another vore mention, curious

Blockchains are decentralized centralizing

I wonder if I'm blocked from bird.makeup or their code is somehow still broken because I still cannot follow any accounts there

I would not trust any of you with anything ever

I am 76.7% good, 89.2% lawful, making me lawful good:
https://www.idrlabs.com/moral-alignment/test.php

One of these days I'm going to go to Rue Laincel to take a picture and all I'll get is stabbed and a single post that flops

> thank you for filling out our application, please go to our website to finish (read: actually fill out) the application

How about you go FUCK yourself, company

for no reason at all
for no reason at all
for no reason at all

Blowing off work because it's been ten months and they're trying to get me to do something I have no idea how to do

I run insider builds of windows because I hate myself

> another day where my .null domains are still dead

oh, treebird.froth.zone is dead. Wonder why that is

People who talk to coworkers about anything other than work should learn to not

Cloudflare, the internet's new single point of failure, seems very widely adopted around here. Apparently, 3,299 instances sit behind Cloudfed, 14.5% of fedi's 22,761 total instances.

The same people that think Google and Facebook are evil appear to forget how Google and Facebook got where they are, and they say "B-But it's free DDoS protection! 1.1.1.1 is free DNS upstream! They're just trying to give us nice things for free!", trying to justfiy their own part in enabling the next Google.

Remember: Cloudflare has IPO'd and valuation is about market capture: they will burn money until that 14.5% is 84.5% and then they start clamping down. This isn't some kind of theory, this isn't abstract, I didn't make this up. This *is* the strategy. It's not just the strategy, it's a legal obligation: once you have taken the VC money or you are a publicly traded company, you have a fiduciary duty to not misuse the shareholders' money. You take their money and you promise to do your damnedest to turn a profit, that's what stocks are. The hedge funds, pension funds, money market accounts that hold your stock, your board of directors, they can sue if you leave a dollar on the table, and your board will toss you out. You don't get blind-sided by this, either: if you're executing the strategy, you plan to see it through, and if you take that money, you are executing that strategy. It's already naive to put your trust in a third party, but it is completely retarded to trust a company that is publicly traded or that has taken a Series A.

Cloudfed has already hung at least three large instances out to dry, sinblr.com because FOSTA-SESTA passed, poa.st (just the media servers; API remains behind boat-clicker), and kiwifarms.cc because of a Twitter mob. Say what you will about those instances (I don't feel like anything of value was lost when KF went down), but it's a bad precedent and if it worked once, it will be used again, and you might not like the next target. If most of the web is dependent on a single service and that service is willing to censor just because some lunatics on Twitter got mad, then we are all fucked. Amazon decides not to host you and Cloudfed decides not to provide "free" MitM services and what do you think is going to happen? Using Cloudflare gives random shareholding entities and Twitter mobs veto power over what you do.

Here is a TSV of all the instances that live behind Cloudfed.
cloudfed_instances.tsv

The only good XMPP client is Conversations all of the desktop/browser ones are shit

Brute force update: I am (it's still going)