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   kalloway (kalloway@fedibird.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 15:32:15 JST kalloway

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   Edgar didn't like it, but he needed the money.

   That's how he ended up driving the truck and not asking questions.

   He was pretty good at that, really. He could drive the truck and not ask questions.

   His night vision was good, and he had the licenses he needed...

   He pretended he hadn't seen a line reading 'organs' on his paperwork. Edgar just needed the address.

   It was the middle of the night when he pulled up at a farmhouse.

   He didn't ask...

   ...he just delivered the pair of fancy electric pianos to the pale folks waiting.

   (Organ, WSS 8/19/24)

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   Kevin Kuchta (kkuchta@ruby.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 08:48:51 JST Kevin Kuchta

   I'm glad to hear DHH is is in the news again: it reminded me that it was time to finally cancel my hey.com account.

   I'd stopped using it a year or two ago, but it took a while for me to be sure all important email was going back to my previous email address.

   It's a shame - there are some interesting UI ideas in Hey - but it's been clear for a while that I don't want to be associated with that guy every time I send an email.

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   admin (admin@mastodon.tech)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 23:58:51 JST admin

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   I’ve been running Mastodon for about 1 year & just upgraded my software to Pleroma/Elixir on October 17th because of inherent weaknesses in Ruby on Rails that powers Mastodon (ROR doesn’t scale well on large instances due to high numbers of dependencies, ROR was not built for performance & is headed to obsolescence in the Programming Community).

   Only problem is that the creator of “Mastodon,” Eugen Rochko noticed that Mastodon.tech had switched to Pleroma & he’s private messaged me his displeasure unless I abandon my domain. You can see our public back & forth here: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109177601618496744

   1. My primary reason is to try to maintain consistency for my users & myself who are already known at the Mastodon.tech & using that address.

   2. It’s not right that someone can tell you what software you must run on your domain which I don’t charge users or make money from.

   3. I work with Trademarks in the USA so it was easy to look up that Eugen Rochko was bluffing & doesn’t have a US Trademark on “Mastodon.” He has a German Trademark which carries no weight in the USA (I know this 1st hand because I hold a UK Trademark that doesn’t help me in the USA).

   4. To be infringing I would have had to create a competing software, call it “Mastodon” & be making money from it.

   What are your thoughts?