CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@foone@digipres.club As for practical advice, I think that recommending a particular instance would go a long way towards letting people have a good experience.

@foone@digipres.club I think it's because mastodon is very different from everything else, largely because it's truly decentralized:

• There is no global feed
• ... so curating a follow list takes time
• ... and you should find an instance with a local feed you like
• ... therefore, the official mastodon.social is not a good choice
• Moderation is done by instances and users
• ... so you don't want a instance that's completely unmoderated or blocks severs because they didn't agree with someone.
• You are the recommendations algorithm
• ... so go boost someone's bullshit.

I can see how these things would really put someone off if they are looking for elon-free twitter, to the point that it seems completely unusable and not worth considering.

... not to say that these are bad things: If you ask any mastodon user, they will respond with "exactly".

Personally, I wouldn't even consider hanging out anywhere where these weren't the case.

@lcamtuf Javascript called, they want their package manager back.

@ocean@raru.re As a general rule, registrars who's main businesses is domains are a bad choice, especially the ones that do promotions like ".com for 1$".

They are resellers, and must pay nearly the whole 10$/year to the registry (a different company), leading to very small margins. Any extra money to run ads or promotions must come from either:

1. charging you extra money
2. ... or screwing customers.

Really, the whole system is a racket, but there are things that reduce the risk of bad things happening.

@adamshostack Behold, 164 million downloads per month:

while true; do curl localhost; done

https://maurycyz.com/misc/v6day/: Disabling IPv4 on my server.

@lcamtuf ... or you could use ~250g of sodium and ~140g of potassium. Those metals are a lot lighter, so you'd only need one or two.

Once it dulls, insead of sharpening it, just throw it in a lake to intimidate the remaining 498 enemies.

@deviantollam@defcon.social Definitely malware. It's quite a common trick. (aka clickfix)

@mattblaze@federate.social You are definitely at the wrong parties. In astrophotography setups, the tripod is usually the single most expensive thing.

It's not easy to take long exposure photos when your camera is on a rotating surface, especially at crazy focal lengths. (2000+ mm is not uncommon) People get real proud if they can get the tracking error below 1 arcsecond.

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ... and it's smells suspiciously like AI writing. Unfortunately, LLMs are good enough that you really can't tell until you've read most of it.