Philippe 🇪🇺
Thom HolwerdaBoth Twitter and BlueSky - backed by untold amounts of money and white tech bros - are down.
Mastodon - run by trans furries and femboys high on anxiety - is running just fine.
historic drystone sheep dyke@thomholwerda i would revise “just fine” to “not particularly worse than usual”
Midtown Masochist 🐻 (RB-050) 🐷
Liminal witch 🧙♀️ Sarah
sorry, I had to
Nova🐧✨
Von Xylofon
Lett Osprey@thomholwerda That's because most of that demographic work with IT-security, right?
FlorianTischner@panduck @thomholwerda
That's a common misconception. Many also work on the network side at tier 1 ISP.
That's a common misconception. Many also work on the network side at tier 1 ISP.
Bruno Girin@panduck @thomholwerda they probably lack a sensible risk management policy such as the one from a large bank I used to work for: "if a primary competitor goes down just before the weekend, suspend all production deployments and put SREs on call so that we keep running no matter what". They can't even be good capitalists apparently.
Fanriya@thomholwerda
social networks are outdated, it's time for anxious networks.
social networks are outdated, it's time for anxious networks.
loutre 
Anyarchiste 😸
Aatheus@thomholwerda Can't tell if it's down or not. F*cebook login wall prevents me from viewing anything. Nothing of value lost, apparently
Dawn Tåke 🌙 
ThePrimo 
@thomholwerda I’ve tried so many times to get a BlueSky invite. Just want to know what it’s like.
luddite 🇵🇸 computer@_benui @thomholwerda does it? I’d still like to give it a go.
PJ "Vote Green" Coffey@ThePrimo @_benui @thomholwerda
If you really need a blue checkmark Tumblr will let you have two...
CaptBobbers@Homebrewandhacking @ThePrimo @_benui @thomholwerda
DeviantArt will give you a whole ass llama. It's not an option, you have to accept it and it is a huge responsibility.
DeviantArt will give you a whole ass llama. It's not an option, you have to accept it and it is a huge responsibility.
Following in the Royal traditions of Ancient Siam, but smaller? I like it!
Lazarus 🕸️@thomholwerda This is as it should be. If my time on the internet has taught me anything, it's that you should never fuck with furries.
DeepBlue V7.X@intoner @thomholwerda The last part depends a bit, I guess, but otherwise yes.
MarjorieR@intoner @thomholwerda or goats.
Kevin Karhan 
@thomholwerda guess why?
It's #decentralized af!
ploum@thomholwerda @sebsauvage : So #bluesky is a decentralised platform that:
1. Belong to one company
2. Which you can access with invite-only
3. Can be completely down
"Decentralized". You keep using that words but I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Natanael ⚠️@ploum @thomholwerda @sebsauvage they have a federation test network up. There's independent reimplementations of the protocol taking part. So it's getting there.
simonbp@Natanael_L @ploum @thomholwerda @sebsauvage but it's not, because everyone that wants a decentralized network is here
@simonbp @ploum @thomholwerda @sebsauvage except the ones who want to see content addressing put in use
Sören@Natanael_L @ploum @thomholwerda @sebsauvage their system design of decentralization is deeply flawed.
@chucker @ploum @thomholwerda @sebsauvage how is content addressing more flawed than profiles controlled by the domain owner?
JohnW@ploum @thomholwerda @sebsauvage
Nailed it.
It doesn't 100% apply, but it's close enough to say "Jack is trying to be the emperor of his own federation".
Dispatches from Floor 13@ploum @thomholwerda @sebsauvage It's also invariably going to be turned into the same algorithm driven mess that Twitter was, with users being the product being sold.
Chewie@ploum @thomholwerda @sebsauvage I don't understand this: https://atproto.com/guides/faq#why-not-use-activitypub but you can export your profiles from your instance. Or is their point that you can't do that if you've already been banned? It's not clear, and doesn't make the case for #bluesky any better in its current wording
MAG3N@thomholwerda to be fair most of our instances did close the door behind us which is how it still works
Helle, Queen of Dissociation 
@thomholwerda though Fediverse, it is more then just Mastodon, don't give website boy that much honour.
Trannus🇻🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦Aran@thomholwerda I mean that's the thing, this app is never going to replace them, but I don't need them to. As long as SWers have a safe place to work, and we have a way to find out on-the-ground news in repressive regimes, I don't really care beyond that. (It is nice to see all the trans ppl on the cloud app, but that's a "nice to have")
JamieGC 🏴 🏳️🌈 🖖@thomholwerda trans people get tech shit done.
nadin brzezinski@thomholwerda @pippaholloway coffee, there must be coffee
chaos catgirl artic ❤️she/her
Kilorat🐀@thomholwerda I do wonder why people are talking about Bluesky and get excited about joining a waiting list, when Mastodon is right here and works fine.
Daniel Tuttle 🌵🤘@kilorat @thomholwerda the consensus seems to be that 1) the culture here is too rigid about things like alt tags etc 2) the onboard is complicated, most people didn't know how to choose a server etc. Supposedly Bluesky intends to address that but idk how. That's what I read over and over.
Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping@DanielTuttle @kilorat @thomholwerda I'm there and I don't see it. The onboarding isn't that much easier. There's much less content and fewer ways to get it.
@stooovie @kilorat @thomholwerda onboard was easier. I didn't have to select a server which is a thing that makes a lot of people super anxious. I'm not sure how blue sky will deal with that as it grows though
autumn star@thomholwerda
Dont forget about the instances running smoothly on the income of a single mom
Dont forget about the instances running smoothly on the income of a single mom
Unfitforpurpose@thomholwerda Three hours laterand just fine is pushing it slightly.
none gender with left politics@thomholwerda @isatis unfortunately cohost, which is definitely run by a similar crowd, is also down. Turns out an unexpected influx of users can lead to this sort of hell. Meanwhile, the efficacy of a federated system shines here.
midɲa@thomholwerda Fedi is simply too powerful
RedstoneLP2@thomholwerda I've heard of a grand total of one (1) instance which supposedly is having issues currently. you can guess which one
mattowski 
@thomholwerda I almost spilled my coffee while reading that. Beautiful
@thomholwerda bluesky isn't down but it's struggling
Strange Tim@thomholwerda more proof that anxiety is what truly powers the Internet.
Dan@geekyonion @thomholwerda I thoght it was powered by strong coffee and energy drinks?
The anxiety being a byproduct of caffeine overdose?
The anxiety being a byproduct of caffeine overdose?
Noah@thomholwerda
And nostr
And nostr
@thomholwerda
If you don't have furries running your stuff online, you're going to have a bad time.
If you don't have furries running your stuff online, you're going to have a bad time.
Pedro Ivo 🌈 🚲@thomholwerda @jimi , análise de conjuntura importante aqui
Kiloku - Secretário do Caos@thomholwerda Classic reminder that there's a disproportionally high number of furries in the tech community.
A typical joke is "I'm against furry conventions. If a plane going to the convention crashes, it would be disastrous for the world's tech infrastructure!"
A typical joke is "I'm against furry conventions. If a plane going to the convention crashes, it would be disastrous for the world's tech infrastructure!"
Filipi Limi
cybik 
@thomholwerda if a plane full of trans, furries, trans furries, and other variations, crashed with no survivors, the internet would be down for at least a full day.