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GtS is getting wicked lots of attention and people keep recommending it to other people despite me waving big red flags saying it's in alpha, and then people say on github or in chat 'why does x not work', and there's only so many times I can say 'it's not implemented yet' before I become fully jokerfied

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it's actually pretty weird because the tootctl media progress only reports 130489 files to process 🤔

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mastodon folder has more than 139 billion files, and transfer failed because the new server ssd storage doesn't have enough space left (more than 140GB)...

fediverse, beginner's guide 

Decided to have a shot at writing a very concise guide to the fediverse, because a lot of the guides are quite long: gist.github.com/joepie91/f924e

Hope this is helpful to someone!

one of the kids at scouts camp had this and uhh i might have to go shopping

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

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