My timeline is a bizarre medley of technical rambling, cute anime girls, highly diverse discussions about politics, people talking about shows and movies, and discussions of a far more personal nature. And shitposting.

We did it! WE REPLACED TWITTER COMPLETELY.

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · May 03, 2018, 19:22

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · May 03, 2018, 19:22

Having said that I look forward to a smoother Pleroma experience of following Masto users. I can definitely see migrating to that platform as my main federated social identity. Me, on a lightweight server of one, running off of my Raspberry Pi. interacting with all my fave users/instances of any fed type. That's my goal. Decentralized as heck.

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · May 03, 2018, 19:17

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · May 03, 2018, 19:17

Pleroma is cool and I had fun setting it up, but for daily use it kinda feels like early Beta version. Hubzilla is just a hot mess from a UI/UX perspective. Lots of great potential and protocol interactivity built in, but actually figuring out how to use it and what you can do with it is maddening. Evidently only certain servers are set up to federate with Mastodon. Which ones? Good question. Google seems unaware of a list. I'm kinda meh on both, as well as GnuSoc and PostActiv. Oh wellz...

**Don Blanco** · May 02, 2018, 23:10

Don Blanco boosted

**the steve-52's** @rook@hulvr.com · May 02, 2018, 23:10

Ok, which one of you did this?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/wifi-nyc-mesh-new-york-city-1.4617106

**Don Blanco** · May 02, 2018, 19:36

Don Blanco boosted

**neville park** @nev@social.coop · May 02, 2018, 19:36

Big exciting social.coop stuff: @CobaltVelvet of hosting service #Maastodon needs to share the workload, is interested in making it a cooperative/transferring responsibility to us!

Share thoughts: https://www.loomio.org/d/jgGJ8ucA/proposal-to-take-over-a-mastodon-hosting-service-hosting-external-instances-but-also-to-enable-the-creation-of-thematic-sister-coop-instances

There is also a planned group chat, weigh in on what time is best for you: https://www.loomio.org/p/0k8ROFnX

If you are not a member but would be interested in joining a co-op tech team, consider getting involved! Please boost for visibility~

**Don Blanco** · May 03, 2018, 03:18

Don Blanco boosted

**donblanco** @donblanco@social.thedixons.net · May 03, 2018, 03:18

So someone posts a screenshot of their speedtest. I think "Ha, they will laugh at how horrible my speeds are here!" So I run a test and realize I don't have a screenshot app installed. Huh. So I search and find one and install it. Error. Package has some typos. So I edit my .bashrc to make VIM my default editor then run the install again, edit the package file, correct the typos, finish the install. Cool.

Then I try to capture the speedtest and can't find how to run the screenshot applet I just installed. It's not showing up under applets. wtf? So I right-click the screen, and..........

yeah, Firefox has a screenshot tool built in.

*headdesk*

#shortstories
#doingitwrong

**Don Blanco** · May 02, 2018, 17:21

Don Blanco boosted

**Matt Noyes** @Matt_Noyes@social.coop · May 02, 2018, 17:21

https://www.loomio.org/d/jgGJ8ucA/proposal-to-take-over-a-mastodon-hosting-service-hosting-external-instances-but-also-to-enable-the-creation-of-thematic-sister-coop-instances

https://www.loomio.org/d/FLB2801O/proposal-to-offer-social-coop-as-an-unofficial-tld-domain-name-for-social-cooperatives

Also: https://www.loomio.org/d/wTcfWtus/do-you-have-the-skills-time-interest-to-join-the-tech-ops-team-

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · May 02, 2018, 13:07

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · May 02, 2018, 13:07

@CobaltVelvet Alice - the person I've been talking with is @mayel - I'm copying you both by way of introduction. He can take over from there.

Also, no need to cc me on the convo :)

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · May 01, 2018, 23:04

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · May 01, 2018, 23:04

Full disclosure - my only tat so far

**Don Blanco** · May 01, 2018, 19:10

Don Blanco boosted

**Raúl** @bgta@mastodont.cat · May 01, 2018, 19:10

« Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention: https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/ »

— Retweet https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/991390077937946625

**Don Blanco** · May 01, 2018, 02:35

Don Blanco boosted

**Mycroft 🚀🐰🐰** @Mycroft@meow.social · May 01, 2018, 02:35

Announcement:

It has now been 0000 days since I have posted the Dr. Doom tooting image.

Thank you for your time.

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · May 01, 2018, 00:03

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · May 01, 2018, 00:03

I got toots and faves and follows and all sorts of stuff going on between here and my new #Pleroma instance - it's like a big tootception all up in here!

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · Apr 30, 2018, 19:24

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · Apr 30, 2018, 19:24

I like that the instructions come from a blog post/page titled "The magical world of Pleroma" - magic indeed

#Pleroma

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · Apr 30, 2018, 18:48

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · Apr 30, 2018, 18:48

Raspberry Pi image wiped - check
New Raspbian Stretch Lite image burned - check
Reboot - SSH in to box - check
Reading Pleroma install instructions - hmmm, this might actually work?

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · Apr 30, 2018, 17:31

**Don Blanco** @donblanco · Apr 30, 2018, 17:31

When your fancy PC doesn’t have the right slot...

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