🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@ClancyParliament I'm willing to bet you'd get similar results any time you conducted this poll in the last 1000 years :)

@pieist Yea sadly we are one of very few with federation we leave up to our users.

The bullying of instances that block seems to be a growing problem.

I hope ?I can get UFoI soon and bring some sanity to all this.

@pieist

the issue with the latter list isnt just htat its mostly one-user instances, but also that it doesnt report instances that block them that are outside of their ideological bubble. In fact they are often marked as being blocked rather than doing the blocking (particularly when the block is mutual).

So the list basically is skewed to ignore all the bhlocks that are incoming for the "bubble" of people from instances that maintain those lists.. They will outright reject updates to the numbers when the block goes the other way.

You have two ways to look at it.. you have instances that heavily block, and they tend to block instances that dont block what they block. A lot of these instances dont publish their block lists because it winds up being massive.

You join them youll pretty much be stuck in a bubble of radicalized people, and you will have a very limited view of the fediverse.

On the other hand you can join instances that dont block and while they may have more instances blocking them, in the end they have a much larger footprint in the fediverse.

In fact in the past when we measured the conceitedness of QOTO (how many servers we federate with) we had one of the biggest footprints in the fediverse, despite a decent number of small instances blocking us. You can also measure this by insularity, and as I recall we had a pretty high ranking in that case too (low insularity).

@pieist There are a few sources one can use, unfortunately they are highly incomplete and show some biased information, and in some cases unethical. So we generally dont share the lists that are floating around.

In one case the list is made by kiwifarms so is considering unethical by association.

In the other case it is compiled by some radicals on the opposite end of the spectrum, so highly biases reporting on only certain instances. Moreover it doesnt weight for user count and is highly polluted with single-user instances.

@bjarne I unboosted it in case he was making some sort of point I didnt follow and didnt want to promote unknowingly.

@bjarne I may have misunderstood the post. I dont think its far fetched to say russia is against us and that this is a proxy war between the USA and russia... thats actually been fairly accepted.

The part abotu JP morgan i really dont understand what he was on about though.

@bjarne Huh? Can you be more specific about how this related to russia?

@collin Sadly I have no real jobs to offer in ruby.. That said if it interests you I have offered money to any developer interested in developing a few features into mastodon that I would like to use... It wouldnt come close to proper hourly pay but might be some money in your pocket plus whatever you develop is open-source.. might get you a little spending money anyway...

Let me know if interested, will be on the generous side for open source bounties at least

@DrSandraDuffy I am very much pro-refugee.. but what do you mean by "international law"? Which law? Set where and how? Usually when people use this term they are referring to a treaty or something, which treaty? Binding to what countries?

@Floyd Nice, lets you appreciate the results more I'm sure :)

@ambihelical All that info can be found in our configuration repo: https://gitlab.com/scentech/nixos-config

@coreyspowell@mastodon.

Strictly speaking that smell comes from the soil, not rain. Particularly wet soil.

Also not to be confused with the smell of ozone which accompanies thunderstorms.

@SteelFolk two points (the stars) and a line (the horizon) technically :)

@SteelFolk Each other and the horizon

Venus and jupiter are both very easy to see and in a beautiful alignment this evening.

#Astronomy #science #astrophotography #photography #sunset

@Floyd Good job! Congrats!