jtode

18 ms·

181.
by jtode 3y ago
They will defederate servers that send them troll content though, and I don't see Meta stopping that anytime soon.
182.
by jtode 3y ago
Don't sweat it; the Defederation radicals are far fewer in number than the rest. Our splinter network will exist but be a non-factor to those who want "reach".
183.
by jtode 3y ago
There is a pact to instantly defederate, many have already preemptively blocked their domains. I deleted my account this morning, with a backup natch - nice thing about Mastodon, I can start up exactly where I left off, including whatever f
184.
by jtode 3y ago
I have been a rather happy user the last few months but the last couple of weeks it's turned pretty narsty; downloaded my data and turned off my main instance account, and I'm waiting for the schism to happen before I go back in.
185.
by jtode 3y ago
He could defederate from you, but one for his instance. If you haven't pissed off the whole federation and you backed up your data (another thing you can do on mastodon) you'll be fine, and keep all your followers too.
186.
by jtode 3y ago
I've been arguing with Twitter emigres who seem to think that the UX on masto sucks. I would say that Twitter is an automatic transmission, mastodon is a standard.
187.
by jtode 3y ago
Those who could know are working at other places now.
188.
by jtode 3y ago
We're just mutual randos, but let's see where we're at in two years. I think that a different set of priorities will have begun to dominate things by then.
189.
by jtode 3y ago
It's debatable which SV debacle is the worst, but Airbnb and Uber are probably the most baldly extractive examples; they had no long-term strategy beyond grabbing a stake in the lawlessness and attempting to own that segment somehow, f
190.
by jtode 3y ago
There's a whole bunch of people interested. We're The Federation.
191.
by jtode 3y ago
That plus reasonable security (my code isn't worth money) is all I really want...
192.
by jtode 3y ago
There are so many lessons in this that the right people will not learn.
193.
by jtode 3y ago
No capitalist platform will ever not do these things Reddit is doing. The desire for ease of use and the desire for quality are not compatible. When I was a lad, my family always made sure I had good shoes. Not million dollar Jordans or any
194.
by jtode 3y ago
I own with no shame at all that having joined a Federation which has a Ferengi-like enemy currently making plans to invade, it's just delightful. I am so up for this fight, because this MOREEYEBALLSFASTER mentality is like a set of hor
195.
by jtode 3y ago
So far I have not seen a nuanced take on this yet. I wonder if Doctorow will write about it. Lots of talk about government overreach, zero talk about the games Facebook has been playing with media, which have been nasty and colonial. The go
196.
by jtode 3y ago
Lol poor billionaires
197.
by jtode 3y ago
I seriously had no idea lol. What a thing that is.
198.
by jtode 3y ago
Statements like this stem from the fundamental assumption that rational order will be restored and we will eventually continue to live in a world that trends towards less authoritarianism rather than more. In the overall scheme of history,
199.
by jtode 3y ago
Their decentralized features can probably work fine, as long as the shareholders never call in the bill. Ok everyone settle down, it wasn't that funny.
200.
by jtode 3y ago
The Federation is mostly treating it as an active threat from a hostile entity.
201.
by jtode 3y ago
This is gonna be really funny when Meta launches Threads. Mastodon is already in a froth over whether we absolutely without question block all Meta instances from the Federation, or whether we should leave the door open for known bad actors
202.
by jtode 3y ago
Ah shit, Netflix got their hands on it? Strap in folks, this is gonna suck!
203.
by jtode 3y ago
Have my upvote. So many hours lost to "[software package] config file location".
204.
by jtode 3y ago
Git has a web server?
205.
by jtode 3y ago
Iron curtain...
206.
by jtode 3y ago
"evolved to deal with code"?
207.
by jtode 3y ago
I don't like the method but it's a good outcome. Facebook has done nothing good to the news.
208.
by jtode 3y ago
I smell Koolaid...
209.
by jtode 3y ago
Have we all settled on what's gonna be the self-hosted version yet?
210.
by jtode 3y ago
The buffoons are definitely talking about a scary beast that's easy to imagine, because we've been watching it in Terminator movies for forty years. But this is not that beast. The beast here is humanity, and capitalism, by which

More ›