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It’s never not going to be funny that after years of hype about crypto-metaverse-subscriptions disrupting web2 incumbents, the backstop to Twitter’s sudden implosion was volunteers recreating Usenet with RSS.

Interacting with artificial so called intelligence should only be done maliciously towards the ai

@galaxis It doesn't work though, right?

Like, you can try to follow them, but because the instance is blocked you'll never see their posts, IIUC.

According to all known laws of society, there is no way a meme like John Mastodon should be able to federate. Its referent is too niche for the necessary momentum to get off the ground. #JohnMastodon, of course, federates anyway, because John Mastodon doesn’t care what humans think is impossible.

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John Mastodon posts are happening literally across every instance I am a part of and they look extremely different depending on where I am on the fedi and this is why meme culture is so much cooler when there isn't a monolithic platform.

@colinsmatt11

Eh, everything looks like that now.

I meant more the relays as servers but not as holders of identity. That's a nice middle ground between fedi and Sone.

I expect the failure mode to look like email spam. Open relays being squeezed out of the network.

But we'll see.

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@schweeds of course, everywhere on fedi is <my instance admin's whim applied arbitrarily>.

Luckily my admin has good taste.

@lispegistus my instance isn't blocked.

I don't know how they decided what instances to block, but the timing is suspicious.

It is just so hard to believe that we have had computers for this long and there is still not a common easy way to send a file from one computer to another.

These computers are on the same network. But what most people would do because it's the simplest, is to send it halfway across the world to another server just so it can come back to another computer sitting within reach of that person. That is the simplest way.

Identifying Santa's reindeer:

Correct: Vixen, Blitzen

Wrong: Nixon

I don't know what NAD is. It only happens when I typo "and".

Is there some way to remove it from my phone's autocomplete dictionary?

(Same with NY, which is way more often a typo for "my", and not a state code.)

They may build the capacity to block links out to individual fediverse users or posts.

Not a feature I'm really excited for, TBH.

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I predict that links to Mastodon will not stay blocked.

My theory is that people were posting links to the Jet tracker over there, and they shut that down with the tools they had.

I expect the blocks to be removed relatively soon.

Universal rules, reliably applied

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Elon's rules, applied at his whim

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Universal rules, applied only to the enemies of activists

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Activist's rules, reliably applied

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Mastodon

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