Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

The crazy part about this is, that Meta didn't HAVE to subvert the protocol or find ways to bribe instance admins into showing their ads.

All they had to do was **announce **they'd be supporting a supplementary protocol some time in the future, and part of the Fediverse start acting exactly counter to the ideal of an open protocol, thus starting the almost inevitable downfall of a network that worked extremely well, in some incarnations, for more than ten years.

Imagine Mail or SMS starting to fracture into cells of smaller networks, because Mail Provider A does not think their users should be able to email users from B and C, while C doesn't talk to D and D won't let you receive mail from A. Imagine not being able to send a SMS to T-Mobile number, because Sprint doesn't think you should be able to, and Telefonica blocking Cyta, because Vodafone is blocking PrimeTel...

Yeah, let's do that. Zuckerberg hasn't even entered the ring, and you already threw the towel.

Me, standing atop a cherry-blossom-swept bridge, re-sheathing my katana

Twitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands

I'm hearing enough positives about codeberg, sourcehut, and gitea that it would be cool if anyone happened to have a good article/video comparing and contrasting them!

"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"

This is increasingly how it feels, when streaming shows disappear for tax reasons and things you "own" digitally become inaccessible.

Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.

Found these pretty funny:

https://github.com/Flet/rejected-github-profile-achievements

If you ever wanted a visual to explain how binary in works.

Based on the-federation.info, it looks like over the last ~3 days #Fediverse added about four BlueSky's worth of active users.

That spike there is roughly 800k monthly active accounts.

Obviously measuring this is difficult, and there are weird bumps like the one about a month ago (visible on the chart), but this time it is confirmed by other metrics sources.

Not all of #NewHere will stay, just like in previous waves. But many will. And it will make fedi more diverse and fun. 🎉

A kolektiva.social admin was raided by the FBI, who recovered an unencrypted database backup from their computer.

These are the people telling you how to run your server, and encouraging centralization onto just a few instances.

https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110637031574056150

I would prefer it if Elon Musk was destroying his site during the work week. This isn't the first time.

Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.

Of course I immediately closed out my connection because I'm a good person. Oh, but it's the weekend and Evil Sheldon is in control so I kept the party going for a while since Twitter insisted on it.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #Twitter #MastodonMigration #DDOS

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

Now all #twitter t.co links are blocked by twitter login. All #links we ever shared via twitter can not be followed anymore without signing in to twitter, no matter where in the #WWW they point to. Twitter put a gate in front of our links by "shortening" them and now they locked the gate. We never should have given them such power. #gatedcommunities #fediverse #web

I didn't think they'd raise the walls on *my* garden, sobs the woman who registered at the walled-garden website.