Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

My "Pleroma instances attract Nazis" post went viral on Pleroma, and the Nazis there were kind enough to reply with a bunch of slurs to show me more instances that needed to be suspended.

Aw yeah, did a dist-upgrade on my laptop, thought everything was great, ran into a Python issue, tried to fix it, and somehow broke wayland and the entire network stack...

I also have an 8 year old Thinkpad that I've been dist-upgrading for years, so maybe it's just a sign that it's time to offload and reinstall...

Or buy a more modern laptop.

Luci looking like this in the middle of the day. What a life! #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/analysis-if-youre-rich-youre-more-lucky-than-smart-and-theres-math-to-prove-it

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?