If you're just getting started on here, you may be wondering why this place has so many servers and apps. Why make it so complicated?

Click here to find out why:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/#whyisthefediverseonsomanyseparateservers

Twitter is all on one server (twitter.com). This made it VERY easy for Musk to buy it. Any centralised network can be bought out just like this.

The Fediverse is different: as long as we stay spread out on many servers, no one will ever be able to buy this network, not even the richest person in the world.

German government Mastodon instance https://social.bund.de/explore with more and more accounts

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
@BMWK

Federal Ministry of Education and Research
@bmbf_bund

Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building
@BMWSB_Bund

More
@AuswaertigesAmt
@bmi
@bsi
@bfdi
@opendatabund
@Bundespresseamt
@itzbund
@ltrlp
@HessischerLandtag
@thw
@dsk
@bfr
@FITKOfoederal
@DeutscherWetterdienst
@Zoll
@strahlenschutz
@BlnBDI
@sdb
@BayLfD
@DS_Stiftung
#moa

A friend of mine finally found that jar!

CVE-2022-26138: A remote, unauthenticated attacker with knowledge of the hardcoded password could exploit this to log into #Confluence and access all content accessible to users in the confluence-users group

The password is disabled1system1user6708

Source: https://packages.atlassian.com/maven-atlassian-external/com/atlassian/confluence/plugins/confluence-questions/3.0.2/confluence-questions-3.0.2.jar

Cool, #Signal will get a “stories” feature, just like #WhatsApp, eliminating a major reason not to switch! And those who don't like stories can just disable them in the settings.

https://libredd.it/r/signal/comments/w148ho/signal_stories_coming

In light of Supreme Court decision, we want to remind folks: There's a way to privately access information.

https://www.startpage.com/en/anonymous-view/ #roevswade