Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Where to #find your #Mastodon #instance?

Relax, you were able to find phone and internet providers, hence you can manage this, too!

Mastodon instances
- Based on #community: https://joinmastodon.org/communities
- Based on #sustainability: https://greenfediverse.codeberg.page/green-instances/
- Based on #size: https://instances.social/list/advanced
- Based on #proximity: https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/
- Suche #deutschsprachige: https://contentnation.net/de/favstarmafia/artikel2

Weet je nog dat je vroeger moest wachten tot een familielid klaar was met telefoneren voordat je in kon bellen bij een BBS en dat daar ook nog wel eens de lijn bezet was.

En je dan moest auto-dialen om binnen te kunnen komen.

En dan na 15 minuten zat je er eindelijk op, om met 128 bytes per seconde electronische berichten en bestanden te downloaden met ZModem of Kermit.

Nee, dat ken je niet? Nou, opa wel, en opa vindt dat die vertragingen hier wel meevallen.

the reason i use fedi as my primary social media is because of the culture here, it feels so much more cozy and personal and much more honest and i appreciate that a lot and we need to fight to keep it like this, this is much healthier than whatever professional culture most other social media may have. keep shit weird and cozy.

I think one of the main reasons why people find decentralized network services hard to understand is that "talking to your sysadmin" has become a foreign concept to most people. Tech companies have normalized the idea of sysadmins as faceless, god-like beings, impossible for mere Users to communicate with directly.

In the early days of the Internet, when it was pretty much exclusive to major universities, the admins were at least people in your organization; co-workers or staff members who you could speak to in person. They may have held power, but they were known and approachable.

There seems to be an obsession with replicating the scale and power of GFAM and co. now. Being a "responsible admin" by putting on your professional face and treating the people on your servers like customers rather than fellow community members. (It's often at least partially motivated by people wanting to make themselves feel important & powerful, but that's another story.)

But when your sysadmin is just an authority figure, not a person, you can't have a conversation with them. You may be entrusting them with control over your digital life, but you can't open up to them. It's just a phone call with Customer Support—you can ask them why the computer's not behaving, but you can't sit down with them for a coffee and discuss how it all works. And the air of distance and superiority makes people afraid of all sysadmins.

We need less of that, I think. Far, far less of that, and more sysadmins who are friendly, approachable members of the community they serve. Hell, Free Software and the Internet is supposed to be about community! Let's nourish that, not crush it in favour of corporate aesthetics.

Please, @gitea, do not go down that DAO route. I would hate to see a very good open source project associate itself with a dying, planet-killing technology.
(refering to your announcement https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-the-future-of-gitea/ )

Some trans people know at age 6, some at 26, some at 86. This used to be a thing that gatekeepers got in a huff about but even they don't care so much anymore.

Whatever age you figure out how to be happy is the right age for you. Seize it. Be beautiful. I believe in you.