Which is why they’re the first to be blocked 😄

It’s easy. First implement the usual blacklists. Then you block all servers with “mastodon” in the domain name.

You will be left with a bunch of neurodivergent queer people talking about nerdy shit in your timeline. Last, embrace your new reality.

The answer is literally a search query away.

“Should”? That’s really only for you to determine. I get why you want to try them out one by one, like using Piefed and Lemmy in parallel. It gives you a chance to weigh pros and cons of different services, or different ways to interact with them.

Vutuv… again, it’s your choice, but for me, LinkedIn turned me completely off professional networking. I’m going to wait that one out to be sure it isn’t flooded with the same icky performance measuring jargon before I even consider joining. Also, Vutuv looks vibe coded, so another big nope for me.

I think you’re being generous counting Matrix in the Fediverse, though. It may be decentralised, but unless there are some bridges I’m not aware of, it doesn’t really communicate with any fediverse services?

I think we’re basically in agreement. The energy expenditure is real, but it adds no real value to the product. In a very real way, it is make believe — even more so than real money.

built on openness, transparency, and user control instead of central control.

Also, cryptocurrency. Actually, it’s all cryptocurrency, please invest in the pretend money we’re wizarding out of the void.

Engage the core.

No, no. Don’t you dare go to warp on a workout joke!

a custom distro

…or just a pre-exsting one. Heck, they should just make it a point to support open source development.

Don’t worry, most of us won’t. It’ll trickle down through abstraction layers from CLW level work to us end users eventually 🙂

Sorry, they have a separate one for Lemmy! Got my wires crossed.

There are two separate apps for Mastodon and Friendica though, right? Or did I misremember?

You said it yourself — you’re new to self hosting, and CasaOS fits what you want to host. As a starting point for getting rid of hosted services, go with that for a start.

Sure, you won’t immediately be getting your hands dirty mucking about with dockers and stuff, but you will have your working home server. For learning and experimentation, I second @Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s plan B — use another machine to test building the same setup on a base Linux system.

If you’re like me you probably have an old laptop lying around that wouldn’t be great as an always up, day to day server, but as a testing environment to mess around with docker containers it should be fine?

I use Baïkal on a no-frills webhost. It’s been running for years without problems.

That, and she doesn’t still wear the Bajoran nose ridge prosthetic…

Actually, I think the publisher expected something more along the lines of this vapid waffle… 😆

For sure! That’s why I hope this book opens more conversations with Sirtis and others about their experience, whether it’ll be in a Visitor-penned sequel or elsewhere.

Specifically Sirtis would be interesting, because she so definitely was put in the “female box”, while her real (or convention appearance) persona is much fuller — and outspoken than the often docile role she played.

Sounds like the publisher approached her to do a coffee table fluff book, and then she added her own critical feminist special sauce 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Ooh, now I want to read the stuff that didn’t make it into the book, and the interviews that never got made for different reasons. How many copies do each of us need to buy for a sequel to be commissioned?

Who hurt you?

greybeards dunking on you because you’re not a “real” linuxer

Oh, right. I see.

androids can’t do base distro’s anymore?

I’ll be honest, I never tried. Seeing that there are projects working independently to bring Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch to Android, I’d guess no? Plus I know you can run any distro in an emulator within Android systems, but that feels more like a curiosity.