Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

its Friday

✨ The future is federated

Imagine being able to follow Twitter accounts from your Instagram account

With Mastodon & Pixelfed you can!

▶️ https://pixelfed.org

Twitter is now an insecure platform, haemmorhaging security experts. It could haemmorhage your DMs, through leak or sale.
It's no hard guarantee, but your best chance to delete them is with is with #GDPR rights. I've written a blog on how:
https://michae.lv/deleting-dms-from-twitter/

If you are just joining Mastodon here are a few tips to fully integrate.

Mastodon is best used with some electronic doof doof music on.

Always ask how the weather is in Bruges.

The weirder your haircut the more followers.

Constantly tell people how much you love Tintin and Eurovision.

Knight Rider was merely a side project. The Hoff is more about musical expression.

Keep in mind I am relatively new here, but so far all these steps seem to have helped me greatly.

It should be obvious that the #deathcult has destroyed our civilization, like musk is destroying twitter.

"Salvage" some of the better parts of "society" as well, the rusting flotsam to have any hope of a better life the next 20 years.

#openweb #4opens #OMN #OGB #indymediaback

For those who don't know, Bookwyrm is basically a better, federated Goodreads. Because it speaks ActivityPub, you can subscribe to someone's Bookwyrm feed from directly in Mastodon and see the book reviews they post!

https://joinbookwyrm.com/

Also there are 2 spots remaining in the Bookwyrm patreon to pay $40/mo and support the project in a huge way *and* have @tripofmice run a server for you and 50 of your bookwormiest friends: https://www.patreon.com/bookwyrm

@zleap Think you have a grace period to reactivate your account. It'll haunt you! The only way now is to dismantle all of your technology so that it can never be recovered- don't forget the phone, two factor security 👀

I’m boldly going where I haven’t gone before, which is right here at this site. Apparently this is a “toot.” I would appreciate a follow!

I wonder if we can get https://runyourown.social/ to be the next banned url on twitter

Another reason for newspapers, profession/trade organizations, and other well-funded institutions to run servers is to share the load in a federated/distributed ecosystem. The burden--work, cost, risk, liability, responsibility--of this federated conversation we're having right now falls mostly on *volunteers.* Newspapers, magazines, unions, and others need to do their share for their constituents benefit. Besides, newspapers should be fostering conversation as mission.

Hello all #admins! I'm rolling out my own instance soon but having struggles since Mastodon implements its own reverse proxy from the same server, resulting in multiple redirects.

My plan is to move the reverse proxy parts from nginx to my own service where I host all other proxies. This is an Apache because yay.

Question is, does anyone else have the same setup and have a conf ready?

So clarify:
[INTERNET] -> [REVERSE PROXY] -> [INTERNAL MASTODON]

hlp plz

#webhost #mastodon #instance

Take a "sneak peak" (pun intended) at the latest *Bulletin*, fresh off the printers and currently being stuffed for mailing in our Boston office by our **awesome volunteers**! It covers privacy, upcoming Trisquel 11 codenamed "Aramo," and more! Be on the lookout! #FSFBulletin

The EU has the firepower to bring Twitter to heel.

But a lack of willingness to act quickly has so far hamstrung the bloc's enforcement role when it comes to holding Elon Musk to Europe's standards, according to eight EU and national government officials

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-europe-regulation-enforcement/

A beauty in the sky!🔥🔭

This is the famous Orion Nebula, an amazingly bright and complex cloud of dust and gas, located - you guessed it - in the constellation Orion. It's location can easily be seen by the naked eye, the sword of Orion. Taken with a camera and telescope last winter.

Telescope: Tecnosky AG70
Camera: ZWO ASi 294 Mc Pro
Stack: 90x180s Ha and RGB

#astrophotography #space #astronomy #photography #universe #astropic