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FediTips has moved!Fediverse servers tend to have a lot more human moderators than centralised commercial social networks. Here's why:
Staff ratio means the number of human moderators per user.
A typical Fediverse server has about 500-1000 members. Let's assume an average staff ratio of 1:1000.
Facebook has 3 billion members, so in order to get a staff ratio of 1:1000 it would need 3 million moderators. The current total number of employees of *any kind* at Facebook/Meta is only 77,114.
Ian KellingI encourage people to donate to organizations that are 501c3 (and non-us equivalents) working for the public interest like FSF https://fsf.org, and also to the single-person & tiny orgs that aren't charities because of the overhead or mixed income but are also doing good work and relying on donations. I just donated to @valere who has done a great job maintaining this mastodon instance and other services at https://hostux.network for years. And also volunteer to help!
redfrogradio.garden allows you to listen to virtually all the radio stations on Earth through a Google Earth-like interface. Each green dot is a radio station: you can just click on one and listen.
Now at @The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.
For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).
"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.
There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.
It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.
Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.
𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑[rescued at sea]
Coastguard: Where are the others?
Me: Had to eat them.
CG: You were out there for 4 hours.
Me: They really got on my nerves.
Coastguard: Where are the others?
Me: Had to eat them.
CG: You were out there for 4 hours.
Me: They really got on my nerves.
Matt BlazePi Day is a fake holiday that exploits a universally beloved mathematical constant to promote US-style date formats.
Chris Trottier🚨BREAKING NEWS!🚨
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is now co-authoring the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress.
The intent is to make WordPress a "first party Fediverse member" on par with Mastodon, Pleroma, and Pixelfed.
WordPress already powers 43% of all websites—and every one is a potential Fediverse server.
Automattic employee @kraft just confirmed this.
Brandon Kraft ❤️🔥🧡 (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] Matt is also in a position to get invited to these new platforms, so he should take it to check it out. He's been giving away invites to others at Automattic, especially engineers, to check it out. And, at the same time, Automattic is partnering up with the developer of the ActivityPub WordPress plugin to continue to iterate on WP being a first party Fediverse member. ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ see that we're an author now too).
Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇tl;dr: Don't buy SSDs from Amazon. They sell counterfeit goods and have a too-short return policy.
Bought a brand-new Western Digital NVMe SSD hard drive from Amazon in January to replace one that was failing, and received it right away. It has been causing me nothing but trouble - randomly it just stops responding, causing bluescreens and general failures constantly - but it only had a 30-day return window.
So I went to Western Digital's website today to register the serial number and set up an RMA for the product and - could you imagine my surprise? - the serial number printed on the SSD is a counterfeit, tied to a real item but from a completely different product line.
It doesn't even look like the product shown on the box, or the other WD NVMe SSDs that I own.
On the phone with support now - they are issuing a refund even though this is outside of the return window.
Never buying storage from Amazon ever again. They are not a reliable vendor. This came not from a third party seller but out of their own warehouse sold "by" Amazon.
EDIT: Apparently the small-sticker version looks like what they shipped to PC Mag for a review. I still say this is a counterfeit device, based on the serial number/product mismatch, but it does, in fact, look like the one posted to https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/wd-black-sn770-nvme-ssd
