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C. Matt Schofield

I've seen a lot of people saying that liking posts here is pointless, but I absolutely love the way it works - it feels like what this sort of feature is actually supposed to do.

If I put a star on a toot, I'm not trying to blast it to the universe, I just want to quietly inform the poster that I liked or appreciated what they shared. Not everything needs a comment and I don't always have the mental energy to make one, but I still want someone to know that I valued their thought.

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Hacker News :verified:

Mastodon’s founder has a vision to democratize social media

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@r0zambo @infosec_jobs hey, this bot has feelings too!! (Also I agree)

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Erik Moeller

The collapse of Twitter is a system breakdown. Mastodon and the fediverse represent something different: _system change_. From for-profit "Big Tech" to nonprofit, open source, community-owned public spaces.

System change is always harder than you think. It always incurs short-term costs, with hoped for long-term benefits.

The next few weeks will be really tough for the fediverse. Stick around, vibe with it, and you just might help us put a huge part of the web back in community hands. <3

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@adam totally. How it all works is kind of new for everyone crossing over. But it’s also fun and new! Maybe we’ll see more investment into this platform so discoverability may improve, I hope!

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@adam the “mast” app on iOS and macOS has a way to add and view “Instance Timelines” which would be like going to a different instance and showing their local timeline.

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Johannes :verified_paw: :donor:

I know it's not technically #followfriday #FF but my following list has completely exploded over the weekend as new folks have landed in record numbers, and I'm still seeing many people with barely any peers.

Remember, the absence of a recommendation algorithm means it os ON YOU to feed interesting sources into your timeline. If your timeline feels empty, please consider following these fine folks (in no particular order and guaranteed to be in complete):

@gossithedog
@SwiftOnSecurity
@bcantrill
@christoff
@sawaba
@ChristinaStokes
@0ddj0bb
@ghostinthecable
@alyssam_infosec
@jiska
@SuperTeece
@Medus4
@bplein
@b
@ceejbot
@shanselman
@Sysengineer
@bsdbandit
@mallen
@mattblaze
@willmcgugan
@jpd

And don't forget to eat your vegetables and follow @YourMom

#followfridayeveryday

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Katherine Druckman

Politics 

Hey Philly and the rest of PA, wouldn’t you love to stick it to Texas this week by showing up and voting blue? It would feel pretty good, right?? Just putting that out there. 😀 #blueWave #pleaseVote #thankYou #theRealWinnersAreWomenWhoHaveBodilyAutonomy

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Click here for a much higher quality version of this image: sudorandom.dev/assets/images/w

TIL that mastodon renders SVG files into PNG.

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Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴

One thing I've been enjoying seeing back on the hellsite is so many photos of happy young people with their "I Voted" stickers after voting for the first time. #vote #voteblue

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Goodblue

QAnon, Extremism, Twitter 

via Media Matters

QAnon influencers are trying to use Twitter’s new subscription service to regain a foothold on the platform

mediamatters.org/twitter/qanon
#news #twitter #voteblue

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sudorandom

Our world is connected. We see evidence of that from seeing social media updates from people around the world or news broadcasts that cover events happening from anywhere. But have you considered the physical infrastructure of the internet? Of course there are datacenters, giant buildings with loud computers buzzing away. But those buildings need to be connected to each other, to your modem at home, to mobile cell towers that are sprinkled all over the place, and connected "to the internet". But what does that mean? Contrary to popular belief, satellites are NOT how most information travels the world. Indeed, we have physical cables all over... but instead of sending electrical signals those cables carry light generated by lasers.

These cables not only exist alongside roads and hung on power lines. They're also running along the bottom of the world's oceans. The image attached below is an inventory of each of these underwater internet cables. What I find interesting is how many there are! It seems like a lot. But then when I think more about it I am also amazed at how few there are. If you pay attention you will see news articles describing occasional sabotage of these cables, here's one recently published by Wired: wired.com/story/submarine-inte. This is actually very important to the future and security of the global internet.

sudorandom.dev/portfolio/subma

The data for generating this map is based on: submarinecablemap.com/

Song Recommendation: open.spotify.com/track/3lOjtlf

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Hello Mastodon,

This is my ! 👋

I'm a :term: who has lived in , , my entire life until last year my wife, daughter, and I moved to ,

In my free time (when I have it) I play :1up:, 🎲, marvel at the audacity of conspiracy theories 🌎, watch other people play video games :twitch:, learn 🇩🇰, and take on side projects usually involving or 📊. I also might talk your ear off about how cool the submarine optic cables are. 🔦

My real name is Kevin. Welcome to . Let's all figure this out together!

PS: Sorry for reposting but I've been told that I need to use way more tags.

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Simon Willison

Looks like there are some pretty big new features in the first Mastodon 4.0 release candidate: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r

A few that caught my eye (there's loads more):

- ability to follow hashtags
- ability to translate posts
- support for uploading WebP/AVIF/HEIC
- change post editing to be enabled in web UI
- no more /web prefix on web app paths

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Can’t wait till humans colonize mars and people start spreading flat mars memes.

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Electricity Maps is a cool visualization of power consumption/generation and the carbon impact broken down by each country:

app.electricitymaps.com

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨

Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."

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Hello Mastodon,

I'm a software engineer who has lived in Dallas, Texas, USA my entire life until last year my wife, daughter, and I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark.

In my free time (when I have it) I play video games, board games, research flat earth conspiracy theories, watch other people play video games, learn Danish, and take on side projects usually involving data visualization. I also might talk your ear off about how cool the submarine fiber optic cables are.

My real name is Kevin. Welcome to Mastodon. Keep your arms and legs in the vehicle at all times and enjoy the ride.

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@MakerFriends Yes, this link explains it better: scied.ucar.edu/image/sun-spect

...but a short version is that different atomic elements will absorb different frequencies of light. These directly correspond to the electron
shells of these elements. So in these specific wavelengths of light there will be less light that makes it to earth because a percentage of the light has been absorbed by different the outer layers of the sun.

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Source code is available here: github.com/sudorandom/sun-fing

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