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reading documentation for React Final Form (form management library) while playing Sampa The Great - Final Form
youtube.com/watch?v=JgZ5UsigkP

and it's going to have to go through this all at least once more, with the instance shut down, so it's fully complete

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(and the old server still uses stinky spinning rust so yeahh)

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fucking hell there's more than 43 billion files in my mastodon public dir (it's been transferring for 2+ hours now)

meta, colonialism 

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.

"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.

Academic institution snark 

Does your instance have an anti-Elsevier policy?

Scholar Social has had one since 2020:

scholar.social/terms#blocking

Talk to your instance admin about how we can collectively run Elsevier off the Fediverse

(This isn't a joke, fuck Elsevier)

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

:duckduckgo: 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

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

7 hours is pretty good for sleeping right? 3hrs on friday, 4hrs saturday

Friendly reminder that blocking entire domains from your normal fedi account isn't actually blocking anyone, it's just a fancy mute button

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

every single post i make is now suffixed like this by gotosocial

sent from kimothy siddon’s iphone

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