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VPNs are an important tool for protecting privacy, and running one isn't illegal even if some users infringe copyright, EFF's @mitchstoltz tells Wired. wired.com/story/hollywood-pira

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The Fediverse is really different some the established social medias like twitter.

Twitter is basically all about people trying to promote themselves, promote their brand or similar.

Fediverse is not about that - it is really about community, and the amount of people supporting each other emotionally, finance or just being a great person towards each other.

There is no such place that can compare to this, take care of it and each other

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Before joining Mastodon had you participated or were active on BBS (dial-up) or forums (vBulletin style) in the past?

Boosts are appreciated for better sample sizes.

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Did you know that the FSF has a PeerTube account? #PeerTube is a decentralized, federated video platform powered by ActivityPub and WebTorrent, and you'll find us on the Framatube instance: u.fsf.org/36m

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Hi! I'm Vale, a PhD student in particle , working on developing detectors for and search for experiments. I'm in my last phd year so in the following months i'll probably ramble and complain about my thesis a lot.
In my free time I enjoy playing , watching and reading and books.
I also play pitcher for a local amateur team.
I speak fluently english and italian, and know a bit of spanish, russian and japanese.

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Just joined looking for an alternative to the other social media sites. Screw the narcissistic billionaires.
I like among other things. And I'll occasionally post about as that's important to me.
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@atomicpoet The point about losing a profile when changing servers is valid, but:

- The problem has in fact been solved already in a different Fediverse project ( https://zotlabs.org/page/zot/specs+zot6+home ), but the implementations for various reason have seen less adoption than ActivityPub/LitePub implementations

- The other example they cite (email) for the same problem already points out the reason why people generally don't have much of an issue dealing with this problem: They are used to it.
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@rysiek That thing has a big ton of resources and nothing to show for it. It's vaporware pure and simple.

Meanwhile, look at what @Gargron and @dansup have been able to do with their projects.

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Just a reminder that Twitter perceives the Fediverse as a threat, and their project Blue Sky is actively spreading FUD about ActivityPub on their website. blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a

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Since this blog post was released, I've seen blue checks repeat these talking points.

I've seen them write, "The Fediverse could disappear tomorrow!"—as if one site has more persistence than thousands.

Or that if one instance crashes, the whole Fediverse follows.

It's all FUD, of course—a way to keep people on Twitter.

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@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!

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@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.

From an article on TechChrunch. I despise both Musk and Twitter and expect the former to drive the latter straight into the ground through sheer incompetence, but it is delicious seeing people throwing around bad free speech takes, especially when they are journalists who really should have known better.

techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/elon

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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!

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

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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 ...

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