Notices by FediThing (fedithing@tech.lgbt), page 2

@Chrishallbeck

Hey @Mrfunkedude are you the one that put the phone in the coffee?

@Mrfunkedude

Ooooh yes! That looks good (extreme drooling)

Might be some kind of tandoori chicken? Not sure about the other one, maybe aloo gobi?

@Mrfunkedude

Interesting to have two kinds of rice!

Reminder that whatever you store on an internet site will one day vanish, even if it's stored on the largest and richest site in the world:

"Myspace, the once mighty social network, has lost every single piece of content uploaded to its site before 2016, including millions of songs, photos and videos with no other home on the internet."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/18/myspace-loses-all-content-uploaded-before-2016

Please don't rely on internet services to exist forever, they will all disappear eventually.

Try to store copies of important stuff offline if you can. Music, video, photos etc can all be stored locally.

@patak @feditips

I wonder if it is to do with the structure, that this is normal behaviour on here?

With centralised competitive platforms they grow by essentially destroying each other.

With federated open platforms on the Fediverse, they grow by helping each other.

When Mastodon recently gained millions of new users, that also greatly helped other Fediverse platforms, because each new Mastodon user was a potential person to interact with on the other platforms too.

For example PeerTube accounts started getting more followers and viewers because PeerTube accounts can be followed and interacted with from Mastodon.

@patak @feditips

Aww hey thank you, that's so nice! :blobcatheart:

I hope what I do is useful to the Fedi, really glad if it is!

And yeah, often devs (and artists, musicians etc) ask to hold off publicity until a specific moment, so it seems sensible to listen to them ?

Seeing certain business people who have just joined the Fedi posting that Venure Capital and algorithms etc are "inevitable" on the Fediverse, and that we should embrace them, because they are somehow innately better than volunteers or small non-profits etc.

If for-profits are innately better, why are they here? Why did they come to a volunteer-built network?

Truth is this: VC firms are shallow vampires trying to exploit trends by making everything for-profit.

Seems to be some kind of nasty block-evading system operating at:

activitypub-proxy.cf

To quote the site itself:

"A simple proxy for ActivityPub that lets you circumvent blocks by masquerading as another domain name..."

"...say you want to follow (someone) but the woke administrator has blocked you..."

Whoever is behind this is deliberately avoiding blocks and helping others to do so too.

#Fediblock

Media people, start your own Fediverse servers! This is your chance to be in control of what you publish!

By remaining on Twitter you are helping Musk control you and your readers. You used to be in control before Twitter. The Fediverse is your chance to get back that control before it is too late.

It is really cheap and easy, even non-technical people can do it, it starts from about $8 a month:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network/

The @TexasObserver has just started its own server, for example.

Just a headsup, all my accounts have websites:

@feditips has https://fedi.tips

@FediFollows has https://fedi.directory

@FediVideo has https://fedi.video

@homegrown has https://growyourown.services

You can find most of the stuff I post on the accounts also on the websites, and the websites have way more content besides.

Qoto.org says it has zero tolerance for hatred, but also "does not currently block any Fediverse servers".

I messaged Qoto admin to ask whether they would block servers that incited genocide. Admin replied Qoto would not block such servers.

I asked about the danger of radicalisation, and they said "(people) aren't going to read some random thing on the internet and turn bad. It just doesn't happen."

Have blocked qoto.org, would encourage others to do same.

One of the easter eggs in the third party #Mastodon app Toot! for iPhone/iPad is the ability to play ”TooterBall” with profile pictures of follows/followers.

I don't know if everyone "gets" that the Fediverse is run by volunteers.

Had someone complaining to me as if they were an irate customer returning a product, and explaining to me how I'm not living up to their expectations.

I don't know what to say except patiently explain that there are no ads and no spying so this place relies on donations and grants.

It's like they cannot comprehend a community-spirited enterprise, and engage with it as if they were customer talking to a corporation.

Musk is apparently buying Twitter again:

https://news.sky.com/story/trading-in-twitter-shares-halted-as-elon-musk-plans-to-buy-social-media-company-for-original-offer-price-12712119

He was due to end up in court in a couple of weeks time, where Twitter was potentially going to force him to go ahead with the deal. It's possible that he is trying to jump before he's pushed.

#Twitter #ElonMusk

@jwildeboer

Are they going to charge a subscription for emergency calls?