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Markdown

oh *shit* you can give things **emphasis**

@snills

Apr 20, 2024

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Text editing is still weird

It’s gotten better, but text editing feels different from every other app somehow. - Smart quotes are frequently in the wrong direction. (type word space delete " and you’ll get “ instead of ”) - Press-and-hold-delete to delete faster doesn’t work correctly (It slows down instead of speeding up).

@heumann

May 13, 2024

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Better autocorrect

Appears like the built-in WYSIWYG editor conflicts with native autocorrect functionality on iOS sometimes - makes it hard to write and edit posts! Also, a related thing is that tagging someone’s @ isn’t recognized as valid text so it leads to a confusing cursor situation if you’re trying to write before or after the @

@imhellastupid

Mar 5, 2024

Top Recs from @alaiyo

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Using the word “gauche” instead of “cringe”

it’s so them-coded

@alaiyo

Mar 23, 2024

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How to do nothing by Jenny Odell

a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say will definitely be revisiting

@alaiyo

Mar 25, 2024

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Hummus

when i tell you the first sixty seconds of this video changed my life i need you to believe me. 10/10 strongly recommend especially amidst boycotting for palestine

@alaiyo

Mar 21, 2024