Notices by Rolle Laukkarinen (rolle@mementomori.social)

What frustrates me most is that many people want a better digital world, but they are unwilling to try alternatives like Mastodon or running their own website.

People have become lazy. Everything has to be ready-made. You cannot have everything handed to you on a silver platter, life does not work that way.

The hardest challenge is getting people to unlearn the addictive patterns of an enshittified internet and move toward healthier habits and the decentralized web.

#enshittification #SocialWeb #decentralization #Fediverse #SocialMedia

The internet is broken.

Many people feel that if they don't get likes, views, or comments, they've failed. I still vividly remember the days when I created my first website or updated Twitter via text message. It was great just being online, visibility wasn't even on our minds.

Commercial algorithms ruined the internet. Everything is filtered through them, and it has fundamentally changed how people think. Even dating has turned into a doomscrolling app on Tinder, browsing a catalog of people's traits. We no longer appreciate the natural things in life; instead, people constantly chase something better, never actually getting there.

It's sad that these days the Internet is mostly about boosting one's ego. We post only our best moments, even though we'll end up rotting in a coffin just like everyone else. Still, a thousand followers and a couple of likes are undeniably a bit comforting (note: I'm being sarcastic here).

We here on the Fediverse are different, though. We've accepted the natural way of things, and we don't expect every post to go viral. I just wish other people could see how the internet used to be.

#enshittification #Internet #SocialMedia

We have experienced some slowness on our instance today, mainly due to mild DDoS attacks from bot armies, AI, and scrapers. I'm thinking of adding Cloudflare protections and anti-bot mechanisms, as blocking bots at the web server level is like a game of whack-a-mole. However, this needs careful planning, as we don't want legitimate users to get blocked by accident.

We also do not intend to block all automation, since I use some myself and we want our API to stay reliable. Additionally, when content is shared on other social media or messaging platforms, we still want previews to generate properly.

I'll share an update on our progress later.

#mementoMoriSocial #MastoAdmin #Bots

It's clearly trending. Check this button in the Cloudflare Dashboard:

YouTube changed its design all of a sudden. Is skeuomorphic design making a comeback? I mean, look at those buttons!

#Design #YouTube #WebDesign

Data centers in Central Park 😆

RE: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/116869105771249603

Mementomori ry is now officially a registered Finnish nonprofit association 🎉 The association's board of directors: @rolle @ikkeT @mustikkasoppa

Official purpose of the association as stated in its founding documents: The purpose of the association is to promote open, European, decentralized, and digitally sovereign social media, as well as open and ethical online communication. The association is not established for the purpose of generating profit or other financial gain for its members, nor are its activities limited to a specific group of people. Use of the servers (e.g. mementomori.social and chat.mementomori.social) maintained by the association is open and free of charge and does not require membership.

Association Registry: https://yhdistysrekisteri.prh.fi/basicinformation?userLang=en&businessId=3637371-4&timeZone=Europe%2FHelsinki

#MementomoriSocial #MementomoriRy

Sometimes I'm about to post on Reddit (like r/unixporn), but then I end up canceling it. Whenever I actually make a post, it goes viral and all kinds of shitbags start posting foul comments. I don't like that. I much prefer posting here instead.

👀 The Mastodon team is interested in my ideas. I'm excited and happy boe.

US feds (DHS, FBI, fusion centers) are now treating "anti-tech extremism" as a domestic threat, per 1000+ leaked docs Wired got via FOIA. The label is so broad it lumps actual violent cults in with peaceful data-center protesters, AI skeptics, and people just speaking up at town halls or on social media. Legal experts warn it's a pipeline to surveil ordinary dissent, same playbook used on BLM, Occupy, and environmental movements.

Wired: US Law Enforcement Warns of 'Anti-Tech Extremism' as AI Hatred Grows
https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/

#AI #USA #USPol

@aytvill I think this is a good one: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/#f

What I notice most in this Bluesky vs. Fedi or ATProto vs. ActivityPub debate is the protocol wars and the surrounding narrative. One is clearly a VC-backed move, while the other is community-driven and backed by an association. I personally feel that the latter reflects the original spirit of the web, like websites did. That's why it's hard for me to trust a protocol that wasn't open from the start, wasn't built by the community, and came out of the Silicon Valley world, from Twitter, no less.

#Bluesky #ATProto #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Today, a regression caused dozens of web services to crash with a segfault because of Ubuntu.

"USN-8398-1 fixed a vulnerability in nginx. The update introduced a regression causing nginx to crash when being used with external modules.
This update reverts the fix for CVE-2026-49975 pending further investigation.

We apologize for the inconvenience."
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8398-2

#Linux #SysOps #Servers #SysAdmin

Introducing the 2026 Apple Design Award winners
https://developer.apple.com/design/awards

#Apple #Apps #iOS #iPhone

:skull360: Mementomori.social is now on Mastodon v4.6.0-alpha.8+mementomods-2026-05-26 with Mastodon Bird UI nightly.

Two upstream regressions from the recent server reducer TypeScript refactor are fixed in this round:

- Translate button is back on foreign-language posts
- Polls and media upload limits respect server settings again

Plus a fresh accessibility pass from upstream (landmark regions across the Web UI, post focus order, screen-reader fixes for the new collections UI).

Small Bird UI tweak: Notifications now sits in the second slot of the side menu, right after Home, like before.

If anything else seems off, ping me or the admins. Because we run nightly, sometimes patches like these are necessary. We love to test in live.

As always, thank you @cadusilva for pinging me about bugs and UI updates; much appreciated. :bunhdheart:

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI

@cadusilva Yes, same here.

@cadusilva I just noticed your issue after going through the change history and related problems. I was about to submit an issue myself. I'm a bit hesitant to send direct PRs nowadays since they usually reject contributions from outsiders unless there's prior discussion or decisions. @mustikkasoppa

My wife just made her first contribution to our Mastodon fork. It's totally vibe-coded, but I'm still proud of her, because takes some understanding to give proper instructions for the issue, and it turned out to be an actual regression with a proper fix. @mustikkasoppa

https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon/issues/2
https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon/pull/3

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Sometimes I wonder why people can't just be happy about what others do. I constantly see too much nitpicking, mean behavior, and people trying to make themselves superior to others. People can be the worst.

My @obsidian second brain is getting pretty prodigious. You are looking at about 2 years, 6084 notes, 11803 links, 2934237 words, 371 attachments and 36595 tags.

I posted this to Reddit, and a bunch of people are immediately saying, "You are doing it wrong." I mean, it's Obsidian, which is one of the most customizable apps in the world; there is no one right or wrong way to use it.