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halfflat halfflat @kbin.social

PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at UT Austin. Currently writing about sound, experimental music, and urban change in Austin, Texas.

On the microblogging side of fedi: https://assemblag.es/@halfflat Also on Lemmy at https://beehaw.org/@halfflat

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New to all this, trying to understand the microblog section, seems like it's ideal for simpler discussion. But after replying to a guy in the Diablo microblog section, I noticed that he was actually o
  • @zebus It's probably not quite right to think of it getting posted to mastodon. ActivityPub based services communicate with each other. When I search for you on mastodon, your account here comes up, but I can't actually view the post because my instance doesn't know to mirror your posts (I'm not quite technical enough to know why services don't somehow "slurp up" the posts of a user you're searching for..). But if I followed you from mastodon, I'd see your microblog posts from kbin there.

  • New to all this, trying to understand the microblog section, seems like it's ideal for simpler discussion. But after replying to a guy in the Diablo microblog section, I noticed that he was actually o
  • @zebus It's probably not quite right to think of it getting posted to mastodon. ActivityPub based services communicated with each other. When I search for you on mastodon, your account here comes up, but I can't actually view the post because my instance doesn't know to mirror your posts (I'm not quite technical enough to know why services don't somehow "slurp up" the posts of a user you're searching for..). But if I followed you from mastodon, I'd see your microblog posts from kbin there.

  • I learned Spanish by watching one movie 50 times
  • Ah, I haven't looked at the actual learning strategies of refold, I've only seen their flash-card packs (which look good!). I assumed it was more or less a kind of Dreaming Spanish style service with more guidance rather than this style L-R where it seems like you just kind of jump into the deep end a bit with a source you can commit to putting up with.

    (Sorry I didn't see your reply till today btw, kbin ate the notification it seems).

  • I learned Spanish by watching one movie 50 times
  • Hunh, this seems like an adaptation of the L-R technique listed here https://sopuli.xyz/post/659485, but for a single film. Pretty interesting.