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Djangonaut, treehugger
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.
@atomicpoet You suggest $2/month, but the options are $1 or $10, with no option for custom amounts. I'd like to do $5/month but can't see how. Tips?

Imagine 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.

#blueprint #origami #orizuru #metamorphogram #memory

EDIT: 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
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Surfer sliding off the back, Sunset Cliffs

“Uno mas!” we used to say, trying to fit in one more before the sun went down.

#photography #surfing #silhouettes
https://flic.kr/p/2o1bmmb

Surfer sliding off the back, Sunset Cliffs

Flickr
@jochenwolters Loud and clear!

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?"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1593458225533313025.html

Thread by @peterclowes on Thread Reader App

@peterclowes: Why I left @Twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0 🧵 It’s not because I want Twitter to fail or think the site is about to collapse. Some...

I 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.

@nova Here is an *amazing* thread on Birdsite chronicling the many ways Twitter can fall down technically and politically in the absence of qualified tech staff. A bit of fear mongering, but also realistic scenarios.

https://twitter.com/mosquitocapital/status/1593541177965678592?s=57&t=8OA-MGexKqqGTcV5q-hFlw

Mosquito Capital on Twitter

“I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.”

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@atomicpoet Seems fine now.