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1. Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 19:11:45 JST Erik Uden 🍑

   Vodafone executives when Erik Uden hosts side-services of mastodon.de on a 1Gbit/s private contract instead of a business contract

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 19:11:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     @ErikUden Bloody hell, Erik… no good deed goes unpunished, eh? I’m so sorry you had to waste your time like that. That collection of ten asshats has now been blocked from my end.

     Life’s too short. If it was me, I’d tell them where they could stick their collective entitlement, hang up, block, and move on :)

     Hope you’re having a better day today.

     Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

     *hug*

   • Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 19:11:41 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     I was called on my personal phone number this evening (22:50) by a group of 10 people from the Fediverse ( @Lily@girldick.gay ) threatening to report to Vodafone that we are disobeying their terms of service (side-services of mastodon.de are hosted behind a 1Gbit/s private connection instead of a business contract). While their obviously ill-intended conversation was going on, they were also live posting about it on their accounts happily admitting to what they are doing. You can see these comments as screenshots attached to this post.

     You can read a memory log of our conversation here and here.

     The motivation behind this was simply to annoy me. I know the people, we had a slight disagreement on the Fediverse recently. Regardless of the contract, we have planned to move mastodon.de completely to the cloud soon.

     Honest to god, mastodon.de is a donation-funded project. Me and a couple of friends do this honorarily and we do our best to be as transparent about our expenditures as possible. I do all the finances, all public texts, all management, calls, etc. I do this next to studying Computer Science in university, next to my honorary political / environmental activist work, next to having friends or sleeping which often comes too short.

     I'd love to have the life of people that can take the time out of their day to call someone at 11 pm simply to annoy them due to some internet argument that started and ended over a week ago. Truly, if I'd have that kind of time I'd be happier in life. Annoy billionaires and politicians, but not some guy who has spent all of his time, effort, and money into something that is for the common good.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 20:15:03 JST Aral Balkan

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     @ErikUden ⛄️💕

   • Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 20:15:05 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral Thank you, Aral <3. It's wonderful to have your support in a moment like this.

     I'm usually entirely with you - this is not worth anyone's time. I should know better not to take obvious attempts at annoying me serious enough to let them affect me, but in that moment I was just too surprised that this was happening I was willing to let it go through. Going forward I'll follow your advice! Again, thanks a lot.

     I'm having a wonderful day today!! I'm currently in Prague and there was incredible snowfall during the night- something I haven't seen up north where I live since my earliest childhood.

     So, don't worry! I'm having a wonderful time and am willing to leave this discussion behind (again). I honestly forgot this was a thing as the original discussion happened over a week ago - in a week I will not care again. I'm going to build another snowman today and maybe go over Charles Bridge or to the castle! Love this city!! :ablobcatsnowjoy: :blobcat_santamelt: