Trevor Smith
Leigh HoneywellSo uh good luck to the CNN/WaPo/NYT devs tasked with setting up mastodon servers tomorrow I suppose
Ed G.@leigh "How hard can it be?"
Dan Hon
Marielle Quinton@leigh Here's hoping this gets them all to do this. I would like to see government instances too.
@mariellequinton I should figure out who to bug at the CBC about this :)
Soh Kam YungFor Europe, the EU's Mastodon instance is at
@sohkamyung @mariellequinton I love that that exists! I hope we get one too 🇨🇦
deltatux@leigh @sohkamyung @mariellequinton
Interesting thing was that there was a discussion about this the other day, this was my thoughts on the topic when it was brought up: https://tuxz.one/notice/AQY7Y6qgRl5rTTxjTk
It was in response to this blog post that laid out how a government #fediverse instance would be like & the challenges: https://medium.com/@supergovernance/government-fediverse-7ae83dd95a42
Interesting thing was that there was a discussion about this the other day, this was my thoughts on the topic when it was brought up: https://tuxz.one/notice/AQY7Y6qgRl5rTTxjTk
It was in response to this blog post that laid out how a government #fediverse instance would be like & the challenges: https://medium.com/@supergovernance/government-fediverse-7ae83dd95a42
deltatux (@[email protected])
@supergovernance Great write-up, would love to see more government involvement in the Fediverse. The #EU is a big proponent of the #fediverse and they actually run their own instance and a lot of...
@sohkamyung @leigh Yes, I wish other governments would do this. Also, not just at the national level. Cities etc could run them.
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@leigh there are so many good write-ups now :-)
@mawhrin which one is your fav?
@leigh funnily enough, the original docs for the initial install + @hazelweakly's somewhat exasperated notes when i was looking at the install a month later + systemd's service templates i snarfed from a blogpost¹ because i was too lazy to write them myself.
¹ i have the bookmarks on the desktop browser
Futurist Jim Carroll@jimcarroll something something accelerationism something 😅
wb x64@leigh @jimcarroll oh yay we finally have the singularity, but instead of merging our consciousness with the AI we just get an oligarch throwing a Napoleon tantrum all over our services
Marc Jacobs@jimcarroll @leigh It needs to be in powers of ten.
10 months
1 month
0.1 months (3 days)
.01 months (8 hours)
Now, would I have gotten that right yesterday? No. Not close. I would have hovered between 1 and 10 months.
fack@jimcarroll @leigh check out @TucsonSentinel and @TexasObserver they've both been doing this for weeks already!
DSmith_Tucson@fack @jimcarroll @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver
It took like a half-hour of work — and only that much b/c I screwed up some prefs and had to edit S3 settings a few times.
@DSmith_Tucson @fack @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver
It's not complicated at all to set up your own instance. And wonderful to meet you folks - pioneers in every stretch of the imagination!
@jimcarroll @fack @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver
I hadn't poked at S3 settings for years, so getting the "bucket list" right took a few times. Hosting images on the same box (which I didn't want to do) would be dead simple — perhaps another service w/b less tweaky than Amazon
@DSmith_Tucson @jimcarroll @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver I used cloudflare's R2 object storage myself, a lot simpler than S3 imo (but also significantly less featureful)
@fack @DSmith_Tucson @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver
...with the added benefit of the Cloudflare firewall and DDos feature. Will have to look into this at some point!
@jimcarroll @fack @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver
Been using #Cloudflare for years (near instant DNS changes are part of what made this so easy).
Rod Hilton@leigh this is the way.
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦But not Maggie Haberman. She's right at home in the depths of the plumbing
Jeremy Bowers@leigh yeah we’re slacking about it now
@jeremybowers amazing!!
Tamar Yellin@leigh what happened to them on Twitter?
@TamarYellin muskrat suspended a bunch of serious journalists today for extremely bullshit reasons
@leigh oh damn!
@TamarYellin wild clip from one of the folks suspended: https://mastodon.ie/@donieosullivan/109521051379140410
@leigh Musk has lost his mind
Meow.tar.gz 
Andy Sherman@leigh Perhaps those publications should ghost Elon, Twitter, and Tesla until the first Chapter 11 filing.
MissPlaced
Uncle Mikey@leigh Yeah, I was about to say, "As long as it takes them to find someone's nephew who actually knows how to do it."
Locksmith@leigh They can get back in birdsite if they say that Elmo is handsome and funny.
Brandon@leigh why? What's prompting this?
@leer10 bunch of mainstream journalists banned. Good clip from CNN on it: https://mastodon.ie/@donieosullivan/109521051379140410
Brian R. Sala 🍻If they had any sense, they would have started working on their own instances several weeks ago.
@leigh Send coffee
Luis Villa@leigh (monkey paw curls) when that happens, journalists will quite suddenly have a lot less economic independence from their employers.
Scarab@luis_in_brief @leigh Isn't it easy to migrate from one instance to another?
Markachu-X@leigh How about we discourage corporate media from infesting this place?
@markachu_x arguably if they are running their own instances, they are infesting their own spaces, no? 😄
Stephen Yeargin@leigh @jeremybowers was already on that train of thought. I'd love to see it.
Jeremy Bowers (@[email protected])
Might need to figure out a plan for getting The Post’s journalists on Mastodon. What’s the right angle — hosting our own server?
Clive ThompsonOh man yes
With luck they had people investigating this weeks and weeks ago
if not, time to GET BUSY
Dan Shick@leigh who could have seen this coming
Going T. Maine@going_to_maine @leigh it’s all meaningless unless i can continue to get exactly two likes on my early-morning links to They Might Be Giants songs
Lesley Carhart 
@leigh let’s goooo
Anil@leigh this ignores that people who rise to leadership in those orgs are institutionalists, especially in cases like CNN, which are run by those aligned with the fascists. So they can only conceive of wanting the accounts restored, not of fighting against those determined to destroy them.
樹雄 🌳🐨 
@leigh Wish that they'd learn something out of this.
FRANK.MCCONNEL@leigh Amen but it'll be a good sort of fun to watch happen
NotNowOrLaterit will be interesting to see if they will start producing better content.
with no rage algorithms, they might be forced to go back to good reporting.
newsorpigal
Benj Soule🫂💙HumanityFirst🌅@leigh Down time is money when you're messing with #ChinaMusk over there.
mrg@leigh Seems like a natural thing to to for all organisations that needs an online presence.
Posting on twitter in an official capacity is a bit like sending official email from an yahoo.com-account.