Notices by nydel (nydel@mastodon.sdf.org)

used to be anytime there was a violent senseless american tragedy i’d mix myself a stiff cocktail and have a cigarette out on the porch. by now well, i simply couldn’t drink that much. truly i can’t.

@cs thank you so much! haha @snowdusk_ just replied what i was thinking.

#brutaldon is a #mastodon front-end that
allows users to access their home
instance via a #text browser like #lynx! there is no setup aside from specifying an instance and logging in.

https://brutaldon.online/about

as i often find myself awake during the night, i keep a mobile terminal on the maple nightstand next to the bed. and i like to read one person's #gopher #phlog for hours then. it is different from daytime gopher coffee-reading of mostly new entries. it's much more personal. the attached video, though unrelated, to me embodies the atmospheres born through the types who create deeps of original gopher content now. if you number among these people: i see you, & i thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trfHP5LHVNY

turning off javascript on https://toobnix.org reveals exactly what kind of place @SDF is, and: omg we have a peertube instance!! && mastodon can embed peertube!!! ahhh so excited #toobnix #deletegoogle #SDF

@jebug29 but without that design i might not have switched to mozilla once and for all :P

if you have a personal web log, please reply with the url!

an attempt to collect everyone’s blogs - so as to not let precious non-commercial content go unread and unnoticed - is likely the only time i’ll ever ask:

please boost this toot.

also is there a tag already in use to file entries pertaining to grassroots protection of the federated social universe? #fediverse #sociology #security #aHolesExist

which active instances have something else going on? e.g. @tildetown @SDF freedombone EFF FSS ... i imagine a campaign to get some kind of deeper-into-the-server tutorial for interested instance managers. although tildetown was first a pubnix and later a mastodon, if we imagine that happened in reverse it provides a great model for what i suggest. would there be interest among sysadmins? benefits would include e.g. at SDF during qvitter you needed a registered shell!

as an SDF mastodon user, i don’t feel worried about inevitable attacks on the federation (e.g. misinfo campaigns, infight summoning) because i have so very many fallbacks in place - our comroom our bboard our irc our xmpp voip ham anonradio-stream mailx talk write motd etc ... maybe it’s important to remember that most instances are not built on a myriad alternative social protocols. we could take special care to be as involved as someone whose instance being f’d means the entire org’s end.

you really are missing the best of the internet if you don't visit @SDF 's gopherspaces & phlogs.. here is an excerpt from @Cat 's that explains better than i can. and you can build your own as well for free (senpaga kaj libera) by creating a shell at http://www.sdf.org:80/ !
https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/TAeQuRhlnLWpB-L86q8