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But it's it ethical for the site owner to block access to random people and companies in the internet to _my_ data? I posted that tweet with the expectation that it's gonna be publicly available. Now the owner of the site is breaking that expectation. I would say that this part is also unethical.

Especially since they're not moderating things or anything.

> especially target the first author because they have normally done the work

As someone living with a recently promoted? (is that the correct term?) PhD in social sciences, this surprises me. Is that something specific for my country, for social sciences or my wife simply landed in a case full of rotten apples?

A closed beta? No way to see it now?

Hey that's cool! Btw, I see the developer is listed as WunderFlix GmbH. You really registered a company just for side project, does that mean it makes enough money to justify the costs of a proper company?

I'm not sure a FrontPage site would be much better. It's also a big mess of generated markup you'd have to go through manually, if you didn't have the proper FP version.

Hi, that's a nice book reference. I've ran into this thread a bit late, but do you know if that book is still relevant (it's published in 1936, Wikipedia says) or are there more modern works that incorporate those ideas and work with them?

As a freelance dev I've worked with a ngo where they paid me to get their junior to create an application. Then another. Then later just to help him with some new concept. I'm not freelance any more (yet) but if you just wanna chat about it, I'd be happy to relay my experience.

I would like to add a few things on top of the relatively technical reasons why this lack of .com doesn't matter.

I'd say most users won't type "mastodon.com" in their "browsers". They will type "mastodon" in their "internet" or, if technically savvy, into Google first. Second, from following the fediverse (not just mastodon, but also pixelfed, peertube etc), i have a feeling that they aren't into mainstream, general audience anyway. A lot of them are small focused instances and as such, won't even be attracting new people via Google, but by invites anyway. Many instances have closed registration anyway. So if you need to land anywhere it's likely not on mastodon.social, but something like ...(checks last five accounts to post directly on top of timeline): icosahedron.website, fostodon.org, mastodon.social, mastodon.technology (my instance) and hackers.town.

Also, going to a coffee shop with a Chromebook is saving a lot of energy at home, I'd say ;)

Very cool article on how to start with directives.