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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From chatbots to adbots: sharing your thoughts with advertisers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  oh my, I didn't see that coming. That was such a shock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It pains to admit but i got Bird Jones'ed when buying my first telescope⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  what is bird jones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Revolution Will Be Federated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you can't even consider it a true federated network like activitypub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye FireFish.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  wanted to bring matters up anyway in case it still would be considered useful.

  Honestly, I think the issue is still relevant because many users coming to fedi, don't get exposed to this kind of discussion. I wasn't. I was bored with mastodon so looked around and found firefish. But my instance was shutting down. So I decided to just use the source of all the *key software, misskey and went to sign up for misskey.io but couldn't. I had to search a lot to finally figure out the situation. Later, I joined a smaller instance, instead of the flagship instance. My server admin is amazing. They run an instance that also follows US specific laws as well despite being primarily Japanese server because there are a few english users.

  What I learned all of these is that, mastodon is not fedi, there are a lot of software, look around before you settle down. And instances with small number of users form a better community. So, you don't have to choose the largest instance out there.

  • I am not using misskey because I like loli stuff. I should've worded it better. I love my instance because our admin runs a great server.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye FireFish.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am especially sad because firefish was the first fedi project that I donated to. A lot of people had problems with firefish, but the server I was on was absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, they server maintainers foresaw the demise of the software and decided to shut down early this year, on March.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye FireFish.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that was specifically for misskey.io because some western users were breaking some sort of law. I never quite figured out the details. Misskey.io still doesn't let any IP from outside the China-Japan-Korea circle sign up. But there are some instances, that do, and some English language instances there as well.

  Also, misskey and the Japanese side of fedi, tend to tolerate "loli" content to a degree that other side doesn't. My main account is on a misskey server and I love it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is misskey-square.net down for everybody?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's showing me the same thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That happens in India too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sub.club aims to fund the fediverse via premium feeds | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  sub.club is not aimed at servers but monetization of content from individual users. Opposing this doesn't mean someone oppose supporting their home instance monetarily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andreas Kling, developer of the Ladybird Browser has announced the first ever Browser Jam, a weekend-long event for new developers to build browsers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think they ever apologized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Test of a prototype quantum Internet runs underneath New York City for half a month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With my limited knowledge in the subject, after reading their paper, what I understand is, although they say it like it was a great success, their experiment, in its current state, will fail at scale. But, it is a progress compared to previous methods. Also, photons do not play nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, wine used to maintain a fork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't find any NSFW Mastodon instances⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are these relays similar to fediverse instances?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I access the Fediverse itself?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just plugged in my Fire TV and tried running urusai.social on the default browser (Amazon Silk) installed in there. It's not the best experience, but you can certainly use Mastodon, Misskey, Piefed etc. Also, you can install APK files in Fire TV. And I assume these will work on a Fire Tablet as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Streaming Destroyed TV⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After Adam Conover said, "...mastodon is the linux of social media, no one will use it...", I stopped listening to his opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A symbol for the fediverse ⁂⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we need to address the typographical issues for the existing symbol? I am not using that symbol every time I talk about fedi. Fedi accounts are identified as @username@instance, so there's no need to use some obscure unicode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A unique aquaponics system to produce more fish and vegetables with less energy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Decentralized agriculture