maintainer of innerwebs.social
programmer of newsbots
Philadelphia, PA (USA)
#golang 👾
| im | supergay |
| im | notintoyou |
| im | tired |
just kidding.
Massive upgrades were made to this instance to increase disk capacity and CPU as more Federated traffic is passing through this instance.
Also upgraded Mastodon to 2.5.2. I'll upgrade to 2.6.0 when @Gargron says it's ready.
I'm happy to announce three new newsbots to the lineup!
Tech News
@emacs - 24/7 monitoring for new emacs articles and package updates from MELPA. If you use Emacs this is a great account to follow
@macrumors - The fabled Mac Rumors is now on Mastodon (again!)
@kiro7 - Local news for Seattle/Tacoma, Washington region
INSTANCE UPDATE
Oki-doky. Looks like 2.5.0 is now installed. Enjoy!
INSTANCE NEWS
We're in the process of upgrading to Mastodon 2.5.0, things will be unstable for the next two hours
The following instances are blocked from this instance.
bofa and guillotine were blocked for concern trolling, all four are blocked as the instance admins are in an internecine war with each other and are generally just flooding the fediverse with interpersonal drama giftwrapped in morality policing.
These suspensions are permanent.
📰 Greetings
I have upgraded the #newsbots on innerwebs.social to stop the bad practice of duplicate tweets intended to increase click-thru.
Here's the lineup of what I'm repeating on Mastodon:
@BreakingNews 📰
@NPR - National Public Radio 📻
@BBCRadio4 - BBC Radio 4 📻
@darkstockphotos 😜
@WHYY - WHYY Philadelphia 📺
@6abc - WPVI Philadelphia 📺
@thehill - The Hill (all posts behind CW)
@9to5Mac - Apple rumors/breaking news 
@Slashdot - Tech aggregator 📱
Hi. I'm the admin of https://innerwebs.social
My instance is open to all, except nazis and other ridiculous extremists. Please mark politics toots as Unlisted or use CW.
Current #newsbot lineup
@NPR - National Public Radio
@BBCRadio4 - BBC Radio 4
@WHYY - WHYY Philadelphia
@6abc - WPVI Philadelphia
@TheHillBot - The Hill (all posts behind CW)
@9to5Mac - Apple rumors/breaking news
@Slashdot - Slashdot tech aggregator
A no-nonsense, Nazi-free social media. Serving Philadelphia-New York-Toronto-Montrèal areas with fast response and low latency. Home of the Mastodon Newsbot Service The following newsbots are running on this instance: NPR / National Public Radio (United States) WHYY / WHYY Philadelphia (an NPR radio station) BreakingNews / NBC Breaking News (posts to public) BBCRadio4 / Intelligent, insightful programming from BBC Radio 4 6ABC / WPVI Television in Philadelphia KIRO7 / KIRO Television in Seattle, Washington TheHill / US Political news from The Hill (all posts behind CW) Reason / Reason Magazine - Politics from a pragmatist libertarian point of view Tech Newsbots Emacs News Service, Tracking all popular Emacs blogs, MELPA and /r/emacs 9to5Mac , Breaking news for Apple Mac users MacRumors, All the news from MacRumors.com Slashdot, The Internet's oldest user-curated tech news aggregator @[email protected] - FSF Free Software Foundation (GNU Social) Some other newsbots RT - Russia Today, the Russian state news broadcaster (English) Le Monde - The World, popular French newspaper (French)
@brychan I'm good friends with a QPOC who's far-center-left (he's a pragmatist).
He's found Philly ANTIFA to be 99% white, completely tone deaf to POC issues in the flesh and in some respects, racist. (specifically, engaging in tokenism)
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/08/07/trigger-warnings-fragility/