Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
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Six reasons Mastodon won't survive
The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.Lance Ulanoff (Mashable)
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the main thing making me support right-to-repair laws is that I need to make my car’s manufacturer give me whatever horrific software is running the touchscreen so I can rewrite it
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Ah, I have solved that one by reading the warnings about touchscreens in cars and deciding that I won't buy any such car.
There is absolutely no reason you should need an OBD2 scanner to read troublecodes on a car with a touch screen UI! You should be able to see them all right there.
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I've found the people that claim overreaction are usually among the capitalists that have the most to gain. They're the ones you should be wary of.
Conversations in our house, an occasional series:
"Why has no one invented Möbius strip pasta?"
"I think you might have just solved world hunger."
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don’t use either. use @openstreetmap or @CoMaps. it’s the #antifa thing to do.
I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
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Google just goes with whatever is easier for them. If they fear losing money over a name change, they'll adapt. But only for the affected market. Most other countries still have it with its real name
I use @CoMaps as well. My husband does not, and lately, the navigation has been insane. I can only guess Google Maps is experiencing a serious case of artificial "intelligence" decay. @openstreetmap @CoMaps
🚨 LinkedIn runs a silent browser scan on every Chrome user who visits the site. 6,222 extensions. ~405 million users affected. No consent, no disclosure, no mention in their privacy policy.
The scan identifies your sales tools, VPN, ad blocker, job search extensions, and extensions tied to religion, politics, and disability.
The full technical breakdown, legal analysis, and searchable database of every scanned extension:
#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #privacy
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.BrowserGate
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I was locked out a year ago for no reason (probably VPN use) and was asked to go through Persona to verify. Never. Privacy Hell squared right there. So now I can’t even delete my account! Tried all communication channels but nope… locked out. So now my albeit minimal data floats in the evil æther. #LinkedIn #BrowserGate #Privacy
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Faulting all Israelis for the many unpardonable sins of Bibi Netanyahu and his government is no different than faulting all Americans for the sins of Donald Trump and his. And I’m really getting tired of hearing such (often antisemitic) bullshit.
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Not to mention the very large numbers of Jews who don't live in Israel.
I regularly use the Trump example of the contrast between leaders and the country as whole to clarify my criticism of the Israeli government.
It's raining.
We tolerate the rain because it makes living things grow.
There is a payoff for our tolerance.
Keep this in mind when people pervert the meaning of tolerance.
It doesn't mean being nice to fascists.
They won't grow flowers in the spring.
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The more I hear Marco Rubio talk, the more I think what a POS who sold his “Lil Marco” soul to the ghoul in the White House. Dictator Trump might make him Duke of Cuba.
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I live in Florida. I can attest to the fact that Lil Marco sold his soul long before TFG (or he never had one).
I want to point out that there still is a way Republicans can win in November.
By now, everyone is used to Republicans suddenly reversing positions on every imaginable topic, and that is the secret to victory.
All they have to do is reverse their position on Israel.
Come out as anti-genocide and anti-Israel, and Republicans will be able to defeat all but a handful of Democrats, who will 100% continue to express their support of Israel and genocide, thus pissing off both Democratic and a surprising number of Republican voters.
Democrats have already made it very clear that they would rather lose elections than stop supporting Israel.
Poll after poll shows that Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose genocide and are no longer buying into the little narrative the US mainstream media spent decades selling us on.
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This is also Hasan Piker's hypothesis of precisely what Tucker Carlson's cohort are up to, but you probably know that already.
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@rooftopjaxx
Thanks for reminding me. My life is very busy and I'm not as up on things as I would like.
Thanks for reminding me. My life is very busy and I'm not as up on things as I would like.
Is the democratic party afraid to say 'no oligarchs' instead of 'no kings' bc so many of the donors paying their leadership and consultants are oligarchs?
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I was wondering who provided all that publicity for no kings, when the real protest should have been no oligarchs.
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"Is the democratic party afraid to say 'no oligarchs' instead of 'no kings' bc so many of the donors paying their leadership and consultants are oligarchs?"
Yes.
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#CongressionalRepublicans can stop this motherfucker, Trump, anytime they want to. It’s been that way since day one of his first term, but they refuse to, because they don’t want to. They aren’t frightened, they’re complicit.
#DonaldTrump #AmericanHitler #CriminalCohorts #OathBreakers #AmericanTraitors #TrumpTools #Iran #IranWar
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They are TRAITORS and terrorists.
And every one of them needs to be dealt with accordingly.
And every one of them needs to be dealt with accordingly.
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"Devuan - Linux Committed to No Age Attestation" 👀👏
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Ugh. It's been a day already and it's only 9:30am.
With a layoff at my now former company, lots of us have been impacted, including me. The good news is my calendar is now free and clear.
I have no idea what comes next but if you know of any #InternalCommunications roles in #Massachusetts, I'd really appreciate the heads up 😃
My LinkedIn is: linkedin.com/in/shartlen/.
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It pleases me that far more people have reached a point where they no longer care about establishment condemnation in their struggle against the vast injustice of the world. It is long overdue.
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Avete visto Ben Gvir festeggiare di nuovo la reintroduzione della pena di morte in Israele (che era un paese abolizionista di fatto)? Aveva distribuito dolcetti, ora avrebbe brindato al voto definitivo.
Ceto, Ben Gvir è Ben Gvir, che si presentò in parlamento con una spilletta col cappio (a proposito ve li ricordate i nostri leghisti?).
Ben Gvir ne ha di strada da fare per arrivare ad essere all'altezza di un R. Akiva. Mi spingo al punto di dire che IMHO non lo sarà mai.
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They Trump regime still thinks allies (we) don’t understand that the greatest threat to us right now is not Iran, it is the US. But we do. We already know the US can’t be trusted or counted on (see: Ukraine, Greenland, delusional maps of “Greater America”) so why on earth would any NATO country make itself a target of Iran for the US? Pure nonsense.
Everytime a US “patriot” missile is lost at sea a baby Canada goose flies around the lake.
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Low Earth orbit is now a very dangerous environment. It didn't have to be, but world governments sold off stewardship of the sky to techbros who don't care if we can actually ever leave the planet because they intend to be princes of what's left of this one.
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Today is rough in this world for so many.
Israel has voted to start exterminating Palestinian prisoners.
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And Trump bombed Iran for that POS Netanyahu.
There are no negotiations ongoing or in the future with Iran and if anyone believes that they are delusional.
Jensen Huang of Nvidia
Peter Thiel of Palantir
Mark Zuckerburg of Meta
Larry Ellison of Oracle
Tim Cook of Apple
Jeff Bezos of Amazon
Sundar Pichai of Google
Sam Altman of Open AI
Elon Musk of X(it)
All of these things have contributed and continue to contribute to the downfall of democracy and the murder of innocent people on this planet.
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add a coupla Filipino Box Springs and a barrel of BBQ sauce and you gotta party
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Tom Waits - "Filipino Box Spring Hog"
Listen to the full album: http://bit.ly/33iL2LM"Filipino Box Spring Hog" by Tom Waits from the album 'Mule Variations'LyricsWell I hung on to Mary's stumpI d...Tom Waits (YouTube)
Must organise online and irl actions to pass costs onto the above and others who can lean on Trump. Would be good to make it as effective as possible but legal and non violent.
meanwhile gamers: Haha that's just Jensen. What do you mean that's abuse?
A haha no that would make me an abuse victim...
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Understand something, the super rich will pull out all the stops they can to make sure that data centers their precious totalitarian surveillance system, gets all the energy and water and resources they need. Data center construction is probably about 10% of what headline numbers you see, but even these numbers are unrealistic as the supply chain falls apart.
Remember that billionaires are an extinction cult they want the world to fall apart
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They're also accelerationists, so they'd rather it falls apart sooner than later.
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@lori
They have every kind of moral abomination justifying their accelerationism.
Extinction cult is apt. (Taylor Lorenz's appellation for them)
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And to think, if you were to openly wish bad things on these people equal to what they do to others, there would be grounds to have your post removed.
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A Tired Fourplex Is Transformed Into an Elegant Single-Family Home
Designers Haley Dermenjian and Lindsay Mens of TOM Design Collective turn a tired Toronto fourplex into an elegant family home.Moyo Lawuyi (House & Home)
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"if visitors are lucky, either Diandra or one of the couple’s two girls will be playing the grand piano that sits in a bay window. if they are unlucky, visitors themselves will be forced to play it."
The Supreme Court says ISPs aren’t responsible for everything their users do online. That means your access to the internet is less likely to be cut off over accusations alone. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/supr…
Supreme Court Agrees With EFF: ISPs Don't Have To Be Copyright Enforcers
If your ISP can be liable for huge amounts of money for not terminating your access to the internet because of accusations that you—or someone in your household or college network—has committed copyright infringement, that is dangerous.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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An authoritarian does not to rule but demonstrates who is subordinate.
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The following thought has not been fully thought-through.
*****
I'm Black. I love being Black. I take pride in the achievements of other Black people
But being Black is different from all my other identities: Nigerian, British, woke, F1 fan.
Being Black is not an identity I picked for myself or inherited by birth, it's one that was given to me by people who hate me (and those who look like me). I'm Black today cos 400 years ago someone wanted to enslave my ancestors.
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heavy stuff.
respect for sharing the big thoughts. gives us all a bigger perspective.
So there is a WH app? Go figure that is raises security issues: instagram.com/reel/DWaWZdjDit6…
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White House App Settings Grant Full Control Over Your Device: Users Warned of Extreme Risks
The Trump administration's new app demands extensive hardware permissions, raising privacy concerns and sparking calls for deletion.Aiza Moraña (International Business Times)
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if people stopped giving all these corporations their age or id/kyc info and just canceled their subscriptions or accounts for 4 months we'd see how fast they stop asking once those next quarter results show up.
governments would wake up pretty fast with less VAT, GST, and Tax revenue, too. you give them an inch and they will take a mile. cut that inch and cut their source of revenue, and they will all fall in line.
that is the only solution to all these stupid laws.
Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
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@nixCraft
this is also why we need to gum up the process as much as possible. That's why I'm supportive of things like hacking and releasing age verification documents, not only does this prove there lying when they say they are retaining it but it also gives the I have nothing to hide people another reason to care, Identity Theft.
Analysis: "Suez was the death knell for the British empire. Hormuz may do the same for the US."
It "risks repeating the 1956 Suez crisis, which hastened the end of sterling as a global reserve currency & forced imperial retreat".
"Empires decline when their military reach outpaces their political strategy..their economic foundations weaken..
.."& when the people they seek to dominate endure long enough to outlast their overwhelming force."
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Suez was the death knell for the British empire. Hormuz may do the same for the US
As confrontation with Iran escalates, Washington risks repeating the 1956 Suez crisis, which hastened the end of sterling as a global reserve currency and forced imperial retreatMiddle East Eye
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Dear UK,
Israel thanks you for supporting their genocide. Good chaps, wot wot!
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As much as you can,
Stop burning oil
It's literally war fuel
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I had to be a downer, but it would be a very big collective mistake to think that even retaking both houses of Congress will fix our MAGA problem. At best they will provide an opportunity for reforms to prevent some conservative excesses in the future.
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a call to action and are likely to come roaring back just two years later. So let’s have no illusions. This will be a multigenerational fight, and the odds are not really in our favor.
I'm worried we're going to see a repeat of the whole SCO vs. IBM mess via AI and uncertainties about how copyright applies to its output. Open source is one of these things that has been safe because the business community actually likes it up to a point and because it's flown under the radar. But I wouldn't put it past the forces of reaction to say actually no, all GPL'd code is really owned by Larry Ellison now and we will enforce that at gunpoint.
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Ah, but of course #github enables LLM access to my repos by default.
There's nothing like consent, eh?
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Please write a new cell phone operating system that excludes data collectors.
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If you must see a Harry Potter story, watch "Weird" (2022) instead.
It has the same actor who played Harry Potter. His character still starts out as a kind of child prodigy. And it's actually funny.
Plus, it has Conan O'Brien as Andy Warhol. That's not exactly magical but it's worth seeing just for the bizarreness of it all.
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@cubicgarden *yes but* most social media platforms are also unhealthy for adults.
Social networks are offline too.
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its not so much the social networks that are the issue, but the platform and it's algorithms. Those drive the real issue.
Blue Bottle (Nestle) has refused to negotiate a contract for over a year. Please join #BBIU and boycott Blue Bottle until Nestle signs a contract. (My daughter is a barista at one of the #Boston stores, so you'd better believe this is personal to me.)
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Tell Blue Bottle: No Contract, No Customers!
For a year Blue Bottle baristas have been negotiating for a strong contract with our Nestlé-owned employer.Blue Bottle Independent Union (Action Network)
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From a Canadian friend:
"Reopening the Strait has emerged as the main objective of the war—an issue that was caused by the war.
So we are negotiating concessions to fix a thing we broke at the cost of 2 billion a day .... and at a personal cost at the gas pump"
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🍥MEU REFÚGIO NERD🍥 (@MeuRefugioNerd@mastodon.com.br)
Anexado: 1 imagem Até o time dele não aguenta mais🍥MEU REFÚGIO NERD🍥 (Mastodon Brasil)
And I think you know that the energy prices are the tip of the economic iceberg. Oil is broken down into a number of products many of which our feed stocks were agriculture and mineral extraction and processing.
Helium is produced in the Middle East. It is an essential ingredient for chip manufacturing. I hope it’s an important component of even a GPU that go into data centers.
Our @starsandsabers Oz anthology, Omniboz: Tales from the Land of Oz, is at 36% funded! Today, it's just shy of $1900, and I'd love to see it jump to the next level. Help us get there! indiegogo.com/en/projects/jend…
#books #oz #anthology
#books #oz #anthology
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It's almost impossible to overstate the costs of Trump's recklessness & corruption. The environmental costs, economic costs, legal costs, political costs, moral & ethical costs, opportunity costs. Staggering to think about.
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •I blogged about that last year:
mstdn.social/@rysiek/114284660…
To his credit, Lance Ulanoff admitted then he was wrong about fedi:
mastodon.social/@Lance_Ulanoff…
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Today more time has passed since the Mastodon Won't Survive piece got published than there is left until the AI bubble pops.
Feeling old yet?
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Cheerios de Bergerac
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥
in reply to Cheerios de Bergerac • • •That would explain A LOT, honestly.
@rysiek
ARGVMI~1.PIF
in reply to Cheerios de Bergerac • • •@sexybenfranklin
Then why do I still have to pay for rent, food, and taxes?
@rysiek
Cheerios de Bergerac
in reply to ARGVMI~1.PIF • • •Quinn Norton
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Quinn Norton • • •@quinn I don't think growth for growth's sake is the way to go, and while it does provide *a* signal, it is not *the* signal so to speak.
I fully expect Bluesky to start enshittifying, because of course they will with their cryptocurrency bro overlords looking for payout eventually.
Meanwhile fedi is doing its thing, getting more resilient, easier to join, dealing with some long-term issues around moderation and so on. And will be there, better prepared than ever, for the next wave.
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in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •They will want it now if not yesterday!
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in reply to Quinn Norton • • •Quinn Norton
in reply to Quinn Norton • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Quinn Norton • • •deutrino
in reply to Quinn Norton • • •@quinn Diaspora* is proof positive of that. I log in like once every 3 years at this point and it's all still there.
I'm interested to hear your perception that fedi is shrinking, I don't share it (despite knowing that "Mastodon" MAUs - however they're tracked - are down from peak) but I also think I have a sort of bottom-up approach to finding ppl to follow after being here almost 10 years and also being distrustful of Firstname Lastname clearly-has-a-mortgage accounts who post Takes.
deutrino
in reply to deutrino • • •Quinn Norton
in reply to deutrino • • •deutrino
in reply to Quinn Norton • • •@quinn it's one of the old-skool FOSS social networks which just won't die, been persisting for 15 years now with a few thousand users
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Diaspora (social network) - Wikipedia
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to deutrino • • •@deutrino @quinn yeah. I used to be pretty active there, years and years ago.
The sad thing is Diaspora* used to be the biggest of the FLOSS federated social networks, and they kinda acted up because of this. Never properly documented their protocol, I believe, and were definitely not interested in implementing any other protocol.
It's a sad irony that at some point Mastodon and broader ActivityPub-verse grew way larger than they've ever been and now they're kinda in a pickle.
Scott Murray
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Benjamin
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Hi_Kitsune
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •marcink
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to marcink • • •🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •That is not dead which can eternal lie,
✨ 💫
And with strange aeons even twitter may died.
#VivaMastodon 💪 😁
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derptron
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Hopefully he's learned a bit more than that because WOW!
I honestly thought AI wrote it and hallucinated the whole time. Something trained on rage bait from middle schoolers. Wasn't a coherent argument in it anywhere.
"The logo is cute, but the service right now stinks almost as badly as a thawing woolly mammoth."
Even if mastodon had face planted, this article wouldn't be relevant to anyone but the guy who wrote it...and maybe Shatner because it's got him in it.
Alberto Cottica
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Alberto Cottica • • •HisVirusness
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Faraiwe
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Ulanoff got stuck and can NOT evolve past his scant understanding of the "internet", beyond Web2.0
He never had a single tech opinion that was not handed to him, with a check, by some corporate PR douchebag.
Always consider your sources.
Dark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈
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Collective Truth
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •2 Problems and the #answer below:
1/ The weakness is in people / their learning curve / energy + tolerance needed to figure it out. Iit's always going be the problem / challenge initially.
2/ Sometimes just better to install a new operating system / app + account FOR grandma etc *instead of understanding the install *
Allowing " #dualboot " (both commercial and #FOSS version to play around / migrate instead of just one or the other which probably good for learning curve.
Collective Truth
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •The #ANSWER: (Continuing post... )
People need more active help on #Mastodon (a #helpdesk)
Not having help limits adoption.
Without commercial partners (for the good) etc it's less / not as actively good / not as practical.
Only for #techies obviously / mostly...
We need a constant team or #helpline to be like the #commercial teams (and #convert people to the good *more actively / personally*.
(E.G.) The addressing or people of same names etc is not easy.
#CollectiveTruth #Truth
Tero Hänninen
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •MarkAssPandi
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •6 reasons:
1. dumb name
2. i dont get what federated means
3. dumb name
4. i dont know how handles work
5. valid concern
6. valid concern
33.3% grade
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ
in reply to MarkAssPandi • • •The apps one is kinda strange though. Half of it's kinda valid ("no one knows how many instances there are and there's no list"), but just the fact that there's more apps than the official one? That's just weird (and deliberately forgetting the plethora of twitter apps there used to be before they shut that possibility down).
(Edit: autocorrect)
Dec [{()}]
in reply to L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ • • •I had 3 different mobile Twitter apps in the Before Times, not counting the (very bad and totally overrated) official app.
Can't even remember the names of them now.
Ed
in reply to Dec [{()}] • • •Alternate Twitter apps were so popular Twitter had to close off their API just to get people onto the official one.
ARGVMI~1.PIF
in reply to L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ • • •@Mabande
Why would I *need* a list of all the instances?
Yes, listing them is largely impossible. Most of them are probably single-user servers in somebody's homelab. But so what? I'm not the Federation Police.
@MarkAssPandi @rysiek
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in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Ramses Revengeday
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Ramses Revengeday • • •mastodon.social/@Lance_Ulanoff…
LanceUlanoff (@Lance_Ulanoff@mastodon.social)
LanceUlanoff (Mastodon)Ramses Revengeday
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •"This is no BlueSky"
Said like it's a bad thing to not be scraping everything for ai, or to be beholden to crypto bros.
@revengeday
liquidlamp
in reply to I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥 • • •Raphael Albert
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Juno Jove
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Chris 🦑
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •best in this article is the missing tweet from twitter.com
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Chris 🦑 • • •Dec [{()}]
in reply to Chris 🦑 • • •Excellent alt text!
ARGVMI~1.PIF
in reply to Chris 🦑 • • •@sturmsucht
To be fair, there are plenty of missing toots on Mastodon, too.
The other day, on a whim, I decided to go through my Mastodon archive, pick some random toots I boosted once upon a time, and view them again. Many of them were 404.
Probably because a fair number of people here use the auto-delete feature.
Nothing on social media---any social media—is permanent. Not unless you save a copy of it on your own computer (and have good backups of said computer).
@rysiek
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥
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Joan CiberSheep (ell/això)
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •I was going to say «I would not read it, but I didn't... sorry, I just read the headers XD XD and noooow, I will retut it
@revengeday
millennial fulcrum
in reply to Joan CiberSheep (ell/això) • • •~n
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Yeah, uhm. Good to be here. Not missing those people.
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥
in reply to ~n • • •@nblr
I've seen people say that about BS accounts. Just signing up to protect my brand! Like copycat accounts are concerned about accuracy in account impersonations. They'll let some celeb have their real "protected" account of @johnsmith on BS and just use @johrsrn1th to ask people for iTunes gift cards.
@rysiek
DJGummikuh
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •I'm laughing WAY more than I should 🤣
webhat
in reply to DJGummikuh • • •shellsharks
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Obviously this looks painfully ridiculous reading it from the year 2026, but even back then he was laying it on a bit too thick, like he wanted it to fail 😡.
We of course know it will live forever...
shellsharks.com/notes/2023/11/…
Mastodon will never die
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ARGVMI~1.PIF
in reply to shellsharks • • •@shellsharks
We are the Fediverse. Resistance is futile.
@rysiek
GeorgeK
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Face Thumb
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •How is the Metaverse going, anyway?
Mastodon has outlived the Metaverse, bitcoin usefulness, NFTs...
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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Dec [{()}]
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@chrisp
Unfashionable take, but I really liked G+ (in the early days, before the mandatory YouTube disaster).
I got in as part of the first wave of general public users, courtesy of an invite from a friend who worked for Google.
Woz was on it, and I found a lot of interesting music there (that wasn't being pushed anywhere else).
It (unsurprisingly) went to shit after they added the mandatory requirement to have a G+ account to add comments on YouTube videos.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Dec [{()}] • • •@dec23k why unfashionable? I never used it, but that doesn't mean it was bad. That was years before all the really toxic social media stuff started happening. No shade if you liked it.
The point I was making is that this here tiny little fedi has way more staying power than a social network with over a hundred million users at the time, pushed hard by one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
That, to me, is the superpower of decentralized services.
@chrisp
Dec [{()}]
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •By "unfashionable take", I just meant that it's been common to see people quickly default to criticising G+, whether they used it or not.
Bruce Heerssen
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@chrisp
I was not anti-google back then and I wanted Google+ to thrive. Technically, it was pretty good for the time, but not many people joined. It couldn't overcome the network effect other platforms had achieved.
I'm glad of it now. I shudder to think of Google being dominant in the social media sphere today.
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥
in reply to Face Thumb • • •Three seriously low hanging plums, those.
@rysiek
Wandering Star
in reply to Face Thumb • • •stonedonkey 🕹️🎮👾
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Mastodon having a bit of a learning curve is one of the best things about it IMO.
Much like the Internet before AOL and the masses having easy access, and we all saw how that went.
stux⚡️
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •What "reporter" uses words like this in a tech article
I think they had the feeling they where on Twitter still
Clowns! 🤡
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Sounds like the writer has a toot-ache.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺 • • •@johnlogic 👏 👏 👏
@stux
ARGVMI~1.PIF
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •@stux
Fool! Doctor Doom (played by John Mastodon) toots as he pleases!
@rysiek
🤯Matera the Mad🤯
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •dB Cooper
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •millennial fulcrum
in reply to dB Cooper • • •@CoolerPseudonym nope!
you appear to have depression. bye!
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Roy Howard 🧉
in reply to Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen • • •Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
in reply to Roy Howard 🧉 • • •I think its George Takei's social media team rather than him directly, but one thing I've noticed since 2017 is whilst I was initially one of the oldest on my Fedi group, now there are *many* folk on Fedi easily old enough to be my parents (and I'm 54!) and a lot who aren't from tech backgrounds, which shows the network has become accessible and usable for older people..
Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
in reply to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK • • •@vfrmedia @RoyHorace @mxchara
I suppose that includes me.
I'm 71 and although I have worked extensively with computers during my career, IT was never part of my core job.
I do have a very early paper published where I'm a joint author on the development of an HTML 'database' which I'm proud to say has now morphed into a fully maintained international web resource.
Does that make me techie? 🤔😁
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
in reply to Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 • • •@MikeFromLFE @RoyHorace @mxchara
I think you have tech-related interests and hobbies, but what you put together tends to be considered "shadow IT" in the industry (even though its now more widely used).
I suspect a lot of those aged 50-70+ do now have greater tech skills than younger generations as they *had* to learn a bit more about how the computer works (such as file and directory structures) and until 1990s computers with GUI weren't that commonplace..
D Ingram
in reply to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK • • •Research Portal
doi.orgDriftini
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •the thing is fedi is just not comparable to twitter, no wonder one loses when held to the standards of the other
you go to one social or the other for different reasons, I believe fedi excels at less but better connections and conversations, while twitter is the instant winner when it comes to keeping up to date with higher profile people (non-indie music artists and such) or generally what's hot on the internet at a given time
I am not considering twitter's ideological issues here cause they're a recent problem that's not intrinsic to the platform I feel
Mx "Vote Green" Fraud
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •"This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. "
ENIGMATICO
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@rysiek@mstdn.social
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Domestic Supply
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Franz Graf
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in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •InarticulateQuilter (@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art)
InarticulateQuilter (Mastodon.ART)millennial fulcrum
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Ed
in reply to millennial fulcrum • • •I think we should all celebrate by tooting "Toot!" at his mastodon.social account.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Ed • • •Ed
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •wordsmith‽ ⁂
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •it sure has failed as an experiment!
Sent from my iPhone
__Miguel_
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •"Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"
- Fediverse
😛
(Matthew)=> 🏳️🌈🇿🇦🎮💻📖
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Bodhipaksa
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Ozzelot
in reply to Bodhipaksa • • •Massimo
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •„Unless someone buys the code off Rochko today and consolidates this mess ASAP, it can't survive.“
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System)
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Welp, he was wrong about Mastodon fizzling out in two weeks, but the one thing he wasn't wrong about was Mastodon growing stagnant. Mastodon's sat at the same active user counts for a while and it's plateau'd. The platform hasn't seen any significant growth since the 2022 Twitter exodus, and though growth obviously isn't everything, Mastodon remains relatively niche.
Still, funny reading about this dude just having a massive skill-issue with using Mastodon.
#Mastodon #Twitter #FediMeta
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) • • •Scalloped Growth – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netLuigi.exe (Dragonheart System)
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Counterpoint: that article is over three years old and was written not long after the Twitter exodus. That doesn't counter my point that the platform has plateau'd in terms of active users:
fedidb.com/software/mastodon
joinmastodon.org/servers
fediverse.observer/stats&month…
Estimates range from ~750k - 1m monthly active users, and I know it's been sitting at that for a while because I occasionally check in with FediDB. Monthly active users has been coasting around 1.1m - 1.2m for over a year now. Mastodon Analytics show that the monthly active user count is currently coasting downwards when zoomed all the way out:
mastodon-analytics.com/
Server counts have also been decreasing.
Servers
joinmastodon.orgMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) • • •@Eeveecraft the point that piece is making is: such numbers do not mean "stagnation".
Mastodon (the project) has overhauled it's management structure at long last and for the better, implemented a lot of functionalities people have been asking for years for (quote-toots, grouped notifications, many others).
Fediverse (the community) understands itself better, has done a lot of work around becoming a more friendly place for newcomers – and that work continues.
Fedi is anything but stagnant.
Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System)
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •If you interpret the word, "Stagnant," like that, sure, but that's not what I mean by stagnant, and I thought that was pretty clear with the arguments and links I provided.
I mean stagnant in terms of growth, and I am talking about Mastodon specifically, we're not talking about the Fediverse in general. Where did I mention the Fediverse as a whole and not Mastodon?
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) • • •Juhis
in reply to Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) • • •@Eeveecraft He might be right in terms of what happens (I'll take your word for it) but to me, that's not a negative thing.
Personally I find that growth almost always happens at the expense of people already at the platform or who are customers because growth focuses on everyone who is not there and not to those who are.
Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System)
in reply to Juhis • • •@hamatti
My issue is that a platform the size of Mastodon isn't going to encourage sweeping changes to how the internet is inhabited. People keep talking about how the Fediverse is going to revolutionize things and fight back against ensh!ttification and centralization, but if the biggest platform on the Fediverse can hardly maintain 1m monthly active users after about a decade, then it's not doing its job very well at inspiring that change.
It's great that the people already inside the Fediverse are having a great time, but that's not stopping the rapid ensh!ttification of everything outside it. I don't really want the Fediverse to solely be a nerd's club because only nerds use it, that wasn't the point of it. Like, if the Fediverse is so good, why wouldn't we want to share it with more people and encourage them to adopt it and get away from algorithm/slop hell?
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) • • •@Eeveecraft @hamatti
> My issue is that a platform the size of Mastodon isn't going to encourage sweeping changes to how the internet is inhabited.
It already has. EU institutions have official presence here, EU regulations are inspired by the interoperability and federated nature of this here social network. There are many ways to "encourage sweeping changes" without having to be the biggest kid on the social media block.
Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System)
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@hamatti
Cool, and that doesn't mean much if hardly anyone actually interacts with said EU presence because hardly anyone uses the platform in comparison to others. Also, which regulations? You mean like the rapidly sweeping age-verification laws that are actively perpetuating mass-surveillance?
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) • • •Demian
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Danny Boling ☮️
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •I am totally ok with this plan. Slow is good!
@dgodon
Coach Pāṇini ®
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@dgodon
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Cassandrich
in reply to Coach Pāṇini ® • • •@paninid @dgodon No, really, move slow.
Cassandrich
2024-12-28 09:05:11
Dan
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •lol
Rachel Parker
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •WanWizard 🏴 🇳🇱
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Stadtkind
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Robert Drózd
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •PKs Powerfromspace1
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Leander Lindahl 🇪🇺
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •"Mastodon cannot live on hype alone." 😂
Michael 🇨🇦 🗺
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Oberst Enzian
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •That aged well lol
Ulanoff sounds like a very self important person. Hopefully he chose to remain on X.
MeaningfulBits
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Davey
in reply to MeaningfulBits • • •david
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •don Elías (como los buses) 🥨
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I_give_u_worms
in reply to don Elías (como los buses) 🥨 • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to I_give_u_worms • • •Ralf Hüls 📸
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Their fortunes for to try.
And these three men made a solemn vow.
John Mastodon must die.
Jimmothy Baggins
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •to me there is fundamental flaws in his arguments and to anyone trying to mock him.
On one hand the chief complaint of Mastodon for him and for many is also its biggest feature. By its very nature Mastodon has no reason to ever “die”. It has no stakeholders no profit margins no business to keep a float. If someone just one person is willing to keep a server running In their basement forever with Mastodon on it. Mastodon will live for ever.
The gist of argument in my view ? Or what I see is the argument; is that Mastodon will never outgrow Twitter or X. And I agree, it won’t. Mastodon GMBH essentially guaranteed that by killing the ability to find other servers while using their servers.
I am done caring if Mastodon grows to billions. If people don’t want to put in a little work and see something amazing. That’s their problem ! Mastodon has plenty of interesting funny people who toot everyday. And that’s more than enough for me
The article itself is douchey as I imagine the author of it Is. But I think the argument is won that Mastodon will not achieve mainstream. My argument is that doesn’t matter.
cybervegan
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in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Denis Rangelov
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •1 reason Mashable won't survive
hoek 💎
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in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Dan, the US is the threat!
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in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Tattie • • •Wokebloke for Democracy
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in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Rycochet • • •Stefan
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •disorderlyf
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •I think this screenshot speaks for how badly this article aged.
cognitively accessible math
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Steffen Voß
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in reply to Roxy Star (she/her) • • •@iveyline
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in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Bussphomet
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •At this rate the internet itself won't survive..
Which is not a good idea for the ones making it unusable since it will be their heads rolling down the street when they realize a free and open and not slop infested internet is the only "circus" left keeping the people from burning their respective countries to the ground.
Raku.Anarchy
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Kai Lücke
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •The only thing missing here now is William Shatner.
Daniel ☀
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •