Notices by Galactic Stone 🇺🇦 (galacticstone@mastodon.social)

@madeindex Not sure if Dorsey Rasputin sold his shares or not.

Mastodon is far from perfect, but the cost of hosting an instance is modest compared to BlueSky. BS is not really realistic for a non-wealthy entity to host their own server, from what I have read. So, I don't feel as walled in here. If the place gets overrun with capitalists, trolls, and nazis, I'll just move to another server or host my own. We can't do that for BS at the moment.

@madeindex Zuck dabbled in crypto but couldn't make it work out. Dorsey is crypto friendly and the current CEO of Blue Sky has a background in crypto. One of Blue Sky's major investors is a crypto firm.

Blue Sky has said all the right things about being decentralized, I just don't trust these venture capitalists throwing around buzzwords to jazz up their latest snake oil. Web3, crypto, NFTs, blockchain, etc.

Rich man-children "libertarians" with massive egos and zero empathy.

Threads : blocked from day one.

Blue Sky : blocked from day one.

Crypto-broligarchs keep making them and I'll keep blocking them.

They are cancers.

#Threads #BlueSky #Twitter #Instagram #Facebook

Going offline the rest of the day and night. Gonna avoid all media until the outcome is decided or apparent.

I had originally planned to pull a Grizzly Adams and vanish into the wilderness for about a week, but couldn't get the logistics to work out, so I'm stuck.

Hopefully the next time I get back online, it will be with a celebratory tone.

Stay safe out there and take care of yourself.

#AI will never set foot in my laptop.

#Linux for the win.

Cat drifting on #Caturday

@Gargron Getting a 503 when I try to boost this. (multiple tries)

For #TreeTuesday and #ThickTrunkTuesday, I present these big chonky Cypress bois and Oak bois.

This collection of Oaks and Bald Cypress #trees sits along the banks of #Florida's Peace River.

Good morning everyone! ☕

Except the Trump supporters. Fuck you to the inbred Trump simps. 👊

@BeAware - I don't know what goes on behind the scenes of being an instance admin, but I was always curious how Mastodon handled media. Is media solely stored on the original instance's servers?

But, if the media is lost, the text of the toots remains, so I assume redudant copies of the toots (minus the media) exist?

I took a deep dive on my favorites since my time on #mastodon

I noticed that many old images from just a year or two ago are broken. The further back in time you go, the more images are broken.

Toots from 2018-2019 contained mostly broken images that are no longer viewable.

Just a heads up. Much of that old media is gone, and many of those older smaller instances are gone as well.

A shame.

#SilentSunday

Happy Ostara!

Sorry Christians : you cannot steal this holiday. Go invent something original for once.

#Ostara #Easter #Equinox

International Brotherhood of Biscuit Makers.

#Cats #Unions

Just met a microbiologist. They were bigger than I expected.

#Otter Space.

Leela on #Caturday

Paul the One Eared Cat on International Cat Day.

#InternationalCatDay