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Does anyone know of any interesting theories on dealing with the federation ownership problem? I'm not looking for "just use fedi" comments, I'm looking for frameworks of reasoning that can be applied to different or new federated systems.

(The federation ownership problem: not everyone is able to maintain a server, so a significant share of users relies on other instances, often public ones because their tech friends do not use the system, but how do you encourage those instances to remain up and running? Especially once people get bored of running them as a hobby)

the more i dig into and untangle my own indoctrination, the more i realize how few (white, us, male) leftists and progressives have even a clue how much internal work we have to do, just to learn to live & act without doing harm

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Find a better way to criticize bad people and bad choices than calling them insane, i'm begging

injections, needles, query on how other people do it 

hmmm, fedi people who do their own injections, what is your favourite place to sit/lie when doing those

mine is either lying in bed with a pile of pillows propping us up or on a well supporting lazy chair, but my blocker shots don't take much prep work and are a simple IM shot in the leg

prep is just opening the box and operating and mixing a weird dual chamber syringe

so what is your favourite spot to do your injections?

Zeg, het lijkt wel of de regering en de bevolking in dit land haaks op elkaar staan. Ik hoor (gelukkig!) zo veel geluiden in de samenleving die dialoog en saamhorigheid bepleiten, terwijl er vanuit Den Haag vooral “wij tegen hen” geroeptoeterd wordt. Zo zou je zomaar kunnen concluderen dat het volk eigenlijk niet zo best vertegenwoordigd wordt.

hey fedi. asking for some help here, boosts would be greatly appreciated.

one of my partners a few months ago got stuck in a shitty situation where her disability benefits - including health insurance - were cut off. as a result of that, she lost access to her doctors, including the one that prescribed her antidepressants, and she's not going to be able to get that health insurance any time soon. right now i'm looking at paying cash for her to see a doctor and get that prescription, with the hope she can get by without seeing the doctor for another year or so, but that's not the preferred solution as it requires me to be there to pay every time, and it's not a guarantee.

is there a way she'd be able to get that antidepressant without a prescription? she's on Duloxetine HCL (aka Cymbalta) 80mg (she was previously prescribed 40mg, but as 2 pills taken in the morning), but she also said 60mg worked. i'm willing to pay cash for it, and although i'd like to say money isn't a limiting factor, we'd prefer if its on the cheaper end (although i don't mind paying more to get it in bulk if it's cheaper long-term, as I only can see her every few months, due to distance.)

On one side of the house it was sunny and sort of snow-raining(?), and on the other side of the house it was raincloudy but dry. What?

so, i was browsing https://isp.netscape.com/ at 3am like a normal girl in her early 20's does, when i noticed something weird... what the fuck is this "download browser" thing? it downloads a file called "AOL_Netscape.exe", what the fuck is that

This is an experiment. Please boost.

mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

@coffee4danz I'm blind and for me alt text is the Big Special Thing about Mastodon. If someone posts a meme, I'm in on the joke. Someone shares beautifiul moss, or their cat, I'm in on the beauty or fun or whatever. I'm now 62, and this is the first time I entered a community and a culture where people grant me this kind of access and community. So grateful for people who do alt text.

pros of the internet:
- you can find and become friends with cute gays across the world!

cons of the internet:
- you can befriend cute gays across the world and now you badly want to fly to south america to hug them

@coffee4danz it reveals the bits that the poster thought was important; I especially enjoy when that's very different to what I thought was important, it's like seeing the image from a different angle. It's delicious, like seeing in another dimension, through someone else's eyes. It enrichens :)

Mastodon has introduced me to the joy of reading descriptive #alttext. I take in the image then read the text as icing on the cake. It can really add extra personality to images.

The 'This is fine' meme is way older than anyone had expected.

This 14th century manuscript illustration shows the legendary British king Vortigern in his burning castle.

More on the illustration here:
thehistorianshut.com/2020/10/1

British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r

De wereld zoals we die kennen is ten dode opgeschreven. Houden we onszelf voor de gek met optimistische voorspellingen? Of heeft het nut om hoop te houden? Wat kunnen we nu eigenlijk echt weten over de toekomst van onze planeet? groene.nl/artikel/vlinders-ver

We are proud to announce the new mandatory rules for table construction. Please see your local Cat Office of Cat Happiness for information on compliance with these stunning and well-thought-out changes. Congratulations to the design team on solving the problem!

This was NOT posted by #PicaTheCat I, a human agree and support this fully of my own free will. #picalaw #picacrime

@0x57e11a The frustrating thing to me is that this doesn't even really need federation, it just needs a good way for an account to come into existence without having to go through a deliberate process for it (which is a much easier problem to solve than federation!) but we don't have that either 😐

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