Glenn a.k.a. Don Blanco @donblanco@octodon.social
Retired I.T. - expat life in Mexico - aspirational writer, hacker, activist, musician, genealogist
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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.
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.
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...
Ok, which one of you did this?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/wifi-nyc-mesh-new-york-city-1.4617106
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!
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~
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
@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 :)
Full disclosure - my only tat so far
« 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
Announcement:
It has now been 0000 days since I have posted the Dr. Doom tooting image.
Thank you for your time.
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!
I like that the instructions come from a blog post/page titled "The magical world of Pleroma" - magic indeed
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?
When your fancy PC doesn’t have the right slot...
me: this whole flame war seems stupid!
also me: spends 1.5 hours tracing down every single convo until I know exactly who started it!
Unlisted and 'followers-only' posts use the padlock icon. Private/DM uses only generic mail/envelope icon. This confuses me!
@lain how was this *not* your first domain name choice? http://plero.ma
Oh #ArchLinux why you make me have to reinstall? *sigh*
Trying different desktop, see if I can avoid login screen loop
