The reconstruction of Notre Dame in 5 years shows what we, as human, can do when we set our minds to it. Beauty, partnership, community.

So if you think things are dark, build a community and get organized.

Being joyful in dark times is a form of resistance.

You know what? I refuse to be depressed about this. I am not going to let them steal my joy.

We are JOYFUL warriors and we need to remember that we are in this together.

They want us to be down. They want us to be depressed so my first act of resistance is to say NO.

To them I say "you may have won this battle but it does not mean you will win this war."

Here's an idea: STOP reading stories about Joe Biden's age or how the party wants him out. STOP commenting about those stories.

Just IGNORE them. If you don't give those stories attention, the Times and others will stop publishing them as they are just looking for audience.

Don't feed the trolls.

Live your life so you don't have to worry about being compared to a bear.

I don't want an #AI that writes novels and makes movies. I want an AI that does expense reports, handles medical claims, and fills out government forms for me.

@thomasfuchs @Smalljones will know this to sound familiar :)

@Gargron @mike great Job from both of you on this. One of the questions not posed but useful would be advice on how we, users, can help further evangelize the social web to the masses. Is there any particular way we can help?

oooooohhhh: "curl "https://threads.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct.tnlnyc@threads.net" (or replace tnlnyc with any threads account

That's the sound of 100 million new #webfinger endpoints in the #fediverse

What is one amazing thing you learned this year that you want to share with others to make the world a better place?

We need more utopian fiction.

We need more people believing the world can be better.

We need more optimism.

When everyone else thinks things are bad and getting worse, buck the trend and believe we can fix it.

@pinkyfloyd @Bloonface why? Standards are what makes the world open and accessible to all. If that is your goal, then standards are the way

@Bloonface @pinkyfloyd true... And that is the opposite of open

@dansup You should chat with @christianselig and @ernest

Maybe the 3 of you can join forces and get an Apollo-like experience for both #kbin and #pixelfed at the same time :)

The anti-Meta #Fedipact can only achieve one thing: make sure that #ActivityPub loses to the Bluesky protocol. Is that what people here want?

As an #openweb advocate, I don't.

Meta joining the Fediverse is like AOL joining the internet: something that will bring a mass amount of people in, create some friction, but ultimately make the net better as more people federating on #Mastodon, #kbin, #lemmy, #pixelfed and other parts of the Fediverse make open protocols that much stronger.

You know what's amazing: I've been following the development of #calckey as a separate branch from #mastodon ... and doing so mostly on both sites because #activitypub works everywhere. This is why the #fediverse is great. You can have different viewpoint on implementation and still have interoperability.

I've decided to ACTIVELY decouple from Twitter: Every day, I go back and DM at least 10 of my followers, telling them I've moved here and to follow me here instead (I remove them as followers after that DM). A number of them have set up accounts as a result.

Please do the same if you're more active here than on #Twitter That's how you can help the #twittermigration

Boost if you agree.

@Gargron I know you've resisted calls for distributed mod tools (eg. Blocklists going from instance to instance) in the past. In light of the new volume problem, would you consider being more open to such approaches and building/merging code into the main branch that would allow:
a. an instance to get admin decisions from another instance to help inform/drive their decision
b. A model where instances could publish or subscribe (via ActivityPub) to a list of mod activities.
These would help.