@rowan maybe if you wanted to light of a federation of concerts? 😜
If this "thing" needs to be on the "internet" something like #MQTT would be more apropos. But yeah I know TFW when you get into the social web and your brain gets like "federate all the things!" LOL
@ashkitten@staticsafe I have static IPs for my home office small business service as well as a public facing VPS with OVH. The home servers get a bit more attention than average but the VPS gets quite a bit more yet. I think big data centres kind of act as a bigger flame for the moths.
@djsundog Not to say they didn't put in effort as such, especially when they started getting big, but it wasn't "work" and they had no aspirations to be celebrities. It was more like "we are having a blast and people actually give us money to do it...awesome!".
Maybe that is why some people don't really remember the band "Loverboy" but instantly recall so many of their songs when they hear them.
2018: The Internet is run by five mega corporations and not only do they ALL know you're a dog, they also know your preferred brand of kibble, your recent interest in flea powder and whether you've been spayed or neutered.
@grainloom well maybe it involves tip tech because they have specially designed rounded tips 🤔
Anyways Linus didn't get where he is without a measure of click bait I guess. It wasn't really a *bad* video besides that (not-so-surprising spoiler: he "shoplifted" by taking advantage of the no-questions-asked, no-return-required refund policy).
@Sadshark mass "anything" cannot happen voluntarily. Also if there was a sudden drop in fertility like that it would have to be followed with mass voluntary euthanasia as the population aged
@guludo#welcome to the fediverse! Don't worry there are lots of friendly people here so you can make new friends. I will be your friend if you want!
Also new people are always welcome so invite your friends to join us here! They don't even need to log into mastodon.social to interact with you. Go here: https://joinmastodon.org/#getting-started and maybe you will find birdsite friends on other servers in the fediverse already!
@mhunter saying you are leaving mastodon is kind of like saying you are leaving email. There are over a thousand mastodon servers and each one is independently owned and operated by different people, and some of them are indeed alt-righters.
As a result, unlike Twitter there are many more ways to avoid such trolls. You can find a server with stricter filtering or federating policies where trolls are filtered like email servers filter spam, if that suits you more.
@Elizafox hmm that is a bit of a disconnect. I'm not sure as a cis person if I can offer anything truly valuable to the discussion but it does seem odd to me when someone who has been marginalised themselves exhibits intolerance of diversity.
I have seen the opposite though, where a transgendered person who is unwilling or prepared to "fully transition" physically is is not fully accepted as the gender they identify as, like they are NB and don't "fully belong"...I don't understand...