They’re like Cylons

THERE ARE MANY COPIES

AND THEY HAVE A PLAN

androids can’t do base distro’s anymore?

I’ll be honest, I never tried. Seeing that there are projects working independently to bring Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch to Android, I’d guess no? Plus I know you can run any distro in an emulator within Android systems, but that feels more like a curiosity.

Shocker! Good for them, course literature costs a literal fortune.

I think Fedi Garden does a good job of making it accessible, but I still think that curated list needs updating.

None of the automated find-me-an-instance sites have really convinced me, but I have an okay niche server for my interests, and if that folds I’ll probably host a GoToSocial instance just for myself…

Yeah, but tech journos are so far up Big Tech’s cloaca that they can’t imagine any platform emerge without a business plan™. Couple that with their unreflected admiration for anything they’re told is The Next Thing and you have the gushing bit you quoted.

So, 15 years later we’re worse off than then? Argh.

Out of curiosity, was it “just” a plain Debian system, or did it support touch screen and phone service?

I didn’t bother clicking through, so grain of salt — wouldn’t torrent indexers and search sites also be included in this many site blocks? Streaming sites seems to be the lowest hanging fruit.

very limited ability to self-brand

I mean, yeah. Especially when the content of your flawlessly customised site is federated to thousands other activity pub enabled sites with different stylesheets and aesthetics. That isn’t a problem with Mastodon per se, it’s just the nature of federation.

I do agree with your broader point that Mastodon has become synonymous with fediverse microblogging, which again is what most people associate with the fediverse, period.

Oh, still is.

“Lemmy is terrible!”

“Have you tried kbin?”

“kbin isn’t developed, try mbin”

“I tried mbin, but piefed is better”

“I only use the comments section of federated Wordpress blogs, by email”

“Zomg you guys, somebody launched qbin”

30% self-congratulatory talk about how popular bluesky is this week.

TBF, Mastodon was the same when I joined. I just muted all mention of “mastodon” + variations, Bob’s your uncle. Navel gazing meta discourse is the least exciting updates on any platform.

It is still funny to visit random egg profiles on there and see they only tooted once, two years ago, saying “so this is mastodon, wonder how this works” and then never again.

I’m not criticising my right to put in extra work to make promising efforts available on platforms that do not track users; I criticise the fact that the developers didn’t do this in the first place.

But good work putting the onus on me, you complete corporate rando.

Nice idea, will follow how this develops, but — FFS, the pack CSVs are all on Google Docs.

Independent, trustworthy repository, plz.

No, I use only the platforms I wouldn’t want to see get lost eventually. But I see your attempt at a rhetorical gotcha, and I want to recognise that, too.

Posting on the fediverse I sort of want to exempt those, but Bluesky can get in the sea too, yeah.

we need to ban every platform such as Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Discord

Now you’re talking.

Same, I stay away from /all and only follow my subscribed communities by new.

EVIL MUST LOGO

Theres a T-shirt waiting to happen.

Loving the old man Moffat hatred of capitalism that just burns more intensely with every new script!

This is the exact reason email never took off. /s

Even if you’ve watched some or all of the old shows in order, I think it could be fun to do a casual rewatch by LDS references. It gives you reason to watch some deep cuts out of context, and probably not the ones you’d be inclined to pick on your own 🙂

I had a brief spell of panic there. Thought I’d missed an episode!