Hmmmm well https://GardenState.social has gone down and I'm waiting for Cloudplane to work and get it back up. So goes managed hosting I guess. @stefan

@ManifestEden @alan 60 a year seems high to me but maybe I'm missing some costs you are baking in. Like not sure what a 100 user instance needs $6,000 for.

"Please," said the man, "can you do magic to make me be kind?"
"No," said the witch. "Magic cannot change anyone's nature."
"So there is no hope for me?"
"You ask the wrong question. Kind is not something you are. It is what you do."
"Is it that simple?"
"It is that hard."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

Did you know:
If you've stopped wearing masks, you can simply start wearing masks again

haven’t seen it reported anywhere else in the western media, but it seems like a very big deal that at the World Cup opener, the Iranian men’s team stood with arms around each other, in silence, refusing to sing their national anthem, in solidarity with the protesters in Iran.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/21/iran-refuse-to-sing-national-anthem-in-world-cup-opener

Tonight I finished @maddow’s new podcast Ultra. This powerful warning shot, this unearthing of the threat of American facism in the 30s& 40s is required learning for this moment. There has been a dress rehearsal for what we are facing. We’d best learn. I strongly encourage you to listen to all 8 episodes. The parallels are stunning. A reminder that we’ve fought this before. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/id1647910854?i=1000586931428

Yikes! Amazon is on track to lose $10 billion this year on its hardware division, including Alexa devices. Most devices are sold at cost and plans to monetize them have failed in "a colossal failure of imagination."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/

What's up #NewJersey?

I wonder when #TheGuardian, #WashingtonPost and other mainstream media will remove their Bird "tweet" buttons? Will they make one that's generic or for Mastodon sharing? #twitterexodus #media #journalists Edited and updated: Apple is following 0 and may never have tweeted.

@RainofTerra 💀💀💀

OH: “all of my overheard toots are just things I said”

Some quick notes on how we might build some of the essential infrastructure and governance processes that will be needed if #Mastodon is really going to be sustainable and viable as a mass-adoption social network (1/n):

@dell you have a most beautiful navel.

@TheMemeticist@mas.to holy shit this is awesome.

Really wish the Great Social Media Reckoning could have happened in any month other than #NaNoWriMo.

I'm out here writing a decopunk anarchist lesbian pirate farmers novel that's turning out it be a ghost story, but sure, I can do some tech support and platform investigation and crossposting setup and account nuking. I'm not busy or anything.

beabadoobee - A Thousand Miles in the Live Lounge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP8VZ18-cm0

The many branches of the #fediverse (#Mastodon instances are but one) ~ via https://axbom.com/fediverse/ ~ #SocialMedia #community

Don’t look for heroes.

Look for people who build community by making space for people to care for each other and raise one another up.

I’m seeing a lot of white mutuals uncritically celebrate the pleasant climate here at Mastodon. This tells me immediately that they have a very narrow and shallow network, because the Black women in my circles are experiencing overt #racism, #antisemitism, and #mansplaining.

@hrheingold thanks for asking this as I'm looking in to this as well before I set up my own instance.