ohtwenty

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by ohtwenty 6y ago
Hi! This may be a really dumb question but why is it limited to certain areas?
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
Cctv on blockchain?
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
Big money is already losing some money, AFAIK. I'm in Amsterdam and there's news every other week of a big company or organization moving to Amsterdam _already_, just in case brexit goes through.
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
Check out the episode blame gameby revisionist history ( https://leopard.megaphone.fm/PP3573562692.mp3?updated=148063... ) In short: the likely explanation for those failures, regardless of bad coding practices, were most li
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
To combine what two sister comments said: you can create multiple, but you can follow people anywhere. So you don't _need_ to create multiple, but you could. Like subreddits. Some people have their "meme/funny stuff" acc
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
>It might be a nice idea for Mastodon advocates to create general topic instances, that may feel more approachable for newcomers. Yeah, the instance names are often quite silly, but there's silly people on there. I mean 3000 variati
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
>Who decides how content is relayed? I mean things are relayed if you ask for them to be. Two cases, pretty much: (1) someone is following someone else, content is asked for by the one server and pushed to the other. (2) You look up a UR
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
>who in their right mind thinks about "servers" outside of tech circles? the way a lot of subreddits are used, for example, is intuitive enough to people who get used to the concept. 'servers' or 'instances'
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
Fair enough. The current influx has made this worse (lots of metaposting about joining mastodon), but that depends on who/what you're looking for. Try another instance, maybe? That might be the greatest onboarding weakness, that i
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
>fewer users that's just a bad point to make? I mean of course a newer platform will have fewer. UI is a good point (although I prefer it this way). But there's Pinafore[0] or Halcyon[1], or Brutaldon[2] that allow you to chang
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
Plume is a WIP, and has been discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17411173
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
It's not mentioned but it depends on the instance how long the character limit is (as in, it's configurable). default is 500, but there's some with a limit of 5000, or 666 (some witchy instance iirc)
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
>Because Mastodon is full of like-thinking people, and the ones they'd strongly disagree with aren't joining. or they're on other instances. there's some far-right political instances, for example (that the leftist cr
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
so join an instance with lax moderation. or set up your own. if you're thinking "that's expensive", look into Pleroma, it can run on a $1 a month server or a raspi. Set something up purely for you, then find some people
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
Kiiiind of, but there's quite some general instances. Most of them are more like a "here's some people interested in the same subjects as you". So yes, on my (politically motivated, I guess) instance I find quite some pe
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
You make a good point (and one that's being worked on being overcome, better onboarding and whatever). But consider twitter: >Compare that to getting started on Twitter: pick a username and password, boom, done! And then what? follo
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
>Look, you want me to get excited about Mastodon? Show me something exciting I can do with it that I can't do with[…] Have a healthy conversation? I know some people who stopped or reduced social media usage because that was pretty
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
Which is just a proxy for left/blue vs right/red, and since their post is on twitter --> mastodon that would be a really weird way to talk about it?
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
>I skimmed over the rest of the article and it appears to include an "Actually It's Not Technically CP" argument, so I think I probably made the right choice here. You'd do well to actually read the article then befor
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
Halcyon and Pinafore are both just front-ends for existing mastodon accounts (like brutaldon). Pleroma is a different technology, but federates the same. As is Misskey; depending on what you're looking for in features either of those m
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
I've been using mastodon for a few months and it depends on your instance, really. A lot are more "this is the type of people you'd expect here" (tech people, lgbt people, art peopl, etc) but everything that isn't
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
(great article!) I feel like there's a little bit missing: the federated aspect. Depending on what type of art you make, you might find you are more findable (and able to find people in the same field) if you're on another instanc
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
>On an equally important note, why is it that people out there assume that ANY form of electronic communication is impervious from government surveillance? The reality is that if a three letter agency is after you, it's probably unw
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
Have you considered going to a therapist yourself?
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
This got me curious, so I looked a few things up on pubmed. Here's some articles that piqued my interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24086443 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24163
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
See if you can ask your family doctor if you can get a male psychologist then? Mine was quite lenient, at least, and talked me through the options, wanted my opinion, etc.
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
Wrt changing to signal, just say 'it got an update' and switch it out to where the icon used to be. Provided the rest of your family switched it shouldn't be too difficult
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
I second the sister comment's question: how did you go about sending them (like what phrasing did you use, for example?) Want to write a short post on it?
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
This isn't true, you don't need to have offices in Europe for the GDPR to apply to your company. It's just if you're serving/having European customers. Which, if you compare it to shipping things across borders, mak
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by ohtwenty 8y ago
God, I hate that highlighted text, because it's always some faux-deep quote that just pisses me off. Like I might have appreciated it if it weren't for that stupid highlighting making it look like it's a teenager stopping hal

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