Kai 'wusel' Siering @wusel@uu.org

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.

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.

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

LOL

Ach. Ach. Vorweihnachtliche Grüße aus Marzipan -Town. *Schnaub #nomnom #happsweg

„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“.

#VoxPopuliVoxDei #VoxPopuli

Y'all really think Trump will go back to Twitter though? I think his ego is too big for that. More than likely some intern is just gonna copy and paste his truth social posts to the Twitter account. And there tons of right wing cultists who do that already.

Well, I rolled out my own Mastodon instance on my tiny Docker host. For now I will probably just use it to figure out what all of the buttons do.

One thing does have me perplexed, following people on certain instances seems to require approval when done so from my own instance, while following the same people from mastodon.social does not.

I'm guessing mastodon.social is somehow whitelisted with most other instances and my own brand new instance is not.

#MastodonHosting #RollYourOwn

Now that we're learning this lesson that centralized silos are brittle and operate in the interest of the owners not the users...

...please note the move toward centralizing podcasts into apps from Amazon/Audible, Spotify, iHeart, YouTube, TikTok etc.

If you like podcasts, use an RSS-based podcast player. Support the open ecosystem. We can only survive if you clearly see the threat and act supportively.

Hey, remember posting to Twitter using SMS? Well, now you can register and post to Mastodon via SMS to the number +1 (231) TOOTING / +1 (231) 866 8464, using this convenient app:

http://aka-san.halcy.de:5555/

📰 #CBS News Suspends Use Of #Twitter ‘In Light Of The Uncertainty’ Surrounding Platform Under #Musk
#RIPTwitter
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2022/11/19/cbs-news-suspends-all-activity-on-twitter-in-light-of-the-uncertainty-surrounding-platform-under-musk/

PSA - I use the #cw content warning feature only as an exception. I have been informed that parts of the #fediverse use this feature much more often. If you rely on cw for the majority of toots in your timeline, you should NOT follow me. This should be a safe space for you in whatever way you prefer to use it. If you rely on cw for that, I am NOT a good candidate to follow. Thx.

@jwildeboer ...towards a future of semi-centralized gatekeepers who defederate whole instances on a whim ("hosts mainstream journalists" was the best excuse I heard for defederating journa.host).

And "well, then go and host your own Mastodon instance" is not the solution it sounds like.

Die Elon Musks dieser Welt werden mich nicht daran hindern, weiter von einem freien, offenen Internet für alle zu träumen. Eher im Gegenteil. Mein Kommentar für die Frankfurter Rundschau 👇

Bierverbot. Wenn Katar jetzt auch noch ein Tempolimit einführt, ist die WM für deutsche Fans gelaufen. #wm2022

tja hätten wir nicht gedacht, dass der rechte ein jahr später NOCH dümmer dasteht als der linke

This year, the speed limit in #Bordeaux dropped from 50 km/h to 30 (30 to 20 mph). Joins #Montpellier #Grenoble, #Nice, #Lille, #Nantes, 200 other cities in #France with 30 km/h limits.

This has already led to an astonishing 70% decrease in crash fatalities.