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@PhenomX6 I was aware of the existence of GNU Social but I never used it because I wasn't (actively) using social media at the time. When I first heard of Mastodon, I assumed it was some GS fork or just some implementation of the protocol that was better than GS because a lot of FOSS people like Bryan Lunduke were shilling it. Though I wasn't aware of the whole Fediblock culture until I learned about the Gab drama in 2019.

I never would've thought that a decentralized social network would ever appeal to SJW far-leftists, but Mastodon proved me wrong.

@PhenomX6 I find it hard to believe that instance blocking wasn't a thing before Mastodon because instance blocking does make sense in rare circumstances, like if the instance is just used for mass spamming or hosting CP. But I guess in those cases you could also just block them on a network/firewall level. Though I think the problem was that instance blocking was the most advertised feature on Mastodon and later became known as "Twitter without the Nazis". I wonder how the Fediverse would've turned out without Mastodon bringing in this culture.

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With new users joining the fedi and constantly asking "the instance question", I've written something up about how I feel about this entire question and why I feel fediblocking is keeping people on Twitter/FB and will continue to. Fediblocking is like diesel cars in the USA imo, normies looked past the 35-40MPG because the fuel is 50 cents more just like how potential users ignore block chains and blockbots on Twitter while staring endlessly at imported blocklists and instance blocks.
https://www.pawlicker.com/essays/instancequestion.html
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@OldM8 @waltercool Improved it. I was going to add more panels ("nationalist left"/third-postion, "corporate left", etc), but Pinta keeps on crashing and GIMP is just too complex for me.

@lanodan Well people are too dumb to take surveys manually because they don't know anything about their own set-ups.

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Layout using 6 of our modules for a 1 bedroom tiny home (or hotel unit). Equal parts interior, exterior porch, and exterior upper deck.

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I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.36 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It features the following changes and fixes:

Added proper HTTP caching when serving static files (attached images, avatars, etc.)

Sensitive content messages can now have a summary.

Added a way to block full instances (from the command-line tool, as I consider this to be an administration priviledge).

If the user style.css does not exist, the server-wide one if served instead.

Added support for pinning user posts. These posts are shown first in the public AND in the private timelines.

Fixed some crashes on badly-formatted input messages.

The image alt-text is also inserted in the 'title' attribute, so it's shown on mouse hover in browsers like Firefox (contributed by Haijo7).

Some improvements to HTML sanitization.

For polls, show the time left before it closes.

Fixed a bug that prevented unfollows to be shown in the notification area.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

Usage tips: spend in social media as less time as possible. Go for a walk. Hug a friend. Pet a dog.

@coolboymew Terranigma is the most apparent. You could sail from Greenland to Antarctica just by going North.

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@hachi @ArdainianRight Literally none of those advocate autistic genocide. And no, I don't consider anti-vaxxers or people suggesting "cures" for autism as genocidal. Preventing a certain condition is NOT genocide.

Even here on the fedi, the only person that I have ever saw explicitly calling for the genocide of autistic people was that Daniel Hudson schizo on Outpoast, and I think he was really just parodying Pieville-fags like Alex Linder and Charliebrownau.

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