Klint Finley @klintron@mastodon.social

Team Night King #cosmism #fyodorov

(Tor as well)

Mastodon is a different story because you don't host other people's content. So hopefully it will be less vulnerable to that sort of thing. But stigmas can form for non-technical reasons as well.

We've actually already seen this happen, to some extent, with Freenet, which some people are afraid to use because they don't want to host child pornography.

I just rolled my eyes when I first saw that "Mastodon is big in Japan" story. But today I saw that it was by Ethan Zuckerman, which made me gave it a second look. It's more interesting than it looked at first glance. Here's the conclusion from it. http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-the-reason-why-is-uncomfortable/https://mastodon.social/media/9pXVwyqLWA0HkPjBd7E

This short story by Sigrid Ellis is still my favorite thing I've read about heroism. Heroes are everywhere, doing work we seldom appreciate. http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/no-return-address/

Self-promotion: published a playtest of my cyberpunk-present tabletop RPG that I've talking about for ages: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5ml27r658jwk4d/todaysworld-playtest-rules-06.pdf?dl=0

Gah, I hate writing, why couldn't I have picked an easier a/vocation?

Is it just me or is it more complicated to renew an TLS certificate than it is to buy one in the first place?

When you work remotely, "NSFW" actually means "not safe for coffee shop."

:bulb: :eye: :writing_hand:

Just realized that message with more than one emoji are "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence." Not a particularly original insight, but: we all communicate with comics now.

Anyone know any good reads on the deaths of the original walled gardens (online services like AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, Delphi, GEnie, etc.)

#mastodonmonday Check out @aparrish and @tinysubversions: they both make cool weird bots.

I suggested to some high-ups at Mailchimp that they add a feature to claim your address so that you could manage what Mailchimp newsletters you're subscribed to from a single interface, and change the address they're delivered to all at once if you wanted. They said they thought that might be a good feature for TinyLetter. Who knows if it will ever happen. Even if it did, it wouldn't fully solve the problem since not all newsletters are on TinyLetter, even though it feels like that sometimes.

I'd love to do a startup that fixes this problem. But I don't think it would make any money, and I already have a job. So consider this a free idea if you can think of a way to make it work.

newsletters have almost the opposite problem of GNU/Mastodon. On Mastodon, if you move to a new instance, you have to get everyone to refollow you on your new instance. Email takes care of that easily, if you change email addresses you can keep sending to your list. But as a reader, if you change email accounts, you have to re-subscribe to each and every account you used to follow. ...

Toot storm:

I've been saying for a while now that email newsletters are the decentralized social network we've been waiting for. Email is decentralized and federated, you can use your own domain name, and pretty much everyone already has an account so you don't need to get everyone to sign-up for something new.

But...