Notices by FinchHaven (finchhaven@sfba.social)

@cmdr_nova

"It’s worth mentioning that Maven received 2 million dollars in funding from former Twitter CEO Ev Williams and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman"

Realize that 2 million dollars is chump change to these tech bros

A rounding error

But even so these "investors" certainly expect an ROI - a return on their investment

What part of #Maven's haul is to be monetized to generate shareholder value - to ensure these parasites receive an adequate ROI - and how?

@aral

And this is interesting, from our boy #Gargron:

"We’ve always been worried that developing Free and Open Source Software would not be recognized as a charitable cause by the German tax system, so we were glad when the tax office originally approved our non-profit status in 2021. But now we have received a notice from the same tax office that our non-profit status has been withdrawn. This came with no advance warning or explanation."

Apparently chanting "free and open, free and open, free and open" while raking in sh1t-t0ns of money didn't fool the German tax authorities

So move to the United States, where the tax system and the IRS are deliberately intended to benefit the rich

Got it....

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

@vetehinen

"what on earth makes you say they are raking in shit tons of money?"

Apparently you haven't been paying any attention

"Thank you Sujitech"

"Today we would like to thank Sujitech for kindly donating $100k USD to Mastodon, by far the largest single donation to our non-profit so far."

$100,000.00 USD

For what?

To pay "two full-time developers" $50,000 USD annually?

Dream on...

And this is one "donation" only

What is #Gargron raking in on his line of plushies and other bling?

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/thank-you-sujitech/

Merch: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/new-merchandise/

cc @aral

@gotosocial

"Allowlist was properly released as of 0.12.0"

0.12.0 what?

cc @feditips @firecat

@feditips

They replied to me directly in the thread after I had posted that I'd reported the OP

Last time I'll make that mistake

It was quite an eye-opener as to how impregnable a very small, single-admin instance can be against reports or complaints

cc @firecat

@firecat

Speaking to single-user or small instances, I reported some pretty offensive behavior by an account on one to that instance's admin, who literally laughed at me in reply

And then proceeded to brigade me via *my* instance mods and admins

Took some fast talking and screenshots on my part to get my own instance admins to climb down off *my* case

cc @feditips

@profoundlynerdy

Wait

There's a bug open at where? Github?

For news: not working? -- which it shouldn't

Or for news:// not working?

cc @feditips

@feditips

Ditto for me, also on sfba dot social, Firefox browser tab

Whoa

Wait: check that

It *does* begin to play in a newly-opened tab when I click "download"

At the end it doesn't ask me to 'save' anything

cc @karlauerbach

@feditips

"These aren't VC startups trying to build up hype machines ready for the stock markets, these are FOSS projects patiently improving their functionality over years."

Wow

Apparently you've missed the hype I've seen

Or you're following the wrong hashtags

Or you have an entirely different definition of 'hype'

cc @bitpickup @pfefferle

@bitpickup

That #wordpress is the new feature that is going to save #Mastodon and the #Fediverse is the lastest hot-techy-take

So far all I've seen is:

1) people talking about how their blog is now "on" Mastodon -- but with only words

2) people talking about how their blog is now "on" Mastodon and posting a link that is no different than any link to any web site anywhere

3) a very few people talking about how their blog is now "on" Mastodon and posting a link that takes me to their blog, where I can read but cannot comment because it's not connected back to Mastodon in any way except by my 'back' arrow

I've seen one case where apparently I *could* comment but I did not -- mostly because the content was pretty uninteresting

So there's a long, long way to go before Wordpress "saves" Mastodon, to put it mildly

IMOO, of course

YMMV...

cc @feditips @pfefferle

@selzero

Came across your earlier post and for some reason went to take a look at detroitcity dot com through FediDB

Complete and utter trash

The one or two vaguely coherent posts did not make up for the stream of sewage in general

YMMV; IMO

cc @PSiReN