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Indigo ๐ŸŒธ @Indigo@social.tchncs.de

I've noticed a lot of people with the default avatar, is that just because they're lazy or is something on the different instances messing with it?

Socialism is unsustainable guys. It relies too much on human nature -
people are inherently greedy.

I also enjoy the fact that up to 200 species day every day and the coral reef is bleaching. Commercial agriculture is one of the biggest threats to the planet's integrity. More than 3 million people die from vaccine-preventable diseases each year. But let me tell you, Capitalism just *works*. I am also a piece of shit.

FRIENDLY REMINDER

These instances are not run on commercial servers that proprietary companies can afford. More often than not, these are hobbyists running an instance for the benefit of Mastodon.

DO NOT SPREAD WORD OF MASTODON WITHOUT CLARIFYING THIS. If you do, everyone coming will flock to Mastodon.social, which puts a strain on that one instance and makes it look bad. There are other instances for a reason.

Other than that small preparation, be sure to donate to your instance admin.

Lesser-Evilism (Chomsky): Accept pineapple on pizza -- it's not as bad as French fries in ice cream. Reform the system from inside.

Accelerationists (Marx, Zizek): Blend pizza and French fries into my pineapple ice cream. I want to watch the World burn.

I really like it that Crunchy goes out of their way to make me not feel guilty about pirating.

Another bad article about Mastodon from the tech media. Not as bad as the Mashable one which was really just "I don't like the name!" (insert crying baby gif), but still pretty bad.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/apps/a25956/mastodon-twitter-open-web

The main problem here is the idea that some benevolent admin - perhaps a Zuckerberg-like figure - will guide the socnets to the promised land in which there will be One True Domain, zero griefing or impersonations and all will be beautificent...

(record scratch)

That silo model has been around for 10+ years now, and we know how it worked out. The sad reality is that admins themselves can be what the author calls "ne'er-do-wells" and they cannot solve all social ills. People are always going to have to work out their differences themselves - difficult though that may be at times. There is no white knight on a nyan cat who is going to ride to the rescue of the huddled masses of internet proles.

So this is another failure to grok what federation is about and the history of failed meganode moderation attempts. If has been suggested that such comprehension failures might be deliberate, and there could be some mileage in that depending upon where the revenue streams for some of these tech journos originate.

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Come to the land of fur and slime where the commies and queers have a good time

OpenVPN is just a software though, I'm talking about what VPN service to buy

oh jesus I just saw a mouse run across the kitchen floor