Notices by Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com), page 3

@lain @hj @robby Oh shit. Well if we’re going there, the whole universe could have been created 5 minutes ago because you can’t prove it wasn’t. All our memories were just fabricated 5 minutes ago.

Has anyone successfully dumped a Pleroma database and moved it from one host to another without incident? This issue has got me a bit worried https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/issues/2404

Since I’m banned from communicating with ActivityPub spec authors and they see no problem with it, they shouldn’t be surprised if I don’t follow their rules. The only path forward for me is to build my own network, and that’s exactly what I plan to do.

@r I went into cwebber’s video call and asked him to self-host so I could communicate with him (I’m blocked from Octodon) and he basically said “blah blah upholding community standards blah blah I’m happy with it”

@r Run by a 23 year old “they/she/her” who sometimes identifies as a girl but sometimes doesn’t. This is the server an ActivityPub spec author uses.

@r

Almost all the people I interact with are from instances listed on there.

That’s why they call it The Great Wall of Mastodon ????

My take on #ParlerHacked - user data wasn’t compromised, but they proved they’re careless about security. “Behind multiple layers” actually says nothing. Is the database port firewalled? What type of authentication does it use? Social networks NEED technical founders. This is the perfect demonstration for why.

Archived page of this leak: https://archive.vn/Mll5H

It’s a snapshot of home.parler.com Jul 17, 2020. There’s no denying this was on their domain. The question is whether it really matters. Best case scenario those keys were useless all along. Worst case scenario they leaked database credentials to their WordPress website. Either way the founder is lying. About what we expected.

Wow! Fedibird has groups. I knew this was the work of @noellabo. Looks like QOTO implemented it too. Nice job! ????

cc @lain finally have a source for this: https://github.com/fedibird/mastodon

Looks like it requires running a second Mastodon server for now?

It was created by @noellabo so you can direct questions to him.

@boob Like most things federated, it needs one big “sorta-centralized” flagship instance people can rely on.

@georgia @Meeper Nginx is not strictly necessary in most cases. Pleroma for example runs its own webserver in Elixir. Nginx is usually used as a middleman, to do useful stuff like redirecting http to https, caching certain routes, and serving static files much faster than the upstream server can.

I’ve already watched the video of someone dying at shit point. You think I can’t handle the comments section? Absolutely awful UX. And I thought privacy scopes were bad. Even with its limitations, UX on the fediverse is way better than New Reddit.

There’s a lot of negativity around JavaScript as a language from programming nerds… and yeah, it’s bad, we know. But it’s the language of the web. If you want to do something on the web, you’ve gotta use it. ???? Less time complaining, more time building.

@shmibs Speaking from experience?

What is the meaning of fascism?

Antifa: “blah blah blah hitler racism blah blah blah”

D’Annuzio, predecessor of Mussolini:

It is said that Gabriele D’Annunzio had one of his ribs surgically removed so that he could give himself fellatio.

Would you merge Adolf Hitler’s merge request?

@shmibs @Moon @boob @jeremiah @mewmew He won the majority of votes.