Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 12

@gemlog Is there a simple way to convert electricity into thrust?

@fitheach Yes it could be upgraded, but my sysadmin ( @thurloat ) is busy, understandably so.

@qcat
I picked mastodon.club a few years ago because it was relatively small, friendly and general, as well as Canadian. The community was quite nice, though some people have since moved to other instances. The differences with trunk Mastodon were small at the time.

Eventually the code of mastodon.club will be upgraded or else the users will leave it. The sysadmin is busy these days though, so I don't expect an upgrade any time soon.

@qcat ActivityPub is a newer protocol, devised in part by the people who created OStatus, but as part of a formal W3C standard process.

One advantage, they say, is that direct messages have real privacy.

My instance could be upgraded, but apparently it would be difficult to port the changes over. Also the sysadmin now has two small children, so he's busy.

@qcat Sure.

Originally, Mastodon communicated with the OStatus protocol, then it added support for the ActivityPub protocol. Now, in version 3.0, Mastodon is dropping OStatus.

The code for my instance, mastodon.club, was forked from Mastodon in the OStatus only days. Once scholar.social moves to Mastodon 3.0, I expect that it will be impossible for you to read my posts, or for me to read yours.

I see that Mastodon 3.0 has been released, removing OStatus support. My instance only supports OStatus, so that means as 3.0 rolls out, my connections with the rest of the ActivityPub fediverse will gradually be cut.

Au revoir, tout le monde ! À bientôt, j'espère.

J'admets que je trouve #Brexit cinq fois plus intéressant que la politique canadienne ces jours. Je désirais plus regarder les discours de Boris Johnson que le debat des chefs.

#canpol #ukpol

@nigelsezyarr You guys should have a mailing list.

@Angle I think it's important to note that, because Mr. Simler presupposes a purely material world, the theory of gods and demons he presents dismisses completely the more uncanny experiences of the supernatural.

You might be interested by this, for instance:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/devils-of-manhattan/

One should be sceptical about all such accounts of course, but those who are involved would say it's more than just hearing voices.

More on #NigelNight, from the CBC:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/why-over-400-people-named-nigel-gathered-at-an-english-pub-1.5303178

Via #MarginalRevolution