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Danie van der Merwe ✅  

Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread nature.com/articles/d41586-018

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smols  

a smol fennec fox thread with their big flappy ears

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Every Wednesday I publish a newsletter about digital rights - here's today's edition connectedrights.net/2018/08/22

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Jon Worth  

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

jonworth.eu/stop-your-eye-roll

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BongoBaggins 🎧  

🎶
Clowns to the left of me
jokers to the right
here I am
in a casino
with a load of clowns
🎶

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David Meyer  

Good morning, uh, mastos

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David Meyer  

My band is preparing its first album, so it's time to make sure we're sure about our name. Would you listen to an alt-rock band called The Board?

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Wesley Schulz  

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

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David Meyer  

I just remembered how in my first few months as a tech journalist I found myself interviewing Chuck D and got to quote him as saying digital rights management is "just a lot of fucked-up shit" zdnet.com/article/chuck-d-lays

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Matt Fandango  

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

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David Meyer  

If all the lefties come here and the rightwingers go to Gab then does Twitter end up as the centrist site?

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David Meyer  

Argh there's an amp for sale that I want to buy but I'm on a music-equipment-buying ban until the end of the year (for good reason)

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Post-Modern Neo-Marxist™  

your daily reminder to

the federated TL is just too speedy, my friends

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David Meyer  

Seeing a bunch of people on Twitter talking about fleeing to Mastodon, so I've fired it up for the first time in months.

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MpMassiani  

. Ils sont aussi sur !

mastodon.social/media/7H2OTyRy

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Alexander Doria  

French state seems to be opening its own instance on Mastodon. amicale.net/users/DINSIC/updat

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Danie van der Merwe ✅  

What happens to our profiles, people followed and posts if a 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 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?

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FSFE  

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!

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Micah Lee 🔑  

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

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sungo_enothere  

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.

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