Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

There's a few too many folks wandering about and quacking about how that's "too authoritarian" or "too controlling."

And like. Idk, it's bad enough we're going to be dealing with the "anarchist" grifters and known abusive elements (who keep getting protection ~somehow~).

And those are harder to deal with when you're also dealing with fake accounts trying to run scams on your community. 🤷🏼

Hey, anarchist instances?

You can close registrations for a day or so to go through new accounts and deal with suspicious ones. And you should.

That's not un-anarchist to take time to deal with your spaces before admitting new folks. It's actually helpful to keep people safe and your community healthy.

actual threats to the fediverse:

venture capitalists

embrace/extend/extinguish by big corps

centralization

protocol fragmentation

fascists

non-threats that free speech foss dickheads prefer to focus on:

trans + queer people + people of color defederating from other instances to avoid abuse

replyguying at me about how i don't understand privacy and free speech to defend a company advertising in peoples replies is a great way to get blocked too, just fyi

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration @fediverse

The fediverse is the promise of a liberated media that the Videofreex and The Raindance Corporation foresaw in the 60s and 70s, that the Culture Jammers demanded in the 80s and 90s.

This is mutual aid, this is anticapitalism, this is collaborative ideation.

We are living revolutionary values, right here, right now, on a silly little social media network.

And I will fight to my last breathe any God Damn corporation that tries to Monetize that.

This is the future, and you're a part of it now. Be a good steward of the future.

But there's more!

We can ensure that the situation does not develop in to a gmail situation through cultural pressure and education.

The power of a network is in the people who use it.

If a FAANG company (MAANG? MMAAG?) tries to step in to the fediverse, we have a duty to take the fight against them out of the fediverse and in to the larger internet.

Leverage the fact that they have brought attention to us to bring attention to the fact that they have a record of killing things that work the way our thing works.

We can, all 1,000,000+ of us, make it the worst PR move of their existence.

I'm seeing some Embrace, Extend, Extinguish hand wringing circulate this morning.

I don't want to write another blog post, folks won't stop boosting the last one.

So it's post time. I'll keep it brief.

If Google, or some other big player, shows up in this space, retro.social will defederate immediately.

Before any worrying signs, before any extensions to the standard.

I'll defederate and move on with my life.

M.S is already too big. I already have them silenced instance wide. If any existing player tries to join in with bluster, they'll find themselves banned here (and, I imagine, across 90% of the small instances.)

They still can't stop me from running my own mail server, even if they mark most of my outgoing mail as spam.

So, at the least, we're not going anywhere.

Voor een dagbestedingsproject (voor cliënten in herstelfase, na ernstige psychiatrische problematiek) zoek ik oude computers, randapparatuur en losse onderdelen.

Regio Arnhem/Wageningen.

Ik kan spullen ophalen, als de afstand niet te groot is.

Boost = lief

So I've known that #masto instances can shut down but I found one (that I was considering joining) in the middle of that process: cybre.space, a #cyberpunk #retrofuturist #glitchpunk instance.

The admin's decision to close up shop with an 'end-of-life' plan is written out here: https://cybre.space/~chr/cybre-space-eol

Sad but valuable info, just to know how these things go down and what they look like here on #mastodon

#feditips

1st day on Mastodon: hi everyone, I'm interested in art, architecture, and cat pics!! 😊

3rd day on Mastodon: gonna find bigfoot and fuck him

The internet archive did a foundation/corporation/brand/etc landing on the fediverse right.

They set up their own instance right from the moment they decided they wanted to do it. Their employees are on it and when they post therein they are speaking officially.

Anyone who doesn't want it can zorch the entire instance. Done. Clean. They're not using community resources on an instance some individual is running off donations.

I think about this a lot because fedi does have A Way of getting people to embrace Goblin Mode and it's grand, people being weird internet gremlins is what makes this place fun

during one of the earlier waves of migration someone who had recently signed up posted something along the lines of "when you first arrive it's all very confusing and offputting but by the end of the day you're banging your fists on the table shouting TRAIN FUCKERS TRAIN FUCKERS TRAIN FUCKERS"

Are you new here? New being defined as shorter than 2 months. Today is Nov 6.
I am interested to see how far the fedi reaches.

Please boost. #askfedi #new #poll #toot

Tijd voor een paddenstoel!
Dit is de grijze slanke amaniet. Zoals je kan zien een verwant van de vliegenzwam, te zien aan de dikke witte stippen.

Van het zelfde materiaal is de volva die de paddenstoel aan de voet omringt.

#Paddenstoelen #Schimmels #AllFungiAreBeautiful #Natuur

https://determinerik.home.blog/2022/11/12/grijze-slanke-amaniet/

What would the Internet be if it hadn't been privatised? Probably a lot more peer-to-peer.

biblically accurate vlc

🏴‍☠️ stolen from someone who didn't provide source or alt text

original: http://www.newamericanpublicart.com/protected-knowledge 🐘

mastodon is a consensual hallucination that converts json to shitposts and that’s really all you need to know about it.