If you want a sample of racism on Mastodon, I present the following example.
A free software / open source software developer (their main package is under the GPLv3), posts asking for a whopping two hundred bucks. I haven't run their app thru a SLOC (source line of code) valuation program, but I assure you it is more than $200.
Out of nowhere enters dickhead @FinchHaven pointing out, that OMG, once upon a time the developer had bought games he hadn't played! Such extravagance!
When #META invites you to secretive talks about the #fediverse and you are told to not share anything about those talks, be it by spoken agreement or an NDA — remember admiral Ackbar. It's a trap.
Hey beautiful people. So a sudden and unexpected expense has my monthly Jenga like budget teetering, so I’m putting out a call for a bit of assistance.
About $200 will set me right for the rest of the month, so pitch in if you can.
Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it’s not good
When looking at the recent history of many popular and highly successful online sites, there tends to be a certain trend they’re all following: rampant corporate greed butting heads with its original core mission and its user base, all of which eventually leads to major issues for the site.
Several sites in question — Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr — all share that same fate, despite having very different purposes and suffering through a dissimilar series of events that led to their downfall or tipping point. And, they’re proof that most businesses will eventually hit a point in which management will decide to push profit margins and use bizarre and brutal methods to squeeze money out of it. The horrors of capitalism.
"Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it’s not good"
The common point that I've not seen mentioned let alone discussed is that this is exactly what anyone should expect from parasitic, extractive, late-stage capitalism
Parasitic, extractive, late-stage capitalism exists for one purpose only:
extract capital (wealth, money, choose your favorite label) and direct it upward, only upward, to those who are increasingly wealthy themselves
"the balancing act here is that many users are not savy enough to quickly pickl up on the whole multiple servers thing"
That's been the party line for six months now
People have managed to sign up anyway
I simply fail to understand why anyone is doing anything in mid-June 2023 to explicitly push more people onto Mastodon dot Social when it's already a good 3.4 times larger than the next instance Mstdn dot jp
It's amazing how badly computers and time zones interact. Someone just pointed out that the Mastodon web interface uses 24-hour timestamps, not the expected am/pm. I verified it, and poked around preferences with no luck. I'm pinging other admins, and might dig in further. #timezones#Mastodon#MastoAdmin
This seems to be somewhat of an imbalance between things that people see as needing to be done (OK: of whatever priority) and people actually working on #Lemmy
Or do I just not understand what I'm seeing?
Which would be an easy out, of course, but not really ezplain anything
Don't know if you've seen this, and I'm a little reluctant to doxx people, but:
"For everyone creating communities (Lemmy instances) or "magazines" on Kbin instances be mindful of the very real deficiencies that exist related to moderation ..."
"#ElonMusk informs #Twitter users that it intends to remove #Blocking to keep spaces "open and accessible to users" and everyone will be able to read whatever you say"
OK even funnier than #bluesky / #ATProtocol 's plc DID method relying on a single domain is that the hardcoded DID for bsky.app isn't registered, they don't even use it for the default algorithms and just hardcode a workaround.
WHICH MEANS that whoever finds a (truncated) hash collision for the bsky.app DID will cause an absolute fucking mess hahhahaahhaah
So… am I the only one that uses Mastodon with blinders up to the grand concept of the #Fediverse?
I acknowledge it exists, I like the idea, but… it doesn’t really affect me? I don’t really understand why people feel the need to explain the concept to newcomers, and risk potentially turning them off. People these days need a 5-second sell on things.
I just see Mastodon as a mostly similar, slightly different, successor to Twitter. No reason why it can’t be explained that way.
Speaking as an independent developer very accustomed to being fucked over by tech companies I’ve developed for (see: Atari), I have to note that the current level of fucking over developers (AND users) has risen to new appalling heights (see: Twitter, Reddit, Google, et al).
It's almost as if the tech oligarchy is realizing we're approaching a global end game and it's time to maximize their net worths before fleeing to their 1,000 acre enclaves on the South Island of New Zealand and slamming the bunker door shut behind them