100 active users, sorry

My local Madison insurance is forming a steering committee and has created an LLC. (I’m a member of the committee.) We will solicit donations, because mostly it has been one guy paying for a small regional instance of about 100 AU.

We think of it like public broadcasting, like PBS. I will be happy to kick in a few dollars per month to pay for it. We have contests, online meetups, and other fun. It’s not just Mastodon, it’s an active regional online community, and it’s worth it.

(I also donate to my Lemmy instance, because it’s worth it too!)

Are tomatoes a fruit?

We all know the right answer…

Insta-ban!

I just set up a paid account on Tuta today replacing my paid Proton account.

“Email is hard!”

I realize that Mastodon doesn’t track birthdays for security reasons, but it would be nice to have a “special day” that popped up in friends’ news feeds. It’s probably the nicest feature of FB, to get birthday wishes from friends.

They sign up on AOL or Yahoo Mail or Gmail. Or get an email address through their ISP.

“Here’s your address.” They use it.

“Wah wah it’s so hard to pick a server!”

JUST LIKE EMAIL YOU NITWIT!

An assertion like this requires proof!

Mastodon has third-party starter packs now. I wonder if it works for Pixelfed?

Storage costs keeps getting cheaper, but high quality video keeps taking up more space.

Yes, it relies on federation. I don’t think the data will even be sent to instances unless someone follows you on that instance.

Yes but can you run Doom on a dead badger

Yet, comments per day seems to be going up! And I helped!

It’s not. There are more appropriate communities to post this.

There are PeerTube servers that allow a certain reasonable amount of content for free.

Sad to hear this news.

They are in competition with Mastodon, and have a marketing budget.

Five years from now, those platforms will become enshittified as their budgets dry up. They will need to milk the users for revenue. Well see another surge in a few years, until they learn that Mastodon is actually better.