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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

It's not the sign-up process that's preventing a mass-migration to #Mastodon. Reduce barriers to entry, sure. But it was not so long that we had to load a CD, type in credentials, and listen to the Internet demons summon our connection.

No, it's that Mastodon isn't suitable for Internet fame. The big accounts will ever come to a place that doesn't support an algorithmic caste system. How'd they know who's more important? If the big accounts won't come neither will anyone else

#Bluesky #Threads

jwz wrote:

For each of the last few days, I've gotten half a dozen new followers of the form "So and So from Gaza" with a profile pic of either a stern-faced man or a crying baby, and a gofundme link. Surely they're all fake, but if they were real would that be *more* awful or less?

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

i think it's funny when people say "mastodon has moderation issues too!"

of course it does. it's millions of real, messy humans interacting over multiple communities with intersecting and often contradictory rules, moderated by real, messy humans with feelings and biases. of course it has moderation issues, it's inescapable when you put millions of people together

the thing that makes fedi (imo) better is that here you get to at least *choose* the messy humans making the decisions for you

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Standing on a stile on top of Low Rigg.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

One of these just arrived, and it's now my new writing machine...and while I wish the screen was *slightly* higher res and wish I could get it in 32GB config, it's otherwise incredible:

https://www.theverge.com/reviews/697878/lenovo-chromebook-plus-14-laptop-google-chromeos-review

ARM CPU is very much the star of the show.

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
literalgrill@sakurajima.moe ("LiteralGrill") wrote:

Ya know, right now would be an AMAZING time for Mastodon's leadership to break bread with the Black programmers that really wanted to help make this place less racist.

Bluesky just banned a prominent Black user from basically being seen by anyone. Because Bluesky's CEO is mad about their posts. ATProto is clearly showing serious signs of weakness.

Do the people who love the Fediverse have the guts to admit we have poorly served the Black community and need to apologize? To take radical steps to show this place will be worth investing in for Black users who may want to leave Bluesky?

Now is the time to act and do so. If ever there was a time to put a massive amount of momentum behind the Fediverse, it'd be now. We should do it.

#Mastodon #Bluesky #ATProto #Fediverse

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com ("Lili Saintcrow") wrote:

I do not want that stupid app.
It’s spyware-bloated, full of crap.

I want appliances that work,
without tattling to some techbro jerk.

I’m sick of “AI” garbage-spew,
Sick of silo’d platforms too.

To analog I shall return,
and wait for all this mess to burn.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
probnot wrote:

Huh, I just assumed Memorex was a fancy sounding name with no meaning.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

“We can disagree on policies and norms, but when people cannot bring themselves to denounce or disassociate themselves from other people who deny the existence of a tiny minority, it’s a problem.”

An excellent piece with clear observations and insight. It’s behind a tiny sign-up but well worth the two seconds it takes to hop in.

https://log.desipundit.com/finding-the-line-at-trans-support/

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
icm@mastodon.sdf.org ("ICM") wrote:

We had 217 visitors and participants at ICF over the weekend! Thank you to everyone who made it a great event.

If you’d like to support this event and future events, donations are welcome at https://icm.museum

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
agturcz@circumstances.run ("Agnieszka R. Turczyńska") wrote:

🎵 Now I know my cz, sz, dz. Next time won't you sing with me? 🎶

#PolishForForeigners

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

We may want to stop posting identifiable information about protests—photos, maps, etc.

#ICE #NoKings

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/ice-is-planning-to-create-a-surveillance-team-that-hunts-for-leads-on-social-media-163743143.html

Mastodon wrote:

In June, we proposed new Terms of Service for registered users of on our mastodon.social and mastodon.online servers. We did not do enough to consider the full impact of the terms, and the community was very clear that we needed to reconsider.

We've done that over the past few months. Today, we're posting an alternative set of terms, along with an opportunity for the community to provide feedback.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/36368

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Education is not synonymous with indoctrination or propaganda, although the Right believes that it is.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/06/the-future-looks-bleak/

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Mastodon *is* microblogging. You publish posts, and people can subscribe to your RSS feed. Just like a blog.

If you subscribe to my feed (http://social.lol/@adam.rss), you’d never even know that my posts came from Mastodon. They could be from Bear or Pika or Movable Type.

The best part? All of the “social” parts of Mastodon are excluded from the feed. No favorites, boosts, or replies. Just posts!

Maybe I’ll just call this my blog from now on.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Our email exchange continues, and it's good. I'm trying to make the case that algorithm-free social tools like Mastodon are nothing like their algo-driven counterparts, and that Mastodon is more similar to blogs and RSS than this person may realize.

A point I made: if you encounter outrage on traditional social media (X, Facebook, etc.), it's because it was amplified to boost engagement and drive revenue on that platform. If you encounter outage on Mastodon, it's because you follow someone who happens to be upset, or you follow someone who's sharing a post about someone else who’s upset. This is no different than if you subscribed to someone's RSS feed and they publish a cranky post, or they publish a post about someone else's crankiness. In both cases, if you don't like what you see, you can just unfollow/unsubscribe (or filter/mute if your RSS client lets you do that, like you can on Mastodon).

Mastodon wrote:

We appreciate that certain politicians have recently admitted their naivete in entrusting the voices of their governments to corporate / for-profit social media.

To these politicians, we say: https://joinmastodon.org/hosting

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“estimate that even a 10 percent reduction in eligibility could result in approximately 750,000 fewer people receiving benefits over the next decade, with an additional 80,000 widows and children losing benefits tied to a disabled spouse or parent”

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/trump-officials-plan-to-tighte-NQMhqZBxRZmpVfy1rwYNWw

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I am by no means trained in economics, so my opinion is probably worthless…

AND

really looks to me like there is an “AI Bubble”, and the current buildout is all that is keeping the US economy out of recession. seriously concerned that bubble is going to pop this quarter, as labor force issues & import taxes hit home during the key consumer buying period of the year and smaller businesses begin folding.

seeing circular financing happen (like Nvidia & OpenAI) is Not A Good Thing

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
cygnoir@social.lol wrote:

Crispy food is delicious. Being so burned out that *we* are crispy, not so much. @keenan and I talk about it. No hot takes here, just a whole bunch of figuring stuff out together. Like friends do!
https://social.lol/@keenan/115327564334583744

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:

learning: How to group arrays in JavaScript without reduce()
https://allthingssmitty.com/2025/10/06/grouping-arrays-in-modern-javascript-object-groupby-and-map-groupby/

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

There’s a somewhat popular view in the indie blogging scene about social media being toxic. Today I had an email exchange with someone about this topic, and I tried to convey my view about why this is a harmful perspective that’s held from a position of privilege. Sharing my response here. https://paste.lol/adam/social-media-email-reply

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

They're just ordinary Americans, which is the scariest thing I can think of.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/06/i-sometimes-wonder-how-ice-agents-live-with-themselves/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Apparently you can make me watch and share a 12 minute product advert if you hire Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement for it and let them loose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1z13WP8o

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheAtlantic@flipboard.com ("The Atlantic") wrote:

The Everything Recession
https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/10/everything-recession/684450/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-TheAtlantic

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yup

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/10/everything-recession/684450/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kittylyst ("Ben Evans") wrote:

For the next time some racist / #climate change denier claims that "there's no point doing anything b/c China and India won't & they're much bigger than us" - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/indian-railways-to-achieve-net-zero-targets-in-2025-itself-5-years-ahead-of-2030-goal/articleshow/121481828.cms

Indian Railways hits net zero 5 years early, and will be 95% electrified by 2029-30. Given the size and scope of the Indian rail network and the challenges involved in upgrading it, this is no mean feat at all. FWIW the UK is *nowhere near* 95%. #climatechange

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

Slightly ranty post of Discord's data leak, the online safety act, and compulsory IDs in the UK.
https://chriswere.wales/posts/discord-users-are-first-victims-of-uks-online-safety-act.html

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“All but one of the respondents rated Trump’s second term as a greater or much greater threat to the rule of law than his first term. They consistently characterized the president’s abuses of power — wielding the law to justify his wishes — as being far worse than they imagined before his re-election.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/magazine/legal-experts-trump-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Fucking hell, the glimpses I’m getting in my feed reader, of how people enveloped in the current tech and “AI” orthodoxy think, are stupendously annoying

These people all used to be less annoying, interesting even, but something shifted when COVID hit and accelerated with the “AI” bubble. Now half my feed is just outright annoying