Jamey Sharp @jamey@toot.cat

@jamey as with most situations where one is inclined to give advice, consider asking questions instead:

"what appeals to you about it?"
"what potential problems are you worried about?"
"what have you learned so far?"
"what have you done before that's similar?"

not in, like, a challenging way -- really listen for the answers -- and either they'll satisfy you, or they might unsatisfy the other person.

i’ve had a bad day and now my home internet is down and anyway let me know if you have any leads for a data scientist/analyst job i can do from portland

TIRED: me
WIRED: I dunno, a computer, why do I have to come up with something, didn't you read the first part

Worried about the dominance of big instances? No, really, this is quite natural.

As an emergent and self-governing system, it could be expected that the size distribution of #Mastodon instances roughly follows Zipf's law.

Does it?

At first you see the top 6 instances, and then the rest. But on a log-log scale the size distribution is close to a straight line, which would be expected from an emergent system.

#statistics

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omg

hi again everybody 💚 avocado remains a fruit toot toot

oh, and avocado is on the fediverse still, where they post pictures of the cat who lives in their tree. they're @avocado

For instance, this weekend I did my occasional "oh maybe I don't need spotify with all this independent freely licensed music, and I could use the public library instead of buying every book I see on Amazon". And I remembered I hadn't been to worldcat.org and somafm.com for ages.

I feel like we're in one of those moments where a bit less coding up new non-centralised services, and a bit more working out how people can discover and easily adopt existing ones might be good.

"... the astonishing fact is that this botnet was, inadvertently, performing brute-force attacks against SATCOM modems located onboard an in-flight aircraft."

https://twitter.com/reversemode/status/1027787720620273664

I mean I always said "I would pay $10/mo for a premium twitter without advertisements" and now it's come true

Hah, now that I'm using Mastodon like 500% more and following hundreds more people, my personal instance is using so much more media cache that I had to upgrade my server from the $5/mo plan to the $10/mo plan

worf: *staring at a PADD, looking frustrated*
quark: quantum mechanics eh? have you read about the up quark
worf: what's up quark
quark: 😏

i'm blue is peak music

boost if u agree or disagree or will think about it for the next month

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

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