Author: riffic

  • mod stats in r/Mastodon

    Seeing some interesting traffic patterns in the Mastodon subreddit as of late. some screenshots.

  • toilet etiquette

    This goes to the people who stand when pissing, naturally: please lift the seat if you’re taking a leak, folks. Urinals are a valid option too.

  • oh no!

    big servers are being roasted by ahem, unusual traffic demands. use a smaller server and make a monetary contribution to your admin if you find value in their offerings, as a way of saying thanks. There are two servers run by the Mastodon gGmbh itself (m.s and m.o) and they’ve been taxed with the load…

  • toot

    I may have inadvertently caused toot.thoughtworks.com to crash today by sharing it to HN. sorry!

  • vote no on judges

    Always vote ‘no’ on a ballot question that asks if a Judge should be elected to their office.

  • still alive

    just letting you all know I’m still here, digesting this moment.

  • defunct

    The process by which Twitter ends up a member of this list is being accelerated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services

  • infrastructure

    I’d rather talk about transportation choices and safe street infrastructure than bird site today.

  • Introduction

    An #introduction / #introductions post for the Fedi – I’m not telling you my real name and I am most definitely not anyone’s alt account or anything. I’m an extremely online and cranky Reddit user who fully believes in the purpose and suitability of the Federated Social Web as a tool for good. I’m also…

  • nomenclature

    I don’t really like the term “Fediverse”. I don’t think it’s appropriate to refer to the whole system as simply “Mastodon” either. The best I got is to use the antique phrase “Federated Social Web” but even that feels awkward.