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I unfollowed Alec on Fedi because every other post would be him complaining about his interactions on there. Reply guys. Trolls. Lack of algorithms which raise some of the better comments out of the drek. Insufficient moderation. Etc. This got boring and depressing to read about honestly.

However I think he's totally right. Mastodon/Fedi works well for certain kinds of people. People with limited engagement, people posting mostly uncontroversial things, and perhaps people who just don't give a shit. But for high-visibility folks like Alec the old-school unfiltered discourse seems really uncomfortable.

It has little to do with federation itself, I think. But if Mastodon ever added the choice for users to enable "modern social media algorithms" for their view of their feed I suspect it would work a lot better for many people.

The same thing we do every night, Pinky: Try to take over the world!

Seeing this photo made me think "Man, execution by hanging is still pretty harsh"

"Rudolf Heinrich Suttrop, SS-Obersturmführer, Adjutant of the camp commander, Dachau"

Oh.

“may” put his position in peril?!

Correct. Personally I just set it to LongFast and leave it there. There's lots of discussions around whether that's a good default (it's not the most efficient use of channel bandwidth apparently) but it's the default for now, and will most likely get you to connect with the most nodes.

After selecting a frequency (LongFast, MediumSlow, etc.) your node is ready to relay all messages it receives on that frequency. That's all you need to do with the standard "Client" configuration.

To send and receive messages on your phone, you must also configure Channels. By default you have a primary channel 0, which is public with an empty encryption key. Beyond that you can add up to 7 other channels with symmetric encryption keys. Everyone who you share a channel key with can send and receive messages to this channel.

To deploy an effective "repeater" all you really need to do is put up a node with a good antenna in a high location. You could change the device config from "Client" to "Repeater/Router" but that is a technical detail and probably doesn't make much of a difference.

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... And Justice For All

They stole from the non-wealthy. Slap on the wrist, if anything.

Winslow is the GOAT obviously, but that electric guitar distortion is definitely an effects pedal. You can see him switching it with his left foot.

With all these incidents, I think we’re in need of some glasnost.

Must’ve been the wind…