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Ricki Tarr (@RickiTarr@beige.party) (beige.party)
Attached: 1 image Here's what people on the outside looking in, don't get, Mastodon isn't an alternative to other social media, it is its own thing entirely. That's what struck me about it, and why I'm still there. People on Mastodon didn't care how many people were on it or if their favorite celebrity or journalist was here. They want to build communities with real people. All these kinds of articles are basically stating, "This wasn't for me, therefore these things are failures." How absolutely ridiculous.
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Your weekly Sunday reminder:
Religions: “we don’t pay tax because we’re not for profit corporations”
Also religions: own for profit schools, for profit hospitals, for profit aged care facilities, for profit kindergartens, for profit colleges, for profit universities as well as millions worth of real estate, which, you guessed it, generate profit.
Tax. The. Fuck. Out. Of. Churches.
#TaxTheChurches

—@BrisVegas

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Here’s what people on the outside looking in, don’t get, Mastodon isn’t an alternative to other social media, it is its own thing entirely.

That’s what struck me about it, and why I’m still there. People on Mastodon didn’t care how many people were on it or if their favorite celebrity or journalist was here. They want to build communities with real people.

All these kinds of articles are basically stating, “This wasn’t for me, therefore these things are failures.” How absolutely ridiculous.

—@RickiTarr

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A friend of mine recently burned out on maintaining open-source software and communities, and had been half-joking for a while that they wanted a sassy license to the effect of “I release this code for free, take it or leave it, or go do it yourself”.

Tonight I wrote that license for and with him. Please enjoy the “Fork Off” Public License, v0.9: https://github.com/klardotsh/fork-off-public-license

(I’ll tag a v1.0 after any feedback y’all might have to clarify things or make it funnier. Forking it is also of course ok.)

—@klardotsh

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Trump’s Second Indictment, Part III: Trump Confessed. Now let’s bust a few myths. by Teri KanefieldTeri Kanefield

Part I: Trump’s Second Indictment (Over the Cliff Notes) is here. Part II: Trump has been indicted on federal criminal charges and his case was assigned to Aileen Cannon. Now what? is here. Welcome to Part III. *  *  * After Trump’s arraignment, he gave a speech in which he said, “Under the Presidential Records …

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Advice for new folks from #reddit –

Hello and welcome. Please note that we don’t yet have a robust Reddit replacement because the two we have (#lemmy and #kbin) are still in really rough betas with features being hammered out by volunteers. Reddit had the gall to implode when these projects are at most some months old, but it isn’t as if current Reddit is into doing anyone any favors, huh?

So please have patience as you re-orient yourself. Unlike Reddit, nobody in the Fediverse made a deal with the devils known as Venture Capitalism. This means we don’t have to pay the piper when interest rates make the bottom fall out of our funding, but also means we don’t have the speed of development that funding can sometimes yield.

I recommend taking some time to decompress and experiment with how things work on Kbin and Lemmy. If you have feedback, give it to the devs.

And don’t feel bound to these networks. You are the captain of your ship.

Smooth sailing and good winds to you.

—@avajarvis

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Many people have been talking about deleting their #Reddit account and posts because they hate what the Reddit CEO does.

While I welcome a major #RedditExodus (I never posted on Reddit because it’s #proprietary), I urge people to #backup their high-quality posts (those that have helped a large number of people) before they delete their account for good.

And then repost your high-quality stuff somewhere else for archival purposes.

Just a suggestion.

—@Wuzzy

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
Barack Hussein Obama won as Barack Hussein Obama Meanwhile… Nimarata Nikki Randhawa had to run as Nikki Haley Piyush Jindal had to run as Bobby Jindal Rafael Edward Cruz had to run as Ted Cruz Even Ronna Romney had to run as Ronna McDaniel And don’t get me started on the 11-teen different names of George Santos Point is, GOP claims that “Dems are obsessed with identity politics” is 100% projection.
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What a lot of people who sign up here looking for a like for like replacement for something else then getting upset when we rigidly refuse to change to into it don’t seem to get is that we simply don’t have to care.

You can suggest it’s a failure all you like but we’ve been here for years happily. We’ll be here happily if you decide to go.

It doesn’t hinge on it being a typical corporate ‘success’. It’s out there in the world where anyone can make a new server exist. It’s already a success.

—@doot

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The next phase of the #ThreadiverseMigration is helping relocate and build #kbin and #Lemmy communities by mapping old subreddits to new communities.

yoasif @yoasif, who has been a #Reddit moderator on r/firefox, has taken up the challenge:

Unofficial Subreddit Migration List (#Lemmy, #Kbin) >>> https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html

“Here’s a quick and dirty list that you can contribute to (https://github.com/yoasif/yoasif.github.io/blob/main/_posts/2023-06-15-unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.markdown). Put new entries in alphabetical order. Pull requests welcome!”

#RedditMigration

—@mastodonmigration