ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

I don’t think #ElonMusk has bad interests in mind when he decided to buy #Twitter
I do believe he *wants* to protect free speech and democracy.
However
- Power corrupts
- Twitter can still be censored. Mastodon can’t be completely censored.

#Mastodon is a better choice for free speech, democracy, and prosperity.

MEMO: CounterSocial is not a member of the Fediverse. What's more they lock features behind a pay wall, and claim (wrongly!) that when other Fediverse instances defederate with yours, they're breaking the AGPL. https://countersocial.documize.com/s/c30dhakp0nhtab60utag/countersocial-blog/d/c5piofvuaqg133k3is90/the-history-of-countersocial-and-mastodon

These are traces from insects trapped in the bright flare of a flood light.

Night active insects get attracted to light and are held captive, try to escape but are blinded. So they fly in circles in order to escape, but cannot.
Eventually they either die of exhaustion, or get eaten by predators.

This massive dying every night in every city worldwide has severe effects on the population and on other species up the food chain:
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-world-catastrophic-collapse-insects.html
"Experts estimate that flying insects across Europe have declined 80 percent on average"

#internationaldarkskyweek #insects #foodchain #lightpollution #extinction #nature #light #led #energy

Image taken for illustration from https://www.freeimages.com/photo/insects-with-light-1179234

This is #mastodon, don't forget to report bad actors so they can be dealt with. Your admins will enforce the rules.

Just found out that the EU has an official Mastodon server it operates: https://social.network.europa.eu/about

#politics #eu #europe #mastodon #server

follow me at @paulopinto

Goodbye Twitter!

I'm not even entirely up-to-date on what's happening with Twitter, but I can't understand why anyone would want to buy it, nor can I see a way for it to actually become worse. I think the best thing it can do is most likely die to make room for something else to hopefully not be a cesspit.

@louisrcouture Yeah, but the point is that I want to store it in my email inbox. And I also want to reshare to basically anyone if need be.

Hold up, Mastodon has custom emojis???

Mastodon > Bird app, confirmed.

when you buy a social network and everyone leaves

forever elon

As an alternative to FediTips, you might want to also check out @noelle's "Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon":

https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

It's got slightly different takes on many issues, but hopefully seeing a different perspective will give you a fuller understanding of how Mastodon works.

#MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #Fediverse

A report by the Canadian research centre the Citizen Lab reveals a list of 65 people linked to the Catalan independence movement, who were spied on through the state-of-the-art spyware program Pegasus, and a second system called Candiru. These are programs that only governments have access to, as they are designed to fight organized crime and terrorism, and there is "strong circumstantial evidence" that the Spanish authorities were responsible for this espionage.
https://www.elnacional.cat/en/politics/catalangate-spain-pegasus-spyware-operation-catalans-citizen-lab_743604_102.html

Me, seeing a lot of people I follow on Birdsite creating accounts on Mastodon:

The most daunting thing for me about joining Mastodon/Fediverse was picking an instance.

Having joined one, a RL metaphor emerges for me: "it's like picking an apartment building."

You need to evaluate the management. Do they respect tenant rights? Is the desk clerk skeevy?

Do you want to live in a big impersonal complex? Or a little boarding house, where people share a lot and have house parties? You can even be a "home owner" and run your own instance (pay the bills, fix the plumbing).

Hello!

I'm tired of gushing about Mastodon a thousand times in a thousand places, so I wrote a post to summarize some info about it for folks who are *possibly* interested.

https://blog.mjb.im/mastodon-and-the-fediverse

It covers the what/why/how as well as clearing up some misconceptions and whatnot.

It is meant to be educational and informative about what the heck "Mastodon" and "the Fediverse" is. If you know someone who might be interested, consider sending this their way!

Hope this helps!

Hi! mastodon.social is being slow right now, as far as I can tell because there's twice as many people using it at the same time as ever have; I'm working on making it go fast again, but in the meantime, do remember to invite people to joinmastodon.org instead of directly to mastodon.social. People don't have to be on the same server to follow you! Thanks!