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Explanation:

The image macro is based on the "Mine? Mine? Mine? Seagulls" meme template (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mine-mine-mine-seagulls).

Usually, when the admin of a Fediverse server plans to shut down their server for good, they notify the users on the server about it. They also tell them to join other servers instead if they want to stay in the Fediverse.

And just as usually, admins of other Fediverse servers show up in the comments thread, advertising their own servers as new homes for the users on the server to be shut down. This may appear to be an act of generosity towards these users. However, it may just as well be perceived as these admins grubbing for new users to join their own servers.

##Fediverse ##Instance shutdown ##Server shutdown ##Fediverse Meme ##FediMeme ##Meme ##Image macro ##Reaction image ##Disney ##Pixar ##Finding Nemo ##Mine? Mine? Mine? Seagulls ##Sensitive ##⚠️

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Explanation:

The image macro is based on the "Mine? Mine? Mine? Seagulls" meme template (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mine-mine-mine-seagulls).

OSgrid (https://osgrid.org) is a 3-D virtual world, based on OpenSimulator (http://opensimulator.org; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSimulator; https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/ba1b1cb6-7c18-410e-8752-df4b4face2e0), a free, open-source server-side re-implementation of the technology of Second Life (https://www.secondlife.com; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life). Like Second Life and all other OpenSimulator-based worlds, it is called a "grid" because it is divided into square regions bordering on each other.

Launched in July, 2007, OSgrid was the first public OpenSimulator grid, it is the oldest and one of the biggest by both land area and users. This means that while it's running bleeding-edge developer versions of OpenSimulator, it also carries around a whole lot of old ballast. It is notorious for going offline for maintenance and for this maintenance often lasting for a week or several, and it is just as notorious for going offline with no announcement and either only a very belated explanation by the admins or none at all.

The last prolonged downtime before this one was in 2025. It included OSgrid's entire asset server being wiped clean, and all avatars in OSgrid having their inventories emptied almost completely. It was scheduled, but due to OSgrid's instability at the time, it happened spontaneously and way ahead of schedule. The OSgrid admins could not say for how long OSgrid would be offline, but they estimated the downtime to exceed one month. In addition, for several years before that shutdown, each OSgrid shutdown had led to more and more lost assets already.

This drove many OSgrid residents away from OSgrid and to other OpenSimulator grids. Most of them, OSgrid included, are connected by the so-called Hypergrid which makes it possible for avatars from one grid to teleport to other grids, so it doesn't matter much which grid your avatar is registered on when you want to travel to certain locations or events. Many of those who had left OSgrid when it was offline returned after it went online again because the asset server had been promised to work as intended now.

Still, with OSgrid's track record of unreliability and, most importantly, losing assets, some residents fear that the current downtime might break more than it will fix. Not few think that if they've lost their whole inventories "unannounced" last time, they will lose their whole inventories actually unannounced this time. And so they're looking for a new home again.

Of course, this has the owners and admins of many other grids wishing for as many OSgrid residents as possible to join their grids. The advertising of other grids in the wake of OSgrid's downtime has already begun.

##OpenSim ##OpenSimulator ##Metaverse ##VirtualWorlds ##OSgrid ##Meme ##ImageMacro ##ReactionImage ##Disney ##Pixar ##FindingNem ##MineMineMineSeagulls ##Sensitive ##⚠️

#I'm-getting-a-depressing-amount-of-mileage-out-of-this #chrono-trigger #chronotrigger #actually-this-is-from-a-rom-hack-that's-an-effort-to-retranslate #so-this-wouldn't-be-the-dialogue-in-the-US-retail-version #Lucca-ashtear #reaction-image

Reviving this channel because I had to meme about the recent AWS outage.

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Explanation:

The image is based on the Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing meme template (KnowYourMeme entry). It has DiCaprio's character Calvin Candie ridicule the fact that the outage of Amazon Web Services, starting on Sunday, October 19th, 2025 took dozens of other centralised online service offline as well because they are hosted on Amazon Web Services.

Next to the virtual world system Roblox (Wikipedia, official website) and the massively multiplayer online game Fortnite (Wikipedia, official website), this also struck Second Life, one of the oldest virtual worlds still around (Wikipedia, official website). After the Second Life owner company Linden Lab was taken over by three investors a few years ago, the decision was made to cut costs by getting rid of Second Life's own server farm and moving the whole grid to Amazon Web Services.

On the other hand, there is OpenSimulator, OpenSim in short (article written by me that explains it, Wikipedia, official website and wiki). It lacks such a single point of failure because it is a decentralised network of over 4,000 big and small independent worlds called "grids". The biggest grids run on rented Web space, but even they rely on various providers in various places in the world. Many smaller grids are even hosted on machines at their admins' homes, ranging from purpose-built servers to off-the-shelf laptop computers all the way down to Raspberry Pis for personal grids.

It simply is impossible for OpenSim to go down in its entirety when some server infrastructure fails because it doesn't rely on one central server infrastructure.

##OpenSim ##OpenSimulator ##Metaverse ##VirtualWorlds ##SecondLife ##Roblox ##Fortnite ##Amazon ##AmazonWebServices ##AWS ##Meme ##ImageMacro ##ReactionImage ##LeonardoDiCaprio ##LeonardoDiCaprioLaughing ##EyeContact ##CWEyeContact ##Alcohol ##Alc ##CWAlcohol ##CWAlc ##Sensitive ##⚠️

Watching my old internet friend sell the fursuit & character rights to the redesign of her original fursona makes me feel like this image

#Rambling #furry #nostalgia #fursona #furries #reaction-image

I've read that Bluesky is offline. I can't impossibly not spork that. So have a double feature.

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Explanation

The first image is based on the "Dr. Evil Air Quotes" meme. The second image is based on the "Oh No! Anyway" meme template.

On November 14th, 2024, Bluesky's main instance, bsky.social, went offline. Effectively, this meant that Bluesky as a whole went offline because bsky.social is the one instance were practically everyone is. Hardly anyone knows that other so-called PBS's exist, and Bluesky is frequently considered to be not decentralised at all.

##Bluesky ##Meme ##Image macro ##Reaction Image ##Dr. Evil Air Quotes ##Oh No! Anyway ##EyeContact ##CWEyeContact ##Sensitive ##⚠️

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Explanation:

The image is based on the "Oh No! Anyway" meme template.

It takes a jab at how vulnerable to spam especially Mastodon is while Hubzilla and (streams) are very resilient against it. Mastodon and other Fediverse projects have suffered from several waves of spam, one of which is on-going, but Hubzilla and (streams) have never been affected. There are various reasons for this.

One reason is the option to be notified if mentioned by a non-connection out of the blue. On Mastodon, this option is on by default, and next to nobody turns it off. On Hubzilla and (streams), this option is off by default, and hardly anyone turns it on.

Another reason is because both Hubzilla and (streams) have very advanced permissions systems with over a dozen parameters. For example, on Mastodon, anyone whom you follow can send you their posts and their boosts, and anyone can reply to your posts and send you DMs. The only countermeasures are muting them, blocking them, blocking their entire instance or having the admins or mods take care of them.

Hubzilla and (streams), in contrast, have vastly more powerful means of self-moderation. They have separate permissions settings for others to send posts, reply to posts and send DMs, amongst other permission settings. These permissions can be generally restricted for the whole Hubzilla or (streams) channel and then granted to certain contacts, keeping non-contacts out. Ignoring and blocking come on top as last resorts.

And this is only what users can do. Admins have some other tricks up their sleeves.

Lastly, it's very unlikely that someone will use Hubzilla or (streams) to send spam and even less likely that a bot will use Hubzilla or (streams) to send spam. You can't just create an account and spam away like on Mastodon. It's more likely for public instances of Hubzilla or (streams) to have registration approval than for Mastodon instances. Also, you have to create a channel to be able to post from it; not your account is your identity with everything in it, but your channel is. This is an extra obstacle. Lastly, while almost the entire rest of the Fediverse defaults to posting in public, both Hubzilla and (streams) default to posting privately to to certain contacts, changing which is anything but straight-forward.

##Fediverse ##Mastodon ##Hubzilla ##(streams) ##Spam ##Meme ##FediMeme ##Fediverse Meme ##Image macro ##Reaction Image ##Oh No! Anyway ##EyeContact ##CWEyeContact ##Sensitive ##⚠️

I guess we've all reacted this way at least once already.

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Explanation:

This is a universal reaction image macro from whenever Mastodon acts in a way that displeases the developers or users of non-Mastodon Fediverse projects, sometimes even Mastodon's own users. Whenever Mastodon's self-imposed limitations stand in the way of something, whenever Mastodon's refusal to comply with established standards and preference for non-standard solutions leads to incompatibility et cetera, this image macro can be used to blame it all on Mastodon's creator, Eugen Rochko, also known as Gargron.

It is based on the "Dinkleberg" meme template. An explanation can be found on KnowYourMeme.

##Mastodon ##Meme ##FediMeme ##Fediverse Meme ##Reaction Image ##Dinkleberg ##Sensitive ##⚠️

I should remember to use this #Reimu as a #reactionimage lol, it's too funny to be left unused ​:reimu_meds:​

#TouhouMeme #東方meme

they're innocent, your honour!!

#rats #rat #ratsOfMastodon #ratsOfTheFedi #ratsOfFedi #ratsOfFediverse #rodents #fediArt #meme #reactionImage