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BREAKING: Eugen "Gargron" Rochko criticised for "disingenous" article about Meta's Threads, which doesn't mention he's bound by a non-disclosure-agreement to the company, better known for owning Facebook.

This is amazing 🤣

Hi, I'm Vana - your local wolf final boss #vtuber 🐺​

Once an MMO final boss, I got sent to the human world to find people from the guild that befriended me in game!

I stream on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Twitch, and every other Wednesday on VStream!

✦ — 《 SOCIALS 》

⠀⠀➼ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/vanakwen
⠀⠀➼ VStream: https://vstream.com/c/@vanakwen
⠀⠀➼ Youtube: https://youtube.com/@vanakwen
⠀⠀➼ Website: https://beacons.ai/vanakwen

✦ — 《 TAGS 》

fanart: #vanallusion

PSA: the meta sever is threads.net. Threads.social is a tiny, completely unrelated instance created by a perfectly nice seeming Scottish sound engineer/musician

It's time for a re-introduction! Time's flown, but there's lots of new faces so I should say hi again!

I'm Nina, I'm a pixel artist who does way too many various things, and also stream! If you can tell, I like retro things and how you can apply those limitation in new ways!

My account will contain whatever is in my brain with no restraints, be aware!

Check out my site! 🌟 https://misnina.com

Stream: https://www.youtube.com/@misninastar

#Introduction #Vtuber #PixelArt #Lowpoly #GameDev #Streaming

just learned the story of how the tennessee purple coneflower went from "presumed extinct" to "endangered" to delisted by the ESA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE3uHJ8R5ro (6 minute video)

it's mindblowing how 1 human can have such a profound positive influence on an ecosystem!

also: cedar glades! this continent has such fascinating bioregions!

Dutch demoscene follows Finland, Germany and Poland in it's demoscene being accepted as unesco living national cultural heritage. Hope Switzerland is next.

http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2023/07/03/unescodemoscene-accepted-as-unesco-cultural-heritage-in-the-netherlands/

I like this appreciation of an art culture with roots in an almost militant approach to sharing digital resources.

#demoscene #unesco

Remember mastodudes and fellow artists, adding alt text to your images it's a common practice here in Mastodon, and while is not obligatory, we try to include it on our posts so visually impaired people can enjoy the experience as much as you!!

And don't worry, you don't have to write something complex, just be descriptive about the picture you're posting.

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

I've read that some users are vowing to leave the #Fediverse because they are on a server that has agreed to federate with #Meta's #Threads app, or they're on a server that has not made their position clear on whether they'll federate with Meta.

I'd recommend reading https://fedipact.online to find 418 servers that have pledged to block Meta you can migrate to, though not all are open for registration. Among the biggest are pixelfed.social, mastodon.nl, mastodon.art, pixelfed.de, and others!

back on my bullshit with more goth flowers for #bloomscrolling

Dear creators:

please, please, PLEASE set up your own web sites and distribute your work from there.

If you post your work only on Twitter and/or Reddit, it's gonna disappear. Soon.

With all new members we would like to remind you to make use of the CW (Content Warning) feature.

On your post box there should be a "CW" button which will enable a dedicated box for Content Warnings.

Our rule of thumb is that any content that would be awkward in public should have a CW. This will be enforced.

Unlike Twitter, your visibility will not get hurt by using CWs. Usually the opposite is the case as people will be more comfortable with boosting your content.

Thank you for your understanding ​

It’s July 1st 2023 & #Google has announced they will stop carrying Canadian news by this December, as they aren’t terribly fond of #BillC18.

Let’s assume you’re Canadian (or you just like beavers) & you’re missing your #news fix bc you’ve been relying on Google News or Facebook (I promise I won’t judge you!) So how do you get your local Canadian news going forward?

Well, good news everyone (ha!), getting your own custom Google-free newsfeed is actually easy, using something called #RSS.

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I think the only thing I wanna put out there for newbies landing on fedi is not only do you not have to censor words to evade bots, algorithms and searcher arguments; doing so actively harms the ability of people who want to set up mutes OR enhanced notifications to do so on that content.

Yeah some people might have muted the word 'commission' because they don't want to be exposed to opening ads for whatever reason.

Please don't do that. You don't have to here. We're big on individual agency to see or not see what we wanna.