@freemo@qoto.org @stux@mstdn.social CAME HERE TO POST EXACTLY THIS ๐
Some of the most fearsome people I have ever met have been woman a foot shorter than me.
@stux If you ever met a short woman you already understand this :)
@linos @publicvoit @freemo
i don't see why hard forks of free software should be a reason for exclusion. then you just can do closed source or some weird "you can look at it but don't run it" construct like signal does as well.
joinmastodon for sure isn't owing anyone something. part of this discussion was "mastodon.social is the entrypoint for newcomers" - so is joinmastodon. by excluding everything but what is "correct", be it forks or completely different software it's doing a disservice to the fediverse.
it has done so already by taking something, relabeling it as "the mastodon network" all while raking in tax money and working together with the EU on surveillance of the fediverse.
Can we please stop throwing around the threat of defederation?
Defederation shouldn't happen unless an instance is a cesspool full of terrible behavior with an admin unwilling to deal with it.
Annoyances like spam can be dealt with by admins without scorching the Earth and going nuclear.
Lets not turn the #Fediverse, where instance are supposed to be part of a larger collection, into islands of instances that have cut themselves off from others because of annoyances.
For those #mastoadmin who have to clean up the mess, this query helped a bunch - obviously replace Infosec.exchange with your domain. You can select all accounts and suspend at once, then jump to the end and youโll see two accounts that are inadvertently swept up - just manually unsuspend those.
Do not go gentle into the good night
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
@freemo COVID-19 is one of those things that should not be political but for some bizarre current era reason it is. I fully understand laymen having wildly different views though, as some people are more risk averse than others. This isnโt necessarily political.
My personal feeling is that even if something is so freaking lethal that it will surely end up killing me Iโd rather spend my few remaining days is peace not thinking about it 24/7.
Haha you know, im only a covid research scientist working exclusively on the disease for several years now... man what an idiot
#covid #covid19
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