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Eugen Rochko

I'm semi-seriously convinced the production team put BBQ sauce on Zuckerberg's shelf on purpose to get more people to talk about Meta

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mellifluousbox

@Gargron reminds me of the Elon Musk armored glass “accident” 😄

steve g

@Gargron I assumed some McKinsey consultant told him to put it there because that's what humans eat.

Richard jasmin

@Gargron I think they are just giving him a message. Really they should smoke him. The First Amendment rapist needs to be held to account and he's not the only fish we need to put on the grill

Eugen Rochko

On Oct 26, we sent a formal letter to Truth Social’s chief legal officer, requesting the source code to be made publicly available in compliance with the license.

According to AGPLv3, after being notified by the copyright holder, Truth Social has 30 days to comply or the license may be permanently revoked.

More context: blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/

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CheekyBadger

@Gargron :gnu: :goose_honk: Good work :solidarity: this also shows the advantage of copyleft licences like the :gnu: GPL over permissive ones like BSD and MIT, this kind of action would not be possible under such permissive open source licences.

Johan

@Gargron good, I hope I can join it with a Mastodon mobile app and not be left out like with Gab that changed too much and broke compatibility.

Eugen Rochko

A small victory: An hour after we sent a cease & desist letter to #Gab's legal team on Oct 21 regarding their failure to publish up-to-date source code in compliance with Mastodon's AGPLv3 license, they have uploaded a new version.

That is not all that we demanded in the letter, but it is nevertheless a victory in upholding the AGPLv3 license of our project, and a signal to those who doubt that we are willing to show teeth to those who ignore it.

More context: blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/

A small victory: An hour after we sent a cease & desist letter to #Gab's legal team on Oct 21 regarding their failure to publish up-to-date source code in compliance with Mastodon's AGPLv3 license, they have uploaded a new version.

That is not all that we demanded in the letter, but it is nevertheless a victory in upholding the AGPLv3 license of our project, and a signal to those who doubt that we are willing to show teeth to those who ignore it.

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Iutech

@Gargron

It's not clear : they updated what ?
And why does update the thing make it AGPL-compliant ?

Gregory Vanderlaan

@Gargron I post on Gab Daily... the same posts that I post here... suddenly I'm being Blocked on Gab - pictures with no words are OK... HUH... I guess they are trying to censor people that are not TrumpNik/QAnon FREAKS!

Eugen Rochko

Why shouldn't you look a gift horse in the mouth? Is that what the Greeks told the Troyans?

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Adam Dalliance

@Gargron
See also: Don't worry about your privacy, Facebook is Free!

Laura Ritchie 🌸

@Gargron enjoyed reading those (genuinely educational!) answers - all that and what you said, but with one change - look them in the eye and smile. Gratitude goes a long way, and it's something that (when genuine) we could all do with more of.

Here's to gifts!

Eugen Rochko

I think our official app downloads aren't quite where I'd want them to be, but it seems at least that the app is magnitutes better at getting new users onto the platform than any other app, which was the goal.

Numbers for mastodon.social sign-ups for the period from Sep 32 to Oct 23, 2021.

Sign-up sources:

Website 8,153
Mastodon for iOS 920
Fedilab 36
Metatext 3
SubwayTooter 2
Fedi 1
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Brayd :mastodon: :vegan:

@Gargron I use it. The only thing I’m currently missing are the different timelines like the federated one. In general it’s very stable and nice to use.

electroboy111

@Gargron I noticed you put Sept. 32 instead of 23. Is that an oops?

d(jack’o la)ngo 🎃

@Gargron not a huge surprise since the other apps don’t have any instance suggestion screens.

A fairer comparison would be how many Website signups came via joinmastodon.org, no?

Eugen Rochko

Someone has sent me 10 e-mails worth of what looks like Q-anon type conspiracy drivel mixed in with pictures of me with the subject "Truth Social" so right now I'm wondering if I should delete them and block the sender or keep them as evidence in case it escalates lol

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Mario Hommel

@gargron Seems to be a DDOS attack on many mail providers. Posteo and Mailbox.org are also affected. Posteo told on their website, that they received an extortion letter.

Club massaggi a Milano💯🙏🏻🍌

@Gargron Why not a mail service/server inside Mastodon? 🐘✉️

David

@Gargron perhaps it just needs to catch its breath. Being fast is hard work. ;-)

Eugen Rochko

On an unrelated topic, you can do me a favour by playing around with @Eunomia's first public pilot for a bit over on mastodon.eunomia.social

Just need some people to post stuff and press buttons and see how it works.

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chandlers gamers136

@Gargron @Eunomia hi everyone come and give support on my YouTube channel chandlers Gamers136 I post mobile gaming youtu.be/uDYbpKTMQtU subscribe share like comment on the road to 300 subscribers

Niko :verified:

@Gargron @Eunomia

Is Eunomia "EU No Miss Information Algorithm? 🤔

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@Gargron

Could You do us all a favor in exchange and cut all your co2 emissions down to zero and permanently?

@Eunomia

Eugen Rochko

Checking if I had "Trump starting a Mastodon server" on my bingo card

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CaptMorgan

@Gargron i still dont get it why didn’t he just follow the free license and make a legit mastadon instance?

wes

@Gargron probably one of the greatest things to happen this year. definitely a story for the generations

Seph Harrison ☮ ♊ ⚣ 🇺🇸
@Gargron I figured he'd use a Fediverse app for it, just wasn't sure which one, though the violations of the license are no surprise at all.
Eugen Rochko

What if we had an "untrusted" notifications tab for interactions from unfamiliar users...

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Brayd :mastodon: :vegan:

@Gargron I think this would confuse users. I’d prefer to have another feature, which is off-topic: fed-wide amounts of faves. Currently faved toots are only per instance, which I personally don’t like.

Crylo, the Martyr

@Gargron I remember some account kept promoting different types of furnishings and I had an idea to make a video like the Homer Simpson eating through New Orleans scene

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Atri

@Gargron lol blockchain has to be everywhere now

Fusterclucker

@Gargron As someone who was huge on the crypto hype train a few years ago and have turned into a skeptic (amazing what burning a few thousand dollars will do), I'm for blockchain technology development and creating zero trust systems but do not believe a market system is going to create valuable systems without intense, clear, enforced regulation to guide those markets towards societal good.

Richard jasmin

@Gargron so basically they want to quash a peer-to-peer market system because they want to cut off game developers and have their own just like apple does

Eugen Rochko

Thank you to anyone who includes posts in a report. Especially if it's a DM, it is not visible in the mod interface otherwise.

Eugen Rochko

I have never heard the term "web 3" used in any context other than trying to sell some cryptocurrency, to the point where I cannot take it seriously at all.

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David

@Gargron I've never heard that before. I still don't take web 2.0 seriously.

Григорий Клюшников

I thought the blockchain one is "dweb", aka decentralized web 🤔

Adamas Nemesis

@Gargron I've always viewed the "decentralized Web" as being one and the same as "Web 3.0".

Eugen Rochko

Working on something I've wanted to do for a long time but never got around to... putting graphs on the admin dashboard.

Work in progress #mastodev

Screenshot of the admin dashboard taken from mastodon.online, it displays tiles with sparklines that show new users, active users, interactions, reports opened, and reports resolved for the period between Sep 11 and Oct 11, with a percentage comparison to the past period, as well as a user retention chart below
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Eugen Rochko

It's become quite a bit more complicated since I posted that screenshot, but it is ready now.

#mastodev

A screenshot of the Mastodon admin dashboard, with a grid of various data widgets such as "new users", "active users", "interactions" "reports opened", "reports resolved", but also "sign-up sources", "top active languages", "top active servers", "retention", "trending now" and others.
ern

@Gargron @stux would love to Admin or do something a bit more involved one day on an instance

Eugen Rochko

Those on TestFlight with iPads, how do you like the latest build of our app? Is this the right design direction for the iPad?

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Louis R. Couture

@Gargron if you want my honest opinion. No, not really

The interface is confusing, the left side is too small, but I’m really not a fan of the multiple columns mastodon clients, and if you want to attract new users, I feel like this really won’t make the cut because this column interface is not how Twitter of Facebook is, so new mastodontes won’t be familiar at all with that kind of design.

Geotechland

@Gargron

I have an ipad and here are my thoughts. By default, the layout is similar to the advanced layout which leave a lot of empty space. It looks rather odd.

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schnittchen 🏳️‍🌈🐆

@Gargron If I'd still be active in Twitter this would be a super handy feature! All the hardcore techbros now tagging themselves, all I need to do is block them... Also easily automated ..

Devine Lu Linvega

@Gargron wow, that sends me back. This band had the nicest flash website I had ever seen.

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