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It just occurred to me how uncomfortably close the behaviour of many new Twitter users here, is to colonialism.

Disregarding local culture and population, assuming they know better about what "works", acting as if they're the first to discover this magical fediverse and it is theirs to shape and control. Loudly declaring that they're here to tell everybody how to "make it scale".

Yes, things are probably slow for you right now. That's because the fediverse is a volunteer-run network that just tripled in user count pretty much overnight!

Give it some time to settle, and if you are able, consider running your own (semi-)public instance - that not only helps the health of the network, but also reduces load on other servers, making things faster for everybody.

#FediTips

"mute" is een fantastische functie van Mastodon, waarbij je een verlooptijd in kunt stellen. Handig als je iemand wel wilt blijven volgen, maar dies preoccupatie van de dag na een aantal toots over hetzelfde onderwerp je toch even te veel wordt.

Het zijn dit soort grijswaarden tussen zwart en wit waardoor sommige software beter is voor je geestelijke gezondheid.

The owner of this website has banned the country or region your IP address is in (TOR) from accessing this website.

path to tor citizenship

stop dming each other, im an instance admin and everyone's dms are completely filling up my home timeline and im struggling to keep up with reading them all

#Introduction

Step 1: wake up
Step 2: clean up harassment
Step 3: continue to feel like there's a need for a community-managed blocklist and a by-default-limited-federation for new instances, so that the new hate speech instances don't immediately get to harass us all
Step 4: except that has other issues and it's all hard why are people so awful ugh

there is a guy on hacker news who is trying to write an activitypub node without having ever used the fediverse. this can only go well. software engineers only ever make correct assumptions about things they have no experience with

script for gts that replaces all words on the web frontend with meow

Keep in mind that almost all of the fediverse (including almost all Mastodon instances) is run by volunteers!

You should adjust your expectations accordingly - nobody is trying to sell you anything here, but that also means that you cannot make the sort of demands that you might make of a corporation.

And don't forget to send a donation to your instance admin!

#FediTips