Notices by John Conway (john@sauropods.win), page 3

@freemo So much of this is just silly, and I’m sorry you’re having to deal with it. I’m not going to be defederating from instances that have thoughtful moderation policies that do their best to enforce them, I can tell you that. I’ll recommend Qoto too.

Ah, the feeling of old-style internet drama, I’ve kinda missed it! (not that much)

@rsalas @kadin @pammystarr @katedegerdon

Pleroma's web-facing aspect could do with some work, yes. But also, is there a reason Pleroma instances seem to be run by mostly trollish dickheads?

@kadin @pammystarr @katedegerdon Other implementations of ActivityPub are more efficient, so I understand. Pleroma for one.

Still, I think masto.host offers a good deal, and their support is top-notch.

Toot.io also offers managed hosting, but it's starts pretty high: https://toot.io/mastodon_hosting.html

Big rumblings in the expansion of the #Fediverse have been happening recently.

#Tumblr has already promised to implement #ActivityPub (the protocol Mastodon uses), which will mean you can follow Tumblr accounts from here and vice versa. And today we a learning that #Flickr is also considering it!

This will be a massive expansion, which obviously carries some uncertainties, but I, for one, welcome our new federation partners.

This is the way the internet is supposed to work.

@biplane Hmm, it was always definitely one of the "standards". If you wanted to show a famous sauropod fighting with something it had to be an Allosaurus.

@biplane I can't tell. Dinosaurs in general seem to be more famous than they were, maybe?

@biplane I can tell you what normies asked me to draw when I was signing my book at the launch.

1: Velociraptor
2: Diplodocus
3: Triceratops
4: Stegosaurus
5: Tyrannosaurus

I think people might have cottoned on that the cool kids don't ask for a T. rex, though.

@biplane Diplodocus and Stegosaurus have a lot of visibility in London because of the NHM.