Captain Dan :coffee: @Capndan@octodon.social
I am a security consultant. I like video games, heavy metal, and frozen yogurt.
Verifying my identity via Keybase:
https://keybase.pub/capndan/index.md
New hobbie: following people from #gnusocial. Vive le fediverse !
Also, if Mastodon really grows, will the traffic make it prohibitive to run small instances cheaply?
With more and more servers federating and 120,000+ users, I wonder how insane the cross-server traffic is? Does everything federated go through the servers or do users pull from different instances locally?
Still one week to participate to the PicoCTF: https://picoctf.com/
It's accessible to everyone and if you're a highschooler or a college student there is prizes:
- 1st place: $5,000 + paid trip to Carnegie Mellon University for the top team!
- 2nd place: $2,500
- 3rd place: $1,500
- 4th place: $500
- 5th place: $500
- 6th-10th place: $250
*looks at RoR*
https://www.patreon.com/CobaltVelvet
(second goal)
Friendly reminder that even if you trust your admin, direct messages can be read by them. Private communications should be done via tools designed for this.
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Friendly reminder : même si vous faites confiance a votre admin, il peut lire vos messages privés (DM). Les communications privées devraient se faire grace a des outils pensés pour ça.
technical note about this tech as I see some confusion/misconceptions:
Admins of your instance have complete control over your account. Really, we can read all the posts (including DMs) and we can even impersonate/hack your account with ease.
Make sure you trust your admins.
Here on toot.cat we have a CoC that applies to both admins and non admins. Admins are expected to abide by the CoC and not oppress users as well.
Ahhh haha my home column was just full of my blabbing and none of the people I follow had tweeted recently, so all I saw was me until I scrolled way down B-)
Wait, so how do I see just the people I am following?
Nice, I was already wrong about dual-posting (tweet-tooting?). Finding plenty of people like @sarahjeong that are posting a bunch on both. Also @danharmon
Queue endless toot puns =P
Also, toot is kinda silly. There's nothing wrong with Post/Send, and I am never going to talk about people's toots out loud.
I mostly use twitter to find out what people I am interested in are up to, so my usage here may be shortlived if they don't also use it. I love the federation and community moderation ideas, lack of advertising, etc., but I rarely post and want something to tell me what's going on. I really hope the developers/writers/critics/etc make the move to Mastodon. Knowing how Twitter treats app developers, I doubt there will be a lot of options for dual posting to both networks.
