Notices by Александр (shuro@friends.deko.cloud)

8 км. Оранжевый грузовик поперек улицы в Москве верный признак перекрытий, рамок и прочего пиздеца, почти развернулся, но нет. Арбат всего лишь убирают от снега.

Внутри уже привычная актуалочка.

14 км. "Всё в одном".

16 км. На горизонте в дымке примерное место старта :)

@mint @a1ba Their NS records were blocked some eight hours ago (I checked) and now they are back.

I guess domain owner sent an appeal or something.

@drq @a1ba Сначала я принимал его всерьёз.

Потом наоборот.

А позже понял, что у чувака просто тяжёлая профдеформация. Шо поделать, бывает.

@dration I don't pay much attention to it so I remember only ones that I did.

DeadJoural to LiveJournal (because DJ died)

LiveJournal to VK (because it was all the rage)

VK to Google Plus (as VK became too toxic and government-affiliated)

Google Plus just died and then I decided I wanted to run something of my own so I ended up here (Diaspora first, now Friendica).

@stux @Zerglingman @feditips @wrongthink @leftsidestory Well, obviously it is not what Mastodon team wants.

I am with them by the way.

Don't mix up immune system and sheltering at home :)

@stux @feditips As someone who tried promoting Fedi among non-geeky people I can tell two things:

- When you tell about new service a very large group of people immediately tries to find it in their smartphone app store. It has to be obvious and they expect this app to be their main or only interface. Not having "the app" is showstopper.

- having to choose servers is confusing AF and too many just don't want to bother. Some drop out at this point, some (far lesser group) will choose randomly and end up on some kiwifarms or even decent but wrong choice of server. E.g. once someone I knew eventually got expelled from German server because he posted in another language which annoyed server audience and made moderators nervous.

So just a random picker like @leftsidestory suggested won't work. It has to be either complicated or dealing with a curated pool of stable and well-maintained general purpose servers.

If we want "normal people" then this is the reality and Mastodon team adapts. Making things different would mean limiting access.

@lanodan @p Not sure about DMs, aren't these sent encrypted? Logins, passwords, access tokens on the other hand are exposed

As for protection - I get why people find it tempting. Fedi software is mostly not very efficient and servers people run are often very modest and struggling under load. It doesn't take much to bring one down even by a couple of crawler bots or another malfunctioning fedi server let alone deliberate DDoS. And there's such nice free offer :)