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Yes, signing up on one server is much easier for people who are used to centralised services like Twitter, Facebook etc.

But as we have seen from Twitter, such a setup leaves you at the mercy of Musk-type takeovers. For-profit social networks do not like federation, they hate it as they see it as competition. It is very likely that a commercial takeover of a majority server would defederate it, to prevent people leaving and simplify its maintenance.

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For the first time ever, the most common way to sign up on the Fediverse is now directing people to sign up on one specific server, rather than making them choose.

This will make mastodon.social grow even more quickly than it has before, and future waves of new people may end up mostly there. It's very plausible this one server could become the majority of the Fediverse in the near future.

If that happens, the Fediverse would no longer be protected from buyouts by nasty people.

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There is technically still an option on the official app to "pick my own server", but it's much harder to read or notice, and new users will probably click the mastodon.social button without even thinking about the other button.

Mastodon.social just passed 1 million registered users about a week ago, out of a total network of approx 7 to 11 million users (dependiing on how you count them).

The official app is by far the most commonly used way to sign up on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

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>doom modding community protects a groomer

Wow I guess Eric Harris is no longer the most bad optics doom modder
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The official Mastodon app is doing something new which is potentially very dangerous to the existence of Mastodon and the Fediverse.

The official Mastodon app now prompts users to join mastodon.social by default, when previously it prompted them to pick a server. If you're new this may sound harmless, but let me explain.

The entire point of this place is to be a social network spread out on as many servers as possible (the reasons are here: fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse).

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Western journos explaining why after receiving trillions of taxpayer money it's incorrect to label them State Sponsored Media

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Remaining time now gives you a bonus at the end of each level.

(EAR RAPE WARNING!!! I did not expect the sound to be this bad when repeating so frequently!)

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Microsoft kicks Twitter in the teeth | TechCrunch

Microsoft users will no longer be able to access their Twitter account, or create, schedule or otherwise manage tweets through Microsoft's free social media management service.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/19/microsoft-kicks-twitter-in-the-teeth/
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Skepticism Of Human-Caused Climate Change propaganda narrative Rising Globally
"belief in humans causing all or most climate change had slumped in America to 49% from the 60% level recorded just five years ago"
"70% of Americans are unwilling to spend more than $2.50 a week to combat climate change."
"Claims that the green revolution will be largely painless are seen for the nonsense they are by the realistic Net Zero appraisal publicized by the Government-funded U.K. FIRES collaborative project."
https://climatechangedispatch.com/skepticism-of-human-caused-climate-change-rising-globally/
Thats cuz they know its all Kabuki theater, the Global™ warming® Climate© Crisis® Narrative™ Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) scam is a web of lies that supports the UN NWO Cabal© Cthulhu Deep™ State® quest is the conquest and subjugation of the Proles and kill the kulak.
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i know it can be bad to plan too far ahead, but i can't help it sometimes.

i think that when i'm done with god's disdain, i'll split my time between a much simpler project (one that already has all its story, designs, and puzzles on paper) and learning a new engine, i'm thinking either godot or construct.

i like the thing i've got going now where i work on my project a little bit every day, and i think i can keep it up pretty well given that i've been doing it for, what, a month now? so if i can keep doing that between an easier project and learning something new i think that would be awesome.

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>buzzfeed shuts down
>Everyone is watching Sam Hyde's reality show instead

So fitting
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ICANN and Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government In The World To Seize Domain Names


Let me provide a few examples of what the “new world order” for domain names would be under the world envisioned by ICANN staff and Verisign:

The government of China orders domain names operating websites that are critical of its policies to be suspended (or simply transferred to the Chinese government).
The government of Russia, at war with Ukraine, orders the transfer of pro-Ukrainian domain names to the control of the Russian government.
The government of Ukraine, at war with Russia, orders the transfer of pro-Russian domain names to the control of the Ukrainian government.
The government of Texas orders pro-abortion domain names to be transferred to the Texas government.
The Taliban government in Afghanistan orders pro-abortion domain names, and those promoting education for girls, to be transferred to the government.
The government of Iran orders all domain names around the world with “adult” content (i.e. pornography) to be transferred to the Iranian government.
The government of Tuvalu, (which already licenses the .TV registry in order to raise funding) facing an economic crisis due to climate changes, orders that every 2-letter, 3-letter, and one-word dot-net be transferred to the Tuvalu government, in order to auction off the domain names to raise new funding for themselves.
A government in Argentina launches a new program whose name happens to be identical to the domain name owned by a French company for the past 25 years. The government of Argentina orders that the domain name be transferred to them, without compensation for the expropriation.
The government of Italy is upset about a social media company operating from China, and orders that the Chinese company’s domain name be transferred to the Italian government.
The UK government is upset that software published by a Swedish company has end-to-end encryption. It orders the domain name of the Swedish company be transferred to the UK government.

I’m sure readers can come up with their own examples of what would happen if governments are able to censor or seize domain names they don’t like or expropriate domain names that they covet, without due process for registrants.

Now, you might be thinking “Hey, I don’t live in or have any connection to China, Russia, or Afghanistan — those governments have no jurisdiction over me.” That’s how things are at present.
ICANN and Verisign propose to overturn centuries of legal debate over the nature of liability across jurisdictions with their outrageous proposal

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https://web.archive.org/web/20230420104443/https://freespeech.com/2023/04/19/red-alert-icann-and-verisign-proposal-would-allow-any-government-in-the-world-to-seize-domain-names/
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