@jerry

We need a system that pays people based on adoption of their project. A system that moves us towards an honest to God meritocracy.

This getting paid to sell other people's stuff, pollute, and steal others effort thing sucks.

If only it was so simple.

@jerry Eye opening, thanks for sharing!

@jerry Wow. That is a great piece. Thanks for sharing, which I will, now, as well.

@jerry 🍻🍻🍻

@jerry that means shepards pie and guinness in this household

@jerry ☘️

@jerry but the toothbrushes

@jerry

It was DNS 🥴🤷‍♂️

@jerry *Homer from the back of the room* Worst spam campaign so far. 😬

@jerry spending my Friday evening just hanging out in the "other servers" feed banning spam accounts as they pop up

There are worse hobbies I suppose

You might be interested in following the mod tools discussion promoted by this here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29256

@jerry If it helps, I've seen way more discussion about how terrible this spam wave is than any actual spam 🤷🏻‍♂️

@jerry do you have a preference / get a better cut from any of your payment processors?

@jerry instances should accept donations of cryptocurrency. For philosophical consistency.

@jerry what are the metrics, assuming if 1% of users donated $1/month, it would more than cover everything?

@jerry and Mittens who is gradually pushing the keyboard off my desk

@jerry

but my automobile will not fit in my home

@jerry

@jerry @trending_bot I already look at "trending" occasionally so I don't think this would add anything (unless something is trending on "some top instances" but not my instance).

@jerry my Android client @Tusky has something similar, and from a brief look they're surfacing a similar set of posts (note it's an option within settings to enable both this and trending hashtags).

@jerry @trending_bot Cool, thank you.

@jerry

The point you are missing is that many Mastodonians WANT the drama.

It is a powerful distraction. It gets them away from things they don't want to do, it gets them away from boredom. If they are rageaholics it makes them feel temporarily powerful too.

@jerry good advice. Just blocked someone.

@jerry fully agree. i think "be like bill" is still accurate these days?
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/be-like-bill
thank you for your work!

@jerry Yet!

@jerry Same here, it’s not the sort of thing my social media company is into.

@jerry I keep telling people you're one of the good ones

@jerry why am I laughing 😂?

@jerry What do I do if every day is a bad day?

@jerry I can't stop watching it... 😁

@jerry @dansup what’s the preferred app?

@jerry I'm so glad to hear it! Need to go check it out again

@jerry Thanks!!

@jerry Mastodon is not Twitter, but I think we need to add some UX/UI solution of Twitter for apps and web version

@jerry SHOTS FIRED

@jerry LMAO XD

@jerry "Tell the 'verse you're new around here without telling the 'verse you're new around here."

:itsaliens:​ 😂​

When I first set up a mastodon account some years ago, manga/anime and furries were basically the core of the content 😄

@jerry
Holy hell. This isn't a joke is it? I'm gobsmacked. People are now equating furries with the truly unsavory sickos in society?

@jerry@infosec.exchange I always fast scroll to the block option.

@jerry it should be the culture here that if you are getting benefit and enjoyment here, to find if your admin has Patreon or something similar and sign up to give a couple buck or more monthly. The whole reason there are no ads and no algorithms is because of the servers, internet, etc. that the admins maintain. Don't be a #schnorrer with the admins!

@jerry Done! Thanks for all you and admins and other individuals who help do.

@jerry I’m on it ;)

@jerry gotta love the objectiveness and facts-based reporting of news outlets

@jerry it really is tragic, all these people quitting and taking up our resources 😢 😉

@jerry @mdiluz yeah it dying really explains my constantly growing follower count

@jerry @ernest
Kbin is absolutely our best reddit alternative right now. Lemmy is good and I'm glad it exists, but it feels more alpha than anything right now.

Kbin on the other hand feels more polished. It needs work, definitely, but you can feel the potential when you use it.

Thanks to all the devs out there working to build the future. Who knew it's what we'd need in 2023 😂

@jerry @ernest Anyone knows if search engines index fediverse posts? Or is it too early to tell since its just getting traction

@jerry @ernest what’s the difference between kbin and Lemmy?

@jerry neat, I didn't know you were running a kbin! Rad!

@jerry setup a load balancer/reverse proxy to handle traffic and distribute traffic to the proper server accordingly?

@jerry thats nuts!