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The rich moron
and other internet stories

The rich moron took over the fun community website, and suddenly it feels like a place I don’t want to be, rather than a place I actively like to be. Like a lot of people, I’m spending more time over on the alternative distributed community, Mastodon. I am @gilest@mastodon.me.uk and I’m enjoying the experience of meeting new friends, as well as finding old ones.

This week’s Masto-highlights also included:

• everyone being very patient as the influx of newcomers brought normal service to its knees, and made some features (like image uploads) too slow to use for a day or two; everything’s working normally now though
• in light of that, the host of the mastodon.me.uk server politely asking all server users how they’d like to proceed with further growth (the consensus settled on “Growth is good, but let’s take it slowly”)
• as activity increased and normality resumed, the whole place coming alive with updates and links and photos and fun; it felt very much like the early days of the website that the rich moron is destroying

I wrote up some notes on How Mastodon is different if that’s your bag. I liked the little stars.

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I’ve been playing around with iA Presenter for a few weeks and I like it very much, although I’ve not actually used it to do a presentation yet. Probably because it’s easy to find opportunities to try writing with it, and much harder to find opportunities to try presenting. It is a very satisfying thing to play around with, though. I’ve got a few invites to hand out if anyone wants one, just email me.

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This week’s agile comms masterclass, organised by the lovely people at Staatslabor in Bern, was a lot of fun. I always enjoying doing these sessions, and I always drastically underestimate how exhausting they are. I’m usually completely useless for almost all of the following day. I need to get better at that; tips and suggestions are most welcome.

Exhaustion aside, thanks to anyone reading this who came along to our Zoom call on Thursday, it was great to spend a couple of hours with you.

One thing that fills me with joy is seeing workshop participants getting into the habit of regular weeknoting or similar open-working.

• Zach Moss, one of the team at Compassion in Dying, is getting into the swing of weeknotes
• Helen Boardman is blogging on the regular now
• Angelika Sala was inspired by the course to find new ways of explaining her specialist skills - see her post on LinkedIn

Wonderful stuff all round.

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Some links:

• How to vote from Antarctica
• List, a mini-album of acidy bleeps by 801383
• We went to see Sarum Lights at Salisbury Cathedral

Filed under: notes
(11 November 2022)

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