Trolling a catfisher by doing nothing, love it.
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Chris TrottierBy the way, I'm now actively blocking anyone coming here to argue about the merits of donating to the NON-PROFIT that builds Mastodon.
It's absolute dirtbag behaviour when Mastodon struggles so much under a #TwitterMigration of millions of users.
Now lets put things into perspective. Last month, Twitter was employing 6,500 people. Mastodon employs 1 person who's working 14 hour days -- and only compensates himself €36,000 a year.
How is one guy supposed to take build the app that replaces Twitter when Twitter pays hundreds of engineers well over $100,000 to do a fraction of the work?
Yeah, other people deserve donations too -- so donate! Be a hero to the person who's running your instance, as well as the person who builds whatever app your instance is running.
And lest you think that I don't bang the drums on donations for other devs, this is not the case.
Last week, I told everyone to donate to @dansup. A couple of days ago, I told everyone to donate to @Are0h who, by the way, is making another app that builds safety features for marginalized communities. And I'm banging the drum all the time on @[email protected] and his work with Calckey.
But right now, I'm urging people to help out with Mastodon!
So if you have it in your heart to donate to a very good cause -- the continued development and existence of Mastodon -- contribute to Mastodon's Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
It's absolute dirtbag behaviour when Mastodon struggles so much under a #TwitterMigration of millions of users.
Now lets put things into perspective. Last month, Twitter was employing 6,500 people. Mastodon employs 1 person who's working 14 hour days -- and only compensates himself €36,000 a year.
How is one guy supposed to take build the app that replaces Twitter when Twitter pays hundreds of engineers well over $100,000 to do a fraction of the work?
Yeah, other people deserve donations too -- so donate! Be a hero to the person who's running your instance, as well as the person who builds whatever app your instance is running.
And lest you think that I don't bang the drums on donations for other devs, this is not the case.
Last week, I told everyone to donate to @dansup. A couple of days ago, I told everyone to donate to @Are0h who, by the way, is making another app that builds safety features for marginalized communities. And I'm banging the drum all the time on @[email protected] and his work with Calckey.
But right now, I'm urging people to help out with Mastodon!
So if you have it in your heart to donate to a very good cause -- the continued development and existence of Mastodon -- contribute to Mastodon's Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
The shit you do 20 mins before an RFQ is due. This is what school prepared me for I guess (last minute submissions).
It's clear many people don't realise how critical Twitter's attempt to regulate itself was to its success. It wasn't perfect but damn it made a good fist of it. It's the baby in Elno's bath water. Why would any decent pervert choose it over 4chan. It doesn't matter if mastodon is better or worse by any metric except that there are safe spaces.
Jerry 🦙💝🦙I love all of you and I want nothing but the best for each of you, particularly those on infosec.exchange. I understand that Mastodon isn't Twitter, that DMs aren’t end-to-end encrypted, that we are spread across different instances and it can be hard to find your friends, and that an instance can go away at any time, and that translating posts doesn't work correctly, and there is no native giphy support, and that some instances are overwhelmed and super slow, and that you don't think the federated model can scale to a billion users, or that it doesn't support full text search of every post and account, or that we can't comply with the GDPR, or that we don't support quote tweet style functionality, or that we shouldn't collect IP addresses, and many other things.
The fediverse is a work in progress. I've been here for going on 6 years. In that time, it's come a long, long way. That said, Mastodon is not going to appeal to everyone. The decisions I make are not going to appeal to everyone. No one is forcing you to be here. No one is forcing you to disclose your personal secrets into a network of federated servers running by volunteers and hobbyists. NB: this is not Twitter. It has some similar functionality, but it is not Twitter. Parts of it are better, IMO, and parts are not. The security community is generally among the most skilled and competent IT people the world has to offer. Mastodon is open source. Do you see where I'm going?
I set this instance up a long time ago for reasons I don't even remember. I have poured my soul into this thing because I believe in the importance of this community. I have effectively peaked in my career as a CISO and I and my family live well. I am not running this instance for fame, money, a better job, or anything other than wanting to foster a community of people that can learn from each other and make the world a better place. That's it.
As I've said in several recent interviews, I felt particularly obligated to ensure the security community had a good landing spot in the fediverse as everyone was running for the doors in Twitter. We've grown from 180 active users to about 30000 in the span of 3 weeks. I do not expect everyone to stay. Some will set up their own instances. Some will move to one of the other excellent security focused instances. Some will give up and move to on to some other social media. And that is OK. While I am super excited to see the buzz here, I don't have subscriber targets, engagement targets, retention targets, or anything else. The only metric I hold myself to is whether I think this is serving a useful purpose to the community.
I appreciate all of you, regardless of where you land. Infosec.exchange has been here for a long time and will continue to be here for you.
Oh wow it's way more than when I first joined. Go Aus social!
🇳𝗮ꜟ𝖼𝘩A quick explainer about the Mastodon like (called "favourite" - it's the star). It is a personal message to the writer of the post that you liked it, and it doesn't show on anyone's time line.
If you want to spread the post, that's the boost button. The equivalent of a Twitter like is to do both a favourite and a boost.
If you think this post is useful to you click "favourite". If you think it would be useful for others too, click "boost" as well.
Edited for accuracy.
AnnieYour weekly reminder to smash the fuck out of the patriarchy.
CattIf you all are wondering about the server capabilities and the strain the Admin are under to keep the ship afloat:
PLEASE BOOST THIS TOOT ❣️
🆘SOS FOR HELP PLEASE🆘
Admin of aus.social just posted the following if anyone can help⬇️
“Announcement
TECHNICAL CALL TO ACTION: Aus.Social is currently running on 6 medium sized VMs in Linode Sydney - If anybody has contacts in the datacentre/co-location side, I'd love to discuss finding a nice dedicated server or two for this place - I'm looking at my options, and thanks to the excellent support we've received for our Patreon (I'm not looking for freebees). Please email me at [email protected] and maybe we can find this place a new home.”