Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

(my own personal) #ProTip : Turn off all notifications except for mentions

You don't need to know how many likes/boosts a post has gotten. you don't need a notification every time someone starts following you.

And you can find all that information elsewhere if/when you want it.

Cleaning up your notifications like this will have a huge positive impact on how you interact with this site.

#TwitterMigration

I'm happy to see a re-energizing of the fediverse, but I'll admit to feeling a sense of loss for my past few years of work.

I spent a good chunk of the past five years of trying various approaches to getting my former employer, Condé Nast, to set up a Mastodon-based community for any of its brands (Teen Vogue/Vogue, Bon Appetit, Them., Wired, etc).

It's not an easy problem to say the least, but the zeitgeist has now moved enough that it might actually be possible. Timing is everything, right?

Dear so-called “UX” designers, the opposite of “yes” isn’t “not now”, it’s “no.”

#design #deceptiveDesign #bigTech #peopleFarming #ux

Dear #TwitterMigration folks, an important tip on #privacy on the fediverse:

There is none.

This is a public medium; please treat it as such. Just as you have no privacy on Twitter (Elon Musk can read all your DMs), you have no privacy on the instance you’re on (your administrators can read all your posts).

You can set the visibility of a post but that’s a viewing suggestion, not a privacy guarantee.

Think of your posts as postcards, not sealed letters, and you should be fine.

#fediTips

It seems many old friends and people I interacted with somehow find me here by #TwitterMigration tag.

I'm glad that migration to decentralized and ethical alternatives continues.

BTW, there are decentralized alternatives to instagram, reddit, youtube, meetup and other platforms. All those alternatives are federated and can interact with mastodon and each other:
https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/

Welcome to #fediverse !

Boosts are welcome.

Engineer

A Disillusioned ExxonMobil Engineer Quits to Take Action on Climate Change and Stop ‘Making the World Worse’

After 16 years of working for the oil giant, Dar-Lon Chang said Exxon would not address climate change.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08022021/a-disillusioned-exxonmobil-engineer-quits-to-take-action-on-climate-change-and-stop-making-the-world-worse/

Journalist

I quit my job to help save the earth for my kid

Deniers have tried to claim that informing kids about the climate crisis amounts to child abuse. But actual child abuse would be doing nothing to prevent it. So, I did something.
https://www.todaysparent.com/family/parenting/quit-job-to-save-the-earth/