if everyone chips in we can definitely buy a plutocrat to do our bidding. this is clearly a great idea.

@mdhughes @djsundog it’s crazy to think that was 28 years ago.

good morning fediverse. saw something slide by that mentioned yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Let's Encrypt and y'all, that's nice. really nice.I remember all too well the hell of commercial certificate authorities being yet another toll gate to getting a service online. Let's Encrypt changed that for the better for us, and the fediverse as it currently exists would have been much smaller without Let's Encrypt empowering operators to get free trusted certs.we could do with more of that sort of success.

@djsundog anyone who kicks out the jams must be really jelly

Happy November to all those who no.

@djsundog NOOO MY HED

@djsundog @sungo i think instead of "groups" i'd prefer honest-to-god forums

my favorite part of the fediverse is the opportunity to come up with a new analogy for what the fuck it is every few months year after year.

offline card catalogs and microfiche and microfilm are good and useful to this day. "taking things online" should not also take them away from the offline. might need the offline analogue. y'know. in case something fucks the online.

@djsundog I really associate the phrase "information overload" with the six months after I graduated college and the studio apartment I moved into. I only connected my little black and white TV to the cable because I was hoping it would work as an antenna but I discovered it hadn't been turned off. I'd never lived anywhere with cable before and suddenly I had CNN. The aftermath of Tianenmen Square was still being understood. The Bay Area got hit by the Loma Prieta earthquake. The Berlin Wall fell. The Soviet Union collapsed. I watched a firing squad kill the Dictator of Romania. I'd get home from one of my two jobs and immediately turn it on to see what I'd missed.And then one day I picked up my phone to make a call. But it didn't go through. Instead I found myself in this amazing liminal telephone netherworld where I could hear a dozen or more conversations, all happening at once, against a background of electronic beeps. Just as I'd start to follow a couple sentences of one call it would vanish and its place be taken by another call. I sat listening to it for half an hour while trying to figure out a way to route the signal into my four-track cassette but couldn't get it to work.Having my first taste of 24-hour news was as earthshaking as the events it was covering. And that phone call became my personal metaphor for what it felt like.Then I got a dial up modem...

Had a local fella who's a regular for coffee swing through to tell us how pleased he is that we're running Democracy Now on New Ellijay TV. He's a big fan of all the stuff we've got going on down here, and bought a copy of "51 Miles from Nowhere" on vinyl before he left.We're doing good things. It's nice to hear from a neighbor.

this whole I post things on my thing and you get it on your thing and you post things on your things and I get them on my thing is pretty cool and I think it's got legs and will stick around a while.

@djsundog yes my hope is that the database can be used for this!

@djsundog I think it got mine. I distinctly remember having more ass at one point.

@djsundog do you have a VHS for her to slot?

to be clear, my recent railing against the consolidation of media does not apply to the onion's purchase of infowars, which is just absolutely mint. pro consolidation on this one. anti in the general case. I contain multitudes.

like something? share it with your friends. not supposed to? who says? who cares? share it with your friends anyway.hate something? do not share it with your friends. not to mock it. not to shame it. just don't share it. it's way simpler and is more effective at making the thing you hate not a thing as much.all of this, everything we deal with, is about people interacting with people, sometimes by choice, sometimes out of necessity, sometimes under threat of violence. you're your best advocate in deciding how your side of that interaction is going to go, not the person on the other side.

we live in a time where a wall of text is its own form of obfuscation.

@mdiogenes: Behold, a @djsundog!

@[email protected] I do agree with your point that starter packs aren't the only mechanism that makes sense. Conceptually there are several things rolled into a starter pack:- each account can have multiple named lists of recommended accounts and feeds on each profile (they're o the 'starter page' tab of the profile), basically along the lines of the old Mastodon functionality (or indieweb's blogrolls etc etc) - a follow all button- signing up with a starter pack (i'm not sure whether or not it automatically does a follow all)@[email protected]