Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

@ciaby
I deleted it and reposted. (aka edited ) Probably your instance did not process the delete before showing you the new one. You definately cannot vote?

@ciaby
It might well be slow, it's running on a VM connected to its public IP server via VPN. There's a couple of NAT forwards there in between, I'm actually surprised that this causes the slow down that it does and I'm still not sure why. But I haven't seen the error you describe.
BTW, It got distributed-SYN-attack'ed recently, so I added some rules (on pfSense) to rate limit that, and limit the max number of concurrent firewall states, but I have since removed them again.

@ummjackson
A possibly interesting question here is does "social networking" make any sense outside of a closed centralised technology? Given that is where digital social networking was conceived.

Migration from twitter to mastodon to do the same (twitter) thing here is pointless, and the only real migration that makes sense is a migration away from screen and keyboard to favour human interaction.
Maybe #mastodon has a role to play here.

@ummjackson
Good.
The worst thing for #Mastodon would be to replace (as in become) twitter.

@islieb

Mit #Fdroid, kein Mangel an Begeisterung!

@aral
Cool. And meanwhile, don't forget that we can all keep working towards a society based on justice and mutual respect, where authority works for the people and not the other way round.

So renember, Signal runs on AWS so we might want to consider if supporting that mega corporation alines with the above in any way.

Also, if you are really, really, really concerned about privacy, better not connect any devices to the public Internet at all. Especially not "phones"