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Alex Vranas

Oh, and it breaks every @ after the redirect in the same post! Look at that!

Thanks again @maartenballiauw. Looks your clever trick exposes a bug in Mastodon.

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Okay, sorry for spamming this post repeatedly.

It turns out if you publishing a post with a custom address in it like this, you'll get an error message and it will look like it didn't send.

I just kept mashing that button while I investigated, and it really was publishing the post every time 😬

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This is really neat! With the power of WebFinger, you can make your Mastodon account discoverable using your own domain name!

See it in action by searching for me with these custom addresses:

@me@breakdecks.com
@owner@prods.page

It's a bit kludgy if you make it static, so @<anything>@your.domain will end up working.

Thanks @maartenballiauw@mastodon.online for the writeup!

blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2

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Siph

CW: Racism, fake picture of a person StyleGAN (AI), eye contact

Some people on here are really going around pretending to be Black people with avatars generated with thispersondoesnotexist.com to question lived experiences of racism from Black people & avoid having their white supremacy thrown back at them.

This is vile & not subtle and should be pointed out every single time it is noticed.

Releavant: my thread on how to recognize AI-generated faces rage.love/@Siph/10735571857306

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Pleroma TERFs & Nazis 

@hankg This is a very funny thread. They're blaming PostgreSQL instead of admitting that the software is doing poor database management. Admin acting like cleaning up the database is impossible.

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Getting a COVID shot has always had some gross side effects for me, but one of the worst is how sore it makes my arm.

Recently got another booster, and the clinician pinched my arm very hard and the typically painless jab hurt way worse than any of the others. I was cursing this guy under my breath as I left thinking he had multiplied my soreness.

But I'll be damned, it hasn't been sore at all! His method appears to have some merit! Going back to him for the next one for sure.

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📡(RTP) Privacy & Tech Tips

Most Apps Used In Classrooms Share Student Data With Advertisers

#School #Kids #privacy #News #tech #Apps
cyberscoop.com/apps-expose-stu

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

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David Njoku

Dear 2023, all I want from you is for everyone to stop talking about Twitter and Elon Musk.

Everyone, remember how we got to 2021 and all agreed that we'd ignore Donald Trump? Let's do that in 2023 with Musk.

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Alex Vranas

@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!

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Supership 79

It recently struck me that 27 years ago there was a movie with Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo playing drag queens,and if it came out today, someone would firebomb the theaters it was in. I'm not putting a sensitive warning on this picture because it's not fucking sensitive. its a movie that came out in 1995. things have moved backwards in a terrifying way.

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Steve Silberman

In 1941, Nazis asked the city of Amsterdam to make this map of Jews in the city. Each dot equalled 10 Jews.

In 2022, TX AG @KenPaxtonTX sought data from driver's licenses on #transgender Texans.

But don't worry. History never repeats itself. #LGBTQ+
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022

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Noah Krohn :mastodon:

I saw this post from @BlackAzizAnansi that Mastodon remains an overwhelmingly white space and I can't refute that, but I'm angry that it is this way. My experience in tech is that there's no shortage of black talent or black voices, there's a shortage of black opportunity and space due to racism. I see that reflected here. I feel like if we want a #blackmastodon then we can't be passive about this, we have to be intentionally inclusive, intentionally anti-racist. It's not enough to just support.

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Pleroma TERFs & Nazis 

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.

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Pleroma TERFs & Nazis 

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

Vs.

on Pleroma...

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@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.

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Mᴀʏᴀ :verified:

Just in case you ever taught "feee speach is a good mission, maybe #musk is not that bad"

( #twitter #mastodon #elon #elonmusk #twittermigration )

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Alex Vranas

@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.

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@xoder I have seen it myself 😬

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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.

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