CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Geri still can't hide his crimes with that gorgeous honey color

@b who is sparkles

@aral @raphv Yes, suspending is better than just deleting the post. Makes the Nazi "feel" the impact of doing his shenanigans.

@Em0nM4stodon so what i meant ny that is, you publish paid articles. You still do the writing, but you put it up a paywall, but definitely not in the annoying way most publications do ofc.

Or even in a monthly donation manner. What are your thoughts on that?

@Em0nM4stodon hmm, or hear me out, how does paid content sound?

@Em0nM4stodon hey Em, i was thinking, why not create your own blog? what do you think about it?

I do not profit from this, as one might counterintuitively think, and it's only possible with financial contributions that I make from my own wallet!

This is a community funded project, and even a small monthly contribution, or even one-off, is really beneficial for ensuring that @pitha is free forever.

Free as in, freedom of speech, no megacorp taking over this, and fully ad-free.

Your data isn't sold, and you sustain a community that actually cares about a space for discourse.

#pitha

Early this year, February - I notice that there really isn't a instance where Bangladeshis or even Bengalis hang out in the Fediverse.

Why not create my own?

There was the clear problem of funding and actually setting up an instance from scratch, but I decided to solo this one out and thought to myself, "Why not do this for the love of the game?"

#pitha

I rejoin Mastodon in late 2025, precisely October 11 and I still have that account. It's @kq if you were curious.

I try to find for Bengali accounts, or a presence of some sort, but all I find is dead accounts and accounts that aren't fathered any longer.

I decide to give up my search for looking for Bengali people and just blend in with the international community as a Bangladeshi who happens to have access to the internet.

I knew about Mastodon back in late 2022, but I didn't tinker much with the platform back then which made me delete my account there.

My first account was on mstdn.party, which is a pretty cool server if you ask me.

t still didn't occur to me that I should create a community, or in Mastodon terms, an instance where all Bengalis and Bengali-speaking people can come together to freely talk on a platform that isn't owned by some foreign corporation. (I'm looking at you, Facebook)

#pitha

Let me talk a little bit about Pitha, and where I got the idea from.

From what you can already see, it's a part of Mastodon, a federated social network. And by federated it means, a cluster of other social networks - all coming together to form a HUGE community.

#pitha

@Canageek just rawdog arch atp.

@protonprivacy proton is back on the fediverse? :0

@_elena good luck in your presentation! best wishes