Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle@mastodon.social

Mastodon quick start guide https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/08/mastodon-quick-start-guide/ by @nico

Every vote in the U.S. should have a paper trail, and that paper trail needs to be audited. https://www.eff.org/if-it-doesnt-have-paper-backups-and-automatic-audits-its-not-election-security

In a landmark decision, the Seventh Circuit court has ruled that government access of smart meter data constitutes a “search”—and residents have a reasonable expectation of privacy in it.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/win-landmark-seventh-circuit-decision-says-fourth-amendment-applies-smart-meter

The relative sizes of the gnu vs the penguin 😹

You know instance admins can read your direct messages in the fediverse? Twitter and Facebook also can - and sometimes do - read your private messages, and they have infrastructure to comply with law enforcement requests. I'd love to see some end-to-end encryption built into Mastodon clients.

INTRO TO FEDERATION 2:

1. Servers (instances) mostly communicate 2 ways: sending posts to each other & sending profiles to each other

2. When person A's profile is first sent over, it only has their name, avatar & bio*

3. When someone on your server Y follows A, their server will send Y their toots & these are A's only toots that Y knows about*

4. # of toots/followers/follows on A's profile on Y all refer to the # of t/f/f which are actually on Y directly or indirectly

*simplified 4 brevity

The more I think about, the more I kind of like having multiple platforms for the same social media identity. It allows me to keep twitter for... well, exactly what it's good for:

Terse commentary and easy snark. Current affairs and outrage boosting.
Sustaining a loose affiliation with people in my line of work, and developments in that field.

Whereas here, of course, I can develop a parallel and expanded persona while not dissociating one from the other.

The medium is me.

Check this Wired article about #mastodon http://www.wired.co.uk/article/mastodon-social-network-what-how-create-account

What's funny is - issues with rapidly overloaded instances aside - mastodon's UI is a lot faster than birdsite's.

In other news, Mastodon-the-band keep talking about my project and I don't know how to process this, it's just too amazing https://twitter.com/mastodonmusic/status/849424628401541121 Damn, if they decided to start an instance... What would they even be called. So many instances are already called mastodon XD

give @Gargron money
give @Gargron money
GIVE @Gargron MONEY

he's not selling your data, he's been basically doing development singlehandedly at this point, he deserves a couple bucks or euros or whatever currency you use:

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=619786

https://www.paypal.me/gargron

Bitcoin: 17j2g7vpgHhLuXhN4bueZFCvdxxieyRVWd