Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

@MoiraEve I have a high-profile user putting me on blast about this now, so I might as well share what I was talking about.

Giving free PR to a company for something they didn't do, and keeping it up even after people in the comments tell you that you are wrong. Sounds like a Democratic Strategist to me.

@BeAware The admin "damon" has a threads.net link in their bio where they are far more active. They also harass people who talk bad about for-profit microblogging services like Threads and Bluesky. If that's what we can expect from WD's admins, I am done. They've had really poor reporting anyway.

@VE7WYC Using "Linux" as a pejorative. Yeah, not a place for me.

@Distante We do know how the Fediverse will react to a marketing campaign by a corporation: most instances have defederated Threads.

I'm not saying that misinformation doesn't happen here, but it certainly doesn't succeed here. I don't see posts stating something false with dozens of users agreeing in the comments like I do on Bluesky and Threads.

Sorry, but if you use Threads as your primary social network, I don't trust your reporting on the Fediverse. I was on-the-fence about #fediblock for a while, but Threads is such a catastrophe it's truly mind-boggling that the WeDistribute folks are endorsing it as a first class Fediverse participant.

Just caught some harassment from their admin for saying that Bluesky has misinformation on it (true). Don't get me started on Threads (where the election was "hacked at the tabulation level").

lmao, the WeDistribute Admin has their Facebook profile linked in their bio. #fediblock

@damon@social.wedistribute.org No, I think I'll just block you for immediately trying to turn this into an opportunity to gamble.

I've already given up on WeDistribute ever since you decided to give a glowing article to a Neo-Nazi agitator, now that I see that the Admin is a scold, I'll have no problem blocking this whole instance out of sight.

The same procedure as last year?

I figure in 10 years when LTO-9 becomes affordable on the secondhand market I can consolidate my tapes down 7:1.

My data hoarding has reached unprecedented new levels. 100TB of LTO-6 tapes (native) ought to help expand and protect my collection. At $4/TB, I'll never delete a file again in my life.

Just fell to temptation and quoted a Democratic Strategist for Obama and Biden who was doing a misinformation about corporate responsibility while giving a multibillion dollar corporation free PR for a thing they never did.

That post, like everything I post there, will end up deleted as I convince myself again that I want no participation on #BlueSky.

The only time I ever want to post on #BlueSky is to respond to misinformation, and BlueSky has no shortage of that.

I just want to say, the Mastodon community doesn't have this issue. You folks stay grounded for the most part and while I may not post as much as I used to, this might be the only place I can tolerate anymore.

I just try to remember: Bluesky is filled with people who thought Mastodon was too hard, and who mostly didn't leave Twitter until years after the Musk takeover.

I powered up a Windows 10 laptop yesterday for the first time in a while. Updated it and rebooted it first for good measure.

Started a huge file transfer overnight, and what did I find in the morning? That's right, a freshly rebooted computer that interrupted my file transfer to install more updates.

I have no idea how anyone tolerates Windows anymore. This is unheard of for a Mac or Linux user.

I only have three requests of the Democratic Party moving forward:

1. Acknowledge the gravity of the situation without apology. Call Trump a Fascist, call Republicans Nazis. Their promises alone warrant it.

2. Mobilize now to energize voters to vote for you again in the Midterms and beyond, but with something other than Neoliberalism or just "not being Nazis".

3. If you can't do 1 or 2, get out of the way. Not being Trump clearly wasn't enough to for Hillary or Kamala, so put up or shut up.

So Tears for Fears recently released a new album. The album cover is pure AI slop.

I am... disappointed.

Actually, no, this looks like a real effort to come back online. I think I'm just getting different responses from different endpoints on their CDN right now.

Fingers crossed that the collections are coming back today. I have really missed the Archive!

Er, that was short lived. Getting the error page again. At least it's clear that they're trying!

@internetarchive looks like it's bringing its collections back online!

I don't write customer emails with AI because it's easier or better. I do it so that the model they try to replace me with suffers model collapse when trained on my outputs.