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📖 The Gods of New York by Jonathan Mahler (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) #history #nonfiction

A sweeping chronicle of four years in 1980s New York, a crucible that would transform the city and leave it more divided than ever—a rollicking, real-life Bonfire of the Vanities featuring larger-than-life personalities of Donald Trump, Spike Lee, Ed Koch, Al Sharpton, Rudy Giuliani, and countless others New York City...

https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/5fc44ce7-dc47-4826-84de-6689e006d463/the-gods-of-new-york

@ada

You could block particular topics by using filters of keywords on those topics, but as far as I know there are no keywords which cover all news stories about everything.

@ada

I think that would be difficult because there's very little that all news links have in common.

It could even be difficult to define a news link, as so many blogs etc discuss the news too.

@Unknowable

I think it's impossible as no one knows how many servers are out there, as anyone can set one up.

For what it's worth, there's a project at @greenfediverse which is listing servers that use renewable energy.

(Also, in case anyone's wondering, the Fediverse doesn't use blockchain or AI or anything like that.)

@gl33p

Just to check, are you sure these are impersonating accounts and not just the same account displayed via a different server?

Only asking as there have been some cases in the past where people thought it was an impersonation but it turned out to be their own account.

@ada

Do you mean people making posts that have news links in them, or people boosting posts from news accounts?

If it's boosts, you can hide people's boosts without blocking them completely (more info: https://fedi.tips/blocking-and-muting-on-the-fediverse/#JustBoosts ).

@joshua

First thing to do is check their profile to see if they have any preferences about being contacted (or not contacted).

If they have a link to a personal website in the profile, it's worth clicking on that and seeing if it has a contact page.

If there's nothing about this in their profiles and they don't have a contact page, you can try sending a private message by using the mention-only post.

RE: https://defcon.social/@defcon/117015518239738951

I chose the right first year to attend DEF CON 😆

@ada

If there's a particular topic or news source you want to block, you can use filters for keywords too.

Are you wanting to block all news on all topics?

@dtmonterrey There's support for a bunch of smartwatches via Amazfish from @piggz

https://amazfish.github.io/

Not sure what state of Pebble is via Rockpool from @abranson

https://github.com/abranson/rockpool

@gl33p

In general, however active your account is, if there's someone impersonating you, report it to your own server admin and to the admin of the server where the impersonator is. If the remote server refuses to take action, your own admin may choose to restrict or block the remote server.

You can hide your account's follow and follower lists to prevent anyone copying them (more info: https://fedi.tips/how-to-hide-your-follows-and-followers-in-mastodon ).

Deletion would make it harder to prove you're being impersonated or cloned.

RE: https://union.place/@propublicaguild/117015626987064189

Congratulations!! ✊

@everyplace I fumbled that line though :D

About 70% watch past 30 seconds — but only 30% watch the last 30 seconds!

@krisfreedain the default one has proven easiest and most compatible with components/plugins tbh

@ada

Do you mean posts by different people which link to the same news article?

Probably best would be using Mastodon's Filters feature, more info at https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon

You can use this to set up a filter for the link to the article.