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@bkeegan IMHO H2 will be the one to watch. It seems that the communities "adjacent" to FOSS seem to be the ones I've noticed moving so far (, , and mostly). But anecdoctally there's also starting to be more academics slowly migrating. Personally I think this is a good thing but only time will tell how it works out.

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Even if you run your own instance, like I do, you have no #privacy on the #fediverse.

Only I get to read the direct messages received at my instance but I have no control over who sees the direct messages I send to other instances.

So, again, until end-to-end encryption is mandated by the core protocol (ActivityPub), remember:

Treat all posts on #mastodon / the fediverse as public and use an end-to-end encrypted messaging app like Signal if you want to have private conversations with people.

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What am I doing this Friday evening? Playing the "don't buy Resident Evil 4 again" challenge now on Nintendo Switch.

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@mmasnick great look back at what was probably the most important part of Twitter's maturation (creating specific policies in place of one-off decision-making) and why Twitter as a free speech company mattered.

One thing that GitLab seems to be missing that GitHub has is the ability to see how many files you've reviewed (n of X files viewed) in a merge request ๐Ÿ˜ž

Found this toot again now after changing jobs. Very disappointed to say I'm at a React shop instead of working with but no job is perfect ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

That said I am very much in the job position of making developer work go faster ๐Ÿ”ฅ

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@alexpghayes IIRC Fediverse doesn't do "quote"-ing b/c it tends to lead to dunking and doesn't actually foster discussion as much. This is the closes that you get (linking to the "quote")

FWIW I'm on Librem's branded social services because I want to know that I'm paying someone to host my account (and I wasn't on Patreon when I set this account up). It's definitely a smaller server so I don't see many issues here. That said if anyone knows of a Philly/PA based local instance that is being run I would be interested and might migrate there (willing to chip in $ too!)

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Hugops for @Gargron and the team with all the new users signing up!

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Let's be a part of building this community out. If you find someone interesting boost them (even if you normally aren't the type of person that 'boosts') It'll help us find a community easier.

What mastodon needs right now is network size, let's work to build it.

@Schykle@mastodon.social I just hope they buyout results in more "cool people" on here. ๐Ÿคท

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Little advice from an open source maintainer.
If you as a user or community member want your voice to be heard, try to format your message in a polite, direct, and short way. Even if the topic is very large, try to engage in a fluid conversation by discussing fewer points. Writing massively long messages might cause the opposite effect, where the maintainer feels overwhelmed, your most important points get buried, and the conversation ends up dying due the too broad topics.
Less is more.

@zkat I think we in the OSS community need to do a better job at finding and funding those companies that occupy this middle space.

@Kevbeau68@mastodon.social @Mastodon tried logging in to Pixelfed from the client and it seems to also redirect to linux.pizza for the login. Is that expected?

Hmmm I wanted to try the official @Mastodon app for Android but the login seems to be redirecting me to an instance. Not sure if there's another way to log in ๐Ÿค”

I can sort of see why people get annoyed with Spotify, it definitely gets into a rut with playing the same bands repeatedly. I'm pretty sure I've heard the same song three times from different albums on this playlist.

Just unboxed and set up my new monitor from work. I didn't appreciate how big a 4K curved monitor would be! The packaging that the whole thing came in was bigger than my daughter ๐Ÿ˜ณ

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