蘭鳩 @Ranbato@fedibird.com

Insulting and passively threatening people and then declaring that they are against free speech when they're offended is....quite a scam.

Free speech. You can say what you like.

Accountability. You're actually responsible for what you say.

#FreeSpeech #ElonMusk

Net commenters act with absolutely no surprise that Dentsu is being investigated for corruption 速報 電通を家宅捜索 東京五輪 http://blog.livedoor.jp/dqnplus/archives/2020589.html

As I feared, after the election, everyone seems to think the emergency is over and Democracy has been saved. The emergency is only just beginning. We merely put down one aspect of the threat by preventing hard core deniers from being elected. But many already had been.

If you hear your house squeaking at night, you might have a yanari problem. These tiny fairy-like #yokai appear in houses after dark carrying mini tools, such as mallets or iron clubs and use them to make as much noise as possible, banging walls and floors.
#JapaneseFolklore #DailyFolklore
#folklore #Japan
🎨1. Toriyama Sekien

We got love on this side of the internet, and we have to protect it fiercely. (But lovingly ❤)

Someone asked me today about my plans for the Fall and it took me a moment to realize she meant my plans for the Autumn and not the collapse of civilization.

I've wanted people to start giving a shit about owning their space online, starting blogs, looking at alternative networks and well...it's happening.

Even if Twitter survives, millions of people are on alert and having real conversations again.

Net win.

If your instance is having troubles, I'm sorry.

With the whole #Twexit, Mastodon's userbase has jumped from about half a million in October to 7 million as of today.

All the admins are working hard to keep the lights on, but many only become aware of the problems when they happen.

Be patient. This will resolve, and the Fediverse will be all the stronger for it.

Meanwhile, if you want to help, head to your instance's /about page, and see if they have a patreon or tip jar.

Also, new people on Mastodon, remember that you can follow anyone on any instance. You aren't limited to the people that are on the instance you joined. This is the biggest misconception that I see.

Mastodon servers relie on volunteers and donations to keep running. Machines and bandwidth/ storage are not free. Some must be under pressure with the large influx from the bird site.
How sustainable is that I wonder...
Google wouldn't join the system, would they? Be AD based then...

I've seen some chatter suggesting that Mastodon uses "algorithms" and "AI" for different functions. This is false.

1) There are no special "algorithms" for generating feeds; your home feed is stuff you follow, your local feed is stuff from your server, the federated feed has stuff from other servers, hashtag feeds show hashtags.

2) No AI is used to do image detection or content warnings. There is no AI or ML code in the default stack; any feature like that would have to be added.

#debunk