Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

okay so I have no stake in this particular game beyond being a sicko but this is so funny from the bluesky CEO

looking at her other posts, her wider point is that bluesky is "neutral" and they won't ban troublemakers simply because the userbase want them to (and get on her case about it). which would be defensible, if not for the fact they do ban some (legal) speech, like people making fun about charlie kirk...

so it's just the ol' "cloudflare special" where they're a neutral conduit but only for the kinds of speech they personally think are acceptable (or that they think will result in continuing to get funding, I guess)

(and the CEO is having an extreme CEO moment posting through it instead of behaving like a grownup)

I don't know how wild this is to ask, but, is anyone looking for small-scale hosted email, for some small-ish, sliding-scale price?

I've been running my own mail server for myself for around 10 years successfully, with good deliverability, TLS support on IMAP/POP3 and SMTP, and little to no downtime. I'd love to support friends who'd also like to get away from GMail or other corporate providers.

I'm dealing with chronic illness & am basically looking for ways to give to my community and make a few dollars to ease my own challenges.

i've been out here in the open social network so long that periodically, when a new boat of bedraggled thought leaders washes up & starts saying things like "it's so cool that you can say the word 'tree' without bleeping it!" or "isn't it weird how nothing smells like sulfur?" ... i legitimately don't know how to react.

Apropos of absolutely nothing 👀

cloudflare = nazi collaborators

im still seething

https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/

@pollute_my_lungs

The most interesting thing about the Charlie Kirk shooting is how the unredacted Epstein files still have not been released.

#nokings #epsteinfiles

LZ Config Day v2 and Grilling

<p>Layer Zero, Sunday, September 28 at 01:00 PM CDT</p><p>Round 2 of LZ/Cyberia configuration day and grilling</p><p></p>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/lz-config-day-v2-and-grilling

https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/

good writeup of the rock-and-hard-place that itch is stuck between

i've worked in ecommerce, it fucking sucks and nothing works right

Yesssss!

"We are very excited to announce the preview release of ACME support in NGINX. The implementation introduces a new module ngx_http_acme_module that provides built-in directives for requesting, installing, and renewing certificates directly from NGINX configuration. The ACME support leverages our NGINX-Rust SDK and is available as a Rust-based dynamic module…"

https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol

/via https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@acirep/115022763840493408 #Rust #nginx

looks neat as an instagram-like frontend for Mastodon api compatible softwares: https://oslo.town/@matt/114994487058558789

I know PixelFed exists but it's all just text and video and images at the end of the day - so what if the Mastodon interface just looked like Instagram and then you could sign in using your existing Mastodon account... a concept:

https://coxy.co/instadon/v3

This is just hacked together real quick, but should I work on this to make it a real thing?

I've been thinking for quite some time that something like this would be cool, and that you can get lots of different types of fedi "experience" out of putting different frontends together that cater to different styles.

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