Notices by Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 (steve@social.dinn.ca), page 2

@jessamyn @shoq @tchambers You could do the bare minimum today with an RSS to fediverse bridge. There are tons of those available now.

@evan If, by "celebrating", you mean heading to the in-laws' cottage for probably the last time this year (kids' school and other commitments are now getting in the way), then hell yes. Otherwise, I guess it's just another long weekend.

I have an instance of go-to-social that has been off for a long time and had been "expired" by most other instances. Even my own Mastodon instance doesn't recognize it (can't even search for my account on it).

Is there any way to salvage it, or is it just done?

#mastodon #mastoadmin

@evan Honestly, they were campaigning on the notion that Biden was too old to be running. They got what they wanted, and now they're sour about it.

@evan I get you. I just tried to put myself in the position of an American voter. They really are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

@evan Its not like things would get better under Trump.

@nixCraft Makes you wonder how much of that history is actually necessary. I mean sure it's necessary for posterity, but how much smaller would the repo be if we only kept the last 10 years?

Something something, Ship of Theseus.

@evan I think the municipal level should be the first to have its own social media. I feel like Mayors and city councillors are the ones who typically have something to say that needs to be disseminated in a timely fashion. But I totally agree with the direction this is going in :)

Governments should not be beholden to corporations for the purposes of communicating with constituents.

@evan I signed this yesterday, BTW :)

@fraying Yeah, this sucks, but you could also just not connect your TV to the internet.

@evan Shouldn't that be `.well-known`?

@codinghorror @Toxic_Flange You know, it wasn't that bad. Suspension of disbelief is a helluva drug.

@thomasfuchs No, it really can't. Part of the appeal of these open source social networks is that they don't depend on any third parties for anything.

@thomasfuchs It's a little more than that because we all already had Instagram accounts. Of course sign-up was easy when we all had already signed up.

Just looking at https://fedidb.org/ this morning, and there's been a major drop in the number of instances and users. Is this due to cleanup of spam accounts? The totals on the top still seem to indicate growth.

Users from May --> June are *down* 3,302,812
Instances from May --> June are *down* 6,046
These seem like very large numbers to me.

Is this a glitch in the graphs, or is this accurate @FediDB @dansup ?

@atomicpoet@calckey.social It was legitimately amazing while it lasted.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org

@thomasfuchs I think I'm remembering now...720k was the "non-HD" 3.5" disk capacity, wasn't it? It's like I have to bring these facts back from archived storage.

@thomasfuchs Man, you just have to punch the read/write notch in the other side, and then you have like 720k. My brother and I did this so many times we broke several regular paper hole punches. We ended up buying a specific device for making the square notches in 5 1/4 floppy disks.

@codinghorror @thomasfuchs Unless you're prepared to stop people from linking to a public mastodon post, then the issue isn't whether or not to allow it, because it's already happening. The issue is whether or not there should be a better user experience around it than there is currently. And that's a no-brainer.

@dansup If @pixelfed is just a side project, then what is your primary project?