laura. shiny. elfgirl in a bunch of places for a bunch of years, and now here. she/meh
the kid that took things apart to see how they worked; now, takes things apart to explain how they work and why that matters.
the taking apart bit is metaphorical these days. mostly.
main: @elfgirl
infosec: @elfgirl
[formerly @elfgirl]
| birdsite | https://twitter.com/elfgirl |
With mastodon.social slammed with new users and my old home at .xyz a bit dead, I've been looking for an alternative to use as my mastodon 'home base'. I knew I wanted a mostly general interest instance, big enough for the federated feed to be good for organic discovery and where my varied interests wouldn't kill the local feed vibe.
Spent time looking this weekend and think universeodon.com ticks all my boxes. I'll still be hanging out at defcon.soc for infosec.
I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.
It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.
It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.
Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.
Twitter was special. But it's time to leave
https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/twitter-was-special-but-its-time
That chick that you've seen around the web forever but can never remember her name. elfgirl many places.
Advises business leaders on what's coming that might fuck up how their world currently works. Sometimes they listen.
Always looking for a new social web platform to abandon. Still uses #tumblr daily so clearly not to be trusted.
#anthropology
#linguistics
#SystemsTheory
#DesignThinking
#humint
#technology
#science! (esp #space)
#VideoGames
#fandom
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Mark Sample
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