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I just suspended two accounts from Car Companies that have registered on website boy's instance.

If you see more Corporations that are responsible for accelerating global climate change joining the fediverse, please join me in pointing a ban hammer at them.

@AFriendlyBeagle@toot.site (or at /about/more, depending on... the Mastodon version I think?)

@AFriendlyBeagle@toot.site FWIW, on Mastodon instances, the blocklist is usually visible (often only for logged-in users) at /about

disappointed that I'm seeing more and more non-captioned images cross my TL. I understand and respect that there are a lot of new people around and that means the culture will shift and change with them, but this is one aspect of fedi culture that I would really like to preserve.

so, if you are able, please please please caption your images!

art q :boost_requested: 

you know how those sort of graphic gouache paintings with only imprecise wet blending and details layered on top capture what's really satisfying about using the medium

youtu.be/BXPoFmJ82Pc?t=433

what is the style / project that showcases what is satisfying about colored pencils?

So someone at work has started leaving ducks around. So, I’m adding art captions. Because, of course I am. #ducks #GuerillaArt #office

My personal recommendation to people who are new to Mastodon is: talk about things that aren't Mastodon. Might sound simple, but during a big time and a big migration it's easy to get focused on the platform instead of... anything else! A timeline full of mostly talking about the platform isn't healthy for the platform itself - and it's not that fun either. Start living here! If you like to, anyway.

sort of meta? about designing federated systems 

I think a big part of why fedi succeeded at being active for so long without an immediate migration wave, is because unlike most other social platforms, it accommodates finding *new* people and communities rather than just talking to people you already know.

That really softens the blow of the network effect quite a lot, and other federated systems should probably learn from this.

mastodon performance is going to be very bad today. for everyone, on every instance. please do not bother your admins about this. thank you, we love you, maybe take a nice lil walk outside in the crisp late autumn morning (or spring evening, whatever hemisphere) while you wait for your picture of your cat to upload. cheers.

I have a friend who writes songs about sewing machines.

She’s a Singer songwriter, or sew it seams.

#joke #jokes #puns #joking

re: uspol, technology, bad 

@bstacey I don't know. Fedi as a whole is far, *far* less vulnerable to this sort of thing than your typical centralized US-based social network. Doesn't mean it isn't a risk at all of course, but the model does insulate it from this to some degree.

re: kiwifarms, suspend list scraping 

@f0x @tonytins@tonybark.com 🤔 shouldn't this be prevented by CORS restrictions?

@nova we all live in a society and all of us need to interact with corporations in some way. The issue beings on Fediverse have is with directly inviting them, because in past, it always ended badly.
They can always self host. Even our startup has it (if nothing changed) planned, corporates can handle that too. Yes, most companies will get defederated from big part of wider fediverse, but at least they won't take other users with them :)

update: the Fediverse is no longer cooling so here is a #FediTips: you can put any pronouns in your bio. you don't have to use the ones you used on the previous site. you can change them to the ones you want to try. do it do it do it do it

also it's pretty easy to dye your own hair, but if you just wanna try a new color reversibly, i recommend cosplay-grade wigs

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there's a difference between pouring in milk first and then tea, or pouring in tea first and then milk. this is called noncommutativitea.

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