Jasper (Free Julian Assange!) @jasper@mastodon.nl

Hey @bleakgrey, I'm currently looking for a good *actually* native fedi client and tootle seems to be literally the only thing that qualifies.

I'm on FreeBSD and apparently the latest available version of GTK4 (didn't even know that was a thing) is 4.2, but your README says 4.3 is required – are you positive about that requirement or is 4.3 just what you built and tested with?

wonder if we've been describing the fediverse poorly this whole time

like, we personally usually lead with "it's like Twitter except"

maybe we should be leading "it's like old web forums and BBSes except"

like, those web forums were often run by somebody-or-other for their own community on their own expense with variously outdated software and community cultures that ranged from healthy to very not - and those cultures tended to stay healthy with good moderation and not without

- Packbat 🎒 💭

I love how you can instantly understand a #TokiPona glyph you've never seen before if you're used to the sitelen pona logic.

I didn't know the word "kapesi". It looks like this:

It means "brown". In Toki Pona, the glyph for color is and the glyph for earth is

The kapesi glyph combines both. It's literally "color of the earth".

Similarly, purple is

It's the "color of celestial bodies". A bit more far-stretched, but still valid, and quite poetic.

RT @kmcshane@twitter.com

The Kingdom That Almost Won

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kmcshane/status/1421841374714941447

#Capitalism 101

RT @Teletekst@twitter.com

"Vaccins Pfizer en Moderna duurder"

Lol, didn’t know about the #Mastodon sponsorship hypocrisy. 🤣

https://seedy.xyz/posts/0005-open-letter/#sponsorships

I don’t think Eugen will ever resign, why would he? He is the dictator over a well-known brand and hundreds of thousands of people and he gets paid for it. Open letters won’t harm his position. We are constantly posting about all the issues in the letter for years, telling people to move off the “official” instances for years. It didn’t really work.

If you want to kick him off the Fediverse, you’ll have to take more drastic measures. Measures that are not justifiable in my opinion.

Build a better network without dictators and with paid developers, moderators, and so on. There are a lot of people on here who have the money to pay 3 or more streaming service subscriptions. It should be no problem to finance a social network.

Well ohai! 🐛

"The fediverse is diverse because you can follow anyone from any server. The local timeline plays no role in that and doesn’t even exist in ActivityPub as a concept. Being able to choose a different server has always been about trust for the service provider and rules. I’m fully aware that for some people the local timeline is basically like a Slack or IRC chatroom and for this reason the feature cannot be removed from Mastodon in the foreseeable future, but it was never meant to be that, and I see no reason to add it to an app that targets new users rather than existing ones."

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/221

Wow 1: this is dismissing one of the core things that makes this place nice and usable, the local timeline and the communities that emerge around it. I guess it makes sense from the point of view of the super generic server with 50k people active that Eugen is maintaining.

Wow 2: "for this reason the feature cannot be removed from Mastodon in the foreseeable future" implies it might be removed from the software as a concept altogether at some point.

the overwhelming majority of the world doesn't use apple anything and views them as for the ultra rich btw. just a thought when you divvy up dev resources.

Revision 2 of the PinePhone keyboard, this one is actually nice to type on :D

PSA: Naturalnews.com is a very bad, Fash-adjacent peddler of dangerous pseudoscience and garbage medical advice.

0/0, Do not recommend.

(They sometimes come up as a top result when searching medical/diet things, which is why I bring this up.)

#naturalnews #pseudoscience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrU1hZxSEXQ

Little Big – Everyday I'm Drinking #np

Often I see people argue that copyright protects small creators from having their work appropriated by big companies.

Disney just casually (and pretty clearly) breached their contract with Scarlett Johansson, an extremely rich and influential person.

Microsoft just used everyone's copyleft code to train an algorithm that generates unlicensed code.

I can't imagine that for lower-profile cases the megacorps are really stopped by those laws.

Is the Mozilla Firefox web browser in terminal decline?

#FediPoll #Firefox