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99% of the time "Judeo-Christian" is antisemitic. And yes, I will absolutely elaborate on this if asked.

Credit: @Rabbit Cohen

Edit because this blew up far more than I expected and multiple people have asked for me to elaborate, here's a copy of my elaboration with follow up questions encouraged:

It's a messy topic and it's late here (I'm a bit sleepy), so feel free to ask follow up questions.

The short version of it is that Judeo-Christian is almost always used in one of two harmful ways:

1) To try and give more credibility and weight to something that is purely Christian by claiming that it's part of Judaism as well when it's not (like the above example, because Judaism explicitly permits abortions)
2) To try and talk about broader groupings of related faiths while ignoring the many other Abrahamic faiths (the proper term, though that one more often hurts the lesser known groups, don't use it unless you also know it applies to groups like the Baháʼí, which I'll admit even I know next to nothing about, but it's valid here because all I'm doing is naming their religious family)

Because many (cough most cough) teach a bastardized form of Judaism through the lens of Christianity, and because that's the only exposure many get to our faith... they get skewed harmful and hurtful ideas about us.

Some highlight examples:
* We don't have an established afterlife (we don't say there isn't one, we just have zero information on it if there is)
* We don't seek "eternal reward", the reward for our faith is being a better person than we were the day before
* We have forgiveness baked into our faith, and no it doesn't require animal sacrifice (it requires you to actually ask the person you wronged...)
* We thoroughly encourage arguing any topic with anyone (right time and place of course), and that includes picking a fight with God if you think they're wrong about something (you have a 99.9% chance of being wrong... but we commend the effort and every once in a while someone wins the argument)
* We have a rule, Pikuach Nefesh, roughly meaning that life is the highest commandment. Your well being takes precedence over your faith, if it would hurt you or others to be observant than you are exempt from that requirement. It's unacceptable to hurt others for your faith, and for yourself it's frowned upon
* We actively discourage conversion, it's allowed but it's not a trivial process. We don't want people to become Jews, we just want people to be better.

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@Shannon (she/her) @Pedestriansfirst I suppose you're technically correct, I guess I usually never think about it because there's always more apt descriptions (ie. Nazis are often Zionists because "Blood And Soil").

And yes on the antisemitism of it, I just chose not to say anything about that in favor of a chance at education. (Also a love for getting into arguments with aggressive militant atheists because it's so fun to see their talking points shatter and the confusion that comes from it)

And I didn't bring it up later because I felt from the conversation that it wasn't going to be a problem again from them because they learned some things about Judaism, Jewish Culture, and that religions people can in fact own and acknowledge bad behaviors in their own communities.

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@Shannon (she/her) I don't think believing all zionists are jews isn't that messy of a idea because it impacts so little, especially since the zionist behavior of non-jews is already easily discernible on it's own as awful anyways.

And keep in mind that the comparison is that this started from assuming that all Jews condoned the atrocities committed by the Israeli government and has walked away knowing that it's not uniform.



This is a long article, but the theory hits *hard* with me and connects really well.

The basic gist is that autistics almost always define our identities by what we do and our personal traits, while non-autistics almost always define their identities by their relationships (in particular to social groups)

If you don't have it in you to read all of it, definitely read the section: "How does having an experientially-constructed identity impact relationships?".

neuroclastic.com/the-identity-…

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@bike I suspect it isn't that much different. Collectivist societies can be awful in their own ways.

They're still better imo, but they have a tendency to focus too hard on traditions and conformity on top of the ideals of communal responsibility.

But in all cases it's a mesh of peer pressure and group identity vs our value identity.

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@bike I get that, I mostly mention that so I don't come across as bashing collectivist societies incidentally. My point was more that I doubt there's that much difference for us, just swap out one set of rules that don't make sense for another set that don't make sense for a different reason.
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Why You Must Keep The Monsters Human


*(Reposting because my node crashed and lost all my posts and I want to keep this one pinned)*

I've been mulling over making this post for a little bit, but I think it's really **really** important.

It's critically important that you remember and acknowledge the humanity of monsters. Not for their benefit, but for *everyone else's* benefit.

When someone commits a monstrous act or shares a monstrous belief, we want to think of them as an inherently vile and non-human thing.

But doing so shields and protects other monsters.

When you make a Nazi, or any kind of abuser, into a one-dimensional monster. When you make their whole existence *center* on this monstrous act or belief... you make it hard to see their humanity. And that's the point, you don't *want* to see their humanity.

*** You Don't Want To Believe That Someone You Know And Trust (Maybe Even Love) Is Capable Of Such Atrocity. ***

And that's the problem. Because when you reject their humanity, that humanity becomes their shield. Your friend Bob can't possibly be a Nazi or a child-abuser, he's such a loving father and he helped you move!

Because you see their humanity, you can't possibly imagine them as monsters because the monsters have no humanity in your eyes.

There's a reason that when serial killers get caught their neighbors say they couldn't imagine them doing such things.

So don't ignore their humanity, keep it in your mind... so the next one can't use it as a shield.



People think Linux needs you to constantly open the terminal to work on things, in part because they see Linux users so often opening the terminal to work on things...

Was just appreciating this morning that the "opening the terminal to fix it" in Linux is a privilege, not a limitation lol.

Sound started glitching this morning, I of course checked the soundbar, unplugged and replugged it, didn't fix it. Switched to TV speakers same problem.

Me being a techie, I'm going "Ah, pipewire glitched out", I pop open the terminal type systemctl --user restart pipewire and voila sound is perfectly fine again.

Do I expect other people to know how to do that to handle an odd sound glitch? No! I expect them "turn it off and on again".

The difference is that in Windows that's the only choice, probably the same with Mac too.

#linux

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It's like opening the hood of your car. Nobody complains that that's just part of the process of fixing them. We've been trained by Apple and Microsoft to think that we *shouldn't* have to do that. It's monopoly shit.
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I've been using Linux exclusively¹ since late 2010, and the main reason I use the command line is because it makes me feel like a l337 h4xx0r.

¹ not including my job, which is done on a Windows thin client.


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We're now doing office hours - link in the calendar at bottom of
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lewd, reminder

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Fun fact: I repressed for five years straight because I was worried I wouldn't be pretty if I transitioned. Guess what bitches? I'm gorgeous.


The comic that cracked a thousand eggs. reallifecomics.com/comic.php?c…

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idea: extension that adds boost, favorite, and follow buttons to your browser. if you go to a webpage that has an activitypub actor/note attached to it then they light up and you can just click them and you'll do the thing on your own profile
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there was an extension called fediact that did something similar, seems to have been abandoned though
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@esm yep, partially inspired by that but it would probably be easier to Not try to hook into existing elements on the page

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politics, transphobia/homophobia, rehabilitative justice, sensitive topics

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yeah i don't have the original post but i wonder how many reblogs it is at right now. the pillow discourse one is at like 200k which is insane
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I don't think I saw the pillow discourse? When was that? (Maybe after I left Tumblr?)

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also you know a post of yours is a banger when you start filling out the content warning field like a bingo card

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"trans spaces are so hypersexual"

Firstly hypersexuality is a thing ppl experience and using the word to describe spaces is very tone deaf

Secondly for being too sexual we seem to spend an awful lot of time cuddling and caring for each other.

Lastly just stop being sex negative. Jfc

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I’m gonna quit this job. Just as soon as I lose my addiction to food and shelter.


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The wonderful thing about being a transbian is that your friend from out if town can stop by to visit for a week

And then 8 days later you're crying at work because she won't be holding you tonight 😭

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Randomly reminded of one of my favorite terms: Schrodinger's Douchebag

Definition: someone who is or is not "joking" depending on whether or not people around them agree with the statement

Related: See Poe's Law

#bigots #douchebags #JustJoking #LogicalFallacy #PoesLaw


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You know it's chilly when the over-the-covers dog becomes an under-the-covers dog. #DogsOfBlueSky #Dogs #Autumn

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My favorite "historical" plaque is this one in San Francisco reminding us of a scene in the Maltese Falcon film.

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My sister's tea shop is bridged from Bluesky now so I can finally start trying to convince y'all to (a) follow her and (b) try some of the best tea you've ever had!

tabletopteas.com

#ad


Time to stock up for yourself and get some gifts for your tea-loving friends 💜 Visit the shop over the holiday weekend 🦃 #Tea #TeaLover #LooseLeafTea #TeaShop #FandomTeas #WomanOwned #DisabledOwned
#ad

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Boosting this so other people get the edit and stop boosting something that isn't true anymore but also I can't delete that post because I quoted it


DO NOT DEPLOY THE CODE ON SHARKEY STABLE RIGHT NOW, IT IS NOT STABLE

EDIT: THIS IS FIXED NOW STOP BOOSTING THIS


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Temporarily hacked solution, but in theory my posts should be bridging over to Bluesky now...

Gist of what came about: Bridgy identifies it's accounts as "application" types and apparently Friendica treats those accounts differently, expecting them to be send messages but not need to receive... so it never actually sends post updates to them which means in turn the bridge never has a post to forward... unless you tag a bridged account, which explicitly sends it.

Looks like both teams are looking at fixes, Bridgy is going to change it's account types (but won't be sending updates, the few who are affected can just use the update contacts option to fix it) and Friendica is looking at potentially minimally invasive fixes.

My temporary fix that might work? I manually changed the account type in the database...

#BlueSky #Bridgy #BridgyFed #ActivityPub #Fediverse


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I'm old enough to remember when Russia bought a nine-year-old LiveJournal to identify and stifle local dissenters who were using the platform to mobilize. The whole Twitter thing happened before and it'll happen again, over and over again until we fucking learn.

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wait LJ was only 9 years old when it happened? It felt like it was around FOREVER before that.
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My LiveJournal still exists, last updated in 2011, because I refused to accept the new TOS and agree to Russian laws in order to log in and delete it.

This is a large part of why I actually did eventually delete my Facebook/Instagram and Twitter accounts.



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Twitch's ban of the term “Zionism” was "clearly a political decision," EFF’s @jilliancyork told The New Arab. "While the term can be used as a proxy to mean ‘Jewish,’ censoring it completely ... disables criticism of the 19th-century political ideology."
newarab.com/news/twitch-faces-…

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@jilliancyork TIL: twitch is a place to discuss historical narratives?

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Urgent Warning for Fedi Admins
We've discovered an ongoing Denial-of-Service attack against Misskey-based instances. The attacks exploit a zero-day vulnerability impacting Misskey, Sharkey, IceShrimp, and other related software. Patches are in progress and will be released ASAP. We encourage all admins to update immediately!

Note: this is a different vulnerability from the ones that were recently announced! You should update today and again tomorrow at the scheduled time.

Update: Sharkey version 2024.9.2 has been released with a patch. You can get the update here: activitypub.software/TransFem-…
#Misskey #Sharkey #IceShrimp #FediAdmins #Security

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Nerd Rant about Protocols

Randomly thinking about small protocols or protocol changes that I think should exist.

Prime example is Static HTTPS:
I think there should be a companion protocol to HTTPS for handling static requests. This would be great for caching, general performance, and even saving storage/bandwidth on things like ActivityPub.

The gist of it is that HTTPS uses a static set of keys to negotiate a dynamic set of keys and dynamically encrypts your entire conversation with the server. It's impossible to do any sort of caching on HTTPS without decrypting it first, but also there's no way to make it unique either without things like php sessions (requiring logins or backchannel confirmations).

How this would work, using the existing HTTPS keys, a request would be made similar to HTTP where the connection itself is unencrypted, but the host/url will specifically be encrypted and the payload of the data sent in return will be encrypted. If you were to cache it the same encrypted request will net the same encrypted data (unless the file behind it gets updated of course). If headers must be added then those can be encrypted separately as well, but also support unencrypted where not necessary... everything would be avoiding using headers in general for this, especially as the files are static.

(Optionally the html could also include a key explicitly for that file)

This means that anything in the middle can cache data without necessarily knowing anything about it. Meaning that something like Cloudflare could provide caching for an HTTPS website without also having to have the key.

Obviously in less secure cases where it doesn't include a special key in the html it will mean that if someone knows what site you're accessing (often an easy guess from IP unless it's something like a cloudflare protected site) they can potentially identify the file by matching to their own browsing... but these should be unimportant files anyways (ie. the google logo, css style sheets, etc), even if visible they'll be effectively signed and you'll know the site wasn't tampered with in transit.

But the really special case shines in things like the fediverse where when I make a followers-only post with a picture attached... right now either the picture is relying on obscurity (publically visible if you know the address) or it has to be embedded in the post as it's sent to the recipient.

This protocol would mean that the html of the post could include the key to the file. The receiving server wouldn't even need to support this protocol or have any change at all in ActivityPub standard to show this image, but the image would still be visible to the recipient so long as their browser or client supported it.

Example:
<a href="shttps://foggyminds.com/images/123456" key="101010101">
(obviously the key would be much longer usually)

A backwards compatible call when privacy isn't a concern (ie. google logo):
<a href="https://foggyminds.com/images/123456" shttps=1>
(Browser with no shttps support would use https normally, but one with that support would see the shttps=1 on there and change the protocol automatically)

#nerd #rant #protocols #https #webdev #http #ssl #web

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Minority opinion and vulnerable minority population aren't the same thing.

Just because your opinion is in the minority doesn't mean it's bigoted or unreasonable to dismiss it, only when your opinion is rooted in your status as a vulnerable population.

Me voicing about how things affect me as a trans-woman is speaking from my minority status and bears listening to because we want to be a fair and equitable society.

That doesn't mean we should take seriously the minority of people who are convinced that 1+1=3. Their minority position stems from simply being wrong about fundamental truths.

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And this is in fact related to my previous... the minority who think this is Mastodon shouldn't be the leading voice on things going on in the fediverse.

If you think this is the place for privacy or control of your data... you shouldn't be leading the discussion.

Especially compared to the people who know what ostatus and gnu.social are, let alone people who know what diaspora* is.

We're going to get a wave of outrage as Mastodon rolls out quote posts and people realize that those posts don't follow delete requests of the original let alone the block settings of the original user and server. And they're going to scream and shout that this should be removed from the whole fediverse... nevermind the fact that it's only new to Mastodon.



Copying myself because I'm irritated yet again by people with their head up their ass assuming that their tiny view of the fediverse represents the whole and it's history...

This was set off by another person, yet again, complaining about bridgy-fed and thinking Snarfed is some untrustworthy asshole because he was following the actual norms and standards of the fediverse because the Twitter expats thought Mastodon was some bastion of personal control and ownership....

For context, opt-out (via just blocking the bridge) has been the norm since pretty much the beginning of federation... which the people complaining about the nature of the bridge don't realize how old federation and the community is.

For context (of the ones I'm aware of):
* The first federated protocol was introduced in 1980
* The first federated chat protocol was introduced in 1999
* The first federated social networking platforms that I know of started coming out about 2010. The platform I'm on (Friendica) came out that year.
* the second major federated chat protocol was introduced in 2014 and quickly bridges were built between it and the first (all only opt-out via blocking)
* Mastodon wasn't released until 2016, originally on the ostatus network (Friendica supported and still supports ostatus)
* Snarfed starts working on bridgy-fed around 2018
* Activitypub came out in 2018, mastodon and friendica both transitioned to Activitypub as their central protocol with Mastodon eventually dropping ostatus.
* Bridges were established between Activitypub and previous social networks, all opt-out bridges (and again via blocking)
* 2022 Elon Musk buys Twitter and do to good PR Mastodon becomes the instance platform of choice for most of them to the point that most of them think Mastodon is the network
* 2023, Snarfed has been writing bridgy fed for 7 years now, about as long as the activitypub network has existed, long predating Bluesky (because that's not the only bridge in the project), and all of a sudden people specifically overwhelmingly on Mastodon or younger projects think it's a deep offense to build something under the same social standards that have been the norm for decades. Even then long before the bluesky portion of the bridge was fully functional they relented and switched to an approach that drastically hampered has caused countless bugs and technical difficulties just because a minority of people decided to dogpile him... and of course he's judged because other people essentially crashed a party he'd been at peacefully for years and decided to scream that he was being inappropriate when everyone who was hear already supported it...

#bridges #bridgy #FediMeta #Fediverse #Bluesky

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And I really can't wait until Mastodon's roll out of quote posts hits and they start freaking out like it's a whole new and despicable thing... I'm gonna break out the popcorn for that because I can't imagine them convincing the whole fediverse to just tear out a feature that's been there for ages because they thought Mastodon made the rules lol

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Help fundraise for #RescueTransRescue @trans_rescue by taking home one of my #FountainPen ink originals. ko-fi.com/inherentlee/shop

If any of these aren't your style, please still check out the rest of the art fundraiser linked above, there's SO many amazing works in different styles and mediums!

@penfount #inkArtwork #ArtFundraiser #BuyIntoArt #FountainPens #MixedMediaArt

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Price reduction! These are now $30 instead of $50, and support @trans_rescue !

Buy some fountain pen art, or some of the many other amazing arts and crafts in the #RescueTransRescue fundraiser .

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@penfount #TransRights #BuyIntoArt #FediArt #TransArtists #NonbinaryArt #QueerArtists

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Final test post for bridge behaviors... don't disregard, check out my sister's tea shop @Tabletop Teas ;-)




More info: variety.com/2024/digital/news/…


For those who have not checked:

The infowars website is back in the hands of Jones et al.

A stop was put on the purchase of the site by a court. I highly recommend staying away from it for the time being, as you can imagine just what is being posted there at the moment.

#infowars



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Look, all I'm saying is are you really getting real cyberpunk replacement limbs if you don't have both a knife and a vibrator in there?
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Yay! I got a sibling to turn on the Bluesky/AP bridge!

Hi Aris! @RS

(Also someone on github said my side of the bridge might fix if I mention someone on the other side lol)

@RS
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Cool! Am I correct in my understanding that other people over there can follow me as fed.brid.gy/bsky/tadaris... and it'll all magically link?

tadaris.bsky.social profile - ...

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@RS Yep, it's translating requests from ActivityPub (Mastodon, Friendica, etc) to AT (Bluesky) and back.

It's opt-in though, which is why you needed to follow the bridge account: @ap.brid.gy on the Bluesky side and @Bridgy Fed for Bluesky on the other


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The wonderful folk over at @trans_rescue@mastodon.social have been working their butts off with a very limited budget to help get trans folk out of dangerous places.

I've pulled together a collection of my stories. These were first written on twitter, some I've reposted here over the years but this is the first time a collection of them has been available.

If you want to acquire a copy of this collection all you have to do is send me proof of a £5 or more donation to Trans Rescue in a DM. (Please for the love of all that is holy redact any bank details) and I'll send you a link to the file with 60 stories and more than one hundred pages of kinky smut.

Note: trans rescue have nothing to do with this, do not hassle them about it, I'm doing this entirely on my own and if they ask me to stop I will.

transrescue.org/donations/dona…

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@Persephone Well they boosted it, so I think they're appreciative!

@Trans Rescue

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We're just wondering how many folks will check the box saying they want a receipt for tax purposes 😜
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@Trans Rescue @Persephone That donation form doesn't have a box like that? Maybe it's region dependent?

Got a receipt regardless, email was mandatory.

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yeah, guess it just mails them out.
forgive our clanky donation system. our web dev is done by volunteers who are awesome, but are working in their spare time.
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@Trans Rescue @Persephone Clanky? What's clanky about it? It was simple and smooth, I especially like the checkbox to also cover the transaction fees.
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Actually, GiveWP, who provides our donation software, has been super supportive. It's just a system being maintained by folks with other jobs.

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I wonder whats in ~/Documents/fuck.

Ah yeah patchfiles

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Average Mastodon Bio: Senior Data Scientist at the Technology Institute of Numbers.

Average Threads Bio: My personality revolves around whichever news article headline I read this morning.

Average Bluesky Bio: I lead a transdimensional book club/cult and also sell feet pics.

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Average x bio: It’s not my fault for staying too long and thus helping elon destroy america
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It's a shame my feet are still covered in rashes from allergy trauma earlier this year

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Hello everyone! I just set up this new account?

Things seem pretty cool here on this "fediverse". What does that mean though, the "fediverse"? I hear it's using ActivityPub. Could anyone explain to me what that means? Thanks!

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post-spoiler meta

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ActivityPub is a protocol used to build a federated social network that's known as the "Fediverse". In layman's terms, instead of posts being carried by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.

The original fediverse had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic mastodons, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.

The fediverse has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of novertrunnions. Moreover, whenever a forescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal troll posts


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opinion that better not be unpopular

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Cute AF