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Jenniferplusplus

I'm really sincerely begging the fediverse to recognize the difference between capitalism and commerce. People selling products and services is commerce, which is a good and normal thing. So please stop being weird about artists and artisans who are trying to find their customers on here.

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rottenartist

#hanukkah

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halcy​:icosahedron:

i genuinely do not want to meta post anymore but I cannot physically stop myself 

man is really trying to liz truss this isn't he

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Alex Vranas

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.

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Bruce Sterling @bruces

*They used to laugh and call him names. Now they're all dead

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Alex Vranas

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.

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Eugen Rochko

John Mastodon

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Alex Vranas

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

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Alex Vranas

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

pbs.org/newshour/economy/makin

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bloodwrites :spn:

Protip for the new mastodonians: don't obfuscate names or words - only hashtags work for search so you won't get troll bombed if you say Elon Musk.

Filters, however, work on anything, so those who don't want to see Elon Musk won't see this post.

But if you write El*n M*sk they WILL see it, and that might make them mad, so don't do it okay? Let people use their filters.

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Tony Webster

Twitter forced me to delete tweets explaining how to set up an ADS-B feeder and contribute open source, public flight data to FlightAware and @ADSBexchange. I was told these tweets violated Twitter’s rules against posting private information.

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Alex Vranas

@Phyrkrakr Look at these best friends!

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

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Marianne Kirby (The Rotund)

Oh, wow, Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain. Apparently also his website will shut down "at some date in the not too distant future" so now's a good time to download directly.

"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money."

tomlehrersongs.com/

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Alex Vranas

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.

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Oh yeah! Look at my poor server chug away!

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

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Alex Vranas

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!

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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.

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Alex Vranas

Hey 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: bbc.com/news/technology-639994

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Fasih Rana

Should all Journalists show solidarity with the banned accounts on Twitter and stop posting on Twitter?

It is a few today that fell foul of Elon Musk, it could be you tomorrow over something else.

If you see this post, vote and boost it.

2952 people · Dec 19, 2022, 16:02
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