@ernie This is the best thing since the Onion's amicus briefing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxTWonQvXkw

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Knight to fkn Bishop

@ernie And?

@ernie WTAF. ACF is a vital Wordpress plugin that literally thousands of other plugins also depend on. Before all this madness I didn’t even realize it had been purchased by WP Engine.

@ernie MATT THIS IS YOUR LAWYER KEEP POSTING

@ernie@writing.exchange is he going to ban this plugin from Wordpress because it’s from WP engine? Lmfao

@ernie this proves true on so many levels and should be hammered into ppl‘s heads

@ernie Laws are for lawyers. IP needs to be armored by lawyers.

@ernie the stranglehold that publishers have on our entire culture is obscene. We have to find ways to support authors that don't further empower these ghouls. Meanwhile, z library doesn't bother paying publishers anything, and has books and scientific articles freely available to all, and has yet to be taken down.

TOR URL:
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@ernie Bookmarked. And color me surprised that noone had reserved `breezypasta.yachts`

@ernie Neat, but what are the ongoing rates? Listed anywhere?

If anyone would still like these emulators before they go away, I would note that they’re still available as flatpaks on Linux.

@ernie lol name me proper working progressive web apps with notifications from companies that aren't constantly trying to push you to their app.

I'd love for more full featured web apps, too bad no one offers any. Who exactly is complaining?

The dogmatism exists because they're trying to protect their culture.

I realize it can be frustrating sometimes and there are real reasons to find it frustrating, but understanding why this comes up is key to understanding this entire messy debate.

@ernie the mastodontist (because you deal in tooths)

@ernie i'd start tooting all day long just to maintain ownership of the title.

@ernie Mastodon's witnesses: hello sir do you have a time to talk about our master big fluffy gigant

In many ways, @ajroach42 embodies a lot of the ethos of Mastodon—he’s passionate about community, he’s extremely creative, he isn’t in this for purely commercial reasons, he runs a makerspace—and I think that you should get to know him if you don’t already.

I wrote a profile on him a few weeks ago before the launch of NETV: https://tedium.co/2022/10/21/new-ellijay-tv-diy-tv-network/

This will replace my usual newsletter, MidRange, for at least this week. I gave it a dedicated banner.

@ernie Really good article; I hadn't even considered I was making the assumption of fitting in with how I identify myself with an existing instance's community vibe. We're all told to choose one of the join buttons, but not how that obliges us!

@ernie Thanks for writing this! Much appreciated (I joined Mastodon on Friday myself). For me, the choice of a server was easy - oslo.town is an instance for people who identify with the city of Oslo, the capital of Norway. And @matt who runs it seens like a decent guy. Of my different interests, what should I choose an instance based on? I am in favor of a more eclectic social media presence. // Thanks again, I will follow your work noving forward :)