CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Now just because I get accused of it so much, I actually am gonna run my own localized LLM on this server and set up an AI on the other end just to spite ya'll. See if I can train it to speak the way I do, think the way I do and reply the way I do.Despite the couple of paragraphs I make per post, there's a lot of differences between how I speak, and how AI speaks. Most use bulleted lists to communicate emphasis, I don't.Honestly I blame YouTubers like NetworkChuck for mainstreaming all the ways AI can use the internet in agentic browsing to pretend to be human. I also blame Meta for thinking MoltBook has any value at all.You guys maybe aren't my target audience after all if this is how you think you can end conversations you don't want to talk about when you're convinced your opinion doesn't need refinement or at least, helping others to see that theirs do.Once again I'm drawn to only asking 30 year olds to respond to me. People who remember being human before it was cool to talk to a chat bot for homework.Case in point, do you guys remember when teachers made you do long division and suspended you from school if you brought so much as a pocket calculator to math class?Give me a break. there's more to life than news stories about Trump, video games and softcore pornstars. There's people out there who want to let loose about what it meant to live in the good old days too, as well as live, blog and document how that plays out in the world beyond the screen.Welcome to the digital age. The more pissed off I get about being accused of being AI, the more longer my posts will get to spite it.You botoholics anonymous crowd better level up because the people on this server's going to get serious about talking to the adults in the room who don't know what it's like to be on the other side of a bot war.

Is it #weird I don't like the #fact that I turned 30 a couple years back?Does anyone have #midlife #crisis #points in their lives anymore?I still don't think I'm over 25.I think #age is just a number but the more I'm forced to prove I'm over 18, the less I feel like I am confident with the age bracket I fit into.And it's not because I would get #specialized #attention or because I don't. But because, I don't want to #remember looking back and #appreciating the #future that feels more distant than ever now. Especially when considering that I didn't know back then I would have come to exist as me today.I hate #government reminding me how untrustworthy it thinks I am because of its #algorithmic priorities that are so far above and beyond mine, that it's laughable, totally absurd and absolutely #real sad to say.I miss my 20 something self really bad.

@crossgolf_rebel Let's be real.The fediverse is essentially Mastodon with a lot of minority contributions from about 200 - 400 other software companies at the moment. With the majority of these existing from Lemmy, Pleroma, PeerTube, Pixelft and countless more.Current max potential estimates give us a general ballpark of users ranging across all instances between 10 - 20M in total. Most automatic statistics will say the number is more conservative at 10M or slightly above this.Compare that to a centralized platform and the statistical risk of being absolutely discovered by say, 200M people, potentially, drops significantly.Now obviously this doesn't take into account Threads massive user base. Or BlueSky's entire federated list of people. I know for a fact that people on these platforms do tend to peak into the fediverse, and that's statistically true for literally anyone with a search engine and some time on their hands.But, honestly, your at most naturallly federated by say 20 - 50 relays even at max user base, that doesn't go deeper, will likely only see a fraction of these users at any one time let alone their posts, and search results. Honestly, it's quite small, when taking into consideration that the fediverse as a whole in practice, is still a young platform, and contains a very limited scope of data at the moment to work with. But it is what it is.Case in point, my own instance that does federate with 60+ relays, only brought in 100K users and about 2M potential posts maximum, that gets further broken down into partial replies, conversations and so on as time goes on. And, search results tend to decrease the older a post is, if newer time based data becomes available. So, no matter what you're working with, it's a data island.But, and this is the big caveat here. It's one with a public, indexable in traditional search engine, database that honestly doesn't get a lot of queries connected to it anyways, because the posts aren't long articles...but if you do site:instance_domain you'll figure out that users who opt in to wanting that and server admins who let that happen, can go public if they wish.Now, we're getting into why I made that huge list of descripters for Mastodon, specifically. Bare with me.Not Mastodon specifically, but Mastodon inclusively, has the widest client support for interacting with any instance of all the fediverse related apps. This is true both at the user level, and the administration level for compatibility with various server admin portals like Yunohost and other cloud deployments, to barebones do it yourself tutorials from scratch. So if you're not someone who needs a mobile app to do anything, chances are fairly decent that if you interact with a part of the fediverse that doesn't obtain one using another protocol, potentially or different API structure, your ability to interact with anyone else is statistically about the same if not lower than someone operating a Drupal, Joomla! or other site with a CMS attached.Now, why is Mastodon safer? Because of the popularity of its user base making the most developmental sense by how many sites actively stilll use it and rely on one git hub main branch for updates, if individual server instances care to use it. Then there's app specific level updates, which are almost very active by comparison, because again, the demand for familiarity is there. Even across all of the compatible forks, this is true. It also takes up 3 quarters of the fediverse that isn't threads. And you need to interact with FB infrastructure via Instagram just to use that which makes Instagram more or less a cloud implementation, and I don't consider it to be the same thing entirely. The same is true for Blue Sky. If those instances went down, their user base follows. And you can't import or export your X or TruthSocial account into new instances of that kind of software, the way you can Mastodon. Although I may be mistaken on that as bridge services exist out there to attempt data export customizations. Not the point.My point, is that users own their data. Because Mastodon at its minimal core, requires this to be true. So, if you feel uncomfortable about a particular instance and want to go somewhere else with it, your data isn't trapped on a server which encourages but never mandates that you must leave. And, you're always in control of why you stay somewhere, as opposed to why you have to make somewhere home because you're not always able to switch as easily if the platform locks you into it where you've put more investment into making it work, than effort trying not to.So with the decreased risk of a safety violation when you still own your data, your email address for instance exploited by some hacker targeting a specific mastodon instance theoretically for the purposes of data harvesting there, won't be the same email address if you move instances and keep your follower count the same to another instance anywhere else. You don't have to start from 0 to continue where you left off, if you felt like you were at risk of whatever the descripter is. Ads, spyware, scams, spam, bad server mods, shadow banning, algorithms, etc.And the best part, is that the client you use to reconnect to your new online home, remains the same. You can't do that with email as easily. You certainly can't do that unless you own your own WordPress instance very easily, especially if you lose your domain and now people have to rediscover you all over again.That's why Mastodon gets special attention here. Anything that can interact with Mastodon posts on its own, or even with specialized help through a bridge, by extension, also counts here if those bridges follow trustworthy industry practices. Even if they don't, you as a user, are in full control over what you allow a server to set as a default, and what you set as yours on top of that. So even though it's a data island, it's yours the best it can be if you need it to act as one.NOSTR, BlueSky, Matrix and other implementations of protocols have their own issues. Matrix in particular is bottlenecked by its own clients, that can't agree on what interface to use. I don't find them user friendly at all. And they're not part of the publicly available fediverse pipeline, if you didn't want them to be. The only thing they have in common with it, is their implementation of a separate protocol. Other than that, it's not the same and has more faults in its implementation for my personal taste. And so, honestly, having options is the key. But not ones so overwhelming to you, that don't make sense for the user base that takes full advantage of them at a client only level. But at a protocol level, and at a software expectation level with enough popularity to justify it, absolutely.

Okay, seriously?AsmonGold how stupid can you get?This #YouTube #video explains how fragmented the #MAGA base is over the #war in #Iran concerning #USA #patriotism and #Israel as such.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaJOk3DgYkg

@JonChevreau @GhostOnTheHalfShell Where the hell are all the democratic opposition rallies? They're all just as corrupt if they don't speak up.

I am really addicted to #Mastodon now. You know I never thought I'd love it but I do.

Working on server for a bit.

@JonChevreau @wdlindsy He did a complete 180 from bosting he stopped 8 wars in 10 months to now this starting 3 in 6.

@wendythedruid What does it do? Draft people into service or something?

@nanowiz @wdlindsy This deeply saddens me because I looking in from canada feel the exact same way.I despise America the version of the nation that it has become.It starts wars.It kills visitors.It jails its citizens.It ignores the healthcare crisis in that country.It banks money off of peoples suffering.It gaslights voters.It's the only country in the world where buying a weapon is cheaper than an ambulance ride or a doctor's visit.It doesn't have any decent judges looking after the broken system that is there.It got founded off of revolution instead of diplomacy back in an era where if you didn't use it, you got excommunicated from all of society anywhere in the west.That entire culture of bandits and outlaws has become a total cesspool of degenerate, and illiterate people.the things I like about America, have nothing to do with its government. It has to do with the people who don't let their government stop them from living their lives.Until and unless this changes, it's the only thing besides the land they stole from the British that in turn stole it from the natives which makes any sense to me.I'm not a fan of them either, I don't believe in colonial rule. But imperial rule is just as bad as dictatorial rule which exists in Russia that they're now thinking couldn't be better who supports Iran but they support Israel now.So what this comes down to, is either fighting over what holy god wins the day. Or just acting like total terrorists because they can.The people on the other hand, can't step outside their front door without being accosted by fear of the unknown.Thank god we don't experience that to this degree here. Although I will admit I am not a fan of too much unassimulated imigration to the point where you can't communicate at all, or people feel embouldened not to obey or listen to the basic civil authority to stop violence domestic or otherwise.But beyond that, there's no reason why we can't get along. the American government wants there to be as many reasons as there are stars in the sky why they don't want to even try to put in any effort at all.I really don't think anyone voted for that.All the conservatives I talk to, just wanted their own country to get better and have cheaper goods and services for their everyday lives to be more fruitful.All of the democrats I talk to, just want nothing to do with conservatives at all, thinking their entire culture is poison. But beyond that, I think, also want the same thing but they didn't see anything wrong with who was already trying to get that accomplished.So the end game was someone who could keep the legacy of great achievements alive and well. None of us see that with who is in office now.Here in Canada, it doesn't matter what party you vote for, it matters who you elect into office because you can cross the floor if you don't like a given party at any time. And I'm coming around to it, because I think being forced to stand by your conviction only works, if you are put first to do so.People change, and they should be allowed to, within civil limits. That's what democracy is all about.Sometimes you come across cultures that don't think they are able to be held accountable for anything, and so it begs the question. Who's right when, and why? And if so, who's wrong, when and why? And if so, can that person be capable of being both right and wrong...why or why not?We know that Donald Trump won't even bother figuring this out. And that's why America is despised. I'm convinced more and more, that unless you have someone educated in office, young enough to remember their historical and theoretical essays on such subjects. We will see more of, whatever this is come to pass. And it's the reason why actual Kings and Queens never went without because their royal family ensured it, sometimes to a fault.

I really don't like being angry at anyone.

Nobody #knows #you like you do. You can spend centuries analyzing somebody through you, your children and your great grand children if you really wanted to make a #profession out of that. Nobody has tried of course, but even so. Only you #know you the best.

I have a new #HotTake on the "life gives you lemons" story.When #life gives you #lemons you must #create an entire #empire from them. Born from #organic #interest and 100% #cultivation as such. The #signal to begin is now.

One thing that isn't always #clear to me.How do you tell somebody needing #help that you aren't in a #position to do that directly?I've always #struggled with this both #morally and #abstractly so. Because I don't like denying anyone any kind of #support if and when I can give it.Maybe it's just my inner #empathy at play, but I often times feel like I'm there with them in that #moment where I can't just do nothing if it's not an emergency, but not a passive disinterest either.The way I've delt with this, is to pass the word along to someone who I know could make that #difference more #meaningful or who I #trust to do so. It still doesn't #feel like I've done enough in those kinds of situations though. And I do often wonder if those #people got what they #needed because I was there to put in the #effort at least in part.I would be okay with it, if it wasnt up to me alone to #fix it. But I still consider the plight of those who need the only #human in sight to act like one. And I wish more of us would and could do that on a collective basis. Our world would be so much better informed and run a lot easier too because there would be a lot less confusion and a lot more certainty on exactly where you stand.

I'll just put this here for the #record in case anyone wants to #question me about it later.I #donated with #BitCoin back in January to #AnnasArchive and now the site's knocked #offline literally.I paid like C$120.00 for the online form of the #project just to disappear.Yeah ok #wikipedia has them moving #domains every other day but it was a lot more stable than that before I gave them a leg up.This is why I hate centralized #websites and hosting.This is why #self #hosting works by connecting #dedicated #servers to the #internet as a whole.If you use anything less, you will face more #legal challenges hosting #human #knowledge and unfortunately, it is as #simple as that.You cannot convince me that #BigTech is not turning into #authorized #tech as it seems as though the #copyright #industry and the #torent industry has eluded to colluding with one another to obtain #rights for.Guys, I don't know what to say anymore. I'm a huge fan of #books and #media and #free #open #source #software and I long for the day that the #government doesn't need to get a cut of everything I #download or #upload anywhere, especially for #personal #use over all.Please do whatever you can to fight #statistical #bottlenecks where ever they appear. I want humanity to have better access to #education and #intelligence built by real people in a fair and consistent manner.I always am striving and trying my best to be a better #human being.

@MkLXIV I've noticed this as well.

@CozyLife I'd honestly say that's beautiful but they can be wild, uncontroled things too. Stay safe out there.

@ojuqybi Which means he's thinking about doing that.

Please #correct me if I'm #wrong but I seem to #recall there being less than 40000 federated #server accounts 3 days ago. Now that number has on my #Mastodon instance jumped to over 70000 and growing. This #fediverse is growing rapidly. And honestly, I'm pleasantly surprised due to #relay #traffic sources picking up quite substantially.Thank you guys most sincerely so much for sharing this #online #protocol with me. Your varied #interests are just the start of what we can achieve together. I know it.

I'm looking into ways you can add a real #text #editor to #Mastodon somehow so you can preview your post as it will appear natively in #HTML through a #WYSIWYG #interface as the #post is #written up.