Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

#TwitterPurge #TwitterMigration #ThursdayNightMassacre

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.

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 😬

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!

https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html

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.

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

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

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.

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.