Adam @adam@librem.one

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@atomicpoet That is very true. Mastodon is gaining popularity throughout Asia & Africa inside many “closed” nations & it might be far larger than what we expected.

I would not be surprised if there are 50 million accounts due to people using Mastodon in China 🇨🇳, Iran 🇮🇷, Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Myanmar 🇲🇲, Sudan 🇸🇸, Mali 🇲🇱, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, etcetera, anonymously (also potentially defederated) to avoid the watchful eyes of their restrictive governments.

@jonyoder CSS and HTML. Screw the "frameworks".

Just noticed that there's a petition for UK Parliament to get its own Mastodon server. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/627914 I wonder what the HoC Library/PDS folks think of that.

English translation from #Aurebesh for those that were wondering what was on Cassian Andor's/Keith Seymour's Imperial sentencing slip from Episode 8 of #StarWars #Andor: (from to to bottom)
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NAME:
KEITH SEYMOUR

CRIME:
SUSPECTED FORCE
SENSITIVITY

ASSAULTING AN
IMPERIAL OFFICER

SENTENCE:
TWENTY FIVE
YEARS

People ask, "What can other Fediverse apps do that Mastodon can not?"

A lot!

Here's an example. Let's look at some screenshots of Pixelfed:

1. Photo filters
2. Aspect ratio cropping
3. Options to select your creative license
4. Geo-location tagging

I'd show you more but Mastodon only lets me upload 4 photos to a post while Pixelfed allows for more 😉

Here's why I think the fediverse is important for the climate emergency.

First, because disinformation thrives on big social networks. The fediverse seems more responsive to bad ideas spreading.

Second, because federation is more friendly to cross-border collaboration. Nation-states are very suspicious of media headquartered in a superpower like the US or China, but will probably be more relaxed about federated systems.