Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
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We're Sorry. Access to Twitter's slack channels is only purchasable with bad money.
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"Mastodon Is 'Antiviral' Design"
My essay on this: https://clivethompson.medium.com/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51
Twitter (and most big social media) is laser-focused on creating virality -- i.e. training the joint attention of millions of people on one hot post/meme/story/event happening *right this instant* ... and doing it over and over and over again
Mastodon really isn't -- for lots of rich and interesting reasons
It's why some emigres from Twitter find Mastodon so baffling
This place embraces slowness and useful friction
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Juhuu, he cancelado mi infinitum @Telmex! En @JobNetworks me atiende un ser humano amable. Por el contrario, el robot de @Telmex me quiere vender paquetes de videos (solo 99$ el primer mes) que en lugar de contestar preguntas y resolver mis problemas de conexión (3 días sin red).
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@HeavenlyPossum
I was surprised when I first found out that the history of Charles #Boycott is so little known. I have been met with solid disbelief when telling it. It seems to be standard lore in Ireland. I suppose that he is mentioned in school or something as part of standard curriculum.
Anyway, glad you found out about it and thanks for pointing out that cancel culture has been around for more than 100 years, although maybe deployment reserved for somewhat more justified cases in the past.
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I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.
They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.
Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.
@esdin @andreasdotorg
This looks, at a glance, like it might be the code that generates that list.
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It's important to know that when certain grifters see the Fediverse, they don't see a better way of building the Internet.
They see unexploited resources -- ready for the taking.
@andreasdotorg
It's interesting to see reasons for blocking mastodon.social being basically "instance too big".
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Apparently, this is how you find out about instance blocks. https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=mastodon.social
@ciaby
Maybe it could just be done theoretically. Maybe we could ask some instance admins for stats on their CPU usage.
I do think though, that on top of everything else involved in having the instance up and running, it's probably minimal.
Related: I've had discussions about bytes-on-the-wire with people who should know, and the general consensus seemed to be that after you switch on all the infra to do so, the consumption related to actually watching a video is negligible.
I hate #Chess, I really do.
I play chess, and I swear never to do it again.
But every year or so, it happens that somebody proposes a game of chess, and I, thinking that my memories must be exaggerated, accept.
It's only a game of Chess, after all. It can't possibly be that bad. Then I remember.
I that anything like your relationship with NFS?
@ciaby
I would be super interested to know the actual difference. So maybe that's a justification for doing it.
Can you monitor the #energy #consumption of your #Pleroma instance for a few days, then bring up a#mastodon for a few days and compare?
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Preparando para el #twexit. Están invitadxs a
mexico-pensante.blog/community
@robert_winkler @robert_winkler
Qué es el linuxreviews.org/Fediverse?
En pocas palabras: redes sociales de la comunidad.
pruvisto.org/debirdify/
mexico-pensante.blog/community
@robert_winkler @robert_winkler
Qué es el linuxreviews.org/Fediverse?
En pocas palabras: redes sociales de la comunidad.
pruvisto.org/debirdify/
@ciaby @adamdavidson @trapse@mastodon.cloud
I suppose multiple people have learned, (if that's how one can refer to the process) from years of "social media" use, to trust their immediate instinct to leap to forming an opinion that allows a click, or a one liner and move on..
Of course, any research, deeper study, cognitive analysis and all that nonsense would be out of the question.
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The French Free Software unit at Etalab DINUM is glad to announce a promising cooperation with the NLnet foundation.
Together, we will reward EU maintainers of #FreeSoftware #OpenSource already used by the French administration.
More about this in the next coming weeks !
Hmm. Where is the doubt, and who is "we"?
As confirmed by both major contributors on the thread, they are having some fun with sarcasm. 😃
What's not a joke however is that #fediverse won't survive capitalism, and I'm not sure many people, if anybody has thought about that.
But then again, going forwards from where we are right now as a species, seems like that nothing will survive capitalism - and that, my friend, is optimism, just in case that is not clear.
@trapse@mastodon.cloud
@adamdavidson
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
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