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I like Mastodon because it reminds me of all the independent BBS forums that were running around in the late 90's and early 2000's. Same software, independent communities.
I disliked Reddit from Day 1 because it absolutely destroyed these communities and centralized control. I still feel like a stupid zealot when I tell people "Yeah I'm into tech, the internet, forums, BUT NOT REDDIT".
I hope for people to relive the tight nit online community feel, Mastodon is on that path.
Adrian Roselli
Another feature Mastodon has over Twitter โ not appending an AMP query string to links on mobile, forcing me into Googleโs closed ecosystem.
Gwmngilfen
@symroe @Floppy +1 for Fastmail... But I'm also following the new Australian encryption bill closely... ;)
Brendan Molloy
People will argue that using DMs on here is unsafe because the admins of servers can view it. Arguably, you should use DMs for no more than you should be using them on any platform that doesn't encrypt them end to end, like Twitter.
It's about assessing your own operational security risk. Use DMs like private messages on Slack or a forum. Use Signal or another encrypted messenger if privacy is highly important.
codesections
Sooo โฆ I accidentally launched a bit of a DDoS attack on @fosstodon: My post on Mastodon's awesomeness hit the Hacker News front page and people seemed to believe me about how great fosstodon is!
Welcome, everyone!
According to @kev, we've upgraded our server to handle the increased load, and I've taken the plunge to support fosstodon on Patreon[0].
If you're a Mastodon regular, I'd encorage you to do the same for your local instance!
cc @Gargron
Gwmngilfen
@mike thanks, tho I read your toot about strep, you have the worse deal I think....
Gwmngilfen
@HerraBRE ooh, bookmarked. I have a dead laptop here...
craigw
Hi everyone, just heard about Mastodon today at OggCamp. I'm a Sysadmin from Shropshire with a passion for infrastructure, configuration management and documentation. Starting to study for RHCE and want to become a Fedora Ambassador.
Bob Martens
So much of the discussion around "Mastodon vs. Twitter/Facebook/etc." misses so many points. We work BETTER in smaller communities so encouraging them is a feature, not something to be decried.
Gwmngilfen
@craigw lot of love for Ansible just now ;)
I'm from a Puppet background but I've largely gone over to Salt now. Day job is on @foreman so I have to know them all to a small degree...
Gwmngilfen
@craigw what's your config management tools of choice, BTW? I work in this area :)
Gwmngilfen
@craigw welcome! Always good to have more sysadmins around, we can share the grumbling workload :D
Gwmngilfen
@simon_brooke @timapple @mooshoe @nextcloud nice, I like it. For things I won't/can't write down (login passwords are an obvious candidate) then I subscribe to the XKCD method...
But I suspect I'm preaching to the choir here... ;)
Gwmngilfen
@mooshoe @timapple looks pretty good! Let me know how you find it
Gwmngilfen
@timapple @mooshoe I appreciate the horse is already out of the barn, but consider Keepass - I can't speak for *all* OSs but there's definitely Linux and Android versions (I use) and I believe there are Mac/Windows ones too.
I keep my Keepass DBs synced to multiple desktops, laptops, and my phone via @nextcloud, very handy.
Gwmngilfen
Gwmngilfen
Stomach bugs suck. Everyone else in the household has had it this week, today it's my turn :/
Send hugs.
Anarcha-Ecologist Catgirl (Em)
This report on the "hothouse earth" phenomenon is the most detailed analysis of what happens after a 2 degree increase to date. It has been downloaded >1/4 million times in the past few days alone.
Climate change has gone beyond gradual, soon it will be exponential
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2018/07/31/1810141115.full.pdf
colby
yesterday the vet told my roommate that walter has diabetes. boost to tell him itโs gonna be ok.
Gwmngilfen
@joseph sometimes I feel like I need to write my own machine learning tool to parse the hundreds of RSS entries I have...
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