Robin Janssens @robinjanssens@octodon.social
British tech guy living in #HongKong.
Talk to me securely: http://keybase.io/janssens
Homepage: https://robin.pm/
Article on Techcrunch: "RSS is undead". First line: "RSS died"
I've become a lot more jaded about tech takes by tech magazines after Mastodon. RSS never died it's just not trendy enough that you hear people talk about it. Every WordPress blog on the net has an RSS feed. Every webcomic. Every news site. Including Techcrunch.
The Corporation behind and the Admins of Twitter can see your “Private Messages”
The Corporation behind and the Admins of Facebook can see your “Private Messages.”
The Admins of Mastodon can see your Direct Messages. They aren’t private.
With Mastodon, you can spin up your own instance and be your own Admin.
Ultimately, don’t use any of these tools for actual private messages. Use Signal, Matrix/Riot or another end to end encrypted messaging tool.
#introductions #deletefacebook #needhelp
Tip for new people: If you see a toot you like, follow the person that made it to bring more variety into your Home timeline.
You can always unfollow them later if you have to!
@sir hey, how much traffic are you seeing on your instance with just a few users? Is there any significant resource usage or do you reckon that it would be possible to run Mastodon on a cheap cheap VM?
"Unfortunately, of the 6.3bn tonnes of plastic waste produced since the 1950s only 9% has been recycled and another 12% incinerated."
Oh really... Thanks @observatoryhk #hk
New experience: being congratulated and thanked by a stranger for putting the recycling in the recycling bin #hk
Due to the "echo chamber algorithm" that most social media and search outlets employ, I now have absolutely no idea as to what the political situation is back home in the UK #ge2017
In Dutch we have an expression "wie een put graaft voor een ander valt er zelf in" which means something like: when you want to play tricks with someone you'll get tricked yourself.
Will you please stop boosting me? 😂 #LOL
Just checking out mastodon
