bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

A mesmerizing timelapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the SDO spacecraft over the course of a month.

Credit: NASA/SDO
#sun #nasa #space #astronomy

@BustyTrotzky @MK2boogaloo @hatethem02

> what do you mean with great eaualizer?

The Colt Single-Action Army, a very widespread revolver, was known as "The Great Equalizer". (Consider the outcome of a fight between two guys where one is 5' tall and one is 7' tall, then consider the outcome of the fight if they both have guns. One is more predictable, but it's a somewhat more even match in the other case.) It was a joke about the software, which I have called Revolver, and which is intended to achieve something similar by giving

> Mob rule and elitist mob-manipulation can only be averted by proactive democratic education which needs to be able to prevail against financed propaganda-bot-spamming, a big problem of social media, especially laissez-faire social media.

I do not think that's the case at all: here we are, able to engage with each other on an anarchist instance instead of a democratic instance. There is nothing *more* lassez-faire than anarchy, and until Revolver ships, this is the closest I can get: I have to get rid of things that break the server or that are illegal where I live.

The thing that allows mobs and propaganda is jamming everyone together under a system. I've talked about this a lot, but am busy for the foreseeable future; I'll see if I can't dig up an old post if this doesn't make sense to you. You have to organize people to push your agenda on them; disorganized people can't fall prey to this. If there is no boat, you can't affix a rudder.

This is why I dislike Trotsky: he was a hard-liner for a self-appointed hierarchy of authority. 4th International, then the vanguard of the proletariat, then the proletariat, then the peasants. He believed that the peasants were too stupid to avoid getting coopted.

> but media and the spaces in which such societies grow are designed, and must be designed educatedly.

This is an approach that presupposes the mass-media approach from the turn of the previous century. That's one of the problems with Twitter: you can manipulate Twitter in ways that you cannot manipulate fedi.

> Your current approach works as long as this is a small overseeable community but as soon as it becomes bigger and gains more traction you will have to deal with classic problems of propaganda and discourse manipulation.

I trust people to not be stupid or to accept the consequences if they are.

And that's the issue with trying to control propaganda: the second you do that, you've built a rudder, and the wrong hands will get on the wheel as an absolute certainty. Don't build the rudder.

Why did ancient people gather hunters?

insane timing of lightning striking a tree. Photo Credit: Debbie Parker.

I designed and sewed this axolotl pencil case! 🦎

Remember kids, not saving your media in a lossless format will cause it to get worse every year

Here's some amygdala shrinkage for yous guys from Glacier NP this weekend

Boost this fox to teleport him across the Fediverse and brighten someone's day!

Let's see how many instances the fox can reach on his journey!

Laughing, screaming and crying all at once.

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