Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

It's important to note that since we only federate with a hand-picked list of instances (which is available on our about page), we get less traffic than the average instance with our user numbers. Also we might have a lot of registered accounts but only around 100 are active regularly.

It comes down to

~6€ a month for the server (a ssdnodes KVM (4 vCPUs, 16GB RAM, 320GB disk [way too much]), they basically always have a sale going on if you're willing to pay for three years in advance, the usually throw in free daily backups), we did a big upgrade during the last big influx because the old one wasn't enough
5$ a month for around 500 GB S3-compatible media storage on Wasabi (they've been unstable in the past but it's been years since we've had issues)
<20$ a year for the domain name

The Fediverse is NOT a Twitter replacement. We who built and helped build this place with our sweat and tears don't want Twitter culture on here. The Fedi has its own culture, as you will realise soon enough. There will be no "back to business as usual". #feditips

reasons mastodon's "viral dampening effect" is a good thing:

👉🏻 no "main character of the day"
👉🏻 no free text searching for people to get angry at (and harrass)
👉🏻 doomscrolling is *actually bad for you* and not a thing we should be trying to replicate
👉🏻 birdsite's virality is heavily driven by actual paid advertising and bots. You think that "Explore" tab gets its content organically? really? That's not making connections between people, it's about driving sales.

Mastodon is not, and should not be, a 1:1 replacement for Twitter. But it *can* be a new place for you to make valuable connections with other human beings. #twitter #twittermigration

I may have gotten carried away with my #domotica obsession, I'm running out of IP addresses on my /24 lan

hsnl.social staat sinds vandaag open voor iedereen van Nederlandse hackerspaces en is al gegroeid van 8 naar 28 users :)

One somewhat encouraging observation for folks with a genuine sense of community on Twitter: pretty much all the Freenode communities survived. A little bit was lost, and there was a big transition cost, but mostly the communities found new homes and continued.

When Andrew Lee bought (kinda?) Freenode and blew it up last year, I was surprised by how quickly one rich dude could tank a long-standing social network with an established community, and baffled why someone would spend so much money just to burn something down.

That was cute.

if you've ever written a sentence that's just "imagine using XYZ" and¹ XYZ is some linux distribution or whatever. have you actually imagined using it? nobody creates out of pure folly; so this thing must at least serve a niche. what type of person gets value from the thing you are deriding? who are they & what do they want? what is it like to be them?

explore the lives of your fellows and then delete ur post bestie

¹ i wrote this post about software but extrapolate elsewheres if you'd like

I wonder how many people are still using Google Chrome because they haven't tried Firefox at all in the last decade.

If you've tried Firefox years ago but found it didn't suit your needs, and are currently using Google Chrome or one of its many clones, I'd highly recommend revisiting Firefox. It really has come a long way over the years and you may be surprised by what you see.

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I sincerely hope that the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk and the subsequent massive user migration to alternative media such as Mastodon will initiate the downfall of tech giants having way too much influence in the public debate.

@thufie yep, you can connect to any other masto user in less than 6 polycule steps

send me anarchist lit

What’s the Mastodon iOS client with the best (or literally any) filtering for main timeline?

Die activismeverzekering van het mauritshuis kan op een gegeven moment natuurlijk best omlaag geschroefd worden, want secondelijm werkt niet lekker onder zout water.

Hey! I'm looking for design feedback on current fediverse clients, both web, mobile and desktop.

What decisions do you like? What do you dislike? What new features would you like to see?

And for Mastodon Web specifically: do you prefer the single-column or multi-column (advanced mode) layout? Why?

There seems to be some confusion about our NFT rule so let me once again clarify:

NFT content is not allowed on .art

Selling your NFTs is not allowed on .art

Advertising your NFTs is not allowed on .art

Posting pictures connected to your NFTs is not allowed on .art

If you do any of these things your account will be suspended

It's one of the rules you agreed to on joining

No I'm not changing the rules for you

This post is not an invitation for you to try to change my mind

Because we value accessibility here, a lot of people won't boost toots with images that don't have alt text - so not only are you being accessibility-friendly, you're also ensuring your posts reach a wider audience.

If you're having trouble remembering to include alt-text, follow @PleaseCaption who will DM you an alert when you post images without descriptions.

If you're low on spoons you can use , # Alt4Me , or tag @ imagecaptionspls@a.gup.pe