George Dorn

Only use this for shaming brands. Find me on the fediverse: @[email protected] @[email protected] and three other secret ones.

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@WhiteHouse The cringe is strong with this one.

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@KenDilanianNBC @NBCNightlyNews Turns out the $400B 'credible estimate' vastly overestimates the credibility of a CEO with a vested interest, who was unable to provide any methodology to Congress when asked for it, repeatedly, during investigations into just how much he lied to federal agencies...

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@VAVetBenefits @Blake_Hall Oof, that's a bit embarassing to be tweeting given today's news about ID[dot]me lying to federal agencies and fibbing about fraud numbers to land those contracts to begin with...

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@I_am_cjc @textfiles https://t.co/9PvD7StjKA is for bots, so that's a twitter mirror bot. The other two are real, though probably should be marked as migrated to newer accounts.

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@BritVoxUS

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@mikesamonek That's not what this means, at all. This is allowing you to find a server that specifically calls out links to illegal content in their moderation policy. Nobody on the Mastodon team is endorsing anything, nor could they disallow anything if they wanted to.

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@WillSing4TP @OccupyDemocrats @elonmusk @TribelSocial Reading over their ToS and EULA, I'm not finding anything that isn't in every other corpo socmed legalese. You even keep the copyright to your posts, unlike many other places.

Tribel still sucks, though, unless you're into watching boomer liberals trade bad memes all day.

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@BritVoxUS Ten seconds on wikipedia reveals this to be deliberate misinformation.

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@kellabyte @robtreat2 Good thing there are at least six other stacks to choose from.

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@kellabyte No, it doesn't matter. It's fast enough. The main issue is the biggest servers don't turn off registration fast enough when a new wave arrives.

The network scales like smtp, not twitter, and it is more than Mastodon; Mastodon could vanish entirely and the network would be fine.

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@JaredWalczak Truth Social never even tried to network with any other server. Same with Counter Social.

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@NathanBSuk @Oblomov @Frikidoctor @elonmusk Oh, yeah, we all remember how Oracle destroyed subsequent forks of MySQL and Hudson.

Wait, nobody remembers Hudson? Because it's called Jenkins now and Oracle doesn't own it?

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@gretchenart @NoSwordSchool @PalmerReport ah, yes, everybody was born understanding how quote tweets and threads and public mentions work.

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@haha_daisy @xtinehlee https://t.co/r7C9XW8PKN

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@gretchenart @NoSwordSchool @PalmerReport Right, what you want is Twitter sans Musk. I'm sad to report, that doesn't exist. When you're over your grief, think back to when Twitter was new and you had to learn how to use it, too.

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@fak3r @oom_rl I'm not an expert on mastodon (I don't run it) but it's probably a cleanup task that not all admins bother setting up a cron job to run. The ghosts probably don't hurt anything, other than some minor confusion for new users. Which happens to be the theme of the week...

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@metatron_jurney @BrightWolf3 @RealSexyCyborg I dunno, people are simple and imprecise in their communication?

Mastodon is an alternative, not a replacement, much like a bicycle is an alternative to a car, not a replacement for your Honda Civic.

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@waipeng @RobbieCargill90 @solarise_webdev @Therezin @RealSexyCyborg If you want to redirect, yeah, you need a host to do the redirecting. But you can duplicate the site, set it back up on the old host, then delete the accounts one-by-one to announce to other instances the ghost accounts are gone.

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@emetz16 @billplein @dbo23021828 @paulkrugman A lot of fediverse hosts are not fond of the big cloud providers and use smaller hosts or VPSes or even basement computers. The node in question, though, is one of the biggest, a bit of a scaling canary for the latest Mastodon version. But the network itself scales just fine.