ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@social.cleverlibre.org

Bad night last night so today is a struggle, so I've written a half tongue-in-cheek poem about feeling blue using all nautical terms.

Calling it 'all at sea.'

I like the sound of nature at night, but sometimes you get a death metal cricket that just shreds outside your window. If you've ever gone outside to find, and shoe away this raging cricket with a flashlight, eagerly searching through the grass, you would know it seldom ends in success. Later we are often washed with a feeling of ridiculousness. If the cricket is persistent in 'one upping' the sound of a fully spooled jet engine nightly, would we destroy the whole yard? If we did, and it simply moved to the neighbors yard, would we build a giant wall and disown the neighbor? Probably not. As the cricket problem grows, we would eventually need to work together.

How do you think this applies to Mastadon?

Do you have advice on how to silence the renegade crickets of social media?

#qoto #UFoI #peace

NOTE: If anyone wants to be added to this list just let me know.

Ok so this seems to be most of the people who publicly stated they had interest in developing the "United Federation of Instances". All of you should have gotten the first draft and opinions were heard and discussed.

Today I will be moving the first draft over to git (either git.qoto.org or gitlab.com). From there I will encourage each of you to provide suggestions as to edits there, and raise discussions in issues. This way we will be public and have an open transparent forum that keeps the changes on record.

While public feedback is being debated on the proposal I will begin a rough draft on the complete by laws (which will try to represent the broader points in the proposal document). That too will be on gitlab and open to discussion

From there as the movement grows we can begin discussing launching it.

I suggest all communication on the fediverse about this use the #UFI hashtag so it is easily searchable.

Since this is a public post I will now share the link to the early draft here, please keep in mind everything here is open for discussion so if anyone doesnt like the current direction, please speak up, we want you to be heard.

https://jeffreyfreeman.me/files/united_federation_of_instances_proposal.pdf

@skanman @floppy @john @stevenclyman @robryk @ejg @dashrandom @Romaq @ichoran @AlanOutback @tsomof @aebrockwell @Ryle @tatzelbrumm @Gaythia @ichoran @realcaseyrollins @stux@mstdn.social @stux@masto.ai @trinsec @khird @darnell @jq #mastoadmin #fediblock

I've been winning Rock Paper Scissors hand over fist.

I've collected some #Mastodon 🦣 #instances to help with the #TwitterMigration focused in #inclusion, #accesibility and #minorities. They look like safe spaces for most of us. I'd appreciate the boost and new recommendations to add to the list:

🔗🇬🇧 https://ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧 https://disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧 https://neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧 https://iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧 https://blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧 https://lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧 http://queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧 https://tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies

Please boost to reach more people!

Me: okay body, time to do the things!
Body: 503 Service Unavailable
Me: Did ... did you just throw an HTTP error code?
Body: 501 Not Implemented
Me: Err GET motivation
Body: 412 Precondition Failed
Me: PUT caffeine
Body: 418 I'm a Teapot

How many people are left at Twitter's Child Safety Team to fight and ban child sexual abuse content across Asia?

1 person. ONE.

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-child-sexual-abuse-material/

#twitter #moderation #appstore #elonmusk #musk #wired

Hallo deutsche Mastodon! Ich spreche ein bisschen deutsch (sehr bisschen!). Ich wurde gern manchmal um deutch zu sprechen hier. Hier sind meine fotos zum Berlin :)

(sorry that German isn't very good, it will help me to practice)

#Photography #Berlin #German #Germany

New: one of my favourite ruins, 'The Murder House' as I call it. I will write this up into a blog for you at some stage. This is the building from the back. New to this visit was a perfect sheep's skull and a headless doll...(!)

#Photography #Ruins #Abandoned #NorthPennines

Good morning from a very foggy NE England. As a nod to the weather, here are some misty pictures!

#Photography #Weather #Mist #NorthPennines

It's perfect Petrol Stations at Night weather - or will be if this mist continues. No clue what I'm talking about? I don't blame you. I like taking pictures of petrol stations... here are a few.

More about this project on my blog: http://mariegardiner.co.uk/blog/2022/01/04/the-curious-allure-of-petrol-stations/

#Photography #Night

It's not how I'd imagined.

Johnny Nice Painter
#TheFastShow