David Meyer @superglaze@mastodon.social

Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread #openaccess https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05191-0?error=cookies_not_supported&code=b65e4f31-c11f-4d7c-809a-72ac15402190

a smol fennec fox thread with their big flappy ears

New blog post from me - "Stop your eye rolling over there. This Jeremy Corbyn Brexit interview is important."

https://jonworth.eu/stop-your-eye-rolling-over-there-this-jeremy-corbyn-brexit-interview-is-important/

*extremely CNN voice* move over "tide pods", a new fad has taken over today's youth and it's called "tooting"

If you’re working on a new mastodon client, I’d love to help, and/or TestFlight.

#apps #dev #ios

your daily reminder to #shoplocal

the federated TL is just too speedy, my friends

#comics. Ils sont aussi sur #Mastodon !

https://mastodon.social/media/7H2OTyRymtZGL_ACy_8

French state seems to be opening its own instance on Mastodon. https://amicale.net/users/DINSIC/updates/148

What happens to our profiles, people followed and posts if a #Mastodon Instance dies?

We've seen this happen earlier when an Instance lost its data and there were no backups. I think the backup issue is being handled by most #Admins now.

But say an Admin dies expectantly and they are a sole Admin of their Instance? Where does this leave others?

Maybe there should be some "buddy system" in place between Admins? Other ideas?

Hi all Mastodons and other free social network users,

unfortunately there was a misunderstanding and this is the last post of fsfe@social.tchncs.de
The account will be deleted over the weekend.

But, of course, we will keep staying in the free. Please follow us here:
Diaspora: fsfe@diasp.eu
OStatus: fsfe@quitter.no

Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this!

This is the internet.
This is the internet on Tor.

About risk profile:

- Mastodon is like email because you can't delete federated toots
- Mastodon is like twitter in that Google's search bots index it, unless your admins robot.txt it away
- Mastodon is like being a teenager because the people that own your instance can see all your private stuff

Have a talk with your admin about their policies.

By default, assume everyone will be able to read your toots forever.

"Go start your own instance" seems like a pretty useful way to respond to complaints (even if someone already said that to me earlier -- and they were right).