Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

This week, MastodonART defederating c.im pushed them to expand their mod team, clarify hate speech policies, & unsuspend the account of a Black user who had taken issue with CWs for lived experience.

Now toot.community has suspended a transphobic journalist after pressure from several instances.

I wish those instances had made better proactive choices but I’m impressed to see how powerful this type of direct action from instances (& individuals) can be here.

what's The Light Side Of The Fediverse?

broadly speaking, instances that have active moderation against bigotry

it's the opposite of The Dark Side Of The Fediverse

where nazis and TERF's and cryptobros and such are banished to

The Dark Side is the instances none of the good ones federate with

It’s not boxed wine, it’s cardboardeaux.

#wine

how do i get back to the federation timeline

How I'm beginning to feel about Twitter and Meta:

“You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.” — Doris Lessing

Mastodon is now at 1 million users … same as Twitter was in 2008 when I joined (as @james_slezak@twitter.com )

Just a reminder that "self-hosted" doesn't *necessarily* have to mean literally hosting on a computer in your house. It just means you're in control over it.

what kind of mint is linux mint

#LinuxMint #Linux #FOSS

The kids on reddit are memeing us

Some of you are likely already aware of this, but I organize a group called PhilTel aiming to install free-to-use payphones in Philadelphia. We are having an install party at @iffybooks on December 17th where we will install our first phone (more info here, https://iffybooks.net/event/philtel-free-payphone/)!

We will also be distributing a zine that explains the project and some of the interesting things you can do with the phone.

Hope to see you there! https://philtel.org

Also, it's really handy to have a $25/year linux VM in the cloud with lots of net bandwidth to which I forward ports via autossh from trash computers in my basement.

Today in a meeting I joked that I wanted to display bad apple on the IP phone that my employer gave to me.

That's a nice evening project, so I'll take you on the journey of trying to get this working. [Thread]

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

"If you hate watching a billionaire destroy the place you live online, wait till you hear what they’re up to with planet earth."
- Meghna Jayanth