The world appear in the aggregator but when I searched specifically for one in particular, I wasn’t found. Just now it works so I don’t know what changed. Thanks for pointing that out, I wouldn’t have tried again.

For those with the skills, yes. But it would be good to facilitate less technical people to use the platform too.

The problem is that we can’t leave. We’ve requested for our accounts to be deleted a long time ago. It’s not our fault that we’re still waiting.

The export process says it has copied subscriptions to the clipboard, but when I paste I just get the code I had pasted in to the browser console. I’m using Safari on macOS.

It’s not a big deal. I don’t mind starting from scratch.

I’ve been waiting for my account deletion request to be accepted for a while now. Maybe a few weeks.

I like Kbin in theory, but the spam is too distracting for me. I’m not in a position to volunteer either.

True, but the format is unique. The post format breaks up the flow of chatter into easily discernible units of conversation.

IRC, Discord and others have the continuous stream of thought with no beginning or end. On the other extreme, Instagram and TikTok require an image or video to post at all.

So I would say that FB groups have a distinct utility / identity separate from just other users being there.

@MajorHavoc

@SLaSZT are there any instances in the EU?

I spend more time blocking spammers than anything else. I’m sure it will improve once this issue gets more attention, but for now I think I’ll take a break from this site.

Best skin I’ve seen on any social site. Nice job.

Just because it’s not tailored to your personal preferences doesn’t make it “shit”. For anyone who doesn’t want to manage code, Wordpress is worth considering.

Personally, I’d like to maintain Wordpress locally and offline. Then each update exported to the server as a static site. I just haven’t found a thorough enough tutorial online yet.

Thanks, I didn’t know about any of this before. I’m running services on the OS (Raspbian, on a Raspberry Pi 3B+).

Should I be looking into running the web server or the VPN from docker to get access to these features?

DigitalMinimalism
It was quiet, but people would sometimes discuss various way for preventing screens etc from being too much a part of their daily lives.

The only people arguing for it omit moral considerations, which is sad to see so widespread. There’s a certain price not worth paying for our toys.

I’m not having a conversation that compares people signing up to their favourite social media channel with people who suffer systemic discrimination every day in their lives.

It’s not being mean to them. Calling them names or something would be mean.

And they are not oppressed. Oppressed people don’t have choices.

But you support/validate the service by interacting with your contacts.

If a Mastodon instance was run by someone who allowed a genocide to be fuelled by their platform, and earn money from the advertising, I think we’d defederate in a heart beat. It just doesn’t seem consistent to federate with them.

But they are inseparable.

“spammy/toxic instances” - Meta are a toxic company. They literally have blood on their hands.
“too liberal with defederation” - we’re talking about one body specifically; Threads. Nothing else.

As to whether it should be done at an admin or individual level, I have no idea. But they’re an unethical company and people less privileged than you and I have died while they profit from it. That alone is enough reason for anyone with empathy IMO.

So if an instance federated with loads of other instances but not Threads, I’m not a social network anymore? That makes no sense to me.