Hexnut @ambihelical@social.cleverlibre.org

What is your prediction on the raising the US #DebtLimit? (Boost for bigger sample)

1) #Biden caves; increase tied to spending cuts

2) #Republicans cave; Clean debt limit Increase.

3) US Government Default

#USPol

AI has won. It's too late for us. #AIart

I was at a restaurant and the waitress screamed “does anyone know CPR?”

I yelled, “I know the entire alphabet” and we all laughed and laughed.

Well, except that one guy.

When you’re three months into that side project you said would take a weekend.

Are you like me and haven’t completely stopped going to the bird site because some of the bird site people you follow aren’t on Mastodon/? Then try Bird Makeup:

https://bird.makeup

• Enter the bird site handle you want to follow on Mastodon

• Bird Makeup will give you back a Mastodon handle

• Copy the Mastodon handle into Mastodon’s Search field

• The search will reveal the person’s Mastodon handle and an option to follow or subscribe

My experience with Bird Makeup

• It will take about 24-36 hours before the person’s bird site posts start appearing in your Mastodon Home timeline

• The person’s tweets-turned-toots will be batched, appearing in a cluster of successive toots and not in real time

• Jpeg attached is an example, using Former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFau, PhD's bird site handle turned Mastodon handle and how his tweets-now-toots appear on my Home timeline.

• FYI, McFaul appears to already have @mcfaul account, but it doesn’t seem to be current or active, so Bird Makeup has been a better option for me.

#twittermigration
#twitter
#mastodontips

#rustlang #rust #Rustacean #Rustaceans #rustprogramming #rustdev #RewriteInRust

It's really cool that Twitter shuts down in stages over two months so that the Mastodon servers aren't overloaded all at once, very thoughtful of them!

Top notch entertainment today 🍿

Suggest you word it cleverly, like "Follow me on Musk-be-gone" and use https://spacekaren.sucks as URL shortener

Okay this made me laugh way harder then it should 😂

#StarTrek #Memes

I just switched my phone to airplane mode and a small child appeared and started kicking me in the back.

Kind reminder that commentary about the #WorldCup — or about any other #sport event (past, present or future) of any kind — is always like this.

http://www.vectorbelly.com/electrical177.html

Run out…

@yisraeldov @freemo @louis Rather than being premature optimization, this is late in coming. You might not be aware of this, but in the absence of a central authority, self-moderating instances have joined together to build domain blocklists that are shared widely and based on nothing more than the say-so of one or two people.

While mastodon does have plenty of tools we can use to block content that we don't want to see, many instance admins choose to really aggressively block entire instances without any due process or evidence or opportunity for counter-evidence. I've seen QOTO described as having "no moderation at all," something I know to be factually false. I've seen entire instances blocked because of the actions of one non-admin user, which is the right of any server admin, but doesn't bode well for federation. I've seen entire instances blocked *not* because of something anyone said or did, but because the instances were insufficiently aggressive in promising to seek out and block other bad instances. It's mind-boggling, and scary for anyone thinking about running an instance of their own.

Primarily at this point, the UFoI is about a guarantee of due process, which is currently lacking in the fediverse. It might not cause the super-aggressive blockers to change their approach, but it will at least guarantee that smaller instances won't be completely isolated from everyone on the whim of someone at a big server having a grumpy day.

If mastodon were as safe and friendly as you say it is, the UFoI wouldn't exist, and the hashtag for BlackMastodon wouldn't be filled with people saying that they're seeing worse treatment on Mastodon than the bird site. I'm glad your personal experience has been positive, but that is not the case for everyone.