b_chocolatey @b_chocolatey@qoto.org

It’s interesting that the biggest communication challenge facing Mastodon communities is explaining that it’s basically a protocol and a network of independent, interconnected servers, which is what the Web, e-mail, even DNS and most of the fundamental services we use on the internet are, and always were.
It just illustrates just how much ‘Big Tech’ proprietary social media platforms swallowed up and walled off, if it’s now difficult to explain what the internet actually is!

In fact the whole #fediverse seems to be doing well, despite the influx continuing at 100,000 people a day. Servers go brrr.

Great article.

"Musk thinks he bought a tech company, but he’s actually bought a community of users, and that's where its value lies..."

So says Prof Paul Bernal - Professor of Information Technology Law at the University of East Anglia School of Law.

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/why-elon-musk-the-chief-twit-is-in-trouble/

You have to train your mind to be stronger than your emotions or else you will lose yourself every time.

#quotes

Perfection is overrated.

#newhere #new #introduction #reading #writing #learning #growing #good #quotes #mentalhealth

Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN'T be like. #quotes #programming

LegoAnkhMorpork @LegoAnkhMorpork

Which #BookQuote (or #Quotes) in the #Discworld series make you laugh out loud whenever you read or hear it?! Let's start adding some #TerryPratchett style humor to everyone's feeds!

“You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.
IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
'What if she cuts herself?'
THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

"Seek respect not attention"

#sayings #motivation #quotes #Mastodon

#quotes #ursulaleguin #politics #scifi #fantasy #utopia

#Mental health practitioners and #meditation #gurus have long credited intentional #breathing with the ability to induce inner calm, but #scientists do not fully understand how the #brain is involved in the process.
#Neuroscience #Engineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/11/eng11112201.html

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention,
how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

—Mary Oliver

#poetry #writing #amwriting #prayer #devotion #meditation #mindfulness #reading

dude sometimes i think the parking lot security guys are in like a war movie the way they talk in the walkies

Have we decided on the convention of Mastodon Tagging?

Are we going to #tag within the #mastodon posts like Twitter,
Or add them in at the end like on Tiktok,
Or go the #instagram route- tagging organically within the description and then tacking on whatever #relevant tags we couldn’t shoehorn in?

#tiktok #question

Have we created any uniquely #mastodon #lore yet?
All the other major social media networks have organically developed culutural affects, experiences, and references

Sites like #twitter, #reddit, #tumblr, #instagram, #tiktok, and even #facebook all have these observable in-jokes and conventions

Mast on isn’t new… but it’d be absurd to pretend this isn’t a critical reset moment on the platform- a new chapter, at least

I guess we wait and see

#mastodonlore

Have you noticed that some websites are tracking when you send a link to someone?

I made this simple iOS Shortcut to reanonymize them- preserving the barebones link to the original post/article without the tracking

#privacy #tracking #share #twitter #tiktok #ios #iphone

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4c5a32b52d05469b8100b7f7859627ca

I'm Susanna and I write about the #FirstAmendment at First Amendment Watch at NYU.

Check us out at https://firstamendmentwatch.org/

Recent Columbia Journalism School grad and former fellow at Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting.

I'm based in New York City.

#introduction

A Bitchute exclusive! Some ethnonationalists are angry at me (even deeming me a shill) for suggesting they have white children. This is, apparently, "unrealistic" as a proposal lol. #Cringe #Demographics https://www.bitchute.com/video/HhG3F87Je0fX/ https://twitter.com/Styx666Official/status/1279721134548754434

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Full-List of bots: https://joejoe.github.io/mastodon

Speaking of #demographics: The one-child policy enforced by the #CCP for a long time has led to a society that is getting out of balance increasingly: Not enough young working people to support all the pensioners. And seen #China's shrinking #population, the housing bubble is here to stay. Add #tangping aka the #lyingflat movement to the mix, and the dream of continuous high #GDP growth rates becomes an illusion.

Keep in mind that economic growth legitimizes the regime in #Beijing.