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Andrew (Television Executive)

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.

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Open Web Advocacy

“The data Apple surreptitiously collects is precisely the type of private, personal information consumers wish and expect to protect when they take the steps Apple sets out for users to control the private information Apple collects”

techcrunch.com/2022/11/14/appl

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nixCraft 🐧

7 things all kids need to hear

1 I love you

2 I'm proud of you

3 I'm sorry

4 I forgive you

5 I'm listening

6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup

7 You've got what it takes

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Bobby Brown

i am a type of a type of guy 

@scanlime make no mistake: the novel social effect i am most tantalized to recreate on mastodon is that one where you say something really awkward in a matrix room, and the whole userlist worth of read receipts accumulates below your post for three excruciating hours until someone finally meets the call of silent desperation with literally anything else to talk about

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mcc

If you see people alarmed at a Twitter replacement "taking VC money", this is the reason that's alarming. A company might have the most well-meaning, nice people running it, but those nice people will have to deliver an Exit. We are no longer in the era you can even really hope that Exit will be an IPO. "Well, now the cruel hand of the market rules us" is too much to ask. We've now established the most profitable Exit for a social media company is to sell to a Musk/Murdoch/Trump style oligarch.

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I heard Tootle for iOS allows a lot of interface customization, and I'd love to check it out, but it doesn't appear to support single sign-on. I suppose I'll try it with my .social account for now

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@0xAFAEBABE docs.joinmastodon.org/user/mov

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@0xAFAEBABE If the software on both sides supports the Move feature (have a new enough version of mainline Mastodon), it will make all followers unfollow the old and re-follow the new referenced account

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re: meta defederation 

@0xAFAEBABE it's giving the same people who put leftist trans women on mass blocklists on birdsite for being "kinda sus" admin control over people's entire social media experience for the low price of $30 a month in VPS costs

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kylie 🧚🏼‍♀️

meta defederation 

the problem with full-scale defederation is it’s completely in the mods hands and users don’t get a choice, and the only recourse is to switch instances. this is a wildly shitty user experience. i’m fine with nazis and terfs getting deplatformed, but defederation here is becoming a bunch of middle school drama over the smallest slights.

surf.cyberspace.club/@senj/109

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@scanlime Sure, but there's no denying it has regrettable effects, especially for those who disagree with that assessment naturalizing ephemerality, and consider the lines of connection made in a primary public space to be valuable history worth analyzing and preserving.

And even in the immediate term, if you're moving because you got suspended, or if you deleted everything to prevent abuse, it won't be there for contemporary response to what may be very serious events

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@NanoRaptor Bose finally gave up on decades of questionable cross-marketing when its best product, the Wave Radio Macintosh, proved such a massive flop that Apple struck its very existence from history.

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@scanlime Unfortunately, this is dependent on a continued relationship with a previous instance you probably left behind for a good reason

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There is a pernicious "anarchism" of minimum responsibility that most of society has been thrilled to propagate as a precorporated identity over the last half-century. I implore you to instead pursue the anarchism that builds *maximum* responsibility to and for each other.

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Cian Maher

The vibes on Mastodon are class and mostly very wholesome, so I'm going to share this piece I wrote a few years back about the Oblivion mod Terry Pratchett worked on. It eventually became so important to him that the developers added in a function to help him continue playing even when his Alzheimer's made it difficult to do so. Theirs is a lovely, heartfelt, uplifting story - sure give it a read if you have a sec

eurogamer.net/the-story-behind

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Nathanaël

Somewhere, someone finally made this and I think it's beautiful: thingiverse.com/thing:4687836

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Bobby Brown

Tune in -- Now we're getting to the more interesting stuff :) The cases onscreen now were featured prominently in Half-Life twitch.tv/bobbyd0g

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📢 Going live at 7:30pm EST 📢
Working on another dozen+ computers over some good music, then putting on a game. Humidity is … just barely acceptable, hope I don't zap anything! You can follow and hit the bell for a ping when it starts -- twitch.tv/bobbyd0g (PeerTube simulcast returning soon!)

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Foone

Trying to convert my bots over to mastodon. It's less synchronous than twitter and I think this is fucking me, the images never seem to upload.

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Foone

Are there any wired keyboard protocols (other than rs232) that aren't 5v?

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