Are there any admins on social.tchncs.de.? Is anonymously spreading lies about over 30 families in Gaza allowed on this instance?
This anonymous coward has been chased off of every server he’s been on and yet he’s still here, still attacking people suffering from genocide and famine.
(And yes, some folks copy posts from others. We’ve asked them not to. But they’re trying to survive genocide, not win social media awards.)
Also (see his second post) we’re not attempting to r…
Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.
The third-party app store known as AltStore,
one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union,
is preparing to connect its platform with the open social web known as the fediverse.
The move would connect users on other open social apps,
like Mastodon or Meta’s Threads,
with updates from apps in a new way.
In addition, the startup is announcing its first funding round from outside investors,
with a $6 million Se…
AltStore, one of the first alternative app stores in the EU, raised a $6M Series A led by Pace Capital, aims to launch in Australia, Brazil, and Japan in 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/alternative-app-st…
Hello #fediverse
I am happy to share my blog post on #GitRaven project.
This post has been stuck on Drafts for so long! I am happy it's out :)
This is my first C project as well as my first Qt project. Some of you might remember my
One more photo today from my recent blog post. At first I really disliked the bright white spots in the background - okay I *still* dislike them.
But ... after a while now I think it's not a too bad photo overall. Anyways - let this be a relaxing start into your weekend!
Cheers! and if you want more context: check out the blog post or even follow my blog from the fediverse: @…
@… First of all, yes. Maybe also have a subset of HTML that has stricter XML-like parsing rules — not sure what we would call it…
To fediverse admins:
If you see an attempt to create a copy of a Gaza Verified member’s account on your server, without having heard from me first, please suspend it and get in touch with me if you can.
I have asked the Gaza Verified members not to migrate their accounts without telling me first so I can reach out to one of our friendly server admins (…
The Danish independent media organisation @… are on a member drive with 10 promises if they make it to 50,000, including that they'll share more on social media. I can dream they'll make it to the #fediverse I suppose?
In any case their journalism is outstanding and they carefully avoid making an explicit political stance and contributing to polarisation. #UnbreakingNews
In depth journalism you can read or listen to (try deepL if you don't speak Danish), often beautifully produced, always fascinating. They also don't report on problems without reporting solutions.
It's by far the most uplifting read/listen of my day.
Free link here, pay what you want and free to first time voters...
https://www.zetland.dk/a/rmottram?og=amba25-8
@… just started a #Loops channel and AFAIK this would be the first organization to be active on this quite new and experimental fediverse platform.
This may be the first web page I've seen "Blood, Guts, Death, Inc." mentioned on. (It was a super-obscure joke band that me and another guy recorded a demo for in my bedroom around 1987.)
@… might be the only person on the Fediverse who recognizes it.
(All of the "Related Artists" are bands I was in, but the other g…
Listening to the #EuroSkyLive introduction talks - still haven‘t figured out, why start building #EuroSky in the first place? The Fediverse is already there, has been working and around for years: Pixelfed, Loops, Peertube, Mastodon.
Why start the People’s Front of sovereignty after the Sovereig…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/115382255162970844
The Fediverse programmer's OS use poll has just ended with 6,064 votes, and 1.1K boosts (thank you.)
Linux or Unix came up first with a whooping 3,453 votes (57%), followed by Ma…
It flipped 20m before I arrived at home. Being angry at first that I missed it so close to take a very comforting picture.... I then decided to welcome it as a way to trigger #fediverse‘s #innerMonk . You're welcome
@… I’ll add that later after I raise a seed round for this first
Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: #20AuthorsNoMen
:msmusicnote: On the first day of #Fediverse, my true love gave to me
ONE #toot in my #mastodon #Feed :msmusicnotes:
@… Put your own mask on first before helping others! Take care of yourself (and your loved ones), friend! ❤️
So important that we talk about better digital social networks!
> Dear World: Now is a good time to get off -#SocialMedia that’s going downhill.
> Why now? … First, this month is my three-year anniversary of bailing out on #Twitter in favor of #Mastodon. Second is the release of Mastodon 4.5, which I think closes the last few important-missing-feature gaps.
2025/11/3 by @… #Fediverse
It's my third #mastodonniversary today! Crazy!!
To celebrate I am getting ready to help host and chair the first #SocialBC and Society of Open Social Servers of BC Annual General Meeting tomorrow with @… and @…
it starts at 5PM! full info in the announcement 📢
If you are in BC and would like to help grow a #regional instance come on over! There is no requirement to be part
of the Society but any SocialBC account holder
can be at the AGM and anyone who has donated at least $20 in the past year is a full member and can vote and volunteer for the Board!
Onward for the #opensocialweb!
#SOSSBC
#mastodon
#fediverse
#volunteer
#community
#society
#bc
#mastodonMigration
#bluesky
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
