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Matthew SloweIt really winds me up when a statement is made about "Americans" or "Brits" which equally applies to anyone regardless of nationality.Why not use "people"?I understand why [some] politicians use it as it rams home the group(s) they represent but when corporations or news outlets use it, it just feels like needless "othering" of people and suggests you don't care about them.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soapbox</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/othering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#othering</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/exclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exclusion</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

CegorachSomewhat fed up with <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.g33ky.de/tag/soapbox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoapBox</a> always messing up my 5 accounts (on the same <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.g33ky.de/tag/pleroma" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pleroma</a>-server) and I'm always posting/boosting/liking stuff with the wrong account. Looks like it's half-forgetting accounts? IDK… have to re-login to those to make them work again. But then other clients, i.e. <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.g33ky.de/tag/husky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Husky</a> on Android, make it really hard to see what account you're currently using - so that happens there without the need of any bugs. Just by pure user error.

Lady ArtemisDr. Abraham Low trains us that to know is to know when we don’t know - at times, perhaps often, we don’t really need to knowEarth is full of ppl in pain, stuck in the crazy of fear and anger. All human beans are subject to the possibilities of this reality. We are all biologically & physically affected as well as emotionally. Learning the ways we work & our world works will give us the best chance at self control, influence over our worlds, and positive productive lives<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SoapBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoapBox</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/LifeSkills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LifeSkills</a>

CegorachIDK warum das Symbol für "verifizierter Account" in der Kontenauswahl in <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.g33ky.de/tag/soapbox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Soapbox</a> angezeigt wird, aber dieses Flag an einem von 5 Konten zu haben, verwirrt ungemein.Ich halte das viel zu schnell für einen Indikator für "das gerade aktive Konto".Davon ab: Warum vergisst so viel <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.g33ky.de/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>-#Client-Software immer mal wieder angemeldete Konten? Soapbox kommt gerne völlig durcheinander bis man wieder alle neu-anmeldet und <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.g33ky.de/tag/fedilab" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fedilab</a> auch und ist dann vollkommen b0rken. (aber hey! Fedilab ist auch sonst überall kaputt - kein Verlust!)

Bhavani ShankarDiscovering the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> gives me the same feelings <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> did years ago. The endless choice, excitement of discovery, clash of philosophies and a community.I spent years <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/distrohopping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#distrohopping</a> from <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ubuntu</a> , <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arch</a> , <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/voidlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voidlinux</a> , <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nixos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nixos</a> etc and then back to arch. Also spent a long time switching desktop environments and window managers like i3.I started on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lemmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lemmy</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> . What do I try next? <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selfhost</a> an <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/activitypub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activitypub</a> server? Which one?😇<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/akkoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#akkoma</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WriteFreely" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WriteFreely</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Mitra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mitra</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soapbox</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/misskey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misskey</a>

SkyglobeCan we all agree that using 2 digits for month, day and year to save dates is dumb and people should be shamed for using this format?What does 02/04/25 mean?<a href="https://hostux.social/tags/SoapBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoapBox</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rant</a>

Winged unicorn🧙🏻‍♀️🌕🔥<a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> 1/7: What are your biggest hopes for the writing world in 2025?that people can realize that for all the bad ai does it does good stuff as well though that may be the world as a whole but for writing specifically, don't shame people who use AI as a tool to help their writing be it grammer or proof reading or in other ways. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Soapbox</a>

Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦Happy Boxing Day to all who celebrate!And Happy Thorsday!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AllCatsAreBeautiful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AllCatsAreBeautiful</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Thorsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thorsday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThorToots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThorToots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatsOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Catstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Catstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatsOfFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatsOfFediverse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Caturday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoxingDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoxingDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RagdollCats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RagdollCats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoapBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoapBox</a>

Extinction StudiesHope is earned. And it's a byproduct of taking actions that are risky to you, personally. Stop "looking for hope" and start earning it.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soapbox</a>

KawaiiSelbstAfter several hours of witchcraft with nostr, eventually stuck on an incomprehensible error, when trying to authorize in the mastodon client via ditto.pub and gleasonator.dev, ended up with an error, and it's not clear what to do about it =( <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/nostr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nostr</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soapbox</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ditto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ditto</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/gleasonator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gleasonator</a>

Betsy Roberts Miller ⁂<a href="https://genealysis.social/@MarianBWood" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@MarianBWood</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/@genchat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@genchat@lor.sh</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/genchat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@genchat@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/GenChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenChat</a> Not to mention (I'm sure) "Line not traced" for daughters in the generations. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/PetPeeve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PetPeeve</a> They're just as related as the surname-bearing males. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Soapbox</a>

Carolee 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸<a href="https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kibcol1049</a> I’m even more annoyed by the “there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmastime” line. What, because people are poor?! There won’t be snow in Beverly Hills, either. Shall we gather and sing for that? Good grief.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soapbox</a>

90s Script Kiddie<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soapbox</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fedi</a> Sometimes I read Mekka's posts and I'm like "This guy just wants the Fediverse to be Instagram" all the things he says it's "not about" it is absolutely about. You can't just stick your head in the sand when it comes to overpopulation of individual servers making them impossible to moderate and fediblock, or the extremely real danger of the fedi getting overrun by capital. The great thing about the fediverse is it is by people, for people. I'll say it again: (see: my last posts about the Fediverse) the fact that you cannot instantly have a huge audience here is a GOOD thing. That's what BlueSky and Instagram and whatever else are for. Fedi is for small scale communities that aren't too big to moderate. It is for communication among friends, untainted by capital's endless quest to extract wealth from us. Influencers (Mekka's friends that won't join the fediverse because they get paid to post) cause huge problems in communities like this, because when they join they bring their massive audiences with them. Suddenly you have servers that are too populous to moderate or block, and a huge influx of users that don't know or care about Fediverse culture, who have no motivation to learn because they are surrounded by folks that also don't know or care. Cue the whinging about being told to add alt text to photos and other ways Fediverse culture has inspired discourse when a bunch of new users decamp from the latest billionaire boondoggle. I would like the Fediverse to grow and be more viable for regular folks to get into, but I also want us to keep in mind that growing too fast has always, always destroyed online communities. If you've been online as long as I have, it has happened to you more than once. Here's how it goes:1) Popularity brings too many users to moderate2) With moderators now overtaxed, Bad People set up shop and start harassing, grifting, etc generally destroying the vibe.3) Efforts are made to automate moderation and/or to recruit more moderators from the ranks of trusted users. These efforts fail. The Bad People have no jobs, stay up all night, and are infinitely creative. They continue wrecking up the place. People start to leave. Growth cools. Lots of people stay and continue doing their thing because it's become a daily habit, but they are increasingly unhappy and will leave for any vague promise of something being "like the old days on livejournal" or whatever.4) No longer able to manage the community, and the community losing usefulness and relevance, the community leaders cash out - to Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Amazon, Google - whoever the big name of the day is. Promises are made that the community will still be the same only NOW we will finally get those bad folks under control with massive amounts of cash, developers, and paid moderators behind us. 5) The community fully dies, due to corporate mismanagement, broken promises, and the Bad Folks continuing to operate unimpeded, with or without the tacit or overt blessing of the owner billionaire.So yeah, that's not what I want for the Fediverse. I don't want this place to be attractive to influencers. My vision of the Fediverse is a bunch of small towns with a super robust inter-town mail system. People in the small towns mostly know and care about their neighbors. There are troublemakers, but they are quickly ejected because the towns are too small to hide in. Sometimes Bad Folks found their own towns, but their motives are quickly found out and the inter-town mail system stops delivering their ad flyers and nasty-grams. When new people move into a town, they spend some time hanging out in the community center, getting to know the local folks and their customs and sometimes joining in conversations. They set up correspondences with their friends who reside in other towns, and a rich, interconnected social network is created where people care about one another and look out for each other. So, by all means, if there are technological or cultural hurdles to clear to get more of a cross-section of humanity onto the Fediverse, let's tackle those challenges. But the answer is not, and never has been, making Fedi more like corporate socials or making it attractive to influencers. It's not about getting butts in seats. It's about growing sustainably. For each butt, a seat where they feel at home among friends. I don't want to follow the Wendy's account for the third time. I just want to hang with my peeps and know that if anyone messes with them, the local constabulary will get right on it.

EU Commission in IrelandR to <a href="https://respublicae.eu/@eurireland" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@eurireland</a>: The 🇪🇺 AI Act is the world’s 1️⃣ law guiding <a href="https://respublicae.eu/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> use and defines what companies &amp; governments can &amp; cannot do! ⭐️We're delighted that young people are discussing the role of <a href="https://respublicae.eu/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> today in Ireland 🇮🇪 Well done @LGMAIreland for organising: @Babsmaylou at <a href="https://respublicae.eu/tags/Soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Soapbox</a> final 🏆[2024-11-26 12:13 UTC]

90s Script KiddieThere has been much ink spilled lately on the topic of what's preventing Mastodon/Fedi's wider adoption.May I just say... I'm fine with the Fediverse being small. I'm fine with starting out here being an effort and not having been spoonfed 20 follows with my account.I'm happy influencers don't care about this place. I'm happy there's no quote tweets.I think there could be more flexibility in terms of moderation, that's one thing folks have said I agree with.The bigger Fedi gets the more impossible moderation will get. The filtering technology that exists to automate moderation is tissue paper stretched in front of the firehose of bots and trolls that popularity on the internet brings. Moderation does not scale in any kind of affordable way. Big platforms ALWAYS lose the moderation battle to the sheer number of bad actors and their infinite creativity at end-running technological and biological anti-spam and anti-abuse measures.Only small communities can be effectively, affordably, moderated. I don't want the Fediverse to scale up. I want lots of small communities effectively policing bad behavior. Not 5-10 gigantic servers that are playing whack-a-mole with fascists. All it takes is one big server that lets the chuds in (which they will, once the community grows too large to effectively moderate) and the entire network might feel the knock-on effects. If my server blocks another, I don't want to lose 1000 good folks just to get rid of 100 white supremacists, ya dig? Keep servers small. Keep moderation aggressive. Don't cater to normies.That's my little soapbox opinion piece. Like it or lump it. ✌️😎✌️ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soapbox</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fedi</a>

OldCoderMy <a class="hashtag" href="https://dansu.org/tag/pleroma" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pleroma</a> instance, Coder Dansu (<a href="http://dansu.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dansu.org</a>), presently uses Pleroma BE for the back-end and <a class="hashtag" href="https://dansu.org/tag/soapbox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Soapbox</a> FE for the front-end. I updated both today to the latest git sources. This was the first full update in a few months. It was more difficult than I'd have liked due to the need to resync some Soapbox FE patches. However, everything seems to be working now. I've considered switching to a different Fediverse setup at times. However, if I did this, I'd lose everything in the current data. This is a <a class="hashtag" href="https://dansu.org/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> issue that should be looked at at some point. There ought to be a standard which permits migration of an instance from one type of Fediverse server to another type with minimum loss. On the bright side, I like how my instance works with my patches applied. That is a plus of both FOSS and Fedi. You can be part of a broader community and still decide things for yourself. Another plus is that my Pleroma setup continues to be friendly in terms of system resources. It's a bird-like site which is quite light. System load isn't a fright.

Dianora (Diane Bruce)You know, if you meet one person who has had a broken leg, you know them totally as a person, what they are like, and their politics. Now, substitute “autistic” for “broken leg” or “transgender” for “broken leg” or … there are a ton of these you could use. People stop trying to stereotype other people. People are people. Yes some like the Identity first style but don’t assume a feature of a human being is their entire identity. <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Soapbox</a>

Amgine<a href="https://mstdn.ca/@LauraleeDukeshire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@LauraleeDukeshire</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AlisonCreekside</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@MatWright" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@MatWright</a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@chris</a> Ah! let me pull out my <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soapbox</a>.I prefer "fiscally prudent": e.g. a pension savings which is diversified, including some growth but also guaranteed returns and accounting for inflation.Fiscally conservative focuses on reducing risk, even at the expense of growth.There is no such thing as fiscally risky, per se. 100% growth investment is not risky if milestones are weekly. It guarantees future losses; I describe it as 'foolish'.1/

Jnthn Bss 🇵🇸Et un effort technique, en proposant une interface <a href="https://mastodon.fedivienne.org/tags/soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soapbox</a> qui, je pense, est assez efficace pour une prise en main facilitée par des novices.<a href="https://mastodon.fedivienne.org/tags/collabFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collabFC</a>

Ademir do Kooapp.orgO <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/koo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#koo</a> agora conta com um novo frontend! Não é nem <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/mangane" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mangane</a>, nem <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/soapbox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soapbox</a>. É o <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/koomanbox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#koomanbox</a>! Junta as melhores parte de ambos forks e mais um toquezinho do <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/kooapporg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kooapporg</a>! Aproveitem! <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/microblogging" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microblogging</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/twitter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twitter</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/xitter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xitter</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/x" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#x</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/bsky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bsky</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/bluesky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bluesky</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://kooapp.org/tag/threads" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#threads</a>

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