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

begpost; mutual aid; boosts please; :boost_ok: 

would you be so kind and help a black non-binary girl out? 🥺

I need some help to cover my monthly bills while I try to recover some of my mental health so I can spend some more time working/looking for work opportunities. >.<

if you're interested. I can do tarot readings, pixel art, spreadsheets, game design consultancy, translations (en -> pt-br and vice-versa). Contact me and I can offer you some really nice rates for we to work something out.

any and every donation helps but so does boosting so this post can reach more people.

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#mutualAid #transCrowdfund #mutualAidRequest #begpost
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A bunch of questions about this instance yesterday:
- The performance/down issues were part of @mastohost overall network issue; going to "beefier hardware" would not have solved that one.
- Funding for the instance is not an issue.
- However I might be looking for more moderators soon(ish), since that will become non-trivial amount of work.
- If your social media host is down: go outside! Look at the clouds! Feel free! :P

@jfhbrook Oh nah, definitely not! We need *more* instances, not *bigger* instances :p

re: birdsite billonaire, hi my name is elilla& and I have a problem 

@elilla Oh yeah that's been a problem on Twitter for many years, incorrect blocklist entries, I'm definitely thinking something more... explosive than that

re: birdsite billonaire, hi my name is elilla& and I have a problem 

@elilla It's extremely reminiscent of the Freenode / Andrew Lee drama, which followed a very similar trajectory, and was likewise better than TV in many ways, despite the shitty situation

If the trajectory remains the same as that of Andrew, then Elon's next step will be to ban anyone on Twitter who mentions Mastodon, primarily hitting those who were still on the fence and thus making their decision for them

birdsite billonaire, hi my name is elilla& and I have a problem 

@elilla Oh, I now see you already saw that one 😅

birdsite billonaire, hi my name is elilla& and I have a problem 

@elilla Your wish has been granted, though it's funny for entirely different reasons than Elon thinks: twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15

@SunDancer Oh, sorry, that's specifically for game *development*, maybe that's not what was being looked for

Seeing posts about how "Mastodon" is so untwitter, with community, conversation and a lack of posts designed to enrage.

It's not why you think.

There are certainly communities out there that would make your blood boil.

It's the lack of the algorithm deciding what you see to sell "engagement" for ads.

Admins are likely to have blocked entire servers for you. You see who you want, they expose you to things they like.

It's the model that's different, not the content.

It makes a difference.

@musicmatze@social.linux.pizza Oh, of course. But you only have to set it up once, as an env var :)

@tobyjaffey@mastodon.me.uk Hey, just a heads-up: a lot of blind and visually-impaired users on here rely on image alt descriptions to understand what's shown, so ideally it should at least include an actual description of what's in the image, not just commentary.

And as a bonus, that can also help people understand the joke who would otherwise have missed it :)

"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.

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.

@prehensile we need the fediverse gayer and fruitier. So gay and fruity and silly that the big important media types wouldn’t even think of touching it so it stays a nice little gay safe haven

#fediTips #mastoTips Don't forget to tip your server (go to the Amazon data center and physically knock over a server rack, causing network outages)

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".

@musicmatze@social.linux.pizza It does! That's the whole point of NIX_AUTO_RUN in that command. It does all that automatically (ie. transparently) based on the `command-not-found` data, you don't need to manually spawn a shell or use `nix run`.

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