I've published Macstodon, my silly little Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS to GitHub: https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

I'm not providing any support or planning any serious development or maintenance of this, it's just a fun little hack project. Please fork and extend :)

Some Gotchas:
- You need MacPython 1.5.2 installed to run it, because my Mac crashes when I try to compile it into a standalone app.
- You need some kind of SSL stripping proxy running on another machine, I recommend WebOne: https://github.com/atauenis/webone
- It only posts plain text toots and doesn't have any other features
- There's no error handling. Expect crashes!

Here's how much our server activity (a global view of how busy the database is managing interactions and federation and stuff) changed after silencing .online and .social, for those who were worried about how big of an impact it would make.

The point where the vertical line is, is the day we silenced them.

Yesterday our server activity was the highest it's ever been (the peak at the far right).  

(the dip on the end is today, it rises gradually through the day.)

So, DeviantArt opted in, by default, all existing art on the website for use by third-party AI.

Without notifying their users. For all existing art.

You have to go through your art pieces one by one and tick a box that you do NOT consent to this.

I learnt about it on Birdsite, by accident.

And of course, any inactive user or dead user will have their art used by AI models from now on, even though they never agreed to this.

Disgusting.