J.M. Porup ✅ @toholdaquill@octodon.social

Mastodon Tools:

Instance Preview Tool: http://www.unmung.com/mastoview

Network Analysis: https://mnm.eliotberriot.com/dashboard/db/mastodon-network-overview

Instance List: https://instances.mastodon.xyz/list

Subreddit:
https://reddit.com/r/mastodon_social

Tampermonkey Script (max column width):
https://userstyles.org/styles/userjs/135501/Mastodon%20AutoResize%20Columns.user.js
(Must edit header to include the url(s) to your instance)

Twitter export:
http://mastodon-bridge.herokuapp.com/

309,152 accounts
+928 in the last hour
+32,241 in the last day
+179,097 in the last week
793 active instances

Firefox users need to go to about:config and set settingnetwork.IDN_show_punycode to true.

The phishing potential for this issue is huge.

https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/

I'm so old I remember the time when people were happy/proud of their distribution packaging all the pieces of software they'd use.

Now people just download random shit on the Internet and pipe it to sudo bash.

#burnthatshit

Did Mastodon switch newline characters from acting as line breaks to acting as paragraph breaks?
I pressed enter once.

I pressed enter twice.

Wired wrote an article on Mastodon that capture a lot of what I love about it: https://www.wired.com/2017/04/like-twitter-hate-trolls-try-mastodon/

Since joining a new instance the quality of mastodon went way up. Give it a try!

me verifying Signal safety numbers: "do you want to top or bottom?"

jeez they weren't kidding. freedom isn't free, it's fucking *work*

Interesting paper on identifying #Netflix videos people are watching on your network, even though the video streams are encrypted with HTTPS: http://www.mjkranch.com/docs/CODASPY17_Kranch_Reed_IdentifyingHTTPSNetflix.pdf

Yeah! :metal: From a blank DigitalOcean VM to a functioning Mastodon server in 51 minutes, including retries and resizing the instance to 1GB RAM.

Two tweaks to make to the install process, so I'm gonna tear it down and start all over again, then document that. Progress! :tada:

@iamjasonclark @wakest @tobykurien @NyoSan

The great thing about hardly anyone posting links on Mastadon yet is I have no idea what I'm supposed to be angry about today

OK, there are now more than 120.000 Mastodonauts in the Mastodon multiverse part of the social federation ...

https://social.lou.lt/users/mastodonusercount/updates/13977

The last hour alone 360 new accounts were created...

Can almost see the news coming.. "Twitter became useless as a sorce of quotes, as infosec community suddenly vanished out of sight."