ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

@mathlover It's generally how Enterprise software works. The likes of IBM or Carnegie Mellon or the New York Times doesn't trust anything unless they can pay a $100,000 license for it. In their minds, if they're no money exchanging hands, the service will disappear in a year.

This is actually something Blue Sky brings up when they throw FUD at the Fediverse: Don't trust Mastodon, instances can disappear—but we have scale!

@conradludgate Because not everybody is on Mastodon. The Fediverse consists of many servers, and also many software. There is Misskey, Pleroma, Friendica, and more other software that can connect to the Fediverse.

Hello, I joined Mastodon to engage, share and learn. My Twitter handle is @DeepGreenDesign. I have used the Twitter platform to engage on science, climate, green design and grow a network of people.

Let's connect and help grow this community!

#CdnPoli #SciComm #Climate #Science #GreenDesign #Canada #GPC

@lrhodes that's really good advice, i mostly met people via boosts

TBH I have no idea what I'm doing here yet; or even if I'm going to stick around. But I am not enthused by the prospects for twitter in view of yesterday's news ...

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