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For the last several years it has increasingly worried me that schools (governments & others institutions) used Twitter as their main publishing system. A system not designed for users but for advertisers and owners and more evidently recently their owner’s unsavoury ideas. We seem in some instances to be encouraging pupils to look at services they are legally too young for.

My use of Twitter dwindled and as far as possible I used it as a distribution system for content I own. I now hardly bother with that.

The decline of Instagram from a timeline based service to an advert filled algorithmic stream doesn’t fill me with confidence for threads. Similarly LinkedIn and other silos.

What all these systems bring is ease of use and this bring piles of pals. The onboarding to threads was almost invisible.

Unfortunately the ethically cleaner alternatives like mastodon or a combination of RSS & blogs have more friction. So far they have not had the huge influx of users that allows folk to build up a pile of pals. It would be useful, I think for someone to start an instance on mastodon for say Scot’s educators and then do some propaganda to get folk from twitter to move over.

I also really rate the micro.blog approach, which could be used as a model for educators.

I’ve PESOSed this post here.

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Here is today's #dailycreate #tdc4198 #ds106 Show us your growlery! https://daily.ds106.us/tdc4198/ Reply with your response and the same tdc**** hashtag

A screenshot of the webpage
Kilpatrick Walks
Some trails layered on a map

 

Is the best place for me when I am grumpy.

@tdc

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Is the best place for me when I am grumpy.

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Ardinning loch winter afternoon. Dark clouds, light silhouettes trees and reflects on the loch.

Today’s #DS106 challange is worth more than a tweet. #tdc4124 #ds106 Is today the day it all breaks? | The DS106 Daily Create

If Twitter switch off the old version of its API, then some of the functionality of the Daily Create will break today. See Cogdog’s blog for an explanation.

This sucks. It really sucks. As Alan says, life will go on. But just in case it doesn’t, make something, DS106 style, that expresses how sucky this really is.

The twitter API has, over the years, enabled a lot of wonderful things. In my opinion none more so that the #DS106 #DailyCreate. This provides simple daily creative prompts, but more importantly it pulls responses together onto its WordPress Home. I imagine Alan especially feels this pain. He has tirelessly kept this up and running and helped other use the technology elsewhere (the Daily Stillness is one I love).

There may be a silver lining, the slim chance that there is an increase in open, shares and self owned streams, open protocols and interop may increase, or even flourish. Mastodon is growing, I hope RSS does too.

Featured image, my own.

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Replied to Sarah Honeychurch (@nomadwarmachine@social.ds106.us) (ds106 Social)
@toddconaway @tdc Maybe we need an activity to write a 'to don't' list? #DS106

@nomadwarmachine @toddconaway @tdc #dailycreate #tdc4114 #ds106
This reminded my to restart my taDa.txt file today, an idea borrowed from @sheilmcn

TaDa.txt is file I try to add something to celebrate at the end of the working day. I had forgotten about it for a while, now restarted.

I’ve also got another one where I add one, very short, nature note per day. Managed to do every day this year so far.

Both happier places than a todo list;-)

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Replied to #tdc4067 #ds106 Verify that you’re not a robot- V2 by ReverendReverend (daily.ds106.us)

The first reCAPTCHA was simply checking a box or retyping a word. They’ve had to improve the technology to keep ahead of the scammers, bots and other nefarious digital villains out there. Need a laugh after a frustrating day on the web? Check out this YouTube video,”Verifying that you’re not a robot“, a hilarious personification… Read more »

Not a robot #tdc4067 #ds106

Gif of kung fu fighter punching through google captcha

I took an old gif I made back in 2014 and added the captcha frame.

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Replied to Why I Haven’t Embraced WordPress Blocks by David ShanskeDavid Shanske (david.shanske.com)
As someone who maintains a very specific set of WordPress plugins, over the last few years, I’ve been asked why I have not updated them to the block editor. The simplest reason is I don’t use the block editor, and I write the plugins for me, not for a commercial purpose, so while I keep saying I...

But it adds the microformats for different types of Indieweb posts outside of the traditional content block using WordPress filters. That is something I never particularly liked, and wouldn’t mind replacing with something integrated into content.

I’ve been using Post Kinds and other indie web plugins on this blog for a good few year now. Very grateful for the work in developing and maintaining them. I don’t yet use the Block editor very often on this blog either.

Adding the microformats, I presume links & quotes, to the main contents of the post would be great. I am guessing it would future proof the content of the classic editor goes away.