Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

It's worth thinking about a social media site like a physical space for a lot of reasons, but *especially* when we're talking about federated, community run solutions.

Your club has to pay its bills, but if you all get together in the basement of the local gym or whatever, it's going to be a lot less expensive than building a brand new building out the gate. By analogy, a small community can get by with existing software and a shared VPS, rather than going full steam ahead with custom software, an enterprise CDN, and a fully replicated database server.

A professional nightclub needs a bouncer on payroll, but your D&D group probably doesn't - and if you run a big D&D event, you can ask for an entry fee or just rotate among whoever is willing. By analogy, an open-registration, infinite-growth social media site needs to pay its mods a living wage immediately, but a small Fediverse server can start out (and likely stay) a hobby project that pays a small amount or rotates moderation duties. (Better mod tools would help, though!)

Your poker night isn't financed by debt; a casino probably is.

You'd expect the public library to be there in ten years, but you might not have the same expectations of your neighbor's Little Free Library.

And so forth.

🌟 #feditips þere's so much housing out þere þat no one lives in. you can just walk in and start living þere. þe government can't stop you 🌟

#caturday

okay

please sign the ANTI-META ADMIN PACT to show your support for blocking the everloving shit out meta's project92

https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/Xz2YqIlhXIFXCitQApFe6Dp14O54I6vuqTUUgo8WbdM/

here's the webpage to track who has signed: https://vantaa.black/pact

#meta #facebook #barcelona #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #fediblockmeta

i guess this'll be the real test of the fediverse's by-and-large anti-capitalist values or whatever you wanna call it

how many instance admins are willing to stick to their guns and take action

and how many are willing to sell out their users for Number Go Up

obviously we're not gonna get out of this unscathed. the real question is, how much will remain of pre-corporate fedi after meta's big entrance?

you can help keep part of the former fediverse alive by blocking meta

remember when you had to plug your joystick into your sound card and we all just nodded along with that like aye, makes sense

I didn't get into tech because I wanted to be a developer. I didn't get into tech to be a system administrator.

I got into tech because I was an art dude and designer that got tired of tech people telling me what is and isn't possible with my ideas, so I learned it on my own. I wanted to understand systems to build the stuff I wanted to build from the ground up.

At the time, I didn't realize how valuable those skills were, but as we watch centralized systems turn on their users, I am glad I decided to read manuals, forums, and chat groups to understand how online spaces work. I'm glad I pestered people to show me the ins and out of how to set up a bare metal server.

It's turning out to be one of the best decisions young Ro has ever made.

Because it informs the opinion that we don't need any of these places. At all.

We had a LOT of bread to distribute today! Thanks bakers for your generous donations, all this excellent food will go to refugees, homeless people and other people in need.

By the way, the charity that does this has openings for new recipients so if you live in Nijmegen and can use a delivery of free bread every Saturday, or know someone who checks those boxes, drop me a line!

Killing a giant (Reddit)

I've been seeing a lot of angst and emotion on the Reddit migration, which results in either defeatism or blind optimism. In the end, it probably doesn't matter, but I wanted to do more fact-based research into the subject.... #RedditMigration

https://www.faceted.social/p/3169aedd-3f06-4db4-b51c-ed4690e9f5a6

Hey suddenly-cast-apart hobby subreddits, remember phpbb, the software that damn near every web forum ran on back in the aughts? Well the devs put out a new version this year lol

(after a 5-year gap in their blog)
(with no mention or explanation or acknowledgement of this half-decade hiatus)
(imagine you're at the pub and a mate from primary school who you haven't seen in three decades sits down at your table and goes "anyway yeah as I was saying,")

Like I literally lost friends/friendly acquaintances over my criticism of crypto. People who told me that I was just too dumb to get it and that I was harming the Internet's progress. Most don't even speak about crypto anymore. Because of course not.

Quick question: Have any of the tech experts who claimed crypto to be real and important and meaningful and totally not a scam apologized so far? Or have they all just switched to doing the same for "AI"?

as a birthday present please tell me some interesting fact(s) that you know