👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

saw this guy

Arguments between instance admins about who to block and who to federate with are probably all the same arguments that happened internally at Twitter about individuals or groups of users, but you just never saw it and had no input into the process.

Here, at least in theory, you have visibility into these decisions and you can choose to move your home at nearly zero cost if you disagree with them.

Question is, do people really want to know how these particular sausages are made?

learn russian, they said. it'll be fun, they said.

biblically accurate vlc

In your inbox:

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— every #crypto #exchange

Which one are you?

“Being ok with sucking at something while learning” is an extremely undervalued skill.
As is “being happy for people that are better than you”.
Super important for
- learning how to code
- learning a new language
- art, music, podcasting, cooking
- really everything.
Don’t forget to teach your kids these skills.
Also, demonstrate these behaviors.
Let your kids see you being bad at something and not giving up and staying positive.

Decided to look at network stats again. There are 1M more people using #Mastodon today than there were on October 27.

LOVE THIS IDEA ..

If mastodon is co-opted by tech giants I would simply move to an even more confusing and esoteric social network

"A screenshot of DoomEd, the original Doom mapping software created by id Software for the development of Doom, running in the NeXTSTEP operating system."

Image and Text by User 'Quasar' on doomwiki.org/wiki/File:DoomEd.png

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

A Big List of Mastodon Resources https://bit.ly/3Ogu0FP

it is incomprehensible to me that when someone is using the words "horse" and "hospital" to describe an equine care facility, they do not use the more elegant word "horspital"

Coercion is bad, but type coercion is even worse

Fedi