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@mathias
Isn't FediLab enough? It connects to friendica, but I never tried.
@ercanbrack

@actualsteerpike
Actually both.
@r_a @onlmaps

@ercanbrack
It works fine. You don't see markdown rendered, because your client which finally displays the status to you on the receiving end strips it off and ignores it. I can see the markdown status both in FediLab app, as well as in the web app of my home Mastodon instance.

> Change the client you use and it will radically change your world view.
> -- me right now 🌞

@mathias

# Mercator map projection distortion animated

Anybody who deals with maps and geospatial data knows that different projections distort the world map in different ways. Still it's instructive to see it in an good visualisation.

Animated maps of Mercator projection distortion of country areas in two maps by Neil Kaye.

Static version:
https://mobile.twitter.com/neilrkaye/status/1050722881657864192

Animated version:
https://mobile.twitter.com/neilrkaye/status/1050740679008296967

Mercator projection was designed to preserve angles of straight lines on a map. As a side-effect, it inflates sizes of objects farther away from the equator on the map: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

# SKATEBOARD SLIDE GUITAR! | Justin Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUoI8omxf7Q

So yesterday we had a shovel guitar (https://qoto.org/@FailForward/105675348623260571). Let's have an awesome skateboard guitar today! He plays it like a dobro. Fun!

# On awkwardness of boosting one's own toots vs. the scrapbox idea

Mastodon has this funny aspect that public timeline of an account is a completely separate beast from the Home timeline. Apart from all the foreign toots, the home timeline includes also all the responses by self to other conversations.

This led me to an idea to treat the public timeline as an archive of stuff I want to keep "for posterity" - the scrapbox idea. It is turning out to be a limiting feature.

Specifically, it leads to confused use of the toot boost facility. Originally, the boost of a toot is meant to make it visible to one's followers. In turn, the public timeline turns into a set of toots one wants to "broadcast". Complementary, "favourite" facility is useful as a signal of :thumbsup: emoji: "I read you!". It's more of an acknowledgement, rather than saving into a box of "favourited" toots. Simple "like".

So far, so good. The problem starts with my idea of "misusing" the publicly visible timeline as a curated sequence of notes to keep. It makes it impossible to "boost" a toot to one's followers with an intention to instigate a conversation. Additionally, if I want to keep some of my own comments which I make during an interesting conversation, I have to boost it. That is a somewhat socially awkward thing to do. It's like screaming: "Hey, look what smart thing I just said!". Now, that is silly...

## Lesson learned
Clearly, Mastodon (and in fact any Fediverse tech, such as Friendica) is best used as a discussion tool: "broadcast stuff you want to be read and discussed". My one month attempt to turn it into a tool for central storage of public notes of mine is turning negative.

While I still want my notes to be discussed, it's clear it cannot be the primary purpose of my Mastodon account - if I want to use it for communication with people too. Proper use of Mastodon would turn my notes (kept in my account's public timeline) into a mess.

A better idea is to keep notes outside of Mastodon and semi-automatically import them from outside. That seems to be a better design.

Either way, I like this Mastodon thing for communication. But not for my original idea of notekeeping.

@craigmaloney
So you just turned 18?

@hellquist You mean like "what is the percentage of individuals, such that there exists at least one other individual which thinks the first one is an idiot"?

I think it's a good estimate that apart from children, everybody qualifies. Given that the about 25% of world population is under the age of 14 years*, I think the answer is at least 75% of world population are idiots. 😜

* Data source: https://ourworldindata.org/age-structure

# Crankin' Up the 3-String Shovel Guitar / Justin Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9-ltPsbw9g

This guy is just awesome.


#cigar_box guitar #cbg #cigar_box #3_string #3_string guitar #shovel #shovel_guitar #spade #spade_guitar #slide_guitar #guitar #slide #slide_guitar solo #lap_steel #lap_steel solo #street_musician #blues #blues_guitar #blues_guitar solo #instrumental #jazz #rock #delta_blues #blues_festival #jazz_festival #festival #film #jazz_fest #best #greatest #shredding #diy #homemade #roots #lesson #nation #borderlands #theme_song #sound_track #video_game #game #fediradio

@hellquist

Is this perhaps your bug: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/9875

Seems fairly recent.

@kinetix

# Getting out of the drama of the rescuer

> the key skill for caring people is to listen to others without solving their problems for them.
> -- [Lewis Psychology channel/Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdODaTeHXw)

> From the examples we can see that regardless of the initial roles adopted each individual can move from one position on the triangle to another in a fraction of a second and individuals move around the drama triangle for the same reasons they play games they want to get their needs met but they're too scared to ask for what they want directly so they play games and manipulate others into giving them what they want.
> -- [Lewis Psychology channel/Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdODaTeHXw)

Ha, so here we go: scared to ask for what you want and therefore manipulate to get it anyway. Smart. Self-defeating...

> each drama triangle role entails a discount. So the rescuer discounts the ability of others to think for themselves and act on their own initiative. A victim discounts themselves and their own ability to problem solve or initiate change and the persecutor discounts others feelings and their value let's look at another example and gain
> -- [Lewis Psychology channel/Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdODaTeHXw)

# On rescuer role

> The rescuer also sees others as one-down and not okay but the rescuer responds by offering help from a one up position. The rescuer believes "I have to help all these people because they're not capable of helping themselves". Rescuers work hard to help other people and often neglect their own needs. They can use guilt to keep their victims dependent **and feel guilty themselves if they're not rescuing somebody.**
> -- [Lewis Psychology channel/Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdODaTeHXw)

This is very interesting. So the rescuer is also triggered by grandiosity/entitlement schema, but their coping strategy is overcompensation, instead of submission of the persecutor.

> You die the way you live your life.
> -- [Timothy E. Quill MD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HGksy6OyQ0)

# A man with road rage confronts an elderly driver. Then all hell breaks loose. | Nullarbor

A short animated film. Hillarious.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfK79Xblpus

# Thought on why there's such a lack of empathy on social media

> Der Charakter eines Menschen zeigt sich im Handeln.
> -- Common quote taken from [blog](https://kattascha.de/das-daten-imperium-der-beatrix-von-storch/) of @kattascha

Right. Indeed. There are two levels to the world: https://qoto.org/@FailForward/105652797745648749

And the problem with interactions in the digital sphere is exactly the lack of physical reality, body language clues, etc. _If I cannot sense what your acts are, the only heuristic to guess your character are (my interpretations of) your words._ But since words are a one dimensional linear serialisation of the rich and colourful universe in your head, by necessity the character estimate I construct will be largely wrong (as would be any 1D projection of an xD object).

Perhaps the robustness principle would be a good guidance here:

> Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others
> -- Robustness Principle/Wikipedia/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

It's not exactly tolerance. Benevolence? What's the right human word for this?