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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:46:43 JST kaia
   Have you ever wondered why X wants so much money?
   
   It certainly isn't needed to operate X. You can literally fit a copy of the entire platform on your phone!
   
   So, what's the money for? Inquiring minds want to know ...
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:48:49 JST iced depresso

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     @kaia :neocat_woozy: i still say they should just make the cia and mossad foot the bill that's who polices the place anyway
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:49:20 JST Sexy Moon

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     @kaia their operating costs are a small percentage and a lot of the donations are money laundered to activist organizations and individuals. people have already tracked it all down.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:50:01 JST kaia

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     • Sexy Moon
     @Moon yes, that's sad. not donating ever again
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     Red (redneonglow@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:50:16 JST Red

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     @kaia Hosting costs?
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     F00F/Eris :cat_is_blob_and_melt: ☯️ (f00fc7c8@0w0.is)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:50:18 JST F00F/Eris :cat_is_blob_and_melt: ☯️

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     @kaia the implication that elon musk thinks the entire cost of running a platform is just buying storage explains a lot about how he runs twitter

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     [FWGS]DjBRINE1 :verified_think: :tiasmile: (djbrine1@pony.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:50:28 JST [FWGS]DjBRINE1 :verified_think: :tiasmile:

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     @kaia This is so stupid, i can't even

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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:51:37 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @kaia but x is free
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:51:58 JST kaia

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain only between consenting adults
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:54:14 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @kaia i mean i guess wikipedia is free too
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:55:34 JST kaia

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain only if you don't value your time reading it :akko_mmh:
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     pettanko (pettanko@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 05:55:49 JST pettanko

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     • Red
     @redneonglow @kaia why would Elon know anything about hosting costs it’s not like he runs a website or anything.
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     taylor (nik@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:01:35 JST taylor

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     • Sexy Moon

     @Moon@shitposter.club @kaia@brotka.st do you have any good things to read abt it, have always been curious

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     Puniko ? (puniko@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:02:02 JST Puniko ?

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     @kaia@brotka.st :neocat_lul: lmao

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:02:37 JST Sexy Moon

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     @nik @kaia it was over a year ago, it might have been brian lunduke.
     
     I should make a wiki for citations for things I say.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:02:50 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @kaia Reminds me of that time I installed Pleroma on my phone (for federation tests with a bad network).
     Wouldn't do it without proper storage like an SSD but it's entirely doable.
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     Piggo :verified_horse: (piggo@piggo.space)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:03:08 JST Piggo :verified_horse:

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @kaia @lain somewhat lost its luster since i used it to cheat on homework
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     Sparky (sparky@transfem.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:03:08 JST Sparky

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     @kaia@brotka.st What's X? The only X I know is free, it's a display server and does not want anything from me.

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     aa (aa@shrimple.aagaming.me)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:08:08 JST aa

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     @kaia@brotka.st yeah that's surely why x had to take down so many servers to save money :cartrol:

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     shiri (shiri@foggyminds.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:08:15 JST shiri

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     @kaia mocking Musk quotes is like shooting fish in a barrel
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     taylor (nik@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:09:09 JST taylor

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     • Sexy Moon

     @Moon@shitposter.club @kaia@brotka.st i should do that too. i might try to make an account on roam and see what their user interface is like, because obsidian doesn't have an obvious way of browsing non-hierarchical notes

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:18:55 JST Sexy Moon

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     • taylor
     @nik @kaia what is roam and obsidian, can you give me links?
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     Suwul (susul@misskey.heonian.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:24:01 JST Suwul

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     • Sexy Moon

     @Moon@shitposter.club @kaia@brotka.st isnt it like, normal for a foundation to give money to activists in order to further the goals set by the foundation? also there isnt much to track down, considering its in the financial reports

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     taylor (nik@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:28:37 JST taylor

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     • Sexy Moon

     @Moon@shitposter.club @kaia@brotka.st both are like, personal note systems, some may call "memex"
     obsidian is a proprietary free desktop and mobile application that saves everything in markdown w/ very simple extra json data. file based storage means it handles being synced via a file service very well (i use syncthing) https://obsidian.md/ it supports (back)links, markdown editing, a graph view, and a lot of plugins for handling extra things (automatic daily notes, tasks, git, etc) https://obsidian.md/
     roam is a paid saas similar system, but it seems to have a more refined browsing UI, that i have not tried but i am interested in. there's a public demo instance that doesn't save https://roamresearch.com/#/app/help/page/80uPAx8m- also some people have supposedly cloned it into emacs but ive also not tried that https://www.orgroam.com/

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:28:47 JST Sexy Moon

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     • taylor
     @nik @kaia bookmarked this, thanks.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 06:29:09 JST Sexy Moon

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     • Suwul
     @susul @kaia yeah exactly, it's all in the financial reports, what I saw was they were just giving money to things that you could only connect to wikipedia interests by an incredible stretch. this is always going to be a subjective call.
     
     this is actually something I've become interested in recently because of the big push to inject spying into messaging services to "stop CSAM", people were trying to figure out where the money was coming from for the campaigns and I was digging through websites and linkedin and public records websites. it actually gets pretty difficult because it's not a waterfall it's like a water park with hundreds of those spray guns all spraying water at each other lol.
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