@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 😄

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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!

@jerry There is already have an app for that, it's called 4Chan.

@jerry Is that this “flood the zone with shit” thing?

Should work. It’s worked elsewhere.

@jerry
better, a ChatGPT-driven church.

@jerry Elmo has already said he wants X (currently vaguely remembered as Twitter), not the desktop X, to be exactly that - a one-stop shop and pervasive echo chamber for Republican-style free (free as in herpes) speech

@jerry

It’s the user base that creates the possibility.

Level 0 computer users struggle enough with just email and Facebook.

@jerry

Personally I would shout for joy if Facebook disappeared tomorrow.

I used to work for CompServe and then AOL so I'm not going to comment on that except to say that both offered a full Internet experience 😇🤷‍♂️

@jerry cable mgmt don’t pay the bills.

@jerry I think that cable management is pretty darn good! ✅

@jerry no. Too cute.

@jerry Sorry, unable to ignore cute cat.

@jerry shameless 😂😂😂

@jerry
we saw that earlier in attempted signups as well

@jerry That's the new AI getting ready for the surge. Js😉

@jerry Should be sorted now.

I don’t know if it’s weird or not, but I find myself referring to my son’s fiancé as one of my kids. Hopefully not too weird.

@jerry @github oooo

@jerry @github Not that I don't want them here but huh, I'd think Microsoft would make enough to be able to run their own instance to ensure an even more different handle to impersonate.

@github @jerry This is the time where having an intuitive way to verify an official account or having the big companies run their own instance on their domain would come handy.

@jerry truth! Enjoy your day off, Jerry.

@jerry I don't see the option in #Tusky, I will go to the browser but it would be a good idea to get the apps to enforce it too.

@jerry @TheKinrar

Enabling #2FA was one of the things which I did soon after creating my account (while looking to see what configuration options were present). Just as well that I did.

@jerry It is a grand kitten!

@jerry a whole new level of "upon noticing suspicious network activity and confirming it malicious internet connections were immediately cut"