Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

Might as well see how the fediverse responds to one of my typical requests. This weekend, I'm moving my storage items (mostly to-be-digitized stuff) from Beacon, NY to Ardsley, NY on Sunday. If you think you might be able to help, e-mail me at jason@textfiles.com. It's about a truckload, I'm renting the truck but I have to be careful with my back.

It's a little known fact that the Power Macintosh G4 Server (2003)'s status display can run arbitrary code, including this mini vMac install with System 6.

A gentle reminder to all non-newcomers to the fediverse: there is no "fediverse community" or "fediverse norm", there are individual instances which get to set their own policies and you should avoid lecturing people on instances that are not your own.

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

due to some adjacent meta discussion, i feel like i should clarify Treehouse's policy regarding organization and corporate accounts, which is basically:

Treehouse is about people, period. Corporate accounts are not welcome on Treehouse, they should be running their own instance anyway.
Accounts for other organizations (and projects such as @AsahiLinux) are by invitation only. Those accounts are expected to uphold our values to a higher standard than people. If you believe our community is a good partner for your organization or project, please reach out.
Treehouse will not defederate instances for having corporate accounts, but will suspend corporate accounts which behave in ways that are not aligned with our values.

@dalias And wielding "anti-Blackness" as an all-defeating shorthand absolutely devoid of context or reference when it's being thrown around by white people (Do I read your avatar correctly?) with such opportunistic abandon, under such questionable pretenses, it also doesn't speak well of your personal and identity boundaries and what concepts you have much right to deploy so flippantly toward advocating your preferences.

@dalias I should also point out that your first comment smacks of colonialism, where a culture exists somewhere, and because you've come directly from a different culture to find this whole new system equally available to you, that the original culture should not only bend to your whims (from a network that expelled them) but actively seek to fulfill them with software development. If you even studied the culture you're entering, you'd know QT-capable ActivityPub software exists.

@dalias This is in fact sort of a devil's advocate position. I routinely mourn all the POSITIVE I can and do create with quote tweets. I'm thinking about other ways to achieve them, or to mitigate their place in bad behavior, all the time. But there are clear incentive structures they naturally facilitate that we've all become well-trained to use quite thoughtlessly, and to the benefit of network operators who profit from conflict. Mastodon wasn't built to replicate that effect.

@dalias So what you're saying is that there's no value in the fact that my first instinct was to dunk on you to all the people who do, or should, know better, BUT THEN… when I discovered no ready-made tool existed to facilitate my dunk, and the effort required to achieve the same effect to devalue your point, but without getting the same network-effect benefits, I thought instead of what I'd spend my time better on to achieve change & consider nuance, I wrote this *to* you instead?