@poleguy @timonsku Well fuck off and don't read it then ye prick :D

@welshpixie I so don't have time for this shit today. Fuck stux, fuck the zuck, fuck this fucking bucket of suck.

@welshpixie oh hello, it's me again, the fucking ghost of servers past

JUDGE: I order you to pay $10,000 - do you understand?

MARIO:

JUDGE: it’s a fine

MARIO [sadly]: no itsa not

The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.

People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.

These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.

Dan Fixes Coin Ops: "You know," frantically but quietly packing up tools, "just because an arcade owner has made some questionable decisions" rummaging in the parts boxes for treasure "doesn't mean the whole arcade should suddenly get cut off," formatting the parts-ordering computer's hard drive "it's not fair to those who're unaware of the same things you're aware of" rescuing the mice from that one pinball machine "and who knows, with a little reflection he might" slams van door "ok let's go"

Big Long Online Community Moderation Thread:

END OF PART 1

Part 2 continues on my new account, in this thread:
https://mstdn.social/@ifixcoinops/109354147264054179

I look forward to continuing this farce on a fresh new Fediverse account. :)

This account is dead! New account at @ifixcoinops@retro.social!

I'm not gonna use the account migration thing, because I don't wanna lose access to my posts; a few of them are Massive Threads In Progress.

@craigmaloney@octodon.social Oh yeah, I mulled that over a couple of years ago. Cool idea, I think at the time I didn't end up downloading it because it wouldn't work with protonmail or something. Cheers for putting it in my brain again, I'll let it rattle around a bit.

(also I heard you can use it with any nah just kidding)

@craigmaloney@octodon.social ooh what is it, I'm always down for adding a beautiful chat program that nobody uses.

@koosli When I lived in England it was funny, now I like in the USA so... not so much :-/

#fiveVideogames meme? Sure why not :)

1. #zooKeeper, playable on MAME. An overlooked and incredibly fun and diabolical risk-vs-reward trap, you can play it safe but you won't want to;
2. #themePark, Bullfrog's earlier take on better games, but this got me into the "Give folk a fun time while making bank" genre;
3. #redFactionGuerilla, literally smash capital with a big hammer;
4. #saintsRow, like GTA but way more fun and silly;
5. #raiden series, genre-defining vertical shooters zap zap!

@posiputt Do you remember the general colour scheme?

How to Catch a Mountain Lion
an illustrative guide

1. Place a cardboard box where the animal frequently visits.
2. Sit back and wait.
3. A cat is a cat is a cat.

I've worked with shitloads of personal data as well. nobody is called "ethan", it is reserved entirely for generic brownhair video game men

american devs and screenwriters love to call their everyman guy "ethan", a name I have never encountered in the wild in my entire life

@researchfairy nodding my head along, "Yes! Yes, that's an excellent policy! No federated website needs to be that big! There's no excuse for such a dilute mod to user ratio!" looking at my own username "oh shi

I'm serious about this

The only real power that other admins have to rein in a bad admin on another instance is the power to say "you fucked up so bad that we're blocking you"

So yes, we should all be blocking the big instances unless we all trust that somehow that power magically won't corrupt in this case

Scholar limits any instance with open registrations and 10k+ active users

Anyway, we all got m dot s and m dot online blocked

If your userbase is over 10k users, you're next!