@Njord Libertarian in my 20s, now on the brink of full blown Communism

@Njord both actually, depends on the topic

@Njord
When I was young, I was — let's be honest — an arse. I was brought up to be an arse, because my parents believed that they were in the right and everyone else was in the wrong, and they wanted me to grow up to be in the right, just like them.

I try not to be an arse any more. And you know what? Life is better for everyone that way, including me.

@J12t It could be a pipe dream, but he might be able to pull it off. If he did manage to get it, I hope he learns lessons from the former BirdSite's happenings.

@J12t his most recent idea for a "better Internet" was blockchain nonsense, so I don't see him actually doing anything good with it

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/me-we-project-liberty-frank-mccourt

@J12t
Plugin your Time Machine disk to get all the snapshots moved over (or delete the local snapshots).

Also spend some time excluding directories that maybe don’t need to be included in snapshots like ~/Downloads or ~/Library/Mail

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12803

@J12t The profile info like name, etc is trigger when the instance receives the event (user.updated I think).

As for posts/followers, I’ve never been clear on that.

@J12t when we receive an Update for this account, and more recently when we receive a new status and the account has not been refreshed in the last 7 days

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26510

@stefan Waiting for the WordPress plugin version 🤔

@stefan not just the fediverse but I really want a :mastodon: share button across the websites and popular platforms like we have for Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc

(it's a shame YouTube dot com still doesn't have it)

The adoption will come after the intrigue and familiarising it via a share icon will be of great service.

@J12t ooooh, I love this kind of honesty.

@J12t I definitely like what Lemmy/Kbin/etc. do. For me it's nice that they're different platforms than the microblogging ones — that way I can choose what to focus on

@J12t Check out @newsmast! - this is what we’re all about. Any Mastodon account can log-in to the server to see Communities and the Feeds can be followed and joined from any Fediverse account. Next up - build your own Communities.

@anca @Gargron @J12t @andypiper so great to meet you all

@J12t publishing is fine, as long as it’s not motivated by views/attention.

You can build relationships through publishing, but with ad revenue crashing in the past years and everybody racing the growth hack and out performance marketing each other in has become a race to the bottom.

If publishers can build relationships (like they do with email) without heavy reliance on search and social platforms, a better future is possible.

@J12t

I keep seeing people lamenting being unable to game a following together because of a lack of algorithm.

What you're saying resonates with me because I never wanted that. Never joined a commercially run, centralized, social network, because I never saw it as a "network".

#ActivityPub means, when I follow someone (or someone follows me), I'm building my own social network out of people I personally want to associate with.

That value is worth well more than an algorithm could provide.

@J12t let the love flow freely, instead of somebody making money with it

@J12t

Twitter circa 2015

@J12t First try sending a message to webfinger-join@ietf.org to subscribe and then try sending to the list. IETF just changed its list management tools so maybe it forgot you.

@J12t One of the area directors recently posted that she plans to close the webfinger list in a few weeks due to inactivity. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/webfinger/