A book club. Where we sit in a circle and read out loud, chapter by chapter, the C Programming Language, 2nd Edition. And at the end of each session we stand up and call out names of Open Source and Free Software written in C without which our modern society wouldn't run. Dress code: 1970s.
After the reading session we gather for food and drinks in a room full of whiteboards (no computers!) where we discuss what we heard. With real code printed out from the projects we named.
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Why is Donald Trump signing an executive order against cashless bail
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-is-donald-trump-signing-an-executive-order-against-cashless-bail?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Why is Donald Trump signing an executive order against cashless bail
Trump’s claims conflict with national crime data that shows violent crime has dropped consistently for the last several years, following a peak during and after the pandemic.PBS News
⚠️ There is another "verification" scammer on the move, do not click on their link, it is a scam!
Genuine Mastodon servers never demand verification like this.
If you see a scam post like this, click ⋯ on the scam post, then "Report", then report it and make sure you select the option to forward the report to the origin server.
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You can reply to me but set the visibilty to "Mentioned" or "Private mention". There's more info about this at fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts…
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Ah yeah, they call it "specific people" on the official app for some reason. That's the same as "Mentions". Use that setting.
Sorry about this, they used to call it mentions like everyone else but changed it for some reason.
Weird... sounds like some kind of localisation problem on that particular app in that case.
Whatever it is called (mentions, specific, private mentions, mentions only, direct etc) it works the same way.
p.s. There is a verification system on Mastodon but it's entirely voluntary and does not use credit cards or involve any kind of payment.
If you're interested in genuinely verifying your account, there is more info on how to do it here: fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-a…
TL:DR - If you have an official website you can verify that your Mastodon account is also the owner of your website. It's self-service and does not involve any kind of payment or payment cards.
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A new executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to withhold federal funds from state and local governments that have moved away from cash bail. "Cashless bail" means that people don't end up in jail just because they can't afford to pay to secure their release while they await trial and are still presumed innocent. Sharone Mitchell, public defender in Cook County, Illinois, explains to @bolts why the state entirely abolished cash bail and how the new system is more fair, works well, and hasn't harmed public safety. "What is scary is that this is tyranny 101. This is a state legislature looking at a problem, studying a problem, proposing a solution, getting the votes, and then implementing that solution — and then you have a president deciding he doesn’t like this idea," Mitchell says. "And the way he’s going to get the state to change it is to essentially rob the state or starve the state of resources. That’s the type of stuff that happens in 'The Godfather' and 'Goodfellas.'"
#USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #Illinois #Chicago #CashlessBail #USNews #CriminalJustice #Incarceration
Chicago’s Public Defender on Why Illinois Should Fight Trump's Threats on Cashless Bail - Bolts
As the president tries to punish jurisdictions with bail reform, Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell explains why Illinois ended cash bail—and what he hopes to see next.Daniel Nichanian (Bolts)
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Homemade Bratwurst
I have become extremely disillusioned in regards to any processed food. Though I love sausage. In order to keep on enjoying my fatty little treats I have to make my own. It is really no big deal and I know the quality of the product used in it. I use no chicken lips 😉.
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Rocky 10 has been available since July. I am going to update the Rogue Project Friendica Instance VPS next Sunday on August 22nd. I will be doing this around midnight EST. So you can expect the Instance to be down for Maintenance at that time.
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Keep in mind that if someone quoted a story from your site and then linked to your site for the whole story then you would see this type of federated propagation. Especially if the post received significant reactions. This would be a good thing for your site, not a negative one.
Do not put so much stock in MicroSoft's Web Development Tools. The important thing is that your site gets visitors. 99.99% of your visitors will never know your score. They are just going to end up at your site due to a link dropped on Social Media. So stop worrying about SEO or other metrics for scoring your site other than actual user feedback.
That link was on the global feed on my Instance. I do not create or furnish this content. It is produced by propagation on the FediVerse. Someone on another Instance shared the URL to your site (I know that it was not shared by one of my users as this post never showed up on my Instance's local feed) Then it propagated across the FediVerse. This is how Federated Instances behave. I have no control over any links posted on other Instances propagated to my Instance, other than to delete them from my instance or block the domain propagating them. Please keep in mind anything on a feed is temporary. It will not last long, depending on the Instances retention policy. Nothing stays on my Instances feeds for over 30 days. Less if it receives no interactions. The link you are concerned about could have been propagated from your own Instance. I cannot tell from an image; I would need the actual link.
I hope that you understand that I am not going to start blocking other instances unless significant evidence can be showed of malicious behavior or poor moderation. As this link could have been propagated by several Instances, and deleting it on my side, if I could find it, would only result in it being repropagated unless I blocked all federated Instances propagating it. Which I am not prepared to do.
I hope your site does well, and I wish you luck on your journey learning to be a web-developer.
⚠️ Important headsup if you are on the server mastodon.cloud:
Mastodon.cloud no longer seems to be moderated. Its admin account hasn't posted since Feb 2023, its code of conduct is blank and there are vile racists posting from there. The racists have been reported many times but their accounts are still active.
Because of this, other server admins are starting to block mastodon.cloud completely.
If you're on mastodon.cloud you might want to move to another server ASAP: fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
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hey @OpenForumEurope you may want to move off Mastodon.cloud
It's not going to be a good look remaining on an unmoderated server.
according to this article (the contact email there is for sujitech) the instance is run by the same people as at least Pawoo, mstdn.jp. The company still seems active...
masknetwork.medium.com/why-we-…
Why we are backing Mastodon and the future of Decentralized Social
Why we are backing Mastodon and the future of Decentralized Social In November 2023, Sujitech, an entity affiliated with Mask Network donated US$100K to Mastodon, a non-profit decentralized social …Mask Network (Medium)
Either they aren't moderating, or they are allowing really awful stuff to be hosted.
Either way, it's not a good idea to be on such an instance.
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p.s. If you want to see an example of vile racism hosted on mastodon.cloud, here is one:
web.archive.org/web/2025081413…
Note the date, the account is still active and is still posting this kind of racial hatred despite being reported.
EDIT: This post now seems to have been deleted seemingly by the account itself. The racist account itself just posted a follow-up trying to "explain" their statement with more extreme racism 🤮 mastodon.cloud/@CensorsAreCult…
Censors are Cultists (@CensorsAreCultists@mastodon.cloud)
@mattblaze@federate.social Niggers aren't people. They belong to the zoo or the savanna.mastodon.cloud
Niggers aren't people. They belong to the zoo or the savanna.
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Interesting profile name, especially when I go to his followers list to not only block him, but also everyone who follows him, only to see that he made that listing invisible.
These dumb fucks, I swear. 😂
p.p.s. A lot of legitimate non-problematic accounts joined mastodon.cloud when it was still moderated. I'm guessing most of the ones still on there are there because they don't realise what has happened.
If you know someone still on mastodon.cloud, you might want to politely let them know what the situation is and suggest they move. I'm sure most will be horrified about what's happening and keen to move to a different server. If they need help moving, the guide is at fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
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Thanks for taking the time to write these kind words, it's really motivating to hear these posts are useful!
Good luck on the new server 🙂
p.p.p.s. Mastodon.cloud seems to be running a very out-of-date version of Mastodon's server software. This is a bad sign as it means there may be unpatched security holes etc.
This lack of technical updates is another reason to leave mastodon.cloud as soon as possible.
It's never clear how long unmaintained servers will continue. If it disappears without warning, it will be too late to move your account.
If you want help moving, feel free to ask! Also see the guide at fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
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Release v4.1.25 · mastodon/mastodon
CautionThe 4.1.x branch will not receive any update—including security fixes—after 2025/04/08. CautionOne of our dependencies has a known security vulnerability which Mastodon may be exposed to wh...GitHub
Thanks for the digging. If they are still updating makes it very odd that they stopped there, as the Masto developers specifically warn about no security patches to that branch since April 2025.
(And why are they on such an old branch anyway? And if they're updating why aren't they moderating?)
Sorry if this has already been asked
- If the server stays online, you can leave your old posts there and they will redirect people to your new account. So, they don't disappear as long as the old server keeps running. More info in transfer guide at fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
- You can download an archive of your posts and either keep it for your private records or upload these to a website (there are some services that let you do this for public posts). More about archives at fedi.tips/how-to-download-your…
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I thought it was possible to somehow upload the downloaded posts to the new server.. Maybe @jonny would know if that's a thing?
It's not a thing in base masto or glitch, as far as I'm aware, but not for any good reason - one could upload the archive and backdate all the posts even if they wouldn't be treated as the same as the originals by other instances/wouldn't have replies/interactions
This is possible and it has been done by Fedi platforms such as Firefish which accepted Mastodon archive uploads, but AFAIK they had problems with instance resources?
(For what it's worth, the uploads created new posts with no connection to the old threads but the content was the same.)
This is a solved problem with GoToSocial.
First, they allowed backdating statuses.
Which allowed importing old statuses.
One of the devs created a tool, Slurp, for this purpose. It uses your existing Mastodon archive.
At this time, GoToSocial is the only platform I'm aware of that can handle not just account migration, but post migration as well.
This page talks about migrating to GoToSocial and using Slurp to migrate posts.
[feature] Implement backfilling statuses thru scheduled_at by VyrCossont · Pull Request #3685 · superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
Description This pull request overloads scheduled_at to allow creating statuses with creation times and ULIDs backdated to a previous time in scheduled_at, with the following caveats: Backfilled s...GitHub
Oooh interesting, thanks for that! 👍
How does it handle the resource issue? Is this part of GTS's design for smaller instances, or can it handle large amounts of members migrating posts?
(EDIT: From that link it sounds like it's currently for small/single user instances?)
Yeah, it doesn't have to worry about the problems of running thousands on the same instance because it's not really designed for that. Although, if there was a large instance like that, they could just prevent it entirely by turning off backdated post imports at the server level in the config yaml.
It's not so much that it can't handle large volume or large amounts of members migrating posts.... it probably can?
It's just that no one has ever tested it. I'm not aware of anything I'd consider a "large" GTS instance, for one. I'm not aware of anyone with, say, 20k followers migrating to a GTS instance, or importing a massive archive to it.
@oli
On a slight tangent, I've been trying to find some public GTS instances to list on @FediGarden but there don't seem to be many?
I'm wondering if this is a result of a deliberate design to keep GTS for very small instances? Or maybe the larger GTS instances will appear in time?
Things like Fediverse Observer and FediDB started dropping many GoToSocial instances, after GTS started messing with scrapers ignoring the robots.txt by permitting admins to create ridiculous stats. This messed with the overall stats of the fediverse, so essentially a lot of GTS instances got wholly blacklisted from public directories, regardless of whether they enabled the 'spoof' setting or not.
Which....I guess stopped those places from scraping GTS server endpoints.
Some people are really mad at the authors over it, but all it's really done is take GTS off the official statistics board entirely.
Ah, yeah, I'm not doing any kind of FediDB-style automated list. Fedi.Garden is just a small manually curated list of good instances that people can join. I don't have any stats, it's just public instances where I've contacted the admin and discussed their safeguards for reliability and moderation, then got their consent to be listed.
GTS doesn't seem to have any public instances at all though?
I'm partly worried about what happens if Mastodon software goes south. Hard fork?
I mean, here's goblin.technology, run by Tobi who basically started GoToSocial.
It allows signups. So I'm not sure if that's public or not.
ALL GoToSocial instances require manual review for signups however.
Hold Me Closer Tiny Goblin - GoToSocial
Powerful & Dangerous Goblin Technology!This instance runs on a 1-cpu, 1024mb vps from Greenhost.The blocklist is over 1,000 domains. Don't be a dick …goblin.technology
@elduvelle
Ya totally. Importing the posts shouldn't be too hard, literally just copy pasting db rows. No reason glitch/masto can't do that. Getting other instances to recognize the move and preserving replies/etc. Would require a bit of work but I don't see a fundamental reason it can't be done. This is one of the essential fixes that needs to be made in base masto to make all other fedi apps easier for instances to try: if we could easily migrate all our accounts in a history-preserving way, that makes it actually possible for us to consider switching to e.g. gotosocial, but without that we can't.
I should actually go one further here.... post migration is handled with Slurp via the Mastodon archive.
And the thing about the Mastodon archive is that you don't have any posts in it you didn't write. Sure, you have replies to posts in a thread you created, maybe, or orphaned replies to other people's threads, but it's not like you can pull an export that includes other people's posts, too.
So keeping actual post references intact rather than merely copying over the content of original posts so that they aren't lost, and replacing all existing references to that post to a copy of it on other new instances....that's a big difference.
If we just go with the Mastodon archive as our source of preserving posts, we don't have the source data to recreate the thread in the first place, just the original posts from the author.
With such fragmented data, you can see why we often throw orphaned mentions away (as I do with Posty) or Slurp refuses to include random mentions...
On top of which, including random mentions would trigger a whole wave of notifications for post-dated posts, so Slurp just refuses to import those.
It wasn't obvious (to me) from the documentation, but slurp can also dump posts (and other stuff) from one GoToSocial server to a file which you can use to push into a new GoToSocial instance as if it were a Mastodon archive. That was extremely useful when I migrated to my self-hosted GTS.
It appears to work on anything with a Mastodon API, because I also used it to pull down posts/followers from two Iceshrimp instances as well. I haven't tried it on a Mastodon instance, but I believe this means you don't even need a manual export from Mastodon.
@nyquildotorg @oli @jonny @elduvelle
"I believe this means you don't even need a manual export from Mastodon."
Hmm... that sounds like it could be misused? 🤔
There was already that instance a few weeks ago that was found to be mass-cloning genuine accounts 😬
A nonunique threat if there ever was one, you can do the same with curl
p.s. Just to add to why there is this situation, servers are run by volunteers who have to pay for all the server's running costs, they don't run ads or sell any data or have any investors.
If accounts move to a server and suddenly upload thousands of posts with perhaps hundreds of images etc, that can be quite a drain on the server's resources.
There was a Fedi platform which experimented with uploading archives, but it slowed down badly when big archives were uploaded.
I understand that many servers are in closets and run on residential energy rates, but identity on social media networks includes posts and images. We are what we wrote and we are what we will write.
It's good to design for the cheapest hardware and internet speeds but to be perfectly honest, some servers can afford it but choose not to because the low hanging fruit is to offer only the bare minimum as long as they can
The posts and images don't disappear, they remain on the server where they were posted and their username directs people to your new account.
If someone suddenly uploads thousands posts and a similar amount of images, that will cause a strain. If many people do that, it will be even more strain.
The Fedi platform Firefish did actually try this, and it did cause problems. It's mainly to do with the amount of computing resources required to deal with many tasks at once.
p.s. Anything that you host online on other services will disappear at some point (theguardian.com/technology/201…).
If you need to make sure all your posts stay online, you can set up your own server. It doesn't require tech skills and it doesn't require much money either.
Managed hosting costs $5 per month for a single person with the hosting company doing all the techy stuff for you. I encourage people to do this with help and links to providers at growyourown.services/grow-your…
Myspace loses all content uploaded before 2016
Faulty server migration blamed for mass deletion of songs, photos and videoAlex Hern (The Guardian)
I love the tips, but making the case that it's cheap enough for an individual to do it only strengthens my case that institutions can and should offer this service for free
It would be great if they did that, yes. It would be a bit like in the early days of the web when people were often given free web pages by ISPs, universities, community groups etc 🙂
The price per instance also becomes a lot cheaper if a provider hosts lots of instances.
I guess question is which institutions would offer this?
@elduvelle
i think instances should be able to refuse migration, if it is too big to handle.
I still think that true federation requires the possibility to move everything, posts included, in 3 clicks.
Fine to report errors anywhere, thanks for taking the time! 👍
Which step(s) of the guide are you referring to?
Aaah, yeah, I see what you mean!
It is sort of confusing that there's a main "Preferences" option in the general interface but then also a "preferences" section on the Preferences page.
Maybe they should rename it "Settings" for one and "Preferences" for the other?
Thanks for this, it is really useful to hear how people see the interface from their point of view.
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i tried to open the follow-up post, but was greeted with this:
I’m pretty sure i’ve seen this exact thing before, and it’s like, lol. also ironic how someone named “Censors are Cultists” is hosted on an instance that engages in geoblocking, i.e. censorship
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You can see it archived at web.archive.org/web/2025081416…
Censors are Cultists (@CensorsAreCultists@mastodon.cloud)
@mattblaze@federate.social With the above statement I don't mean every representative of Homo africanus.mastodon.cloud
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I agree with the idea of not feeding trolls though, as an Instance admin if someone says an Instance needs to be blocked then I want evidence as to why. Blocking another Instance is not something I do lightly. So yes, feeding trolls is not a productive thing to do. Though if you call out an Instance as being unmoderated you kind of have to provide evidence if you expect to be taken seriously.
If you let people spread lies about vulnerable minorities, it leads to real world discrimination, violence and murder.
How does someone ignore it when people are physically attacking them in the street?
If I don't give at least one example, some people will assume I'm exaggerating or overdoing it when saying it's racism. They'll say they've never seen anything like that and demand proof.
I tried to pick one example that was most clearly racist.
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woah
The censorsarecultists guy has at least one unused alt at submarine.online
Not even going to touch that, instablock and might warrant #fediblock
⚠️ Mise en garde importante si vous êtes sur le serveur mastodon.cloud :
«Mastodon.cloud ne semble plus être modéré. Son compte administrateur n'a pas posté depuis février 2023, son code de conduite est vide et d'ignobles racistes y postent. Les racistes ont été signalés à plusieurs reprises, mais leurs comptes sont toujours actifs.
À cause de cela, d'autres administrateurs de serveurs commencent à bloquer complètement mastodon.cloud.»
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A noter que lorsqu'on migre son compte ainsi, on migre les comptes qu'on suit et ceux qui nous suivent, mais pas les posts eux-même.
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Please note that when you migrate your account in this way, you migrate the accounts you follow and those who follow you, but not the posts themselves.
That might or might not work depending on whether the server shutting down sends out a deletion command. Many of them do this to tidy away posts from accounts that no longer exist.
You can download a personal archive of your posts but there's currently no way to upload this onto Mastodon:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-download-your…
There may be other platforms that allow archive uploads in the future, Firefish experimented with this at one point.
Alright, maybe instead one could quote share the posts on Friendica and then refer to that account on Mastodon, or possibly boost those quote shared posts. That is until Mastodon itself gains the quote share functionality. I would assume those would not be deleted by that operation?
Or perhaps in that case one may as well script reposting them all, losing the original timestamps but retaining the content, or reposting them inside a quote with a printed timestamp of the original post.
There are sites that let you display your Masto archive online as a website, you could refer to these on your new account?
Alternatively, a script could possibly repost the archive to your new account? But it would probably be rate-limited by the new server as someone posting potentially thousands of posts might overwhelm the server's resources.
(This was one of the problems on Firefish's experiment, it overwhelmed the server when the archive being uploaded was large.)
Yeah. I'm posting because there are legitimate non-problematic accounts which joined mastodon.cloud while it was still moderated and don't realise what has happened since then. Hopefully they hear about this and move.
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Here you go:
mastodon.cloud/@CensorsAreCult…
This account has been reported many many many times over a long period.
Also noteworthy that it is able to boost posts from openly racist pro-Nazi instances because mastodon.cloud doesn't block them.
Its latest post claims black people are a different species 🤮 The account couldn't be more racist.
They just deleted another post they made but fortunately I managed to archive it: web.archive.org/web/2025081413…
Censors are Cultists (@CensorsAreCultists@mastodon.cloud)
204 Posts, 43 Following, 21 Followers · The ones trying to silence other people are the ones lying. Advocating censoring someone instead of debating the merits of your argument is to admit your goal is not to expand knowledge but to suppress it.mastodon.cloud
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@tanghus Sigh. This is why we can’t have anything nice.
Thanks for that. We’re suspending.
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Yeah, it seems to be unmaintained, yet another reason to leave.
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Scripts to identify abandoned versions of Mastodon and push a blocklist, or automatically manage using ready-made blocklists: https://codeberg.mastodon.scot
Be More Kind
Kind.Social is a Mastodon server with a broad community - queer, disabled, neurodivergent, crafters, techies, friends of all sorts. Our aim is to foster a genuinely enjoyable shared social experience.Mastodon hosted on kind.social
It's not collective punishment, don't be ridiculous. It's an individual's right and responsibility to choose an instance, and move instances if they don't like how it behaves.
You're infantilising Fedi members by claiming they have no agency or ability or alternatives.
Also, mastodon.cloud isn't even updating its own software any more, it's several updates behind the latest supported versions. This is not good for its members, it means security holes may not be fixed.
@Joseph Quattrocchi @Fedi.Tips
You really believe that an Instance that is several versions behind on support updates is dependable? You believe that people attempting to keep toxic content from being propagated are fostering a toxic environment? I am not understanding your motivations or reasoning here.
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It's not a dependable instance. Its software isn't up to date, there may be bugs that put its users in danger.
The admin hasn't posted in 2.5 years, that is not a sign of dependability.
Quite often instances where the admin stops communicating for years may vanish without warning.
"Brigading isn't punishing a negligent admin "
It's not about punishing anyone, it's warning people that they are on an abandoned instance. Would you rather they weren't warned?
The stuff being posted on mastodon.cloud is vile, utterly disgusting sewage. It is saying certain racial groups are subhuman, it is saying that skin colour reflects intellectual ability.
If mastodon.cloud are unwilling or unable to moderate ethnic hatred, even when it's been reported to them by many people over several months, then they shouldn't be running an instance at all.
If my instance was allowing such crap, I would want to be told about it so that I could leave.
Can you please stop using such ludicrous hyperbolic terms for what is just a server block on a federated network where people can move to different servers?
"executing a totalitarian cleansing"? Can you hear yourself? Are you serious or are you a troll?
Real life actual totalitarianism rises when lies about vulnerable groups are allowed to spread widely. Vulnerable groups get attacked and murdered in real life because of such lies: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…
FediThing 🏳️🌈 (@FediThing@chinwag.org)
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.Chinwag Social
No one is stopping anyone using mastodon.cloud.
All that is being suggested is people might want to move off it because it seems to be no longer maintained or moderated.
@Joseph Quattrocchi @Fedi.Tips
Collective punishment would be if I allowed an unmoderated and unmaintained Instance to propagate to my Instance. I really could not blame my users for being upset if I did not block an Instance that is openly allowing racist material to be propagated by their Instance.
I am not about the Cancel Culture. Though reasonable moderation has to be present on an Instance for me to accept that it should be propagated. If you check my Instances Block List you will realize I do not block Instance arbitrarily.
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If you want help with moving please feel free to ask! (I've tried to make the guide as easy as possible, and answer common questions, but guides aren't as useful as direct answers.)
I do not block Instances lightly, though allowing racists posts cross a line I cannot accept. I have blocked maston.cloud on my Instance for now until I see that the Instance Admin starts moderating again.
Yeah, that leads into a weird tale about money:
social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…
Does make one wonder where the money is coming from and why they seemed to disappear after making a super-large donation.
And even if they couldn't be bothered to moderate, why would they stop updating the software? There are plenty of hosts who will do updates automatically for a small monthly fee.
None of it makes sense.
FediThing 🏳️🌈 (@FediThing@chinwag.org)
@welshpixie@mastodon.art Okay, this just gets stranger... the original takeover seems to have been way back in 2018 (https://mastodon.cloud/@TheAdmin/101158162186521490). There was another transfer in 2020 (https://mastodon.Chinwag Social
Yes! There are simple non-technical step-by-step instructions here:
➡️ fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
If you want any help with this please ask 🙂
Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
Good god... are you sure? 😬
Pawoo is apparently defederated by many servers for illegal material: tweaking.thebad.space/location…
Is it really being run by the same people as mastodon.cloud? That's horrifying.
If a server's moderation team is not responding to requests to moderate, and it hasn't posted in over 2 years, and its server software is running on a very out of date version, that implies the server isn't being actively maintained.
If the material to be moderated is extremely serious, and the server admin doesn't respond to multiple reports over several months, then the next step is typically defederation.
There is no other option if the server itself won't respond.
"Why can't individual accounts just block each other as they have on other services?"
Here is why, explained in one short post: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…
FediThing 🏳️🌈 (@FediThing@chinwag.org)
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.Chinwag Social
It's okay, you can move your account to another server and keep your followers, follows, bookmarks, lists, mutes and blocks. Also, your old posts will redirect people to your new account if you do the transfer process.
There's a step by step non-technical guide here which also advises on how to find a new server: fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
Let me know if you want help with any part of the transfer!
Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
That's why I set up fedi.garden to try to highlight the servers that have been around a long time and are well-run. Some of the servers listed have been around since 2017, and all of them have active moderation and promise three months warning if they ever shut down.
Mastodon has a similar official server list at joinmastodon.org/servers which also requires servers to have active moderation and promise three months warning if they ever decide to shut down.
Maybe you would like to read this thread about a black grandfather living in terror and being threatened in the street because of poor moderation:
social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…
Or maybe you would like to see this article about a massacre due to poor moderation:
thebureauinvestigates.com/stor…
Or a genocide exacerbated by poor moderation:
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Unmoderated social networks put innocent people in danger and get them killed. Even people who aren't online are in danger.
Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide
Victims in US and UK legal action accuse social media firm of failing to prevent incitement of violenceDan Milmo (The Guardian)
Relying on individuals blocking bad accounts does not work in the real world. Here's a concrete example:A black grandfather played with his white grandchildren. His family videoed it and shared this wholesome scene.
Far right racists stole the video, removed the context and claimed it was a paedophile grooming victims. They posted their edited version and a far right moron with over a million racist followers shared the video.
The black grandfather is now living in fear, but the social network (Musk's X) won't take the posts down and the police claim that sharing the video isn't a crime.
theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in parkRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
So, I had to contact the owner of mastodon.cloud with no responsible. They might be in a long hiatus or they quitted moderating it and left it like that
We have suspended it on our end but thanks. Keep up the good work
In A Word
Words
It has been pressing on my lately about how people want to control how others think by how they insist we rewrite our language to their satisfaction. It is in no small way a reminder to me of New Speak in the book 1984 by George Orwell. People that want to change the meanings of words I have used for a lifetime to meet their agenda. I am not so much accepting this. I typically silently just ignore this. Though today I decided to post on the topic.
I am not interested in how noble a person's intentions are. If you try to redefine and force your connotation of a word on others then you do no one, not even yourself, a service. It would be nice if people could stop telling others what they should think when they hear a specific word. Trying to limit people's thoughts like this is going to create pushback and one should expect it. If you believe you have a better definition for a commonly used word, then choose another word that is closer to your interpretation, or invent one. Do not attempt to tell people what to think. It will not leave you in a good light.
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Soul
Soul
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
Andromeda wrote:
Do you believe AIs have a soul
Rev wrote:
I believe anything that can love has a soul.
These are quotes from a Gene Roddenberry's (the creator of Star Trek) Andromeda series. Without context you just will not get it. Watch the series and you will understand 😉.
Yacht Bots account has been deleted. We will see how long it take for them to get tired of making new email accounts for their spam. I may just block that mail server if this keeps up.
In the future just respond to them with the hashtag #SPAM. No need to put anything else. I will search for that hashtag and delete those that I find to be spam.
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Reminder
Friendly Reminder
A month or so ago I made an announcement that abandoned accounts will be deleted. This is mainly due to my setting a ceiling on the number of users that can register on this Instance. The ceiling is set to try to keep the Instance usable. I can only afford so many resources.
If you need to take a sabbatical or are going to be off line for a while please let me know so that I will not delete your account. If I am not warned that you are not going to be able to use your account then I delete accounts that reach 60 days with no activity. I of course will be flexible with this for typically active users.
Unus Nemo
TOS & Rules amendment
No Vulgar Display Names
Okay, I thought this would be self evident though apparently not. As I want this Instance to be accessible to all ages and demographics with a diverse outlook on ideologies there are certain expectations that need to be met by all users. Being polite is a given and I will delete an account over someone that cannot control their behavior on this Instance. I did not really think it was necessary to make a rule that states that you cannot use a vulgar or obscene display name. I was wrong. I deleted the account, they can try again with an appropriate display name if they choose to.
I officially updated the TOS & Rules to reflect that using a vulgar display name is not allowed. I will be the judge of what is vulgar and/or obscene.
Unus Nemo
Server Issues
Certificate Expiration
Due to an issue with an update to SELinux and it's targeting profile certbot ,the tool I use to renew my site certificate, failed. As SELinux was not allowing it to write the updates for the renewal process. I have corrected the issue though it has taken some time to get the certificate renewed.
I am sorry for any inconvenience that the delay in renewal may have caused. I hope everyone enjoys their day.
Unus Nemo
Violation of TOS & Rules
I deleted a post of yours because you chose to Market. Please review and observe the Terms Of Services & Rules. You may promote your own work or the work of your friends and family. You may not advertise or market for a business. What you may promote for yourself has limits. You can for instance promote your, or a friend or families book, art work, even a small arts and craft etsy site. You may not advertise for a major Incorporation or business even if you own or work for it. I do not allow marketing on this Instance. In addition your profile must not exist entirely for promotions or it will be considered a marketing account and deleted.
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in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •Jan Wildeboer 😷
in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •You can join at any time. You can go at any time. You can stay just for the reading (which will be without interruptions, no discussions, no questions). Guest speakers that wrote the code on the whiteboards and printouts. Birds of a feather, lightning talk style. No fundamental discussions. Just celebrating the language and the code in an open and inviting way. It could actually work 😀
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Jan Wildeboer 😷
in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •The first rule is: You have to bring your own copy of the book. That's the entrance badge. No book, no problem, though. You can still join. But when you return for more than one time, you should get a copy. We will help with that. (Just kidding, but I really do love the book)
The second rule is: No computers. Paper and whiteboard only. People that interact. That's the goal.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷
in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •The meetings are always on the 3rd of the month. (C is the third letter in the alphabet). And having it on the third and not something like every 2nd Wednesday means that it will be on different days of the week, giving more people that chance to join. Some people just never can go on a Wednesday.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷
in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •And if we get this concept up and running at various places all over the world, you can join a C Reading when you travel and meet new people 😀 Wherever you are on the third, there might be a C Reading you can join!
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in reply to Peter Jakobs ⛵ • • •Peter Jakobs ⛵
in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •Jan Wildeboer 😷
in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •No sponsoring. No money involved. The readings can and should be in living rooms. Guests can bring food. And drinks. Everyone is welcome. We could even split it up in C Major for the Elder of The C and C Minor for the younger folks. You get the idea. Let's just do it. I will open my living room on the 3rd of October and hope others will too 😀. So. #Munich. 3rd of October. I can host around 10-15 people max.
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in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •Or maybe I’ll just read along from here
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in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •@_tillwe_ What in the Pastafarian heck I've just read?
I've never wanted so bad to join a church.
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🕊🌈
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in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •After which you retire to a bar and argue about how to interpret the standards and whose code is compliant.
It would be like a religious meeting - read from the old, apocrypha, or new testament, followed by a long missing the point and futile argument about semantics.
Jan Wildeboer 😷
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And don't get me started on those insufferable C99 reformists and their "flexibility"! It's utter chaos! Nobody should be allowed to put init statements in for-loops!
Madness!
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UNIX programming stuff by W. Richard Stevens ?
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in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •Yeahbut where do you get the fanfold paper for the printouts these days?
(Boggle. I just did a search - you *can* indeed still buy the stuff.)
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in reply to Alison Chaiken • • •Pardon Our Interruption
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That book is probably one of the most influential programming books I have ever studied. It is a great example of how to write a programming language book. My current copy of it is an eBook. I live in a camper and space is limited. I do have a ton of dead tree books though and I will no doubt eventually get another paperback copy of 'The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie'. Though that is not a priority at the moment.
I would not consider discussing any programming books without development systems at the ready. Replace the whiteboards with a room full of development computers and I am in. You do not learn programming by theorizing on whiteboards. You learn programming by programming. Here are a few more books in my library we can add to the list for discussion. I have plenty more when those are completed!
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in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •Done this little image with #blender. No #AI harmed in the process.
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