distribute/hiveway-io-shamelessly-rips-off-of-mastodon-and-slaps-a-blockchain-on-top-for-some-reason-57b7aba3e84f
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tantek see also: https://twitter.com/search?q=Hiveway
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tantek wow they tried to backpedal and give Mastodon some credit: https://medium.com/@hiveway/hiveway-ceo-we-are-the-biggest-mastodon-fans-c55a67e4f217
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tantek but then the comments ripped them to shreds
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tantek what is birdsite
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "birdsite" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "birdsite is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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tantek birdsite is /Twitter
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Loqi ok
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[kevinmarks] Also birbsite
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[kevinmarks] Eg https://mastodon.social/@clhendricksbc/99634299762285406
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Loqi [Christina Hendricks 🐱🇨🇦🐱] I asked for examples on birbsite for the many and various ways students might need to use laptops or mobile devices for learning if they have disabilities (or what a uni wouldn’t officially count as a disability). I got good responses; wrote them u...
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[tantek] Hiveway just one example of https://twitter.com/khuey_/status/970906562301775872 ?
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@khuey_ The only demonstrated use case for blockchains is scamming people. https://twitter.com/naval/status/970882742924623872 (twitter.com/_/status/970906562301775872)
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[tantek] More: https://twitter.com/klintron/status/970722033377034240
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@klintron In my eight years covering the tech industry, I've covered some incredibly hyped tech: cloud, mobile, social, big data, Internet of Things. But I've never seen anything with a worse substance to hype ratio than the blockchain. Not even close. (twitter.com/_/status/970722033377034240)
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[tantek] And for good measure, thread: https://twitter.com/timbray/status/963115533825527808
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@timbray 1/ Suffering from disorientation and cognitive dissonance around blockchain and Bitcoin. It’s time to stop the craziness. (twitter.com/_/status/963115533825527808)
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[tantek] blockchain << https://twitter.com/timbray/status/963115533825527808 thread
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@timbray 1/ Suffering from disorientation and cognitive dissonance around blockchain and Bitcoin. It’s time to stop the craziness. (twitter.com/_/status/963115533825527808)
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Loqi ok, I added "https://twitter.com/timbray/status/963115533825527808 thread" to the "See Also" section of /blockchain
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[tantek] blockchain << https://twitter.com/klintron/status/970722033377034240
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@klintron In my eight years covering the tech industry, I've covered some incredibly hyped tech: cloud, mobile, social, big data, Internet of Things. But I've never seen anything with a worse substance to hype ratio than the blockchain. Not even close. (twitter.com/_/status/970722033377034240)
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Loqi ok, I added "https://twitter.com/klintron/status/970722033377034240" to the "See Also" section of /blockchain
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[tantek] blockchain << https://twitter.com/khuey_/status/970906562301775872
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@khuey_ The only demonstrated use case for blockchains is scamming people. https://twitter.com/naval/status/970882742924623872 (twitter.com/_/status/970906562301775872)
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Loqi ok, I added "https://twitter.com/khuey_/status/970906562301775872" to the "See Also" section of /blockchain
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grantcodes I think there is something going on with the matrix chat bridge. I am not seeing messages from certain people.
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grantcodes Or maybe it is just me, but I'm definitely not seeing anything from snarfed and tantek for example
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aaronpk From their IRC nicks or slack bridge?
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grantcodes Not sure how it all works to be honest. All i know is tantek has [] and snarfed doesn't so I think that means they are on different services
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[tantek] Yes I’m this is from Slack
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grantcodes should probably try and find someone else using matrix first and see if they are missing for them too
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grantcodes Maybe schmarty can check?
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schmarty grantcodes: i have been seeing the same issues for a while.
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schmarty the matrix freenode bridge has issues periodically
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schmarty i used to think it was something about users bridged from slack but sometimes i flip over to slack itself and see that i'm missing messages from regular IRC users.
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grantcodes Yeah very strange that's it's only certain people and from different platforms
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