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Man kann in diesen Zeiten ja nicht vorsichtig genug sein 馃槈馃構馃し



Dear Santa, I wish people learn to not use the term "fix" when all they mean is "workaround".


Sehr lesenswert: Afd Politiker richtig beleidigen 馃榿
Aus dem Bl盲ttchen der Landeshauptstadt Saarbr眉cken.


A kind observation that exclusively calling this place "Mastodon" has a bit similar energy as saying "I just sent a GMail."
"Fediverse" (or "fedi") is a more inclusive, general term.
Mastodon is just one of many software projects that talk to each other to create this multi-instance social network:
https://axbom.com/fediverse/
(kudos to @axbom for this fantastic infographic!)
There are blogs, Reddit-like communities, video instances and many more, all part of fedi.

My word of the year 2022:
Muskurbation


They say mastery comes with a lot of training.

Musk bought Twitter, and has access to all your Twitter DMs. All of them. The whole history of your conversations there.
What if he bought Discord? What if he bought Slack?
This is a real threat from the real world. What happened for Twitter can happen to Discord and Slack.
Use a platform that knows as little about you as possible. Use a platform you don't need to trust: you want End to End Encryption, open source clients & servers, an open protocol, and no restriction to "official" clients.


now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it