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@daniel @astrid Reminds me of the Soylent guy bragging about going off the grid, by outsourcing everything that used the grid arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/0

seems to struggle a lot getting the overview for gargron, so maybe that's a way to overload it :")

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it doesn't seem able to list any toots from me, but did autocomplete my username with avatar, so they have a scraped user database for sure.
also no known way to even opt-out, not that that'd be enough. shit like this needs actual consent through opt-in

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I wish them all the best whatever they are doing now, and wish for all of us still here to do the best that we can to make this a sincerely liberated social space and not just a bunch of nerdy flag waving hashtags-in-bio losers 2/2

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Using this #FollowFriday to remember the friends we've lost from this space.
Deni, Swampy, Haf, Dumi, Ikora, everyone that stayed gone after PV closed or had to make themselves tiny and quiet elsewhere in this network; the ghosts of others I regularly stumble across in replies to old toots, and the people that are just about hanging on despite the shit they regularly face here. 1/2

cloudflare can eat a big old bag of dicks, and that's my professional opinion on the matter

if you work for cloudflare, quit

if you give money to cloudflare, stop

fuck those assholes

re: uni, sleep, ph 

also just feeling kinda sickish overall, with something that's definitely not covid but still meh...

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re: uni, sleep 

average sleep this week: 6hr57, and I don't think that's enough for me tbh

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uni 

almost 2 weeks into full-time uni and already very quickly heading towards burnout again, at least I know which lectures I can mostly skip out on to leave some time/energy for other things

i dont need a vintage camera i dont need a vintage camera i dont need a vintage camera youtu.be/VnIB_t3Yn5I

My goodness, but I would love if File Explorer / Nautilus / Finder style apps would display README.{txt,md,rst} files similar to how GitHub does it. Would love to be able to leave reminders to myself as to what the fuck a folder is for.

i've become death, destroyer of- well, mostly myself really

Anyway that paper about academic Masto instances is fine except that it

* Erases much of the actual history of academic Fedi
* Ignores the actual reasons why marginalized people would want federated social media and instead focuses entirely on the nebulous badness of private ownership of a commons
* Conflates participation of institutions and individuals on Fedi
* Is completely uninformed by the reality of instance admin/mod responsibilities
* Actually no it's pretty bad

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Suppose a vast number of instances distributed throughout the internet, on the order of the number of observable domains. Lots and lots of them. Those instances make up the body of a federated society. Federated Sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society🧵​(1/3)

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