mastodon used to be an incredibly small, tight-knit, and like-minded community.
then april 2017 happened and more people came in that mastodon.social could handle, so we adapted.
things change, life moves on. this isn't the first endless september and it won't be the last. meet new people, make new friends, be kind, etc
uspol
It's pretty staggering the amount of election disinformation plaguing the Birdsite right now. Just straight up lies about how elections work. Republicans are ramping up for another complete election-denial shitshow.
We need to start acknowledging this as an existential threat to democracy, and treat it like election fraud in and of itself when politicians start repeating these lies in an attempt to overturn legitimate results.
Wow. This needs to be read by everyone who joined Mastodon in the last week: https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/
Because I'm on a German server my trending topics are #keinVergessen and #niemalsVergessen. This is because 9 November is the anniversary of Kristallnacht.
These brass plates in the pavements memorialise Jewish people at what were their addresses. I saw this one in Berlin in the spring. #NeverForget
With all these new followers, it's time for a proper reintroduction.
My name is Alex, I live in Seattle, and I am Product Support Specialist in the NetSec sector.
On Mastodon you'll generally find me talking about music, retrocomputing, demoscene, and leftist politics.
I've been on Mastodon for a couple of years now, but it hasn't been my main home until now.
Looking forward to a new chapter here on the Fediverse with all of you!
Reminder that Mastodon costs time and money to develop, and the flagship instances do too.
You can donate to the project via Patreon, starting a $1/month: https://patreon.com/mastodon
So it appears Microsoft, GitHub (so M$, twice) and OpenAI are being sued for violating copyright law by reproducing open-source code using AI (GitHub Copilot) without attribution and such.
What do you think about this lawsuit?
Personally, while I do think attribution should be there, they are making too big of a fuzz about it, considering those same people probably got their code from SO or something...
Best Twitter alternative: Dwitter.
It's like Twitter, but you can only post JavaScript canvas.
This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?
Check them out!
Facebook replacement: Friendica
Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
YouTube replacement: PeerTube
Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
Reddit replacement: Lemmy
Podcasting replacement: Castopod
GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm
#Netsec Professional. Whitehat #Hacker. #Demoscene spectator. Nerd.
I'm a fan of #Linux, #FOSS, #Decentralization (not Crypto), Crypto (as in #Cryptography), and #Socialism. Always #Antifascist & #Antiwar.
Seattle, WA