ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

Just read the interview that @Julia did with @adamdavidson. It was interesting to see Mastodon from a journalist's eyes. Even more importantly, journalists who understand what Mastodon is.

But I'm not here to give them applause.

I want to focus on this quote from @adamdavidson because it's the first time I've seen such a mainstream journalist admit this publicly, and it is truly shocking to see!

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/11/can-mastodon-be-a-reasonable-twitter-substitute-for-journalists/

Does your ISP offer IPv6?

boost for visibility, thanks

Surveillance Doesn’t Make Kids Safe. Tell your lawmakers and \@SenSchumer to keep #KOSA off must-pass legislation. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/surveillance-doesnt-make-kids-safe

#Tumblr posts that they will be adding #ActivityPub to connect to the #Fediverse ASAP... #Mastodon

My employer’s mission statement: Rakes all over the ground

My employer’s behavior: Sideshow Bob

This from @pluralistic on the NYT article on universities aligning themselves with sports gambling outfits. Full post here: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/21/rah-rah/

Learning about the costs of running a Mastodon instance for even <1000 users highlights how Twitter also wasn't free, even though users thought it was. There were enormous costs, and we paid for them.

Did we ever pay for them.

Stop gaslighting the public.

Boris Johnson did not build 40 new hospitals, neither did he or his government ever intend to.

We (and interviewers) need to challenge this lie whenever it comes up.

Widespread droughts across the US this summer have reduced crop yields by as much as one-third. The scenario is likely to become more common in the coming decades. Is hacking photosynthesis the key to allowing plants to thrive in hot and dry environments, thereby increasing crop yields? (12-min read)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/is-hacking-photosynthesis-the-key-to-increasing-crop-yields-180981144

#science #biology #photosynthesis #genetics #botany #food #farming #sustainability #climateChange

I pushed a few fixes and improvements to instances.social this night and it is now tracking about six times more instances than it was before (2200 => 12800).

Autodiscovery of instances had been broken for some time now, and obviously with all the new users from the last weeks, came many new instances.

See the full list on https://instances.social/list/advanced an https://instances.social/list/old (the latter being the "legacy" list, a plain html table, which is quite... heavy for browsers).

@cadey @karolherbst @mastodonusercount Well, yeah, actually, instances.social had not been discovering new instances automatically for a long time and I fixed it a few hours ago.
While most big instances were already known (and that's why the user count did not increase by a lot), instances.social went from tracking ~ 2200 instances to almost 13000.

I'm not sure how this relates to the "active instances" count on this bot though.

@TheKinrar Never mind. I found your recent note on the matter.

This is awesome, by the way. We had way more instances than we knew about, it seems. :)
https://mastodon.xyz/@TheKinrar/109381797042523890