The comments and abuse reports about people sympathetic to the Palestinians or to the Israelis is getting out of hand. I understand this is an incredibly charged and difficult situation for everyone. Seek first to understand before being an asshole to your fellow humans from behind the relative safety of your computer monitor, please.
It’s not even 6am where I’m at and I’ve already apparently illegally suspended the account of a Brazilian super model who just signed up. How’s your day going?
@owen@jerry Go make an account on any new social platform, see what your timeline is full of.
probably 25% People talking about joining, and probably promoted content.
Now.. remove the promoted content.
Now, spend 6 months interacting and following people building a list of contacts and interactions. Your content feed looks like what.. 40% if you’re lucky meaningful interactions and content, the rest promoted/ad content.
@owen@jerry Now.. consider a new platform, that doesn’t have the filler/promoted content… what are you left with?
Give mastodon time, try to interact.. it’s taken me months, but starting from my own instance up to now…. Its easily a pre e-day twitter experience from a meaningful content perspective.
@jerry I’m kind of curious, did twitter ever have anything to say about all of this? Like.. Musk was essentially forced to buy them as I understand it. Who forced that? Do they feel bad about that?
So, I;m considering creating a talk to deliver to my local defcon group (that i help run) about the fediverse, and its importance.
I have a few ideas on what to include, but I'd like some info from other #mastoadmin 's and folks who are just passionate about the importance of decentralized social media.
I'd love input from folks like @jerry here. Please reblog/tag folks who might have some insight here.
I also ran into a really odd iptables problem... when I meshed in the second app server node using wireguard, my egress filter rule was blocking outbound traffic on both hosts. After some fiddling, out of frustration, I flushed the rules out of iptables on both hosts - so no rules. And... iptables was still blocking the outbound traffic. I ended up having to reboot each host - and once I did that, things worked ok. Has anyone seen iptables go into zombie mode before?