By now it’s probably a really smelly paperweight, and Bitcoin Man would be bugging them endlessly even to regain ownership over that 🤷

I think we’re living the best ending where it’s never going to be recovered, and this dude is flailing ever more futilely at courts…

Bitcoin man Florida man Piltdown man

It’s an ongoing cycle…

Yeah. Someday, in the ruins of the world, you may come across the decrepit remains of a man, held adrift only by the sheer momentum of that one time he was near The Big Win.

“Come 'ere m’lad,” he’ll tell you, gesturing vaguely with one rotting arm at the debris of human settlements, “help me dig for my hard drive of lost fortune tokens.”

I defo have a lost bitcoin somewhere, too. Can I just pass start and cash in my Monopoly money somehow? Where do I sign up with my anecdotal evidence?

“Bitcoin man” is the new “Florida man”.

housing, food security, climate crisis

I would never want to rely on corporations’ willingness to support those things. Corpos should, however, be heavily taxed so that the actual state would have money for those things.

In an ideal world (hey, let me dream!) those funds wouldn’t instead be siphoned into defense budgets.

Don’t worry, most of us won’t. It’ll trickle down through abstraction layers from CLW level work to us end users eventually 🙂

You said it yourself — you’re new to self hosting, and CasaOS fits what you want to host. As a starting point for getting rid of hosted services, go with that for a start.

Sure, you won’t immediately be getting your hands dirty mucking about with dockers and stuff, but you will have your working home server. For learning and experimentation, I second @Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s plan B — use another machine to test building the same setup on a base Linux system.

If you’re like me you probably have an old laptop lying around that wouldn’t be great as an always up, day to day server, but as a testing environment to mess around with docker containers it should be fine?

I use Baïkal on a no-frills webhost. It’s been running for years without problems.

Cool. Now use the data to get them all blacklisted on dating sites, that should reestablish some semblance of balance.

Can confirm.

I think Fedi Garden does a good job of making it accessible, but I still think that curated list needs updating.

None of the automated find-me-an-instance sites have really convinced me, but I have an okay niche server for my interests, and if that folds I’ll probably host a GoToSocial instance just for myself…

Yeah, but tech journos are so far up Big Tech’s cloaca that they can’t imagine any platform emerge without a business plan™. Couple that with their unreflected admiration for anything they’re told is The Next Thing and you have the gushing bit you quoted.

very limited ability to self-brand

I mean, yeah. Especially when the content of your flawlessly customised site is federated to thousands other activity pub enabled sites with different stylesheets and aesthetics. That isn’t a problem with Mastodon per se, it’s just the nature of federation.

I do agree with your broader point that Mastodon has become synonymous with fediverse microblogging, which again is what most people associate with the fediverse, period.

Oh, still is.

“Lemmy is terrible!”

“Have you tried kbin?”

“kbin isn’t developed, try mbin”

“I tried mbin, but piefed is better”

“I only use the comments section of federated Wordpress blogs, by email”

“Zomg you guys, somebody launched qbin”

30% self-congratulatory talk about how popular bluesky is this week.

TBF, Mastodon was the same when I joined. I just muted all mention of “mastodon” + variations, Bob’s your uncle. Navel gazing meta discourse is the least exciting updates on any platform.

It is still funny to visit random egg profiles on there and see they only tooted once, two years ago, saying “so this is mastodon, wonder how this works” and then never again.

I’m not criticising my right to put in extra work to make promising efforts available on platforms that do not track users; I criticise the fact that the developers didn’t do this in the first place.

But good work putting the onus on me, you complete corporate rando.

Nice idea, will follow how this develops, but — FFS, the pack CSVs are all on Google Docs.

Independent, trustworthy repository, plz.

No, I use only the platforms I wouldn’t want to see get lost eventually. But I see your attempt at a rhetorical gotcha, and I want to recognise that, too.

Posting on the fediverse I sort of want to exempt those, but Bluesky can get in the sea too, yeah.