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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.

:boost_ok:

ko-fi.com/ardydo/goal?g=48

#mutualAid #transCrowdfund #mutualAidRequest #begpost
@mutualaid

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

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.

"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".

For everyone new to the Fediverse, keep in mind there's no algorithm! Likes don't do much (kind of like in old-school Twitter), so if you want others to see something cool you found, boost it! 🚀

It's the best way to share content from other creators you like, and of course you don't have to be on the same instance as them to do it! ✨✨

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

The owner of this website has banned the country or region your IP address is in (TOR) from accessing this website.

:duckduckgo: path to tor citizenship

@amberage Hell yeah!

I'd love to see more researchers exploring how much of allistic "communication" comes down to power dynamics and how often one party is expected to do most of guesswork and overcompensation and how trying this on autistic people can expose so much of the sexism, racism, classism, etc. behind those implicit expectations.

No wonder they can get so frustrated with us when it means confronting their own privilege and biases.

Academic institution snark 

Does your instance have an anti-Elsevier policy?

Scholar Social has had one since 2020:

scholar.social/terms#blocking

Talk to your instance admin about how we can collectively run Elsevier off the Fediverse

(This isn't a joke, fuck Elsevier)

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i could do journalism. editorials are just like long-form shitposts that the petroleum industry pays you for.

In a world where your servers are operated by volunteers rather than big well-resourced SV corporations with security teams, it’s interesting to think about how we can make identity and authentication require fewer shared secrets.

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Musing while setting up 2FA: one of the nice old auth systems I remember is S/KEY. It allowed you to generate one-time codes such that the server only needs to store a “public key” (verification key) rather than a shared secret. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/KEY

Polite reminder, if you request a follow to a locked account without reading that person's pinned toots, you're likely gonna be disappointed

I had 4 follow Req's I had to deny today, because they didn't tell me the basic info about who they are in their bio. A stream / wordcloud of tags, especially tech terms isn't a bio, it's a CV. Write who you really are in your bio, and read other people's profiles to find out who they really are before clicking follow. There's no prize for following the most people.

I require as a minimum pronouns in your bio and a DM telling me why you chose to follow me. Mastodon's "most private" post setting is "followers only" so if I let you follow me I am trusting you to see a more intimate side of my account. I feel it's fair you tell me why I trust you with this.

This is all written up in my pinned toots, but most people don't both to read those. Actually it seems most clients hide them these days 😔

Read profiles or expect disapointment.

#feditips

If you're response to coming to a place whose mostly-queer denizens have already created rules that allow them to interact comfortably with each other and scream about how you shouldn't have to follow those rules, you're just an asshole, whether you nominally belong to my group or not.

Read the room, learn the history, interact politely. Being a good citizen of a space is not rocket science.

I'm absolutely thrilled to see blacktwitter.io is a thing! I've been hoping to see instance centered around the experiences and moderation needs of Black people in particular.

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