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Don't forget to support your Fedi admins in any way you can.

Fediverse isn't run by multi-billion dollar companies, and in a lot of cases, is simply run by kind folks who just want to have a nice social media platform.

Therefore, there's a high chance that the server costs come out of their pockets.

Support your admins. They help Fedi go round.🫶

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If you're thinking of starting a website, it would be best for you to pick a country level domain extension, as opposed to a word-based domain extension.

Corporations can be bought, sold, influenced, regulated, and shutdown, overnight. If avoiding Donald Trump's possible madness is your goal, you don't want to be back into a corner with Corporate America.

#Icann #Fediverse #Fedi #Mastodon #Misskey #Sharkey #IceShrimp #PixelFed #PeerTube #WordPress

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@thenewsdesk @top-stories-in-tech-thenewsdesk
I don’t consider thousands of posts doing NOTHING but soliciting new followers, and spending all my social media time vetting and following unsolicited accounts, a “fix.” It simply replicated all that was a horrific waste of time on Twitter, chasing accounts around the mulberry bush to juice the algorithm.

I’d rather have a few hundred intelligent, entertaining, artsy contacts than the thousands of anonymous nobodies I “knew” on Twitter and Bluesky.

Three cheers for the Fediverse!

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Many people, unfortunately, do not read legal documentation. It has become human nature to simply click "OK, I agree".

If more folks did read their terms of services, you would know word-based domain name extensions are not managed the same way as normal with the protection of ICANN.

As it stands now, if Donald Trump really lost his mind, he could shut down much of the Fediverse.

#Icann #Fediverse #Fedi #Mastodon #Misskey #Sharkey #IceShrimp #PixelFed #PeerTube #WordPress

I know a bunch of people on #fedi are like "death to billionaires" but look at this real 100% legitimate email from my new friend Jeff Bezos, Ceo Of Amazon. Maybe he's not such a bad guy after all... :pepe_cool: