Those are some nice pictures! Are they all yours? Btw, I do wonder if it’s possible to comment on pictures there from here @jakelec@pxlmo.com

Just subbed. Maybe new pictures will pop up in my feed.

It’s as a reaction to the news about TikTok possibly being sold and people jumping to “Red Book”, the other Chinese platform. Maybe some people will read the TechCrunch article and consider Pixelfed.

2. Yes, I am saying that we would be better off by having this money put somewhere else.

I get the notion, however social networks do have an inordinate effect populations and how they think. Spending 5M€ on say, poor communities would help those poor communities (short or long term, dunno), but they could still be influenced by a shoddy social network (or multiple). Whether that sum effect is positive or not is debatable.

It’s very difficult to make a judgement on utility of such a (comparatively) small sum and its target.

To be honest, I’m much more concerned about how people spend their money when they go shopping: buying non fair-trade goods like chocolate, clothes, coffee, phones, and so on, where they spend sums orders of a magnitude larger than a paltry 5-10€/month on mastodon.

5M€ can get you quite a long way, and I’m wondering if we could have better use of those resources than by putting it on Mastodon.

What are you suggesting? That the money donated to Mastodon not be used on Mastodon?

The existing US-based non-profit entity, the 501©(3), will continue to function as a fundraising hub.

Wait, is the money transferred to the US then back to the EU? And will the US-based non-profit still continue to exist or will it be replaced by a truly European one?

Can’t have competition now, can we? That would lead to innovation. (and the gold-plated dinner table set missing on the new yacht)

9$/month to send toots? Really?

I don’t get it. What does it do?

minecraft is closed-source? there are no open-source clones?

That seems quite easy to game. Create a bunch of accounts across multiple instances, target a user you don’t like, find comments / posts with low vote counts and downvote all of those. That’ll skew the ratio and get them “preemtively” banned from communities that use that bot.

Out of curiosity, I looked at what I was banned from: some of them are communities I’ve never even interacted with like !tesseract@dubvee.org? What is that even?

And slrpnk has an automated bot now that bans and unbans people. Again, from a community I don’t even recognize (pleasant politics? huh?).

It’s what is called guessing. The author isn’t saying “this is how it is, it’s fact”. They are postulating and guessing. But you read it and take it as if this was a scientific paper published in a journal with a dataset = 20 or something.

Chill out dude. Not everything is rage bait.

Bluesky plans to generate revenue via subscriptions at some later point and by providing other paid services, like access to custom domains.

This looks like a very important point. I doubt we’ll see true federation with “access to custom domains”.

I never really considered there’d be useful content on there.

I don’t really get why people scroll through short-form video, but at least there’s an opensource alternative in the works… Will be interesting to see if they allow non-loops users to contribute bandwidth because hosting all of those videos will be expensive af.

I just block anybody posting news about USAmerican politics and any community/magazine focused on it. It weeds out USAmericans and their sympathisers.

It’ll continue until inauguration (January?)

I think, possibly like many others, since BlueSky came from the creator of Twitter, I do not trust it. At the moment, I don’t even think there’s anything anybody can say about it that would make me want to even test it. It just feels tainted.

Also, what is BlueSky promising? A new Twitter? The fediverse is making so much more possible: new Twitter(s), new Youtube, new Instagram, new Reddit, and it’s even being put into Wordpress, maybe even Tumblr, and who knows what else. How does BlueSky fit into that puzzle?

El oh el

Man, Mozilla used to be nice but they have just turned so shit. I hope the core firefox people quit and make a new browser so that I can donate directly to the new browser instead of some middle man (or woman right now) who siphons off the money (aka Mozilla).