@evan No, being on a large, general-purpose instance doesn't necessarily provide a good introduction to the fediverse. Help for discovering fediverse homes for users should be improved. There is no single formula for this. On the other hand *some* people might find large instances useful, specially those who look to find a replacement for Twitter (with a similar cultural and user experience). That too cannot be generalized. @evan
I know it is frowned upon by people around me. Some instances seem to discourage commercial activity, some attempt to restrict. But commerce is part of our social lives. If the fediverse functions as a social network it is inevitable that at least some of the commercial activities of our daily social lives appear here too. To ban it would be a restrictive act that will have far reaching consequences beyond commerce.
@sun SPC has always been a colourful and important presence on my fediverse timeline. Happy to hear that you found the journey rewarding. Long live the federation! \o/
When someone says "We are going to block instance A, you too should defederate them and dissociate. If you are a user on that instance, leave immediately or else you too will be isolated", please remember to ask for reasons, evidence and factual substantiation. Also make sure you search the fediverse using your own search facility and other tools and see if you can find the chain of events that lead to the present situation. This will take time. But make sure you do this. This is specially important if you are an admin of an instance; if you are in charge of other people's accounts. In that case you are taking decisions that will impact on other people's freedoms and experience.
I mean, the private ownership of the means of production brought us to the mess we are in right now. Small islands of free and open source software in the middle of a stormy sea of capitalism doesn't seem to work anymore. It isn't sustainable.
It goes without saying that public funds should be allocated to software development and maintenance. This is the way to make sure that critical software that people's lives depend on are sustained without interruption. Overall public life and infrastructure increasingly depend on the availability of secure and stable software and the Internet.
@morph@inscius I must confess that my dislike is caused partly by my ignorance of how QR codes work, and partly because I've seen QR codes are often used to direct people to web pages or PDF files, which could have been achieved more transparently by simply giving the web address!
A visual & performance artist, writer and translator. Loves theatre and dance. A free software user.This is my own self-hosted Pleroma instance that federates with the rest of the ActivityPub fediverse. Previously @lohang@mastodon.social . Feel free to interact or say hello even if we haven't met before. I prefer email, XMPP and Signal for direct messages.PGP fingerprint62BB C05D B93D 674B 27C4 BB4E 56E1 D006 1983 A729https://lohangunaweera.art/contactA fedizen since 25 Jul 2008 : https://web.archive.org/web/20080815215528/https://identi.ca/lohang