Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

In case you missed it: Here's an explanation as to why those "sexy" pictures of British-American comedian John Oliver are dominating a community on Reddit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65949412

#Reddit #JohnOliver

@BlackAzizAnansi Non-techies' introduction to mastodon is generally confusion, brief exploration, and then bailing. This network tore itself apart because of a decision to offer a default server.

How many active monthly users does mastodon really have? Looks like about a million. Even after all the Twitter bs mastodon is tiny.

I generally like it here but most of my friends from the disability, journalism and science communities who joined did not stay.

With all this #RedditMigration going on, there's been a renewed interest in #forums, especially with #activitypub integration.

We've got @devnull working on it. I'm hoping we don't miss the boat by the time it can be rolled out, but we want to do right by the #fediverse and come out swinging with a highly interoperable frontend to the fediverse-at-large.

Stay tuned here for more info as the story (and branch) develops!

A ransomware group claiming to have access to some of Reddit's confidential data is threatening to leak it unless the company U-turns on its API pricing.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/19/hackers-threaten-to-leak-80gb-of-confidential-data[…]e=flipboard&utm_content=Techcrunch%2Fmagazine%2FCybersecurity

#Reddit #TechNews

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We're soft launching Fedible today, a full service agency created to help organizations onboard and maintain a presence in the fediverse. For more information about how we can help your organization please visit our web site at: https://fedible.io

In addition to trying to be the best onboarding onramp to #mastodon and the #fediverse we could build, we also want this to be a place to organize: to help #TakeBackSocial and to help all the #TwitterMigration #RedditMigration and what migrations will come.

New projects to do that will be here: https://spreadmastodon.org/share-mastodon

#Pixelfed is a #PHP application, and @dansup says it would be nice to have more maintainers on board.

If you’re looking to contribute to a large open source project with a lot of impact, check it out.

https://pixelfed.org https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110561878024149956

#Mastodon isn’t perfect but the two complaints I read about it this morning (on #BlueSky of all places) have me just… boggled.

1) “mastodan is like bluesky but if you needed to open an Excel sheet every time you wanted to post”
…What are you even TALKING about?

(I realize there are complicated parts of Mastodon, fine, but posting? That’s the easy part!)

2) Masto users are overly sensitive.
*slow blink*
We need more sensitivity in this world, not less.

Exactly!

The free speech absolutist strikes again.

Despite all the complaining, I actually like #Mastodon so far. A lot. Finally a social network with a sizable user base AND it's free software.

I clearly prefer it 1000 times over all the #proprietary BS that has been all over the web for a while. And people just use it to talk. Cool stuff.

Maybe Mastodon is actually a much bigger boost for the #FreeSoftware movement than we actually realize by now.

Many people have been talking about deleting their #Reddit account and posts because they hate what the Reddit CEO does.

While I welcome a major #RedditExodus (I never posted on Reddit because it's #proprietary), I urge people to #backup their high-quality posts (those that have helped a large number of people) before they delete their account for good.

And then repost your high-quality stuff somewhere else for archival purposes.

Just a suggestion.

It is confirmed that Reddit is forcing subreddits to open again. This is according to /r/antiwork moderators.

#reddit #blackout #redditmigration

President Carter, now in his last days, home to be with his family as he passes, once personally saved Ottawa from a Nuclear Disaster, at risk, and cost, to his life, suffering from radiation poisoning all his life.

Canada had a Nuclear Accident in the 50s, asked the US for help, Lieutenant Jimmy Carter lead a team out of NY.

The future President Carter, had his team lower him into the reactor.

I had no idea

I have no idea why this isn't widely known.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574