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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/116274422810116128

Seeing lots of people in the replies here not understanding why a government IT department would be negative about Mastodon & the fediverse. I suspect it's all about legal liability.

With big corporate social media, the big corp's lawyers & mods are responsible for libel & hate speech in replies to public figures.

If you stand up your own fediverse software, you are responsible for moderating not only posts from people with accounts on your server, but also any incoming replies from other servers. If you join an existing server, you're dependent on volunteers (with limited or no legal funds) to moderate content.

There are lots of nasty little social networks out there using ActivityPub software. Some of them keep to themselves, like the ones where accounts share abusive images. Others exist to harass & torment other people on the fediverse with hateful replies (often with limited visibility). If you have never experienced this, thank your local server mods (& other fedi mods that share block lists).

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Meg 4h ago

Neil Brown 5d ago

An appropriate T-shirt for today.

Meg 6h ago

PSA: Something to keep in mind when inviting people to a mastodon server you're on is that if your server is quite small, taking on even one multi-thousand+ follower account might result in a significant increase in the cost and difficulty of running that server. Even just the migration itself might be a costly event.

People with a lot of followers should be really be careful themselves about moving to a server, and check in with the admins about if they're willing to take on the increased load, but it's also good to keep that in mind when suggesting your server that you have no part in sysadmining to your favorite fedi celeb.

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Meg 21h ago

also the smwcentral site makes it very easy to patch a rom of smw right on the website which is very cool. There are so many really awesome smw hacks out there that are worth playing.

Meg 21h ago

https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=41254

If you've ever watched someone play kaizo mario and thought it looked cool but also like you could never do it, I highly recommend trying out this particular hack. It is by far the friendliest kaizo hack I've ever seen, and I think anyone who is just generically "pretty good at video games" can get pretty far in it and feel good about it.

That said it's not an instructional hack that'll tell you how to do every trick, so you might need to check out a video of someone playing it if you get stuck to see what you're supposed to do.

#RetroGaming #kaizo

Meg 1d ago

MinmiTheDino 1d ago

I saw someone walking down the street today with a shirt that had hot pink MUNI font lettering of the word CUNT and I was so tempted to leap out of the car and beg her to be my friend.

Meg 1d ago

Gender David Copperfield 1d ago

I don't know who needs to hear this (the answer is probably no one Cameron) but the easiest way to close the end of IC tubes like this is to just take an xacto knife and make a tiny cut like this. Then you can press in or out the corner to make a toggleable door, no keeping track of little plastic pegs or tape required

Meg 2d ago

I think it's really funny that they had to throw the Discovery 800 years into the future to avoid messing up the timeline with a clearly superior engine design, and then *still* had to contrive a new technobabble reason in that future for why that superior engine couldn't solve a blockade.

@checkervest I saw this meme on bsky yesterday

Meg 3d ago

SICK CUNT DRACONES Jan 12, 2019

me: working from home gives me the opportunity to focus on tasks free from the the distractions of a noisy office!

brain:

TROUT

LET IT ALL OUT

THESE ARE THE FISH I CAN DO WITHOUT

SALMON

I’M TALKING TO YOU

SALMON

me: cool never mind

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