liaizon@social.wake.st you were missed in Vancouver! Although I know it's quite a trip for you.

HumaniTech!

reiver@mastodon.social one highlight among many this weekend was listening to jaz@toot.wales belt out a Welsh chorale at dinner.

rolle@mementomori.social I'm sorry this happened to you. It's so easy to hurl hurtful accusations with no accountability that one ought to treat them as you would treat drive by criticisms. I'm pretty far down the spectrum from a "tech bro" but I still got called one simply because NodeBB federated and dared to serve that content online (nevermind that every other fedi server does the same). In that scenario there was nothing I could do as an individual except wait for an instance mod to lay some facts out. Anything I said was instantly derided, even if it was the same thing. So if I reply with courtesy and I get back vitriol, why do I bother? I don't now. So maybe that's more tech bro-y.

Very interesting article! I have immense respect for jerry@infosec.exchange, he was one of the first people I found on the fediverse, and it's no wonder why, he's revered quite highly by others as being a generous and kind admin. I do want to point out one thing, and that is that Mastodon has some design decisions that make it rather resource and storage intensive. There are oodles of lighter software out there, some with even more features than Mastodon, and some with less. For example, snac.bsd.cafe (https://snac.bsd.cafe/) runs on Snac, which is fast as hell. I am going to guess that a not insignificant portion of Jerry's bill is caching assets. Mastodon likes to save everything it encounters, videos, images, avatars, everything... forever (though I imagine this is customisable). Most likely the assets are viewed a handful of times in one day and never seen again... but you'll pay to store it forever!

Thanks! It's something that I personally feel is more performant and future proof for other important things like private discussions (which Mastodon also doesn't support natively yet — mention spamming doesn't count.)

why didn’t I think of that myself? Thank you @julian@community.nodebb.org and thank you for this release