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For those of you looking for validation for leaving your decorations up, I have to point out that the traditional Christian "end of the Christmas season" is "Candlemas", on February 2nd.

And Christmas itself isn't actually over until Epiphany or "Three-Kings Day" (tomorrow). It is traditionally, the day the Magi showed up at Jesus' birth, and in more-deeply Catholic cultures, THAT is the day gifts are exchanged. Because they brought gifts to the baby Jesus, see?

That's the "12 days".

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For those of you looking for validation for leaving your decorations up, I have to point out that the traditional Christian "end of the Christmas season" is "Candlemas", on February 2nd.

And Christmas itself isn't actually over until Epiphany or "Three-Kings Day" (tomorrow). It is traditionally, the day the Magi showed up at Jesus' birth, and in more-deeply Catholic cultures, THAT is the day gifts are exchanged. Because they brought gifts to the baby Jesus, see?

That's the "12 days".

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We've been looking for one of our cats for an hour, all over our land.

Turns out she was sleeping in a laundry basket in the house the whole time.

Black cats, man -- they close their eyes and they VANISH into the shadows! :neko_cats_eye:

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We've been looking for one of our cats for an hour, all over our land.

Turns out she was sleeping in a laundry basket in the house the whole time.

Black cats, man -- they close their eyes and they VANISH into the shadows! :neko_cats_eye:

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@rysiek @iffybooks @dantescanline

I am convinced that abolishing copyright entirely would be better than the current state of affairs.

Not *optimal* -- that would be a shorter and more-limited copyright, IMHO. But abolition is better than the status quo.

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@rysiek @iffybooks @dantescanline

I am convinced that abolishing copyright entirely would be better than the current state of affairs.

Not *optimal* -- that would be a shorter and more-limited copyright, IMHO. But abolition is better than the status quo.

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@rysiek

Earlier today, I saw someone complaining about "Public Domain Laws" [there is no such thing, of course -- PD is the default, copyright is a legally-mandated monopoly], "breathing life into out-dated colonialist attitudes."

Would not be NEARLY as much of a problem if copyright only lasted 20 years!

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@rysiek

Earlier today, I saw someone complaining about "Public Domain Laws" [there is no such thing, of course -- PD is the default, copyright is a legally-mandated monopoly], "breathing life into out-dated colonialist attitudes."

Would not be NEARLY as much of a problem if copyright only lasted 20 years!

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When you download your posts from Mastodon (or Misskey), you get a JSON document.

The help text says "The exported data will be in the ActivityPub format, readable by any compliant software."

Does any such software exist, particularly open-source software that I can just install and run on Ubuntu or Debian Linux?

#ActivityPub #Mastodon #Export

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When you download your posts from Mastodon (or Misskey), you get a JSON document.

The help text says "The exported data will be in the ActivityPub format, readable by any compliant software."

Does any such software exist, particularly open-source software that I can just install and run on Ubuntu or Debian Linux?

#ActivityPub #Mastodon #Export

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More than once, I've seen people who figure out how to migrate their followers to a new account, but apparently don't realize they can migrate the people they follow and any lists they have, even faster:

Go to 'Account Settings' --> 'Import and Export'.

There's a list of options, with CSV downloads.

There is also a button at the bottom to download an archive of all of your own posts.

On the new site, you can upload follows, lists, etc. with the same menu.

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More than once, I've seen people who figure out how to migrate their followers to a new account, but apparently don't realize they can migrate the people they follow and any lists they have, even faster:

Go to 'Account Settings' --> 'Import and Export'.

There's a list of options, with CSV downloads.

There is also a button at the bottom to download an archive of all of your own posts.

On the new site, you can upload follows, lists, etc. with the same menu.

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Some good things that happened in 2022:

* The Fediverse stepped into the limelight -- nevermind why.

* For many, this is their 1st real experience with Free/Open Source software.

* TWO new episodes of Pepper & Carrot were finished

* My brother-in-law got married.

* I learned how to use YunoHost to set up a variety of web services.

* I learned & hosted: Gitea, Git (sort of), Nextcloud, PeerTube, Misskey, Pixelfed, and more.

* I re-themed my Wordpress blog/CMS.

* I found most of you folks!

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Some good things that happened in 2022:

* The Fediverse stepped into the limelight -- nevermind why.

* For many, this is their 1st real experience with Free/Open Source software.

* TWO new episodes of Pepper & Carrot were finished

* My brother-in-law got married.

* I learned how to use YunoHost to set up a variety of web services.

* I learned & hosted: Gitea, Git (sort of), Nextcloud, PeerTube, Misskey, Pixelfed, and more.

* I re-themed my Wordpress blog/CMS.

* I found most of you folks!

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I've been thinking about it, and I'm now pretty sure that a #FederatedMarketplace IS possible,
but I'm not sure if you could shoehorn it into the #ActivityPub protocol. This was something @atomicpoet brought up a week or so ago, and it's kind of stuck with me.

You'd need to have a "federated cart" and "transaction details" carried over some encrypted federated protocol and I don't think AP is it.

Other aspects, such as product reviews and discussion probably could be AP, though.

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I've been thinking about it, and I'm now pretty sure that a #FederatedMarketplace IS possible,
but I'm not sure if you could shoehorn it into the #ActivityPub protocol. This was something @atomicpoet brought up a week or so ago, and it's kind of stuck with me.

You'd need to have a "federated cart" and "transaction details" carried over some encrypted federated protocol and I don't think AP is it.

Other aspects, such as product reviews and discussion probably could be AP, though.

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@rysiek
Thanks for the phrase: "algorithmically buried".

That's exactly how I felt on Facebook and Twitter both. And it's the inevitable byproduct of algorithmic promotion -- clearly, if you promote one thing, another will be effectively demoted, because attention is a limited resource.

I never expected to be known outside of a niche group -- but it became impossible even to be seen by that group, because of artificial promotion.

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@rysiek
Thanks for the phrase: "algorithmically buried".

That's exactly how I felt on Facebook and Twitter both. And it's the inevitable byproduct of algorithmic promotion -- clearly, if you promote one thing, another will be effectively demoted, because attention is a limited resource.

I never expected to be known outside of a niche group -- but it became impossible even to be seen by that group, because of artificial promotion.

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Most of us have a real blind spot for recognizing when a power system favors ourselves.

We love to say things like "a society free of money" or "free of classes" or "free of oppressive systems" in general -- almost always glossing over the fact that the proposed new system somehow puts US in charge of the money system, the class system, or the oppression system.

Please, try to take a moment and consider who your New Revolution puts in charge.

Is it YOU? And is THAT why you like it?
...

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Most of us have a real blind spot for recognizing when a power system favors ourselves.

We love to say things like "a society free of money" or "free of classes" or "free of oppressive systems" in general -- almost always glossing over the fact that the proposed new system somehow puts US in charge of the money system, the class system, or the oppression system.

Please, try to take a moment and consider who your New Revolution puts in charge.

Is it YOU? And is THAT why you like it?
...

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People who think gift-giving is "inefficient" are REALLY missing the point.

It is a means of reaffirming social bonds, a demonstration of consideration, exercise of empathy, and equalization of wealth in a group.

Optimization of material "utility value" of gifts is about the silliest way you could look at it.

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People who think gift-giving is "inefficient" are REALLY missing the point.

It is a means of reaffirming social bonds, a demonstration of consideration, exercise of empathy, and equalization of wealth in a group.

Optimization of material "utility value" of gifts is about the silliest way you could look at it.

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@stux
Putting the safety lines on those footholds with a big loop that could easily slide right off makes me cringe!

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@stux
Putting the safety lines on those footholds with a big loop that could easily slide right off makes me cringe!

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@atomicpoet

It's literally true, according to that report from Dewey Square Group. Mastodon is by far the most popular. Hive was a distant second. Post is a flyspeck.

https://www. deweysquare.com/2022/12/new-re port-from-dewey-digital-snapshot-of-twitter-migration/

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@atomicpoet

It's literally true, according to that report from Dewey Square Group. Mastodon is by far the most popular. Hive was a distant second. Post is a flyspeck.

https://www. deweysquare.com/2022/12/new-re port-from-dewey-digital-snapshot-of-twitter-migration/

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#JohnMastodon

OMG. I go off site for 24 hrs, and WHAT happens...?

🤣 😂 🙃 :welp:

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#JohnMastodon

OMG. I go off site for 24 hrs, and WHAT happens...?

🤣 😂 🙃 :welp:

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@shaungdavey
So much of a Twitter feed is forced content, without consent, driven by AI and ads. This warps perspective. People want force to retaliate with.

Here, forced content is not an option.

The closest you can get is a boost, but that's content vetted by the reader's friends, and they even control that selectively.

CW is not about choosing whether or not to force people to see your content. It's about *wooing* people to keep following you, by showing respect for their consent.

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@shaungdavey
So much of a Twitter feed is forced content, without consent, driven by AI and ads. This warps perspective. People want force to retaliate with.

Here, forced content is not an option.

The closest you can get is a boost, but that's content vetted by the reader's friends, and they even control that selectively.

CW is not about choosing whether or not to force people to see your content. It's about *wooing* people to keep following you, by showing respect for their consent.

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#HugoNovels
One of my bucket-list goals is to read ALL of the Hugo Award novels.

I have read a lot of them, but still have a lot to go, yet, and of course, the list gets one (or sometimes two) longer with each year.

I read most of them from 1970 to 1990, during my peak reading years as an adolescent. After that, I kind of slowed down -- marriage, jobs, kids -- I was busy.

But I've been catching up on what I missed, going back to the early years, and reading recent ones.

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#HugoNovels
One of my bucket-list goals is to read ALL of the Hugo Award novels.

I have read a lot of them, but still have a lot to go, yet, and of course, the list gets one (or sometimes two) longer with each year.

I read most of them from 1970 to 1990, during my peak reading years as an adolescent. After that, I kind of slowed down -- marriage, jobs, kids -- I was busy.

But I've been catching up on what I missed, going back to the early years, and reading recent ones.

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@atomicpoet

One more thing about that growth figure: the number of nodes actually went up faster than the number of users.

A lot of people talked about big servers getting overloaded with users and that did happen to the big ones.

But small servers made up for it, and the MEAN users-per-node actually FELL from about 800 to about 550 per server.

I.e. we are nowhere near the growth limits of the distributed Fediverse. It handily outpaced growth that would've killed a start-up company.

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@atomicpoet

One more thing about that growth figure: the number of nodes actually went up faster than the number of users.

A lot of people talked about big servers getting overloaded with users and that did happen to the big ones.

But small servers made up for it, and the MEAN users-per-node actually FELL from about 800 to about 550 per server.

I.e. we are nowhere near the growth limits of the distributed Fediverse. It handily outpaced growth that would've killed a start-up company.

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@atomicpoet

Note also: Fediverse grew by about 75% in November of this year. One month.

Could Twitter grow by 75% in one month? Even in its early years?

Centralization brings some economies of scale, but also some expenses due to a highly-coupled systems.

With a completely distributed/decentralized system, Fediverse is not bounded in that way. It doesn't have to coordinate its growth. Barring a shortage of available servers in data centers, growth costs are linear.

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@atomicpoet

Note also: Fediverse grew by about 75% in November of this year. One month.

Could Twitter grow by 75% in one month? Even in its early years?

Centralization brings some economies of scale, but also some expenses due to a highly-coupled systems.

With a completely distributed/decentralized system, Fediverse is not bounded in that way. It doesn't have to coordinate its growth. Barring a shortage of available servers in data centers, growth costs are linear.

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Wow. Fusion breakeven has been achieved. That's a big milestone.

People have been working on this for a long time!

https://www. cnn.com/2022/12/12/politics/nu clear-fusion-energy-us-scientists-climate/index.html

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Wow. Fusion breakeven has been achieved. That's a big milestone.

People have been working on this for a long time!

https://www. cnn.com/2022/12/12/politics/nu clear-fusion-energy-us-scientists-climate/index.html

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If a problem remains a problem, it's not "news" anymore, it's "olds", and the "news" doesn't keep covering it.

Doesn't mean it went away.

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If a problem remains a problem, it's not "news" anymore, it's "olds", and the "news" doesn't keep covering it.

Doesn't mean it went away.