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mcneely  

@fantinel I'm guessing you mean Aral's post from the other day about costs? That was basically the one that has me pumping the brakes on self hosting my instance.

I expect that monetary reasons are going to start being a limiting factor here for size very shortly.

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mcneely  

The real test of how likely Mastodon can replace a centralized service like Twitter will be when v4 of Mastodon is officially released (currently, it is in a release candidate stage which is after beta but not quite ready for the official release). One of the major tradeoffs with federation is always fragmentation. How well do servers keep up to date? Will this make a difference to users?

I definitely don't have answers but I think that this will be the first truly big test of the

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Lawfare  

The recent introduction of the Securing Open Source Software Act, and its subsequent momentum, has stoked a debate about the true reason for the open source security problem and the merits of different solutions.

#Cybersecurity #Technology #USACongress #OpenSource #SOSSA

From Chinmay Sharma, John Speed Meyers, James Howison: lawfareblog.com/securing-open-

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mcneely  

@rauschma sorry missed that part of your statement.

That is my understanding but I've never used DSD. It was too new of a feature to be used at my last job where everything was Web Components. I think that for them to really hit a sweet spot for developers it's probably needed.

I believe that enhance.dev is iterating around this specifically with the way they render on the server but I'm not sure exactly how they do it.

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mcneely  

I gotta confess that I really thought the baby Yoda thing was just gonna be a phase for our toddler. But as I clean up the Baby Yoda/Mando bandaids that she was playing with this morning after demanding to wear her baby Yoda sweatshirt... It might not be 😂

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mcneely  

@rauschma that's a fair assessment of . I would be remiss in pointing out that you don't _have_ to use declarative Shadow DOM. It's very possible to ship Web Components today without polyfills if you chose to be a bit more selective with the standards you use.

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mcneely  

@JayJustice I'll always boost

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Jay Justice🏳‍🌈🇯🇲♿  

Hi I'm Jay! I'm a writer, editor & developer who works in comics, games & books. I love #scifi, #fantasy & especially #StarTrek, #StarWars, #WheelofTime, #TheWitcher and way too many more to tag. BIG #BioWare fan, so expect to see loads of #MassEffect and #DragonAge here. I'm also a cosplayer with 120+ costumes. I stream video games, comics discussions, #TTRPG, art & cooking. I LOVE talking #comics, #cosplay & #games, so feel free to hit me up! Boosts appreciated ❤️

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Dr. Casey Fiesler  

My apologies there's not an easy way for me to port these to Mastodon, but this thread contains every PhD recruitment tweet in the general areas of HCI/InfoSci/social computing/responsible tech I could find! twitter.com/cfiesler/status/15

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mcneely  

@fishfulpenguin yeah I'm sort of in a holding phase at this point. I've been on my server for a few years now and the way it is setup I can't see anything but from ppl I follow. This meant that before last month it was always SUPER quiet. So I've been debating self hosting or moving. But watching everyone learn about being an is very off putting. Just making a fallback account seems like the smart middle ground comparatively.

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mcneely  

@fishfulpenguin seems pretty natural to me. I've been thinking about a second account but mostly to try out a different server. I would expect lots of churn in accounts for the next few months at least.

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@blk_intellect  

It's not 'America' coming apart!

Its a schism between Americans who support a multicultural, multiracial, multilingual America that centers fair socioeconomic opportunity for all

& those that want a theocratic Christian evangelical white ethnostate that centers economic elites

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j.scherrer  

Seeing lots of excitement about the #MIT instance (@mastodon.mit.edu) and ppl wanting to set up their own university instances. but very important--the MIT instance is entirely volunteer run and is NOT associated with uni admin. universities are massive PR machines (literally hedge funds with a bunch of academics attached) and will not hesitate to co-opt a grass-roots community associated with their brand. If you want to start your own uni instance, DO NOT let uni admin get involved!!

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mcneely  

@cschrader its crazy what a difference a few months makes! When I posted this there was no hashtag and very few scholars, now there's whole groups of people finding each other with different addresses. I've even seen a few posts of floating around the fediverse 😃

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Kat Marchán 🐈  

since a lot of folks are becoming newly interested in escaping corporate silos and moving to community-based services, are you aware of @matrix?

Matrix is to Slack and Discord, what Mastodon is to Twitter: a decentralized, federated network based on open standards/specs. It also supports full end-to-end encryption, just like Signal, so you can exchange messages privately!

If you find the fediverse interesting/inspiring, I recommend giving matrix a whirl. The quickest way to get started is to head over to app.element.io/ and make a (free!) account (although you can also join any number of other home servers, or host your own--they all talk to each other!).

If you _do_ end up checking it out, please do say hi! I'm @zkat:zkat.tech over there. I also manage a "space" (a group of channels, kinda like a Discord server) that you can join by clicking here: matrix.to/#/!tKdDSgQTxQzcOuTXq

I hope this sparks your interest! I'd love to see you over there, too!

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mcneely  

@jaredwhite @lene pretty rare that a site looks and works that well browsing without JavaScript!

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Dansekoen  

This probably describes me better than any intro

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José Expósito  

#introduction time!

I write JavaScript 9 to 5, but I mostly post about my contributions to #linux and #freesoftware projects.

I co-maintain #libinput and I'm a fairly active #linuxkernel hobbyist developer. Mostly adding input features and learning about graphics (DRM/KMS).

I'm also an #elementaryos user and casual contributor and I've contributed to many other projects, specially on the #GNOME and #wayland ecosystems.

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stux⚡  

Isn't it kinda weird that #Mastodon gets described as 'left-leaning' because we handle more strickt rules and don't tolerate things like bullying.. It could be me but I perceive this as 'normal'.

I mean you don't call people all kinds of names in a conversation on the street or in the store right? Even if you don't agree🤔

Somehow it feels the (online) standards for treating each other have declined so much over the past few years :sad_cat:

Let them talk, we are a loving and happy community!

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Quinta Jurecic  

to clarify, what I mean is that this should put to rest the persistent and wrong idea that Trump and Trumpism speak for any kind of silent majority of American voters, rather than an anti-democratic minority bloc that is broadly unpopular but advantaged by structural factors

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