Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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Are folks really pressuring independent artists, authors, etc., not to promote their work here?
Do you also picket your local independent cafe and mom and pop stores? What happens if you succeed in shutting them down? That’s right, you end up with a McDonald’s in their place.
Please learn to separate capitalists from folks trying to survive under capitalism. Independent people trying to pay their rent isn’t advertising, it’s existing. What Coca-Cola does is advertising.
#fediverse ❤️ #indie
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Free winter tires for people choosing bikes over cars in #Sweden—public transport agency will give away studded tires for winter bicycle users.
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@eniko @candyleader The people telling artists to "quit spamming" are the same ones telling #BlackMastodon they can "just block anyone you don't like".
Meanwhile I'm over here having to dm an artist I really liked because she didn't have a store anywhere I could find.
Hit me with those links, peeps! I can buy scented candles from local craftspeople any time, I want something different from artists in my timeline!
Have downloaded, I will try and share with one of my code club attendees who is also studying GCSE biology.
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Found 1 new servers, 4 servers died off this update, 24,008 alive servers now at 12-20-2022 03:14 PT.
8,265,630 total fediverse users, 2,818,516 active users this month. Check out the stats!
New #fediverse servers found:
mastodon.docmeth02.host a #mastodon server from Private
Dead servers: digivonity.nl blargh.wondering.xyz akkoma.nazileaks.eu pixelfed.marud.fr
Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer
8,265,630 total fediverse users, 2,818,516 active users this month. Check out the stats!
New #fediverse servers found:
mastodon.docmeth02.host a #mastodon server from Private
Dead servers: digivonity.nl blargh.wondering.xyz akkoma.nazileaks.eu pixelfed.marud.fr
Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer
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@gamingonlinux I, for one, absolutely want to see everybody’s cool shit.
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@nextcloud I am really happy to have been given the chance to work on Nextcloud, a project that I dearly love and that I think is essential to claiming back our digital life. During these last 1.5 years, I have been involved on so many projects from performance and accessibility to the latest redesign and I am really graceful to all my colleagues who helped me and allowed me to grow so much.
@ssgeos It does seem interesting, hopefully over time more data can be collected on this. maybe we will also learn more from things like Moon and Mars Quakes too.l
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Privacy-Focused #Tails 5.8 #Anonymous #Linux OS Enables #Wayland by Default, Adds New Persistent Storage https://9to5linux.com/privacy-focused-tails-5-8-enables-wayland-by-default-adds-new-persistent-storage
@ssgeos There does seem to be a lot of activity around the pacific ring of fire recently not long ago there was a volcano erupting in Chile, and before that other volcanoes, oddly with a week or two gap between. Are these events related in some way?
I think this is also important for minority groups too,l they can share their culture, arts etc in a way thet reaches far more people as there is no algorithm here to decide who sees your content.
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There was some merit in saying "growth shouldn't be your goal" when the #fediverse was much smaller, but the way that's morphed into "don't self-promote and just be a person" is simply not how people use social media. Creators are the backbone of EVERY social network, and it must be the case that people can try to use their skills to make a living here.
It is, in fact, virtuous to try to escape the cycle of letting rich corps take your work. We should help those people, not push them away.
@demvoter It looks like Musk could be finished soon, dodgy cars, badly running twitter, what is going on at SpaceX as soon as investors get the jitters in one area, this may spread to other companies he owns.
Lets hope there is a massive downfall, and this sends a clear message to other billionaires, that the are not above anyone.
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@zleap @niko first people, en mass, need to start questioning the viability and suitability of proprietary systems that they've been fed, which (they should have sufficient insight to see) are like Twitter. Having experienced the Fediverse, they see there's another way to do things. One would hope they'll start thinking... hmmm... maybe there's a similar parallel digital universe for everything else I do on a computer.
@RobinKey is Lanchester Poly what is now Coventry University ?
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We may never be able to match the incredible achievements of #JohnMastodon, but the European Union still plays its part!
We are proud funders of Mastodon through the Next Generation Internet initiative (@EC_NGI).
Open,
Interoperable,
Decentralised,
Trust based.
@sflorg Sounds good, and also essential research.
@lauramkoenig
You should be able to use tags such as #Academia yes, along side subject specific tags e.g #biology
There may be people listed on Trunk, which I encourage people to get added to.
Academia list is here
Nice, are these rare events ?
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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