Kai 'wusel' Siering @wusel@uu.org
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System Engineer; blogger; part-time netaholic; tableteer. Believer in IP everywhere. Master of tunnels. Freifunk. 'Dislikes' systemd. AS 49745.
Joined Nov 2022
Kai 'wusel' Siering
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What I usually do when there's lots of new people coming in is, I boost all the #introductions posts that aren't tech-centric.
That's because of the attached diagram - not every post makes it to every instance automatically.
So, if I see any #introductions posts that I think need sharing about, I'll boost them to get them out to more of the Fediverse network.
(Diagram: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mastodon_timelines.png)
Kai 'wusel' Siering
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Nicht einmal der dringende Ausstieg aus Öl und fossilem Gas konnte im Schlussdokument benannt werden. Es waren 636 Öl- und Gaslobbyisten bei der #COP27 angemeldet. Die Erzeugerstaaten blockieren aus kurzsichtigen Partikularinteressen. Wir sind in einer brandgefährlichen Notlage.
Kai 'wusel' Siering
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Mein Symbolvideo zur heute beginnenden Fußballweltmeisterschaft...für mich grundsätzlich allgemeingültig unabhängig vom Austragungsort 🤣
@filmfacts
Bleibt die Frage nach dem "warum?" des Umzugs?
Kai 'wusel' Siering
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Die Aktivistin Friederike Benjes blockierte für 30 min eine Straße und wird zu einer Strafe von ca. 3000€ verurteilt. Zur selben Zeit blockieren in Berlin tausende Autofahrer die Fahrradwege und kommen ungestraft davon oder maximal mit einem "Knöllchen" von 50€. Autojustiz am Limit.
Kai 'wusel' Siering
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This. And how to support _your_ _local_ Mastodon instance usually is written somewhere on it's 'about' pages. Not sure for other servers for the ActivityPub protocol, but at last your local admin should know ;-)
Kai 'wusel' Siering
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I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.
It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.
It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.
Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.
Kai 'wusel' Siering
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Das Elon Musk Trump wieder zurückholt, zeigt vor allem wieder mal eindrücklich, dass man seinen Worten nicht trauen darf.
Vor kurzem erklärte er noch, dass diese Entscheidung eine Kommission treffen soll. Jetzt „entscheidet“ seine Filterblase, echt billig.
Kai 'wusel' Siering
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The CDN wasn't working right, but my attempts to fix it were unsuccessful. I made a configuration mistake involving DNS, which unfortunately means that images are broken until DNS updates everywhere. I am very sorry about this #devops
Kai 'wusel' Siering
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@anwaltsgelaber
Öh. Das klingt dann nach dem Letzten Weihnachtsmarkt — den Preis zahlen wenige, Umsatzerwartung wird nicht erfüllt, Planung für nächstes Jahr auf Eis gelegt oder direkt abgesagt.
Kai 'wusel' Siering
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„Vox populi, vox dei“, schreibt #ElonMusk zu einer Abstimmung, ob er #Trump wieder auf #Twitter lassen solle.
Zu schade, dass Musk offenbar nicht das ganze Zitat kennt: „Nec audiendi qui solent dicere: 'Vox populi, vox Dei', cum tumultuositas vulgi semper insanię proxima sit, zu Deutsch: „Auf diejenigen muss man nicht hören, die zu sagen pflegen, ‚Volkes Stimme, Gottes Stimme‘, da die Lärmsucht des Pöbels immer dem Wahnsinn sehr nahe kommt“.
@jasonp *Thing, actually.
@jasonp Well, if you're into paying 1€/month (SEPA payment, no CC, thus basically EU-only), there is digitalcourage.social, run by an NGO that tries to somehow keep userbase and serverpower in balance. But there's a load of other instances that may ask for funding differently, or not at all ;) Think about mastodon.social: It probably won't vanish over night. My little private one might, if I loose interest of running it. Thus: check who's backing your future home instance ;)
@jasonp As for "seeing a decent slice of what's on Mastodon as a whole", your're mostly right. That's currently an issue where the idea – everyone is self-hosting – doesn't meet the technology – federaded timeline of one's server consist of stuff the user's subscribe to on other servers –; hopefully this will change over time ...
@jasonp https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=mastodon.social lists 35 out of ... 10,000+ instances. Read some of the "reasons" given there and make your own mind if that's an issue.
My issue with mastodon.social is simply it's size — a) it's not the way this federation is supposed to go, a significant portion of the user base on a few servers, b) the performance doesn't feel good (i. e. clicking on it's local timeline I get 404s), mostlikely a sizing issue.
@jasonp That said, I still haven't found a way to draw myself a "Map of the Fediverse".
Hence, best guess would be to check where those you follow reside, check their instances T&C and make your choice ...
@jasonp AFAICS, the "fediverse connectivity" is the same on every instance (well, unless there unilateral blocking going on). If you depend on a large local or federated timeline on your instance (server), lookout for large(er) instances — but beware, depending on their funding and backing, they might run into similar issues as your current instance.
As for moderation, an instance in the EU should give you much free speech unless it's hate speech …
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System Engineer; blogger; part-time netaholic; tableteer. Believer in IP everywhere. Master of tunnels. Freifunk. 'Dislikes' systemd. AS 49745.
Joined Nov 2022
