It’s why I get AMD for everything.

Party of crime and disorder

It means Elon gets free speech, not any of us. Elon is free to threaten a Judges daughter with no ramifications.

Invitation-only Mastodon instances prevent spammers by controlling who can join and maintaining a trust-based network. Since every new user must be invited by an existing member, admins can track invitation chains. If someone turns out to be a bad actor, admins can ban them and also ban anyone they invited. This is like pruning the whole spam network. This discourages spammers because their accounts can be removed along with their entire invitation tree.

Suffering from success, almost…

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Let’s just send the gold to North Korea and skip the middleman. /s

Thank goodness we are deporting people close to retirement so they can spend their money in Colombia and not here in the US. Great for the economy. \s

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Sorry, to keep out scammers I’m only giving them to people with a posting history.

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Yeah, they closed it around December 2023 as a way to combat spamming.

The servers are hosted by Hetzner with servers across Europe. They call out Hetzner when there is an outage.

https://status.mastodon.online/cm722jt5p005y134nbp7jwfm2

We have switched back to our original networking, and all functionality and performance is restored. Hetzner has confirmed that is was indeed a vSwitch issue that caused the network outage.

More info about Hetzner here: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/ueber-uns/

If you want to follow specific organizations, unfortunately, there aren’t as many on Mastodon as on other social media platforms. Some are accessible through Threads.net federation, like @theonion@threads.net, through the Bluesky bridge, or via other non-Mastodon federated communities (e.g., Flipboard.com) if that’s something you’re interested in.

However, some communities do wall themselves off from bots and bad actors. For example, the most popular Mastodon instance (mastodon.social) blocks the second-largest instance (pawoo.net). Other instances, like mastodon.art, defederate from AI art supporting instances, while others like hachyderm.io has defederated from Threads.net. Additionally, some Mastodon communities, like Truth Social, are entirely isolated and defederate from everyone else.

So, if you want access to the widest range of communities, you may need to join more than one instance.

Sure, they are reporting stories that align with American interests, but it is through accurate reporting, not disinformation.

For example, VoA extensively covered what was going on with the Uyghur population in China.