Also Named Bort 🇨🇦 @terryenglish@librem.one

Every #Mastodon admin right now.

Hello there Mastodon! (and yes, I know this is Smilodon. But they were contemporaries)

What you’re referring to Mastodon, is in fact the Federated Universe, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it the FediVerse. You see, Mastodon is just one front-end of the ActivityPub protocol, which allows communication between multiple different instances. This is called decentralisation and is the main feature providing the title of federated. While Mastodon is one of the most popular front-ends for micro-blogging it is far from the best or most useful, many alternatives exist such as Akoma, Misskey, Pleroma, each offering additional features such as reactions, longer messages, file management, the ‘cat’ attribute etc. while all still being able to interact with eachother and Mastodon.

Furthermore, micro-blogging is only one aspect of the ActivityPub protocol, other uses such as peer-to-peer video sharing, macro-blogging (see: blogging), instant chat (see: federated Matrix (is that real? idk)), image sharing (see: PixelFed).

Federation provides many benefits to a community; removing reliance on any organisation or a single server nullifies the chance of service being lost when a faceless corporation decides you’re not profitable anymore, or your friendly independent host has to shut-down due to life circumstances. If one raving lunatic spends enough money to cure world-hunger purchasing your instance and immediately begins making sporadic decisions you don’t like, charging you money for services you don’t need, while making your overall experience worse, you can simply move to another instance, still keep all your friends and followers, and put all this nonsense behind you so you can get on with what’s important in your life, like sharing cat pictures.

Starting writing this as a joke but it came out pretty coherent

Series of spiralling universes,…

Now that most of the conversation (and friends) are here, I wonder at what point I will stop cross posting. I always started posts there because of the lower character limit, but I think starting today new posts will start here and get trimmed if neccessary to cross-post there, second. #TwitterMigration

@terryenglish
I guess only a non-corporate medium can be truly free (like the fediverse).

@terryenglish Twitter is a contagious turd.

Alice and Bob go Public: celebrating #encryption with a bit of #art

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/alice_and_bob_go_public_celebrate_encryption.html

There should be more art covering the topics of #cryptography, especially in a world where so many want to ban it. Celebrate encryption by practicing it!

#mastoart #pgp #rsa

Star Wars exists in permanent opposition to Pokémon. R2D2 kicking Weepinbell’s ass or whatever.

#TwitterMigration

Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970's. The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today.

Better choices instead of excuses.

#cities #cityplanning #urbanplanning