nelepoldvere (@nelepoldvere@fediscience.org)
Dear readers of #mastodon!
Is anyone familiar with academic literature on communicative efficiency in short-form videos like #tiktok? I'm thinking of ways in which #influencers may adjust their speech to fit into bite-sized clips? Is there any?
If not specifically on language, then maybe something in #psychology on how things like rapid speech might (negatively) affect our comprehension, memory, etc. Again, ideally in short-form videos.
Thank you so much!
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freeschool (@freeschool@qoto.org)
@aburka #Alternative titles for this pic:
Developing Tech, not Developing People.
#Social Tech without the Social interaction regularly in Society
Playing #Playstation #Linux 
and not really improving Society 🔃
Talking to #computers all day.
Unhealthy. Incomplete #Harmony.
#Mastodon as an empty software with nobody doing the social work / organising audio chat events.
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l_inadapte (@l_inadapte@framapiaf.org)
Dis le Fediverse, après la mise à jour de #Mastodon, vous vous retrouvez aussi avec une interface dégueulasse ?
Colonnes étroites qui ne remplissent même pas la largeur de la page et gros caractères. Il est toujours possible de zoomer la page pour que les colonnes prennent toute la largeur mais on se retrouve avec une interface très grossière pour malvoyants.
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A7Production (@A7Production@mastodon.social)
🔴 #A7Radio > #Decouverte > K.MARO ✅
https://a7productions.blogspot.com/p/7-radio-100-mix.html
📌 Jamais à court de créativité, K-Maro revient avec un nouveau titre original : SIN CITY !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpMxgR3ZfU
#Mastodon #World #Travel #Voyages #France #Photography #Music #Live #Podcast #Explorer #A7Radio #Photographie #Nature #Globetrotter #Blogger #yakihonne #jumble #Pixelfed #News
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matt2 (@matt2@mastodon.social)
When people leave Twitter for #mastodon they expect global reach, ambient discoverability, breaking news, influencers.
What they get is local reach (and not much), “broken” search (it’s not global), and no ways to build audience.
Really, Mastodon is poor competition for a global public square.
But I really think it might work well as **local** public square. Audiences of hundreds or thousands, not millions. Repositioning it against Discord, rather than Twitter, makes sense to me.
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nekoow7 (@nekoow7@mastodon.social)
By God's Grace myself & my cat is safe. sharing my posts and my cousin's email address which is posted in my Pinnedpost are already a big help. Thank you for standing with the Cebuanos.
Having a phone & data internet is all the weapon I could use to reach out for help.😢 If anything wrong is might 2 happen, hopefully there's not (God Forbid🤞🏻) I just wanted 2 let all those willing to support & able 2 help THANK YOU & God bless you🫂
#Mastodon #Mutualaid #philippines
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1260060
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leanderlindahl (@leanderlindahl@mastodon.social)
Love the "floppy disk" icon in the Mastodon app when saving an edit. 💾 #mastodon #nostalgia
(Switching between the Mastodon app, Tusky and Moshidon all the time, they each have their things they are better at. Lists work best (for me) in the Mastodon app.)
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BlumeEvolution (@BlumeEvolution@sueden.social)
Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?
Allen, die es begehen, wünsche ich einen gesegneten Versöhnungstag #JomKippur , Gmar Chatima Towa! Mögen wir im „Buch des Lebens“ eingeschrieben sein! 🙏
Für alle, die die Bedeutung von #Medien (wie #Büchern, Werbung, X, #Mastodon) für die gesamte Gesellschaft interessiert, schrieb ich „Medien & #Mimesis“ bei #Herder Korrespondenz.
#Medienethik ist anspruchsvoller, weil selbst-reflexiv („meta“), aber durchdringt das gesamte Leben. 📚🤓🤳 https://www.herder.de/hk/hefte/archiv/2025/10-2025/medien-und-mimesis-journalismus-in-zeiten-digitaler-aufmerksamkeitsoekonomie/
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usagi_acid (@usagi_acid@mastodon.social)
♡u∫agi幻覚gåłLerŸ➋➍➑ . . ♡u∫agi幻覚gåłLerŸ ιʂ 𝕒 𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 ơʄ ᐯIᔕᑌᗩᒪ 🄰🅁🅃🅆🄾🅁🄺🅂 𝒃𝒚 ♡u∫agi幻覚∀∁ⓛᙌ✬ . [usagigenkakuacid] รٱกƈﻉ ➋⓿➊➐ . . #🐰 #🐇 #usagi #usagiacid #art #music #digitalart #digitalartist #crypto #cryptoart #cryptoartist #nft #nftart #nftarti̇sts #aether #aesthetic #aethetics #ether #vaporwave #postvaporwave #electronic #アート #nftアート #nftproject #artcollection #nftcreator #internet #nftcommmunity #ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ #うさぎ #music #bandcamp #collage #ウサギ #mastodon #マストドン
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LwaxanaTroi (@LwaxanaTroi@mastodon.social)
Mr. Homn stood perfectly still for three hours while I draped myself in Taresian silk to find the perfect shade for the upcoming diplomatic ball. He didn't have a single thought about it. Not one! Such devotion. And so useful for blocking that dreadful draft. #LwaxanaTroi #MrHomn #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon
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post (@post@piefed.social)
Service offerings from Mastodon
https://piefed.social/post/1326196
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archives (@archives@changelog.complete.org)
A Twisty Maze of Ill-Behaved Bots
Like many, bot traffic has been causing significant issues for my hosted server recently. I’ve been noticing a dramatic increase in bots that do not respect robots.txt, especially the crawl-delay I have set there. Not only that, but many of them are sending user-agent strings that are quite precisely matching what desktop browsers send. That is, they don’t identify themselves.
They posed a particular problem on two sites: my blog, and the lists.complete.org archives.
The list archives is a completely static site, but it has many pages, so the bots that are ill-behaved absolutely hammer it following links.
My blog runs WordPress. It has fewer pages, but by using PHP, doesn’t need as many hits to start to bog down. Also, there is a Mastodon thundering herd problem, and since I participate on Mastodon, this hits my server.
The solution was one of layers.
I had already added a crawl-delay line to robots.txt. It helped a bit, but many bots these days aren’t well-behaved. Next, I added WP Super Cache to my WordPress installation. Again, this helped. Again, not quite enough.
Finally, I added Anubis. Installing it (especially if using the Docker container) was under-documented, but I figured it out. By default, it is designed to block AI bots and try to challenge everything with “Mozilla” in its user-agent (which is most things) with a Javascript challenge.
That’s not quite what I want. If a bot is well-behaved, AI or otherwise, it will respect my robots.txt and I can more precisely control it there. Also, I intentionally support non-Javascript browsers on many of the sites I host, so I wanted to be judicious. Eventually I configured Anubis to only challenge things that present a user-agent that looks fully like a real browser. In other words, real browsers should pass right through, and bad bots pretending to be real browsers will fail.
That was quite effective. It reduced load further to the point where things are ordinarily fairly snappy.
As a final step, I migrated to a faster hosting option. This post will show me how well it survives the Mastodon thundering herd!
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