@Jerry@hear-me.social
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Jerry

@Jerry@hear-me.social

Admin/owner of this Boston-area Mastodon server. A liberal who also follows conservatives who use facts to form opinions & are good people. I want my beliefs challenged. I hate when people agendize everything. I play around with Linux (https://jerry.hear-me.blog)

I also own:
Alternative Mastodon UI: https://phanpy.hear-me.social
Peertube instance: https://my-sunshine.video
Bluesky PDS: https://blue-ocean.social (jerry.blue-ocean.social)
and more...

he/him/his

#StarTrek #ScienceFiction #Linux

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

AbandonedAmerica, (edited ) to random
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1/ I'm seeing a lot of talk (still!) of defederating mastodon.social over the recent spam attacks. I have a feeling I'm going to regret this, but as someone on that instance with no current plans to move, I feel like there are some things those who are considering it may not be taking into account. There are loads of patronizing comments that people on this instance are "doing the Fediverse wrong". No, we're not. You can't have a democracy while telling others they can't choose where to be.

BatsInLavender,

@AbandonedAmerica Spam is and will always be a problem. I'm an instance admin and I suspect as more people move to Mastodon that more instances will be targeted. The best solution is to develop tools and to continue to fight spam the way we always has.

Defederating is a using a bazooka to kill a fly. Is spam annoying? Yes. At worst we may need to limit other instances who have spam waves temporarily until that instance gets it under control. We've had pretty good luck so far in dealing with it, and I trust the admins of mastodon.social to fix the issue and continue to keep us all informed.

As someone who's moderated forums since the late 90's spam will always ben an issue. We can't let spammers win and shut down conversation.

coachtony, to random
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The biggest problem, IMO, with the creator economy is that it's an extension of the attention economy.

The drive to create every day gets paired with the necessity to manufacture attention.

Very few creators can successfully escape that.

There had been something before the creator economy that was much healthier. The sharing economy. You shared when you had something of substance to share, but otherwise didn't have to be on any sort of content treadmill.

markmcelroy,
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@coachtony I’ve seen more than one person, fairly successful on certain other social networks (ahem), pop onto Mastodon with the same, “Did you like this toot? Then you’ll LOVE my daily newsletter!!!” schtick … only to later leave Mastodon and say, “That platform didn’t work for me.”

I think a lot of the “creator economy” approaches, designed to optimize attention for Twitter’s algorithms, fail here, because they come across as people selling Amway at your kid’s birthday party.

mastodonmigration, to random
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Clarification

You do not have to worry about your mastodon.social (m.s) account being defederated.

There is a well meaning, but misleading post currently promoted that suggests you should move your m.s account because:

  1. "Instance admins are considering defederating them"
  2. "Their admin is making spam accounts easier to create."

Very few, if any, instances are considering blocking m.s, and the recent spam attacks are worthy of sober discussion, not hyperbole. [more]

1/
#moderation

Calixthe, to fediverse

Hello @Jerry and everyone, I'm @Calixthe and I joined this server because it seems like a safe place in the .

DustAndWeeds, to random

I live in the suburbs. I have planted berry bushes. The berries attracted turkeys. The turkeys dug up a portion of my neighbor's lawn to build a dust wallow. This situation amuses me far more than the neighbor. Someone else nearby has a rooster. I hope nobody narks on the rooster owners, because I kind of like the little guy. I don't talk much about how I get paid, because the stuff I'm allowed to talk about is really kind of dull.

admin, to random

As a temporary measure, we have turned off new registrations to calckey.social until the traffic spike subsides.

We continue to monitor elevated error rates, and will take more action if needed.

For everyone keen on migrating to calckey.social, you will need to postpone your plans for the time being.

In the meantime, if you're keen on creating a account right now, here's a list of servers to join:

https://calckey.org/join/

Thank you!
~⚛

notroot, to random

Trying out Calkey for size! I've been running notroot.social as a solo instance for a few months on Mastodon software, and it's costing more than it's worth to me. Might be moving here to bostonsocial.online, even though I've never even been to Boston heheh. Lots of family from there a generation back tho

glennf, to random
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The greatest gift you can give to your children is not to leave a ton of stuff for them to sort out when you die.

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    carnage4life, to random
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    Twitter DMs are encrypted in the same way that Tesla cars are self driving.

    wonderofscience, to space
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    Galactic collisions result in a billion-year gravitational dance, as shown in this captivating supercomputer simulation. The simulation depicts the collision of two spiral galaxies and is complemented by actual images of galactic collisions at various stages captured by Hubble.

    Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers
    Source: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30686

    video/mp4

    jaykuo, to random

    The indictment is in, and we need to break it down. What did the feds charge George Anthony Devolder Santos with, and importantly what have they still left out? And will he remain in office? I dive in, in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-untalented-mr-santos?sd=pf

    adamshostack, to random

    Proper headline: fellow fighting off the Russians makes time to meet with people who have the freedom to select nice ties

    thunderbird, (edited ) to random
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    By default, automatically blocks images in your emails from being displayed -- because many of those images may contain tracking code.

    (Sometimes these images are tiny "tracking pixels" you may not even see).

    Take your protection one step further by installing Origin to block all kinds of unwanted content in your RSS feeds -- it's now an official Thunderbird Add-on: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/ublock-origin/

    (EDITED FOR CLARITY)

    RolloTreadway, to random

    This is something which I'm enjoying about Mastodon.

    On other social media: there's spam, then there's more spam, then there's more spam, and no suggestion that the company running the platform really cares all that much so long as it's not hitting revenues.

    On Mastodon: there's spam. The server the spam is using immediately announces what they're planning to do about it. Other server admins make changes to prevent the spam becoming a major problem.

    Spam is always going to be a problem in every corner of the internet. But I love how this actually feels like a communal effort to address it.

    Much love to all the admins out there.

    glennf, to random
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    All I want from AI is a button I can press for an incoming spam call that starts a convincing conversation to waste the scammers time, including granting them access to a fake remote computer and giving them honeypot credit card numbers.

    dillonthebiologist, to science

    I am blown away by how nice and helpful everyone is on here! Thank you for the very warm welcome.

    I'm still figuring everything out, but here's a cluster of red eye tree #frog eggs hanging off a leaf in Belize.

    If under threat from a predator, fungus, or drying out, the developing tadpoles will drop into the water below to continue their development.

    I now know #hashtags are important!

    #herpetology #amphibians #conservation #biology #biodiversity #scicomm

    mrbluesky, to random

    hi everyone! my name's Skye, i'm a neurodivergent college student living in the east bay studying marine biology and filmography, i'm also super interested in art and a bunch of super-specific micro-obsessions. Some recent ones include painting tiny plastic ducks to look like local birds, building a scale model shelf to put my mini doo-dads on, and various paintings and sketches. I'm very excited to be a part of this community and making some new friends :)

    georgetakei, to random

    Something’s been on my mind of late.

    And it’s that the GOP is in a death spiral.

    Since the shocking election result of 2016, we’ve watched the GOP underperform repeatedly in elections, losing the House in 2018, the White House and the Senate in 2020, and then failing to retake the Senate in 2022 in a “red wave” that never materialized.

    One thing is clear to anyone looking at this objectively and dispassionately: Americans in the center—the independents and moderates who decide elections—have had enough of the extremists in the GOP.

    Read my thoughts here: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/gop-extremism-party-death-spiral

    hacks4pancakes, to random

    Kudos to the appliance repair guy who instructed me to have my husband come home from work to… turn off the circuit breaker, in this year of two thousand and twenty three when it’s literally on the wall 4 feet away and gods help me what human doesn’t know how to flip a circuit breaker it’s a basic life skill?

    nedbat, to random
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    Micro-rant: if you are writing software that asks for a password, please tell me which password you mean. My Mac password? My 1Password password? OneLogin? ssh key?

    In this day and age, how can anyone think "your password" is just one thing?

    jaykuo, to random

    Speaker McCarthy did a victory lap for passing a House debt ceiling bill that would gut benefits to the most needy—but the bill is already DOA. Now he appears to be changing his tune on Ukraine. What’s going on with Kevin? I explore in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/kevin-mccarthy-is-having-his-moment?sd=pf

    stefan, (edited ) to fediverse
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    https://mastodon.social being down, presumably because they're testing some of their latest features they're working on, and in the process kicking 1 million out of the 11.8 million people* (thanks @nemobis for the correction) from the fediverse is a good reminder to check out other Mastodon instances, or even other fediverse services and platforms.

    Sources:

    mastodonmigration, (edited ) to internet
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    #MastodonNews April 30, 2023

    Tech media starting to take notice of the insane #Bluesky Terms of Service.

    Mashable: What to know before signing up for Bluesky - Signing up means signing over your content. >>> https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-twitter-terms-of-service

    "You know what they say in tech: move fast, break things, and claim ownership of your users' content!"

    #twittermigration #ContentLicense #DataProtection

    edbott, to random

    The Twitter diaspora is neither large nor organized.

    Alas.

    https://open.substack.com/pub/edbott/p/theres-still-no-social-media-alternative

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