If you want to support Mastodon, remember to support both the project as a whole (for software development) and your instance (for hosting). Patreon kind of hides the custom amounts - scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, under the "tiers" to find the Custom button - I'm doing $5/month to each.
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Alun KirbyImagine a piece of tissue paper.
Coat it with cyanotype chemicals.
Fold it into an origami crane.
Let it be a crane for a while, in any place with a bit of light. Ignore it, play with it, whatever.
After a while, unfold it. Develop.
You'll get an image.
The image is the memory of it's experience as an origami crane.
Repeat. Every crane's experience - and hence every image - will be unique.
Here's 4 out of the >750 I've made so far.
Chris TrottierEDIT: DO NOT BOOST!
This post is nearly a year old, and boosting will simply spread misinformation. Mastodon now has substantially more funding, and has enough scale to handle its many users.
I would delete this post but my server is not letting me so I'm editing this to reflect that I wish for you to NOT BOOST!
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Right now Mastodon is only receiving appr. $21,000/month through Patreon.
This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.
Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.
However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!
Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
This post is nearly a year old, and boosting will simply spread misinformation. Mastodon now has substantially more funding, and has enough scale to handle its many users.
I would delete this post but my server is not letting me so I'm editing this to reflect that I wish for you to NOT BOOST!
---
Right now Mastodon is only receiving appr. $21,000/month through Patreon.
This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.
Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.
However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!
Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
Surfer sliding off the back, Sunset Cliffs
“Uno mas!” we used to say, trying to fit in one more before the sun went down.
Surfer sliding off the back, Sunset Cliffs
One Twitter engineer, on why he decided to leave:
"So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would you sacrifice time with your kids over the holidays for vague assurances and the opportunity to make a rich person richer or would you take the out?"
Jeff JarvisI will give big points to the first news organization, big or small, that:
* Sets up an instance for its newsroom,
* Sets up an instance for the community it serves,
* Enables rel=me for staff,
* Creates a boost-on-Mastodon sharing function,
* Enhances that function so headlines/images (with alt-text) appear in the toot,
* Covers the Fediverse as more than a geeky curiosity or alt-Twitter,
* Listens to and joins in the conversation here.
* Sets up an instance for its newsroom,
* Sets up an instance for the community it serves,
* Enables rel=me for staff,
* Creates a boost-on-Mastodon sharing function,
* Enhances that function so headlines/images (with alt-text) appear in the toot,
* Covers the Fediverse as more than a geeky curiosity or alt-Twitter,
* Listens to and joins in the conversation here.
If you're not opposed to venturing onto Birdsite, this is an *amazing* thread from a sysadmin documenting the myriad ways Twitter could fail technically, with insufficient human-power around to fix it. A bit fear-monger-y, but also frighteningly realistic.
https://twitter.com/mosquitocapital/status/1593541177965678592?s=57&t=8OA-MGexKqqGTcV5q-hFlw
Seems crazy to me that #sql provides no built-in way to `select * but exclude that one column`. There are plenty of workarounds, but it should be native and simple.
Neil de Grasse Tyson's conversation with Sam Harris on "Science and Civilization" - especially the sections on paradigm shifts and affirmative action - are worth the price of subscription alone (but you can listen to half of it for free). NdGT is a gift.
https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/302-science-civilization
