Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 @FerdiZ@mastodon.cloud

A friend said on Facebook, never complain on social media.

There's some logic to that advice yes. One wouldn't scream out one's bedroom troubles to strangers in a public park, now would one? Nor scream about how everyone's an unrepentant lunatic while in a cheap and dingy drinking hole.

One would do well to find space where one can scream out one's complaints. And who knows even find some sort of relief.

…Because if one would fail to find such space, one might just eventually go crazy bottling it all in.

Mirror Trading International charged after $1.7 billion fraud

June 30, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=mirror-trading-international-charged-after-1-7-billion-fraud

"The Ethics Board says we can't abduct Humans for the Galactic Zoo."
"Told you."
"So we asked for volunteers."
"Human volunteers?"
"Yes."
"You asked the most curious, reckless, and inventive species we've ever found for volunteers?"
"We got lots!"
"What's your security budget?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

I can't wait for pendulum to swing back and declare federation a failure when we have
- protocol written by web people
- dictator with money who never listened to anyone and made million quirks a standard
- bigots who want to avoid blocks
- people who can't implement signatures but will add cat ears
- techbros who don't understand why you would need to delete a post
- small projects without money which have to deal with all the above

Thanks for the feedback, renamed For You to Explore and moved the Following feed to the beginning and added notification badges! #pixeldev

rudeness levels are currently at 28% but fluctuating wildly

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Re this thread about #Cohost:

This kinda says it all, for me:

I'm not really seeing how "there's poor community governance on many fedi instances" is solved by "building a non-interoperable new platform that doesn't have community governance at all"?

...and this one opining that "mastodon federation was a disaster" -- (1) "was"? We're still getting new users on a regular basis... (2) their solution, again, is to not have federation at all, with all that that implies. 🤔 So are they saying federation can't work, therefore they don't want to try improving it? If they're not saying that, then why aren't they trying to improve on it, instead of ditching it?

...and now that I finally know the context for this (thanks, @LottieVixen!), I agree even more with @idlestate's comment here.

It's nice how the end of the periodic table is flush with the edge these days, so I think we should agree no one should find any new elements after #118 unless they discover a whole row at once.
https://xkcd.com/2639/

The resulting portrait of Dabi our 15 month old Miniature American Shepherd. Took an additional five hours or so of work and consternation.after the earlier post of WIP.

#dogart #petart #digitalart #portrait #ipadart #procreate #Dabi #mywork #mastoart #mastodogs

@pluralistic This is such a mindblowing observation: Ultimately, politics is about gaining and keeping in power. Bigotry is no end in itself, it is just a means by elites to control an allegiance of believers.

@pluralistic I'd spent time looking for a good description of the dynamic I was seeing ever more often in politics: power for power's sake.

Eric Blair, of course:

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8327593-the-party-seeks-power-entirely-for-its-own-sake-we

That's today's GOP/GQP. Or Torrys (uk). Or AFD (de). Or RN/FN (fr).