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Lydia's belly isn't a trap. She's quite open and up-front about the fact that she'll attack if you touch her.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #FediCats

A photo looking down at a grey tabby cat flat on her back exposing her lovely fluffy belly. She is on a white rug with orange, yellow, and pink swirling stripes.
A photo of the same grey tabby cat with a wild look in her eyes, her mouth open, and her paws reaching up to grab a hand that is just barely visible at the bottom edge of the frame.
Another photo of the grey tabby cat on her back on the rug. She is twisting around with paws in the air and her mouth open to show her teeth. Because she was squirming around to attack me I framed the photo poorly, so some of her paws are cut off.
Another photo of the grey tabby cat on her back on the rug, viewed more closely. Both of her paws are extending out past the bottom of the frame, and she has her mouth open to bare her teeth as she goes in for a bite, a wild expression in her eyes.
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #fedicats

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@lulaoficial please turn on Fediverse sharing so people on Mastodon, Flipboard, other platforms can follow you here.

theverge.com/24107998/threads-…


Opening your Threads account up to the fediverse is as easy as a click

Meta’s Threads has a beta feature that allows users from the US, Canada, or Japan to cross-post and view likes from Mastodon and other federated social networks.
Barbara Krasnoff (The Verge)
@lulaoficial
in reply to Learn Linux with Dan

Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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I am pretty sure I've seen Threads posts with images already, that would be a pretty big limitation... cc @pcottle
@Peter Cottle
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Jenny
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Jenny
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I see images from Threads people I follow from mastodon…

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Near a church...

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

A grey stone building peaking from behind lush green woods underneath a grey overcast sky.
#35mm #filmphotography #lakedistrict #cumbria #analogphotography #believeinfilm #thelakes

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@Gargron has good YouTube taste, gonna watch this as well now

mastodon.social/@Gargron/11305…

Eugen Rochko

2024-08-31 21:21:55

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Going to be watching the new episode of #BloodOnTheClocktower from #NoRollsBarred ☺️

youtube.com/watch?v=dRwWet03ob…


- YouTube

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@Eugen Rochko

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Duncan is taken aback

#cats

Duncan Idaho the tuxedo cat laying on a table by the window. His head is leaning back away from the photographer.
#cats

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"If you’re going to build something, build it in a way that’s standard and portable across multiple services."

@bart and I chatted with @jaypeters of @theverge about @subclub 🙏🏼

I also talk about how protocol-based networks can drive "one last network effect" and start a flywheel of innovation in social media.

Let's bring the social web back to the users 🌐

Read here: theverge.com/2024/9/1/24232298…

That could be especially true if the fediverse is successful to the point where it creates what sub.club adviser Anuj Ahooja calls “one last network effect.” That would be the idea of everyone joining fediverse platforms built on an open protocol where it’s possible to interact online with the option to move from network to network and platform to platform at will. “From there, you can drive so much innovation around social media,” Ahooja says.
“If you’re going to build something, build it in a way that’s standard and portable a cross multiple services"
“There’s a lot of free labor that runs the fediverse right now,” Ahooja says. “So let’s make sure people are getting compensated.”

Sub.club is here to help the fediverse make money

Sub.club is a new service lets creators offer subscriptions for exclusive posts on fediverse platforms like Mastodon.
Jay Peters (The Verge)
@The Verge @Bart Decrem @sub.club @jaypeters

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i saw this against my will and now you all have to look at it, too.

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What a visual 😂
A social post from @lachancenaomi27 on Threads that says: Today I went to the bank and asked if they had an atm. The guy said they had a drive thru. I said oh I walked here. He said that's fine. I had to wait in line behind a car like this
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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A bank drive-through? What?
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Hirvox
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@Gargron We had some in the 80ies, but they shut down due to low use. The most common customers were corporate couriers.
@Eugen Rochko
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Giselle
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@gargron There used to be a bank with a drive through (it was mainly a marketing gimmick) at the south side of Trafalgar Square in London. In the 1950s maybe? Long gone by now of course.
I think there are several shops now, one of them a Prêt A Manger sandwich shop?
@Eugen Rochko

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Here is a totally innocent cat who definitely didn’t steal my spot when I went to refill my cup of tea

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon

A tabby cat lying on a couch beside a throw pillow, and looking up at the camera.
#cats #CatsOfMastodon

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Inner Worlds is one year old today! 😮

4 issues
44 stories
900(ish) submissions
74,121 words published
33 current subscribers making it all possible

Thank you everyone for an amazing first year! 💖🎂

sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner…

#SFF #SpeculativeFiction #ShortFiction #LitMag #SmallPress

Issue one covers with orange banner and a black and white image of a person made of crystal
Issue two cover with a yellow banner and a colourful abstract pink and blue artwork
Issue three cover with a purple banner and a colourful peach, yellow, and blue picture of a small witch walking in a dark forest
Issue four cover with a turquoise banner and a black and white drawing showing a person with many faces

Inner Worlds Zine

Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives; our thoughts, our emotions, our perceptions, our dreams.
Sarah I Jackson
#sff #speculativefiction #shortfiction #litmag #smallpress
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#SilentSunday
Image of a crow perched on a tree branch with out of focus branches, twigs, and a grey, overcast sky in the background. The crow is facing the left leaving one side and one eye visible. Crows have black body feathers, dark eyes, shiny black beaks, and black legs and feet.
#SilentSunday

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PhD Student in Virology/Bionformatics

Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg

The project will investigate genomic features in DVG and DI formation in #enteroviruses using #molecular biology and #bioinformatics.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/otto-von-gueri…...
jobrxiv.org/job/otto-von-gueri…


PhD Student in Virology/Bionformatics

Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
jobRxiv
#bioinformatics #molecular #enteroviruses

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The hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west

"The flow of knowledge to Europe on maths, astronomy and much more has gone unacknowledged by historians"

theguardian.com/world/article/…

#astronomy #mathematics #history


‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west

The flow of knowledge from India to Europe on everything from maths to astronomy has gone unacknowledged by historians
William Dalrymple (The Guardian)
#mathematics #history #astronomy

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More Smac! She's great for a belly laugh!
Yes, @jrsy , it's the birds's choreography!

youtu.be/a9rYBcq3Hc8?si=Ci_3F6…

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@jrsy
in reply to Muse

Muse
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@Karl Auerbach I was never part of a major improv group BUT I did study impro with someone who had worked directly with Keith Johnstone, the man who invented TheatreSports!

Is that Brandon Scott Jones in that video?!

@Karl Auerbach
in reply to Muse

Karl Auerbach
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@Muse - The only face I recognize in the video is Darcy C. (I think this was before she got married and got the "C" last name.)
@Muse

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Waiting for a train.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

A beautiful woman with black hair, wearing a choker, a big straw hat, a scarf, and a trenchcoat, standing on a train platform, with a pillar and an electronic display of departure times behind her.
#35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm

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I know a lot of tech-heads are on here, but Bluesky also deserves to have tech-heads. It’s lonely being the only guy talking about Hackintosh and distros on that site.

Let’s start a community over there. I’m here: bsky.app/profile/ernie.tedium.…

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Hey Toronto! City staff are developing a new by-law to curb "renovictions"—when you get evicted because the landlord claims they need to do renos—and for the next month, you can tell them what you think: toronto.ca/community-people/ho…

There's an online survey as well as a Zoom session and in-person events.

#housing #toronto #TOpoli #TOcouncil

edit: accidentally a few words


Renovictions Bylaw Development

Have your say on Toronto’s renovictions bylaw by completing our online survey or attending one of the drop-in sessions listed below.
City of Toronto
#housing #Toronto #topoli #tocouncil
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The creator of Newgrounds has considered adding ActivityPub support to join the fediverse but is worried it would make their hosting fees untenable by “serving files to millions of people on third party apps“. Can anyone with more knowledge on how this works help them?

newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/15375…

Having Newgrounds on the Fediverse would be incredible. Newgrounds has a huge art community, many features not available on any platform and has been around the longest (1999)
CC @dansup @Gargron @ruud


Monthly Voting Overhaul: Mobile, Art & Music!

The first day of each month traditionally kicks off Monthly Voting but starting next month: Voting for the Best of August will begin on Saturday, September 7th and end on the 14th. This will allow more time for late-month entries to settle in an...
Newgrounds.com
@Eugen Rochko @dansup @Ruud
in reply to ༺NIX༻

Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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That seems like a misunderstanding of the infrastructure. Each fediverse server (at least ones powered by Mastodon) caches a copy of the media files to serve to their own users. The increase on bandwidth for the origin server is minimal, comparatively, since there's at most 20k servers, instead of millions of people.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

mcc
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mcc
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Would you agree that Newgrounds has more to worry about if it becomes an activitypub *client* (because if users are receiving remote posts they might have to pay for locally cached images) than if it serves *out* of newgrounds to other activitypub servers?

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Anyone for a tomato or two?

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(A chart showing when eggs appear versus chickens) Eggs already existed here Turtles Lizards Snakes Crocodiles Birds Chickens appear here

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This woman's choreography cracks me up! Finding this in my inbox: what a great way to start the day!

youtu.be/fo6t5Fg24fM?si=N-1BTz…

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in reply to Muse

Simons_Mith
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Simons_Mith
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Her repertoire also includes chickens and hydraulic presses.

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Going to be watching the new episode of #BloodOnTheClocktower from #NoRollsBarred ☺️

youtube.com/watch?v=dRwWet03ob…

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#norollsbarred #bloodontheclocktower
in reply to Eugen Rochko

David Griffith
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My eldest recently introduced me to this. Highly addictive, and I wish I had enough friends interested in playing this kind of game to try it myself....
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Danny
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played this at a friend's the other week, my first time and didn't understand the game one bit!!!

Apparently my team won

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"Timelapse of the best multi-color meteor train I have ever seen, and other dark sky phenomena."

youtube.com/watch?v=DVHkUuUTfI…

#meteor

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#meteor

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Let's change the way journalism works, and who it works for. Support @flaminghydra

flaminghydra.com

@flaminghydra

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Elizabeth Villa's lab delivers big time again with in-cell cryo-electron tomography of the nuclear pore complex:

"The molecular architecture of the nuclear basket" by Singh et al. 2024.
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8…

#CellBiology #CryoEM #ProteinStructure #StructuralBiology

Summary image showing the process of imaging the proteins of the nuclear pore.
#CellBiology #cryoem #ProteinStructure #structuralbiology

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Globe at the Virginia Tech library is looking a little worn in one specific area...
Section of a globe with Virginia rubbed out with wear
in reply to Frank Aylward

Ben de Bivort
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Ben de Bivort
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the way the smudge follows the precise contours of the state is cool. (and also population density through the panhandles of West Virginia and Maryland)

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Latest comic: Critics to ignore

#uspol #elections #2024election #kamala #KamalaHarris #women #gender #comic #cartoon #media

CRITICS TO IGNORE 1. Pundit: The Democratic Convention failed to speak to America's barbarian-curious young men who just want to drag women around by their hair. Helmeted man in furs in the background dragging a woman by her ponytail Pundit: Will no one think of them? 2. Elizabeth Warren was too wonky and full of boring plans. Kamala Harris is all style and no substance. Why can't these ladies ever get it right? 3. Dems calling Trump and Vance "weird" is extremely alienating to those of us who believe in civility. Why can't they stay positive? 4. What is this "joy" of which the Democrats speak? Everyone knows a winning campaign is a miserable slog!
#Comic #cartoon #Media #Elections #gender #women #uspol #2024election #kamalaharris #kamala
in reply to Jen Sorensen

Taya Nielsen
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Taya Nielsen
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Really makes laugh - looking at those folk who say Ms Harris is 'all style, no substance'. 'Cos they themselves can best be described as 'NO style, NO substance'.

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The "Mercury" - a streamliner passenger train which operated in the Midwest between 1936 and 1959.

It was designed by the legendary industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss.

#train #trains #design

#Design #train #trains

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Doubt

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Amazing jazz singer!

youtu.be/vVKbeUs0a_A?si=dLaVle…

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When worrying about the harms from deploying AI, it’s issues like this that have caused and will cause the most harm. Not the AI suddenly turning into the machines from the Matrix and enslaving humanity.

The system that was meant to analyze income and health information to automatically determine eligibility for benefits simply didn’t work and often failed to load the correct data to analyze. 🤦🏾‍♂️

gizmodo.com/judge-rules-400-mi…

Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits

Thousands of children and adults were automatically terminated from Medicaid and disability benefits programs by a computer system that was supposed to make applying for and receiving health coverage easier.
Todd Feathers (Gizmodo)

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'The prompt myth is a technical myth at the heart of the LLM boom. It was a simple but brilliant design stroke: rather than a window where people paste text and allow the LLM to extend it, ChatGPT framed it as a chat window. We’re used to chat boxes, a window that waits for our messages and gets a (previously human) response in return. In truth, users provide words that dictate what we get back. With shadow prompting, a phenomenon I wrote about in Tech Policy Press last year, our words are altered before reaching the model. The prompt window suggests more control over these systems than we have.'
techpolicy.press/challenging-t…

Challenging The Myths of Generative AI

Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.
Eryk Salvaggio (Tech Policy Press)

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Playing with light and bokeh. Also, check out the cute little group of ladybugs!

#ladybug #ladybird #insect #bokeh #flower #flowerphotography #insectphotography #garden #gardenphotography #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #stalbert #edmonton #yeg #t8n #alberta #canada #mastoart #mastophoto #fediart #fediphoto #bloomscrolling

A dying flower with wilting pink petals
Three ladybugs cuddled up on a leaf
A pink sweet pea flower framed with light
A flower side-lit by the sun
#mastoart #flower #nature #fediart #garden #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #Canada #insect #yeg #alberta #bloomscrolling #flowerphotography #edmonton #ladybug #fediPhoto #ladybird #bokeh #insectphotography #gardenphotography #StAlbert #t8n #mastophoto

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Open Social Web / fediverse folks: with Elon Musk's fight with the Brazilian government likely to result in X being down in Brazil, there's an opportunity to invite more folks to the fediverse.

Is anyone working on plans to recruit and welcome people here, while ensuring their safety & quality of community? It's an obvious opportunity that can be planned for.

cc @jaz @Gargron

npr.org/2024/08/30/nx-s1-50962…

@Eugen Rochko @Jaz (IFTAS)
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cat man
🎶 Catman, Catman, does anything a Catman wants 🎶
in reply to Muse

Bob Lai
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Kitten Man, Kitten Man
Cute ball of fur rests upon his hand
Plays with yarn, chases flies
Makin' biscuits of every size
Meow!
Here comes the Kitten Man!

Is he cute? His paw goes boop
Even though daily his box you'll scoop
Runs 'round the house, in a whirl
Then upon your warm lap he'll curl
Meow!
There goes the Kitten Man!

In the deep of night, when the shadows unfurl
Like a treasured pet, at your side he will curl!

Kitten Man, Kiiten Man
Your friendly neighborhood Kitten Man
Let daily stress be ignored
Companionship is his reward
To him, life is a great big cat toy
To cuddle a ball of warm joy
Just ask the Kitten Man!

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My character, Layla.
Woman with olive skin and brown eyes wearing a dark blue hijab and a light blue tunic
This entry was edited (1 year ago)

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Life is funny. You grow up thinking you're trying to be a good person, and then you take a hard look at yourself one day and discover you're injecting 6000 lines of JavaScript into every page load

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I have been asked this, and yes, sign-ups and overall traffic from #Brazil are picking up today, following the #X ban. Bem-vindos ao Mastodon!
#brazil #x
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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Aug 10, 10 sign-ups from #Brazil. Aug 28, 152 sign-ups from Brazil. Today, 4.2k sign-ups from Brazil. Portuguese (Brazil) has already entered the list of top 8 active languages for the last 30 days.
#brazil
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Pug
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Pug
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Not nearly as big as the move to Bluesky, but its definitely an increase nonetheless.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Ivan Oliveira Jr
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Ivan Oliveira Jr
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Twitter was blocked in Brazil yesterday for not respecting the Supreme Court's order to block far-right accounts for spreading false information and inciting undemocratic acts. I think that the administrators of the instances here at Mastodon should be very attentive to this diaspora.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

DJGummikuh
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DJGummikuh
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is this exclusively for this instance or for the network as a whole?
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.
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Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.
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There should be a list of native Brazilian Fediverse instances to make it easiest for our new friends from Brazil to come here and find their communities. I hope that is being highlighted everywhere they are finding homes, 1) that they are welcome indeed, and 2) that we will help them find places they can express their cultural uniquenesses.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Phoenix Gee 🥥🌴😸💃
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Phoenix Gee 🥥🌴😸💃
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I just started getting traffic warnings from my Bluesky PDS, and Mastodon is a close second. Holy crap!
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)
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Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)
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LB: so much for "fedi is dying, Brazilians aren't coming here after the twitter ban!"
in reply to Eugen Rochko

deutrino
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deutrino
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of course, the vast majority are going to Bluesky. how does that make you feel?

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curious dogs
"Oh hai! Jus' curious and watchin' the show!"

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cat culture

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