george

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[–] george@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

This looks like a job for XYZZY shift-enter enter

[–] george@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

I was on vacation recently and Apple Maps gave a weirdly circuitous route from our hotel to a restaurant. I checked Google Maps and it showed the direct route I expected, so I went with that.

Google Maps routed me on to a street that was closed due to construction, Apple Maps was smart enough to route around the construction.

I expect general parity between Apple and Google Maps, I had not expected Apple to have better data.

[–] george@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

You can join any instance and block threads.net once they turn on federation

[–] george@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's a Masto post from an ex-employee:

Thinking about making a "I was part of the Tumblr activityPub federation project ask me how it ended" t-shirt and wear it on my PFP here.

The CEO posted this reply to Twitter, acknowledging that Meta had beaten Tumblr to the Fediverse.

Here's a screenshot of a post suggesting it's not a high priority.

[–] george@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you make a post and tag @fediverse@lemmy.world it should post the first line as the title. ~~If you include a link, I think it will post it as a link too.~~

Edit: found the issue, it looks like links aren’t supported but it uses the first part of a post as the title.

[–] george@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

IIRC the post format is:

Title
@community@server
Body text

 

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