Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

@channingwalton you weirdly seem to be implying that’s *not* how you want to spend the evening?

@arossp and also if Mastodon in particular is able to embrace the sort of proactive cultural pluralism you advocate, rather than expecting migrants to adapt to the current cultural norms

@arossp it will be interesting to see if ActivityPub implementations are able to adapt to support real decentralization (and not just a few big instances with a bunch of niche satellite communities) at the scale of societal adoption that Twitter had

Happy #Caturday from Rascal and Agnes

@PariahDog beltalowda

Here’s a picture from 6 years ago captioned “Family Resemblance?” that just showed up in my FB memories and it’s too good not to share. #Umbreon #Lothcat #Pokemon #StarWars

@dfeldman also - pretty easy to DoS current ActivityPub implementations even without trying to. The "killer" feature (everyone can have their own server) is also the **killer** feature https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109315412776960105

@patricia 🤞🏻

@dan I'm running a personal instance and I had to increase my swap file size this morning, I think just due to the increased amount of stuff getting pulled in from all the federated instances.

@enbrown @arossp

Do you know which way the ban is running @liberdon ?

@enbrown @arossp So I googled this and interestingly the top result is a reddit post specifically naming journa as an instance that is commonly blocked by other instances. https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/yvks33/is_there_a_way_to_see_if_an_instance_is_being/

@enbrown Science! 🧪

Does it show you that there's a missing post, or does it look like I'm replying to your directly? (mostly asking for my own curiosity, I don't know enough to guess whether Liberdon is blocking Journa or vice versa).

#Introduction thread 5/n (I have **lots** of interests):

I eschew labels in politics these days, but center bottom on the currently popular "Political Compass", center-top on the old-school Nolan charts.

#Introduction thread 4/n (I have **lots** of interests):

Recreationally, I am huge non-denominational nerd (#ScienceFiction / #SciFi / #Fantasy / #Dragons / #Spaceships / #Tolkien / #StarWars / #StarTrek / #MarvelComics), when it comes to media consumption (#Books / TV / Movies) and media creation (esp. #Lego).

Also enjoy #UltimateFrisbee, #RockClimbing (primarily indoor/gym top-roping), #Hiking, #Canoeing, and #Foraging.

#Introduction thread 3/n (I have **lots** of interests):

Professionally, I am #Startup founder / #Entrepreneur, and previously founded + server on the board of an #EnergyPolicy #Nonprofit that advocated for local (VT) energy independence in the home heating sector via #biomass energy, both through advocacy with state + local government, and through transitioning low-income families to affordable + sustainable heating.

#Introduction thread 2/n (I have **lots** of interests):

Before that #ScientificComputing / #HighPerformanceComputing (#PlasmaPhysics, #Crystallography, #Ecology), and #ComputationalGeometry / #GraphTheory.

Plus a hobby interest in #CreativeComputing + #GameDev.