Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Still saddened that the Mastodon instance for cats is gone...

Ok, we're past whatever that was. I'm too busy looking through logs for work to look through my own logs right now, so I'm just taking another snapshot of everything in case this was a warning sign that things are about to fall apart.

Oh yeah! Look at my poor server chug away!

Love getting intermittent 500 errors. Excuse me while increase the frequency of my backups.

They call Mastodon a "rival" to Twitter, which from a business perspective isn't true. It's like calling email and Facebook "rivals".

They claim Instances are separated by topic, which is partially true, but not even remotely the rule.

They refer to the flagship instance as simply as "Social", which is just the gTLD after the word "Mastodon", not the name of the instance!

It's embarrassing to see the BBC do this.

They refer to it as a "site". No, it is not a website, it is a piece of web software. Would you call all the WordPress blogs a "site"?

They refer to instances interchangeably as "channels", "groups", and "servers". Mastodon does not have channels or groups, and instance ≠ server. An instance could be a cluster of servers mixed with SaaS solutions.

Hey #Journalists that are joining Mastodon! 👋

Happy to have you here.

Now please, learn how Mastodon works, and start reporting on it honestly. Every mainstream source that writes about it gets things atrociously wrong.

I get that it's really different than traditional social media, but journalistic integrity means doing your research before you publish something, and some of these articles are just ridiculously incorrect. They're hard to take seriously. Like this: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63999452

Elon Musk won't see your posts when you intentionally misspell his name.

But all of your friends who are trying to filter him off their timelines will.

Who exactly are you trying to punish by doing this?

#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.