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@kaia @grillchen @schappi That's great. I find Masto quite finicky to administer, honestly. A lot of moving parts.

The wind is howling at the windows. Although I've heard this frequently, it is an unnerving noise.

@kaia @grillchen @schappi Do you like Akkoma? I'm thinking of rebuilding to it.

@brena I do like some of the guides (on the official site) encourage you not to look into the numbers too much and concentrate on the impression.

@brena Darktable is lovely once you figure out its ways

@nigel @fdavies93@mastodon.social Absolutely nothing can go wrong

@vriska We sent you to the Pacific to prevent such a scenario

@fdavies93@mastodon.social Oh yeah, it is so common it took me a moment to even realise it was all over the docs.

@fdavies93@mastodon.social That's very true.

@clarity@xoxo.zone It's generally a lot healthier than pretty much anywhere else

@clarity@xoxo.zone Well I think it's lovely

The usually lovely Debian documentation has a good section on discouraging use of sudo, but blots the copybook a bit by having examples of it all over the place...

One of the nice things about the Fedi is you run your instance pretty much how you please. There was some friction a few years ago when people formed factions that were all about bullying people into who they should or shouldn't federate with, to which I say: fuck that noise.

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It's funny seeing all the drama at BlueSky about blocklists, because those people learnt the hard way this is not the safety utopia one thinks it is.

Don't judge them though, because exactly the same thing happened here, when a whole fucking bunch of users decided that what a community needed was lots of policing, and they behaved accordingly.

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Consider the possibility that they were never coming here 

I'm not so convinced that a lack of safety features or quote posts or whatever is what drives people away.

Decentralization is less user-friendly, DIY/open source is also less user-friendly. We're dealing with people raised on apps who want a definitive, single, unified experience. And any "jankiness" in the experience becomes a quick, justified trip to 'uninstall the app.'

The thing is, Bluesky shares your block list publicly, a HUGE user safety issue, and so I think if people really cared about user safety issues, they'd not be on Bluesky.

So why are people actually there?

They are on Bluesky because it's the alternative to Twitter for most people who want a simple, unified (centralized) experience.

Oh, onboarding along with a prebuilt list of follows? Yes, I'll take that.

I can see the appeal.

Meanwhile, on the fedi, you start with NO home feed at all and have to find people or hashtags to fill it.

So you do some searches, you find like 20 people and you think that's good enough to get started. And then you wonder why you're not really seeing many posts, or why the feed seems so slow and it's because the 20 people you followed aren't high-volume shitposters, also they are in a different timezone, etc.

And there's no other "you might like these posts" algorithm kinda thing going on, and there's little onboarding to speak of at all.

Finding "your people" is a bit harder, etc.

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