madjo
@madjo@feddit.nl
- Comment on flouride 1 week ago:
For what’s it worth, in my country (Netherlands), we don’t add fluoride to our tap water anymore since the early 70s. We just have it in our toothpaste (though you can also get fluoride free toothpaste for those who don’t want it).
Sure there’s still traces of fluoride in our water, as it appears in nature. But it’s not artificially added by our water companies.
- Comment on Good News! 2 weeks ago:
That MST3K-style tactic is the reason why I’m not allowed to watch movies with my family anymore. (though I wasn’t stoned)
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 weeks ago:
What other server is there?
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t talking about that, I was talking about your objection of “the requirement to select anything in the first place” with regards to a Mastodon server.
With that in mind, if email were to be released today, it’d be deemed “too hard for people to understand” because you have to choose what email provider you’re going to use. Are you going with AOL, or are you going to roll up your own? With some you even have to hand over money before you get access. Just too difficult!
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 weeks ago:
How did you decide which email provider you were going to go with? Did you set up your own server? Or perhaps gain access to an address through a community? Or did you go with a normies server like Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail?
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 weeks ago:
I use masto for myself, not for likes. I use it to get SilentSunday and Mosstodon photos and to goof around with people I meet in the online space.
Sure it’d be nice to see a like or a response to a shit post, but for that you need to be followed by people who share your sensibilities, as there’s no algorithm boosting your stuff into other people’s timelines. Unless you use a relevant hashtag that’s being followed by others.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 weeks ago:
But then it’s not federated. It’s all on one giant monolith of a server. Perhaps the traffic is shared between machines, but that’s not the same thing as federated.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and we need much more like that if we want this platform to be sucessful as a whole. Normies want to join social medias, not clubs.
Why? There’s plenty of general servers aimed at normies that don’t require you to write an essay about yourself.
Let those specialty servers be specialty servers. Some only want artists, some only want neurodivergent people, some only want trans people on their platform. That’s their right! They get to decide who comes on their platform and who doesn’t. It’s not up to you to decide that for them. You need to understand that the people hosting these servers are not gazillionaires that do this out of the kindness of their hearts, they want to foster a certain atmosphere and a certain community on their server, and they do their best to keep disruptive people out. And one way of doing that is by limiting who gets on.
So instead of desperately trying to join blahaj_artists.social, why not join normies.social like mastodon.social or mstdn.social, or masto.ai or mastodon.coffee or any of the other ‘normie’ mastodon servers.
Go here, select “Sign up process: instant” and choose any of the servers on that page, and you’ll get in, without having to write an essay about yourself.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have to do that when you sign up for mstdn.social, and it’s also not a requirement for mastodon.social And there are more instances where you don’t have to apply like that.
But when it’s asked that you apply to the server, it’s usually to ease the load of moderation, to see if you would fit the vibe of that instance. And/or to protect the more vulnerable people on that particular instance.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 weeks ago:
As long as email has a barrier to entry for most people of mandating choosing a server first, it will never become the mainstream choice.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 2 weeks ago:
It’s time to drop Disney+.
- Comment on TTeck (Proxmox Helper Scripts) has passed away. R.I.P. 2 weeks ago:
Rest in peace!
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 5 weeks ago:
No Paige, don’t!
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 5 weeks ago:
Dutch tech news site Tweakers.net kept saying that it was too hard… *head desk*
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 1 month ago:
Darn you, Alexander Graham Bell!
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 1 month ago:
“you can’t take the sky from me”
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 1 month ago:
Which meant “it’s really really really good” at the time.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 1 month ago:
Time for the DSA and the DMA to be applied to reddit.
- Comment on 10001 1 month ago:
Good point!
- Comment on 10001 1 month ago:
-1 days? (or 17, without the overflow)
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
And then you go to the website on your phone and you get “Install our handy dandy little app” pop-ups every time you open a new page. If only they wouldn’t do that.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
I wish sites that do have PWAs would stop funneling people towards their app.
Especially Patreon, where patronages started using their app would be 30% more expensive for their users than patronages started through their website because of the Apple (and probably Google) tax. Patreon is aware of this tax but keeps advertising their fucking stupid app! You have a Progressive Web App that’s works perfectly! Stop it! Get some help! - Comment on Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated 2 months ago:
I won’t be buying a single Nintendo product then. Fuck 'em.
I’m going to boycott them the same way I’ve boycotted Sony ever since one of their CDs bricked my PC with their stupid rootkit.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 2 months ago:
Meanwhile I sometimes fail those. I have been locked out of applications because I missed a square of a bus. I ducking hate CAPTCHAs.
- Comment on Climate change 2 months ago:
I’d love to have a great seaside property in Montana. I’ll call up Aquaman Realtors ASAP!
- Comment on Weevil time 2 months ago:
Nah it shows real tenacity and grit with a real selftied tie, as a weevil doesn’t have opposable thumbs. So it takes real skill to tie the tie.
- Comment on Oreo 2 months ago:
Hi Iheartcheese, we at OREO love this comment. Would you mind if we reshare it?
- Comment on Platypuses 2 months ago:
Hey? Where’s Perry?
- Comment on Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body 2 months ago:
You two are fun, guys!
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
When I still used Twitter, I followed people and that was the only content I wanted to read. I didn’t care about content from people I wasn’t following.