bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

Likely a controversial take:

Does this flash flood of new users make Mastodon/Fediverse bigger?

Hell yes!

Does it make content more interesting and varied?

Certainly does.

But does >>a million twitter emigrants make this a /better/ place?

No, unless you like having your door kicked down and a flock of colonisers fill in your living room, telling you how to run your social sphere/instance/federation with long-winded speech codes, omnipresent Content Warnings, and the whole nine yards... 🙄

This is the most professional way ive seen someone effectively say "NORMIES GET OFF MY BOARD REEEEEEE"

This instance is using the software we chose because we think it's the best, not because of ideological stances. No well-adjusted, ordinary person cares what software someone else is using unless it has some sort of practical implications. I'm not going to worry myself if unhinged people decide to block this instance.

In my opinion, I find it rather eerie how close there is a parallel to abusive relationships when it comes to some defederation attitudes. Abusers will try to isolate you from communicating with others and attempt to control the information you're exposed to, they cut you off from communicating with others so that they are the source of truth, the only people you can confide in and use this to manipulate you into doing what they want. The abusers always appears to have all the knowledge of events going on outside and know what's best, they will tell you how you should think about something, but there will often not have much to show to prove their claims or use common falacies to prove it.

It's ironic how often the defederation demands come from people who claim it's necessary to prevent abuse, while holding so many parallels to an abuser themselves.

c64.chat is a new Mastodon instance aimed at #C64 veterans & sceners

Link: https://c64.chat/

Made from paper 😮

well well well…

I said a few days ago I will change the face of the Fediverse… This wasn't a lie!

I introduce you to Indra, a brand new ActivityPub server made by me and myself!
(I got help about AS/AP specs/behaviour from nice people )

For 3 weeks, I worked night and weekend.
It's pretty basic and rough (no client interface, basic Server to Server communication, don't try following me, it's not implemented yet lol)

I'm proud to announcing it today

Sure, you can already fetch the very federated post:
https://indra.dupon.in/object/3b49659d-5193-4762-81a1-a0ef17ad1f85

Please don't bully my server too much, I'm not even sure it won't explode during flight lol

Project's website: https://indra.social
(it's almost empty )
Source code: https://codeberg.org/indra/indra

sure you can boost/share/renote/announce/whatever this post

#indra

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further info:
I made it in the same spirit as Pleroma (❤️ :pleroma_fox_tan: ) something light and multipurpose
Instead of being a big monolithic server (like almost all ActivityPub projects), I target it being modular with bricks you plug-in to add functionalities or behaviours

How long have you been using GNU/Linux or #BSD?

Boost for more range📶

#survey #poll #polls #gnulinux #linux #bsd

"If you're depressed go outside, you'll feel much better."
The outside:

Oh my, just had a run-in with one of the latest incoming bunch of Last Day Twitter Adventists who apparently blocked me because he thought my profile picture is "pepe the frog". (It ain't).

These people are complete idiots.