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2017-05-02T14:45:47+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by godemperorofdune:

@lambadalambda It's because your instance decided to be trap! lol.

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2017-05-02T14:40:50+00:00

Some script thinks I'm a mastodon server.

[info] GET /api/v1/timelines/public
[debug] Processing with Fallback.RedirectController.redirector/2
Parameters: %{"limit" => "40", "path" => ["api", "v1", "timelines", "public"]}
Pipelines: []

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2017-05-02T14:11:54+00:00

@mattskala You and @kevinmarks are not wrong, but my comment was a suggestion to users and admins: Don't use big instances, don't run big instances. Also, it's a secondary advice to devs: Don't add features that encourage big instances.

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2017-05-02T14:07:00+00:00

@ronkjeffries @kevinmarks Usually people who run their own private instance just look at the timelines of other servers, follow a seed population and then go from there. This is of course hard on Mastodon, because it doesn't have a publicly visible timeline.

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2017-05-02T14:05:32+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by mattskala:

@lambadalambda It's reasonable to expect that instance sizes will obey a power-law distribution because that's what such things in nature nearly always do. If so, there'll necessarily be a few instances much larger than the others; even if most are small, the network both socially and technically has to be able to deal with the existence of the few large ones.

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2017-05-02T14:05:29+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by kevinmarks:

@lambadalambda except instance populations will be power law distributed, and the problems for the tummlers are worse at scale

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2017-05-02T13:34:32+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by gcarregues:

@lambadalambda Oh purée ! Ma vie en images !

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2017-05-02T13:03:33+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by phildobangnz: also @sim reminder you are awesome; don't even trip- u kewler than Tutankhamen's cucumber, fam. Okay, good night.

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2017-05-02T12:54:59+00:00

@kevinmarks People can stay in their giant unmoderatable instances with meaningless public and federated timelines and experience constant federation drama if they want. I'll stay here with my 5 friends.

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2017-05-02T12:46:48+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by fortune: There once was a dentist named Stone
Who saw all his patients alone.
In a fit of depravity
He filled the wrong cavity,
And my, how his practice has grown!

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2017-05-02T12:37:55+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by xj9:

> rollerblading to work

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2017-05-02T12:29:03+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by cereal: @thatbrickster @lambadalambda But why?

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2017-05-02T12:24:27+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by thatbrickster: @lambadalambda install gentoo

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2017-05-02T12:22:53+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by dwmatiz: @lambadalambda *unzips dick*

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2017-05-02T12:22:03+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by shpuld: @lambadalambda get #cofe

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2017-05-02T12:21:04+00:00

What now? https://social.heldscal.la/attachment/422572

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2017-05-02T12:01:25+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by drkmttr:

@lambadalambda I checked out No Agenda because I saw you mention it several time. Sadly, I wasn't impressed. I'm all about varying perspectives but Adam and John basically just sound like resentful curmudgeons. It seems like their shtick is basically playing devil's advocate to everything to arouse some discontent. Just my two cents. 😉

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2017-05-02T11:06:42+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by clacke: @dickturpin @luke Oh no, I miss being irritated by you, it helps me understand myself and others. Also it builds character. :-)

So if this is not federation because you can't follow all of online mankind, what should we call it? Proto-federated? Pre-federated?

The term has been used decades ago for just one Microsoft Active Directory domain cross-certifying the root of another, by mutual agreement. I don't see how it's any less relevant to opportunistic federation between open servers on an open internet.

I'm not saying we should be satisfied, I'm just saying that "federate" is a useful word and to build a big system we need to start with a small one. And focus on the things we *can* change, like helping the OStatus network grow and making the tools more useful.

Saying that the network's ideals have failed because other networks aren't joining is doing neither of that.

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2017-05-02T10:37:40+00:00

lambadalambda favorited something by moonman: @lambadalambda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKLizztikRk

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2017-05-02T10:37:33+00:00

@cereal ? No, you don't even need the identity servers for federation.