Notices by Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)

@darnell So much of the conversation tends to be without numbers, so I appreciate efforts, including yours, to include them!

@darnell For what it's worth: here is my argument with respect to including Threads in Fediverse numbers: we should only include the number of Threads users who have turned on ActivityPub integration (seems to be something like 50k, https://fediversereport.com/why-is-meta-adding-fediverse-interoperability-to-threads/ , which is incidentally about the same number of Fediverse users who have bridge dtheir accounts to atproto/atmopshere/bluesky via bridgy). Because: let's think about Google accounts. Some of them have direct access to "the SMTP network" via gmail. We should count those as email users. But there are also lots of Google accounts that do *not* have associated gmail address. Those have no connection to "the SMTP network", and we should not count them as "email users", at least not as "google email users". Same thing with Threads users and ActivityPub.

@darnell I've built another site to put numbers behind decentralization, too: https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

Try my new file format, OCSV: Oxford Comma Separated Values

GET. OUT. OF. MY. SWAMP.

#NoKings #SLC

Uh on now you've made the Linux nerds mad

#NoKings #Utah

Wait a minute are we sure this frog fully understood the assignment

#NoKings #SLC

There really are a lot more Barbies than I realized

#NoKings #SLC

The other side of his sign said "Stop Abducting Innocent Earthlings"

#NoKings #SLC

Baldies rise up

#NoKings SLC

#NoKings #SLC

#NoKings #SLC

Amen

#NoKings #SLC

A lot of people showed up at #NoKings #Utah

POV: you stumbled on a high-level Antifa summit

#NoKings #SLC

TIL about Streepass: https://streetpass.social/

It's a browser extension that collects those self-verification tags as you browse, so it builds up a nice little list of accounts you may want to follow on the Fediverse as you browse. It's also privacy-preserving, because nothing leaves your browser

Thanks for making it @tvler !

@cwebber @irelephant that's probably true for production-quality relays but for little ones I can verify that they're pretty simple - I'm running one in my living room

@electricmood none. I want to see the fediverse be a place that is open to more people, and this is the simplest way I can think of to help that happen

@smolbrain @electricmood well, it turns out that I thought I loved computers but actually I love people

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.