Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

i wouldn't JUST download a car. i'd reseed it too

The number of active Mastodon users — those who've logged in in the last 30 days — has fallen to 1.8 million from a high of 2.6 million. This reflects the fact that while there's a wave of new users after each Musk tantrum, the majority aren't sticking around. Even the 1.8M figure is inflated by new accounts, so I expect a further drop.

Still, the number of active users is over 4 times what it used to be before the Twitter takeover.

Source: https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics (and Wayback machine).

Reject Modernity

Embrace Tradition

#RetroHardware
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This is iconic. 😁🤙

#QT #Mastodon #HowTo

People wanting QTs for "good" reasons, so they can add a comment to what they're boosting, just haven't learned how we've been doing it here all along, without the need for a QT function.

How it works:
1) Reply to the post you want to QT with a comment, such as "Boosting so my followers can also respond to this!" My opinion is ..."

2) Boost your REPLY. Your followers will see it in their timeline. When they click on it they'll see the OP above your reply.

Done! 🙂

Zeta Halo here I come! 🎮💫✨

#HaloInfinite #Halo #CloudGaming #Xbox #Gaming

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

Another ThinkPad brought over from the dark side. #hackintosh #opencore

9,018,118 accounts
+770 in the last hour
+16,726 in the last day
+114,449 in the last week

Computers used to scream out in pain when we connected them to the Internet.

This was a clue and we just didn't listen.

Finishing DOOM II never gets old.

If you're after #SteamDeck and #Linux news for gaming or otherwise, be sure to give me a follow. Usually plenty of stuff going up each day :)

Essentially an account set up this way should be able to be considered by a server as “read only” - no “reply” button.

Also the idea of an activity pub “bulk” API in the Server-to-Server API would be good for upstreaming data on boosts back to the sending server.

As twitter continues to struggle, I’ve heard folks mention government and emergency accounts that are intended for wide broadcast (like accounts warning of weather emergencies or tracking natural disasters, for example) but not necessarily for following others.

Is there a place in the “scaling the fediverse” conversation for broadcast-style accounts that aren’t expected to have “replies” but messages of which should be boostable (normal and “quote”)?