Notices by Roni Laukkarinen (rolle@mementomori.social)

Some dude is stating that sharing posts to Fediverse is "horrible" and "dangerous" because it is a breach of your privacy. He's saying this on Meta platform.

https://www.threads.net/@photeric/post/C_OtvnNyisJ/

#Fediverse #FediverseSharing #Threads

Can't stay quiet about this as much as I don't like namedropping or any kind of blaming even when there is a reason. But there is this one Mastodon admin who refuses to take any responsibility of his server. He literally said on other social site: "I'm not doing anything about it, just writing this comment is too much trouble for that shit."

I confonted him and said: "So you want to give free server capacity to criminals and spammers. Because quite a few vulnerabilities have come out since 4.1.4. So you want to let the spambots continue their work in peace? Good luck with that 🫡"

He answered "Yes" and blocked me. This is disturbing to say the least. Don't know how to react.

You should probably defederate mastodo.fi.

Source (in Finnish): https://www.threads.net/@tero.ojala/post/C3nueFKICzw

#MastodoFi #FediBlock #MastoAdmin

User aaronrosspower at Threads:

”When Musk bought Twitter and there was that initial wave of people fleeing, Mastodon could've kept that momentum, and probably won out as the next big thing, if it'd (1) opened mastodon.social to registrations as the default server and (2) added quote posts. I'm convinced Bluesky's success was entirely because Mastodon didn't do (1) and (2), and while the Fediverse will still likely be the main decentralized network, once Threads federates, the process was significantly slowed and fractured.”

When will people understand that Mastodon or any other Fediverse app will not need to ”success” and be mainstream? I think we are not driven by profit and corporate gain. I think we will exist as long as there are people running their web services.

Please note: This is just my opinion. I have to state this, because I’ve been blocked for less. Comment if you agree/disagree.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialWeb #Threads #Bluesky

@kevinjardine I think it's not whether it should be done, it's about motivation and the "better way" for it to be done 🤷♂️

See the issues:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22793
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19889

I wonder what's @renchap's take on this?

Windows95man won UMK and will represent Finland at Eurovision 2024. Congrats.

#umk #umk2024 #umk24 #euroviisut #eurovision #eurovision2024

Birthday coffee. 🎈

Fedi on Fire first beta is now released! I just had to try and do it... Watch those endless Fediverse posts flow! :meow_hearteyes: Check it out at https://fedionfire.stream

#Mastodon #WebDev #MastoAdmin #CSS #JS #Streaming #API

@aral Thank you Aral for your words. What a great reminder! I should remember there is no rush here. My servers are running fine and will be for years from now, unlike for those companies who try to make money out of their users while their investors are breathing on their back.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who's excited about Fediverse outside of Fediverse. I have to believe that's not the case, it's just only the loudest ones catch the eye.

I should get over the fact people are not into Mastodon or Fediverse and do not care for the open web. This makes me very sad.

I've been feeling down lately anyway for about a week now. Not only because of this. Lots of things going on in my life. Can't wait for my Autumn Holiday next week. Every attempts to cheer me up welcome.

For all the people who say ”I had to select a server, it was so complicates to sign up to Mastodon. In Bluesky it was easy” - how are these two different logic-wise? I mean what the hell?

#Bluesky #Mastodon #SocialMedia

Just noticed Bluesky doesn't ACTUALLY add the alt text in the img itself. This is a big mistake and makes the service very inaccessible.

The text is actually in the very last part of the DOM (Document Object Model) tree... and is triggered via click. So, if the screen reader doesn't support JavaScript, descriptive text is nowhere to be found. Even when it is, it can't be accessed easily.

#Bluesky #Accessibility #WebDev

Omg even the paragraph is not really a paragraph.

WHERE ARE THE <p> TAGS

#HTML #Semantics #Accessibility #WebDev #Bluesky

Fun stats of the same post.

#SocialMedia #X #Reach #Bluesky

Source: @hplehkonen Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq0hZi6NxGo/ #Scooters #Accessibility #City #CityScooter

#Linux desktop is beautiful. @pop_os_official

@Loukas @jon I've only posted my blog posts recently to Twitter. I do not engage to any conversations, I do not use like or retweet, I just post my links and that's it.

For each and every update I post to Twitter I get dozens of "f*ck off" comments and other low-level shite... I feel like Twitter is not worth it for even the littlest amount of posting because of these "reactions". It's like 4chan but worse. Whenever I open Twitter I feel like I'm in the dark web where bad people do whatever they want and say whatever they want. It's a very ominous feeling and I don't like it.

@charliebrownau I know there are cheap storage boxes, I rent one from Hetzner, couple of bucks per 1TB.

But there are no cheap UNLIMITED storage. Only Google has those.

@charliebrownau Well the point is that any kind of auto payment is good and any kind of unlimited and safe backup method is good.

I don't know where I can get cheap unlimited space that is not a big tech cloud. Do you?

Ways to make your #Mastodon instance future proof:

+ Make sure it's financed by a company/organisation/team with auto payments on solid bank account, do not depend on donations
+ Use cloud based and/or scalable storage, make sure it's big enough from the very start
+ Use sensible data retention and cleanup
+ Make sure your database has space to grow
+ Scale up resources when necessary
+ Make sure auto-backups and heartbeats are set up
+ Use scripts and automation
+ Have a plan for easy migrating in the future
+ Accept that all life and websites have a finite time in this universe #MementoMori

#MastodonInstances #Admins #FediAdmin #servers #SelfHosted #SelfHosting