Notices by Dmian 🇪🇺 (dmian@mastodon.social)

@Gargron “Hey, Claude, give me a list of the top 10 Mastodon users by followers and interactions, and write an email for them inviting them to post on WSocial on the appropriate category according to the content of their posts. Make no mistakes” 😝

@Mastodon @EUCommission This is the way 🇪🇺

@peterdutoit If they don’t gather to talk about the biggest threat to human survival, what do they gather to talk about? Pokemon Trading Cards? The US is a pebble in humanity’s shoe…

Oh, look! Yet another reason to not watch the Olympic Games: https://apnews.com/article/ioc-olympic-transgender-female-eligibility-520cd9cee152a312767a667acf77dbc8
Fuck the IOC #transrightsarehumanrights

@Gargron Going from an instant-on C64 to a disk loading Mac Plus was quite the shock. Mitigated only by how cool and futuristic Finder looked.

@boris @scottjenson There’s been a great effort of talking about the Fediverse, and not just Mastodon.
https://jointhefediverse.net/ (among others)
But if we’re talking about Mastodon, there’s been an effort to offer different instances:
https://joinmastodon.org/ (directly from Mastodon)
You search “Join Fediverse” or “Join Mastodon”, and you get offered a choice.
What do you get when you search “Join Bluesky”? Or “Join ATmosphere”? (Didn’t know that was even a thing)

@solitha @inthehands Exactly. We will do it, but it takes time. But the EU knows how to do it. We did it with GPS > Galileo. We’ll do it with Visa/Mastercard > Digital Euro. And there are efforts in other areas. It’ll be slow, but it will happen. We learned from the pandemic, and we’re learning from the actions of the current US government. The US can’t be trusted anymore, sadly. Insularity will be a consequence, but so be it.

@inthehands The US controls almost all of the IT infrastructure of the world (through Microsoft and Google), most of the cloud infrastructure (Amazon) and payment services (Visa / Mastercard). And let’s not mention social networks. If your orange dictator decided to meddle with any of these services on a country level, the subsequent chaos and collapse could be difficult to contain. It’s difficult to go against the US and its unpredictable government, sadly.

@Mastodon Maybe “bundles”? I don’t know… 😝

@NouranKhaledGh Hello Nouran! I need to ask you a favor: every day, when you wake up, take a selfie, and post it. Tell the world “I’m alive!”. Tragedies like this need faces. People need to see those who are suffering, to understand what’s happening. Those trying to erase you, are trying to dehumanize you. Show the world you are human, and you are alive. Let the world cheer for your survival. My best wishes in these dark moments. Be strong. Greetings from Spain.

@tchambers I fell in love with it since the beginning. For a time, when Google killed Reader and started promoting that AMP shit it looked like it was agonizing. Same with podcasts, they started to fade, and suddenly, both had a resurgence. I couldn’t be happier! Now you younger guys need to embrace forums again, get rid of that short video shit thing and make a healthier internet for yourselves. 🤣

@MastodonEngineering Nice! I hope you find a great candidate for the position. Sadly for me, I haven’t led UX teams or I’ll apply for it. But I’m sure there must be someone with the required skill set. Cheers!

@Gargron Indeed! The best void. 😊

@Gargron My current minimum standard is: I don’t get on a platform if it can’t federate. ActivityPub is here to stay.

@Gargron Yes! Undoubtedly. Cats with white are the cutest of them all.

@Gargron @randahl Exactly. And in my view, the ones “punished” are Threads users, who see their abilities limited. Mastodon users can see and reply to everything, so I don’t feel like we’re the ones limited or punished. We have total freedom and control.

“I'd rather be a pig than a fascist.” -Porco Rosso #porcorosso #ghibli