Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Every single article critical of Mastodon: "Woah, it isn't just one monolithic website? Someone should fix that!"

@Supership79 It's a damn good movie too. It doesn't discuss gender identity like we do today, but it's excellent representation for its time!

This is why I have a general distrust of Pleroma users. I don't care that it is "more lightweight" than Mastodon. I don't care that it has extra features and multiple frontends.

Its Nazis all the way down. Even the official Pleroma website recommends Nazi-friendly instances, and their devs are openly friendly with out-and-proud Nazis.

Pleroma Dev and "Gleasonator" Admin, Alex Gleason on his blog.

Vs.

on Pleroma...

#FuckTERFs #FuckNazis

@Davidlaw @monkeyninja @BlackAzizAnansi For starters, when people bring it up, white people start asking a bunch of dismissive questions like "Blame who?" or "What barriers?", instead of believing that there's a systemic problem that people of color might face.

@annaleen I have heard of this incident before, but I can't find any articles about it. If you have more information to share, I would like to read more about this.

@xoder I have seen it myself 😬

Twitter folks: Unless you are actually a displaced person, please stop referring to yourselves as "refugees".

You didn't live on Twitter. You were not forced from your home.

You've just switched your preferred microblogging platform. Realistically, you shouldn't have any plans to go back to Twitter, so it doesn't even work as a metaphor.

Call yourself a "migrant". That gets the point across without being insensitive.

@robertomurta I use this trick regularly when I'm dealing with a VPS that's basically scratch space. Servers that don't do any damage when they break beyond annoying me personally.

It's definitely not in-production advice.

@TheGentYYC “The only way we ever have a Republican president is the Electoral College”

Admitting that their party is democratically unelectable...

@emmatonkin I run a personal Asterisk server, and until I had the good sense to set up fail2ban, I had a cronjob that would wipe out most of the oldest rotated log files, since it would be literally gigabytes of failed logins.

The job was modeled on what I'd have to do every time the drive got full and my phones stopped working.

Unprofessional Protip:

Keep a 1GB file full of random numbers on your #Linux server's disk so that when you neglect it and let the drive get full, you have 1GB you can delete right away to get things less broken.

Having deep conversations with #ChatGPT.

@compuguy If people need both, they can use both apps, or use an app like Twidere that connects to both Mastodon and Twitter accounts into one feed.

At least then they can't boost Twitter content to the timelines of other Mastodon users, and can actually reply to Twitter accounts instead of to an ActivityPub bot.