Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

@webuiltthiscity If my older zoomer kids post on IG at all, it's to stories so their friends see it. More like Snapchat, I guess. They don't love social media in general. Not in the way my GenX generation adopted it.

I hold the philosophical position that if two things are indistinguishable, their difference is irrelevant.

"What if we live in a simulation?" -- irrelevant
"What if you couldn't tell the difference between taking to a computer and a real person?" -- irrelevant

But more precisely, it's begging the question to say "imagine something was indistinguishable, now how would you treat it differently???"

Comet C/2020 F3 "NEOWISE" reflected in Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California (7/10/2020).

This is a single frame. There was moon light illuminating Fannette Island and the bay. I did a little dodging and burning and color grading in #darktable running on a Linux box.

Sony a7rIII, 55mm prime, f/1.8, 5sec, ISO640.

#astronomy #comet #astrophotography #astrophoto #photography #laketahoe #lake #emeraldbay #sierra #linuxphotography

Welcome to #Whammageddon. The challenge: during the month of December, go as long as possible without hearing the song “Last Christmas” by Wham. Post when you lose. Covers don’t count. Have fun.

https://www.whamageddon.com

They should give Donald Trump’s tax returns to Justice Alito so everyone will know what’s in them.

@nancybaym @natematias i have been very upfront that I coined it as a joke many years ago, and then it took on a life of its own, without me doing anything in support of it after the initial coinage.

I think that @shengokai has had a lot of important things to say on the topic of Mastodon and race, so was really glad to see him interviewed for this piece - and also this quote from @creatrixtiara highlights an incredibly important point. https://www.fastcompany.com/90817452/can-mastodon-be-a-twitter-refuge-for-marginalized-groups

I wanted an instance
- in #english
- with reasonable and #openMinded rule set
- #LGBTQ+ friendly (even if I am not, but most of my #friends are)
- that did not block other #instances, at most muted but open
- with open minded #admins
- with extended functionalities
- #STEM oriented

I ended up with #qoto, pretty happy about it!

Have also considered:
- #Japan, #Linux, #art, #3D, #vfx, #FOSS, #FLOSS, #blender oriented ones.

At #today, would also consider their aderation at the #UnitedFederationOfInstances ( #UFI )

I know for a fact that @freemo might want to participate in the #conversation @thibaultamartin @matrix

UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-ditches-ban-legal-harmful-online-content-favour-free-speech-2022-11-28/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-ditches-ban-legal-harmful-online-content-favour-free-speech-2022-11-28/

#news #technology

Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample for the results to be predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boots but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)

How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?

On a phone, or other touch screen device?

OR

On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?

(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)

"waah waaah mastodon is slow and glitchy sometimes, how can you bear it"

bitch I grew up with dial up. I scrolled endlessly through the hampster dance, half the jpegs broken. I spent an hour looking for and downloading a simple mp3. I waited my 54 minutes to continue watching a ropey stream of true blood with unsynced audio. I still use tumblr. you are like tiny baby

It took more time than I'd like, but I managed to block all of Twitter and Meta's servers in my hosts file.

Best to nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Please remember during the holiday season that the elf on the shelf not only creates your child's first paranoid surveillance system but also invites the fair folk into your HOUSE, what are you THINKING

Just when it seems the news couldn’t get any worse, they discover 4,000 new pages of #Hegel.

It's been one month since you-know-who bought you-know-what, so a lot of people are approaching their one month anniversary on Mastodon (and maybe other parts of the Fediverse, but newcomers seem to start out on Masto).

If it's your anniversary I suggest you post with the hashtag #MastoMonth and tell us about your experience.

What do you love? What do you hate? What do you still not understand? Share your story and ask questions!

And... happy #Fediversary!

I'm trying to figure out which phone to buy to replace my old Samsung Galaxy A3 with. Android 8, woefully lacking in storage space, and falling apart. Yeah, definitely needs replacing.

So I've been looking around. Glanced at the S20 FE and A33, both suggested by people I know. Then glanced over at the A53, even debated A52, but either they're too pricy or there's something not quite right in the reviews I've read that makes me hesistant to throw a lot of money at it.

I am still of the opinion that phones shouldn't be expensive. 200-ish euro should be fine enough.

I'm so tempted to just go eff it and buy an A13 4G instead. 175 euro, seems still sane, and the phone is in every aspect an improvement on my old A3 that I've managed to use for almost 5 years now. :P

I really will need to make a decision by tomorrow when it's Cyber Frigging Monday. I am hugely disappointed at the 'discounts' given so far around here.
#Phone #Mobile #Samsung

Good morning! A post just rolled across my fedi-timeline saying not to post about politics on Mastodon, so I'm here to remind you that:

1 "politics" refers to decision-making about how to live together in groups
2 choosing to not participate in political discussion is saying you support the status quo, and is a political stance
3 abstaining from politics because you feel safe from its impacts is a privilege and a choice to abandon your more vulnerable neighbours

I hate how copyright law means "create a playlist of all the songs that a famous session musician played on" is 20 minutes of clicking, while releasing those same songs as an album would require Treaty of Versailles quantities of lawyers, guns, and money