Aaron Parecki

my next fan fiction is going to be about two people from rival mastodon instances who both don't federated with each other and how they hacked the networks to be able to chat and fall in love

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Unix will give you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you didn’t think rope would do that, you should have read the man page.

It's weird that the Mastodon server and the web-based ActivityPub reader that it comes standard with are the same code base and the same project with the same name. It makes it hard to communicate certain concepts like how in theory you could have an account on Mastodon dot social and follow literally only pleroma users

So one cool thing I learned from the Flash Forward listener survey is that my audience is only 50% dudes. Which is rare for a tech/science show! (also hey advertisers who might not think about advertising on a science/tech show because of demographics, get at me)

The thing that pisses me off the most about this Wil Wheaton thing is that there is a bunch of us who were talking about essential community management tools and techniques a fucking decade or more ago, and we were all ignored. And now what we see is that the lessons we all learnt and discussed back then have not just not been learnt by today's admins, but the scale of the problem has been allowed to get out of hand. And now it's very hard to put the genie back in the bottle.

What’s happening to @wilw is shameful and a classic example of using tools that are supposed to be for protecting users to persecute one instead. A strong community leader would shut this shit down. The guy has only contributed positively to Mastodon. If the Masto community continues to eat itself in this way, it will only become a smaller, shittier, angrier Twitter.

My only goal with computer ownership is to not need a new MacBook until the Touch Bar is discontinued.

Good morning. Here’s a bunny.