Mario 🌎 @mario@aleph.land
Designer + biologist 🔸
keybase.io/mario 🔸 orph.eu
How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14100989
#hackernews #tech
...and this bobby tank refix even better ‘Lido - Crazy (Bobby Tank Refix)’ #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/bobbytank/lido-crazy-bobby-tank-refix
nice tune by Lido: Crazy https://youtu.be/z0z6KnDNyag
I'm wondering how long until some largish instance admin decides to insert ads into their local instance to "offset running costs"
Proud to contribute as a designer to mastodon.cloud
Let's make sure we keep the momentum and build something meaningful and sustainable.
@leo @adam when hacking with new tech brings people together. Where's @Johncdvorak ?
@leo what do you like in Arch, vs some other Linux flavor? Is it faster? More versatile?
@adam seeing that you like everything decentralised: have you heard of ZeroNet and ZeroMe?
Zeronet.io is a decentralised web you can access by installing a proxy or using a public proxy (like bit.surf) and ZeroMe is the "Mastodon" that lives on zeronet. Zeronet apps/pages are distributed P2P via torrent protocol.
http://zeronet.io/ [hosted on www]
https://bit.surf:43110/Me.ZeroNetwork.bit [hosted on zeronet]
A $2.4 million bet to turn your home into a giant screen
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90107499/a-2-4-million-bet-to-turn-your-home-into-a-giant-screen :bulb:
I made a diagram to help you understand how the different timelines/columns work:
https://techn.ical.ist/assets/help.svg https://techn.ical.ist/media/zhoMEHOzhT2r6zlz034
I worked for a company in the past―a distributed company. We had a policy that all developers should be able to recreate their development environment within an hour of putting a bullet through their current one. Good policy. Kept everything distributed, and lightweight :)
@Gargron is there a idiot-proof guide on how to get mastodon running on a ubuntu 16.04 vps (without docker support)? I spent a good couple of hours trying but I think I'm missing how to change the (default) nginx.conf to suit mastodon installation.
FRIENDLY REMINDER
These instances are not run on commercial servers that proprietary companies can afford. More often than not, these are hobbyists running an instance for the benefit of Mastodon.
DO NOT SPREAD WORD OF MASTODON WITHOUT CLARIFYING THIS. If you do, everyone coming will flock to Mastodon.social, which puts a strain on that one instance and makes it look bad. There are other instances for a reason.
Other than that small preparation, be sure to donate to your instance admin.
@Gargron on each profile I visit there's a * next to the POSTS, FOLLOWS and FOLLOWERS. What's the meaning? It looks like those are not total numbers across the various instances, correct?
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Friendly reminder that even if you trust your admin, direct messages can be read by them. Private communications should be done via tools designed for this.
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Friendly reminder : même si vous faites confiance a votre admin, il peut lire vos messages privés (DM). Les communications privées devraient se faire grace a des outils pensés pour ça.
About risk profile:
- Mastodon is like email because you can't delete federated toots
- Mastodon is like twitter in that Google's search bots index it, unless your admins robot.txt it away
- Mastodon is like being a teenager because the people that own your instance can see all your private stuff
Have a talk with your admin about their policies.
By default, assume everyone will be able to read your toots forever.
5min in and I'm already wondering what it takes to run my own Mastodon instance 👥
