The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@potus) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.
@Gargron@potus If your instance is federated to #Threads, every time you make a post, you're essentially toiling Zuck's estate like a medieval serf. Zuck doesn't pay you. But your free labor pays him, in a sense, by increasing the value of #Meta.
Technofeudalism, Yanis Varoufakis
(replaced X/Elon with Meta/Zuk)
@pokarim Hey Pokarim (or anyone from mstdn.jp), I always get this GeoBlock(?) when I visit mstdn.jp or any post. Can't even tag the admin as they're unknown. Would be nice to share it with the admin if you can. Also recall that it's been sold.
Something exciting today. It's now possible to zap on the Fediverse! ⚡ ⚡ ⚡ You can zap users on Nostr! You can zap users on Mastodon/Pleroma/ActivityPub! Let the sats flow!!!
@graf@alex I know about that. I'm looking at this - directly tip/zap from a post. Enter Card details and you're done in a few seconds. Users are well, just LAZY and don't want to re-learn.
/Not trying to take anything away from the work done here.
There's a lot of pictures that you actually can use freely, as long as you give credit. Such as this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RTC_2357.jpg
@LeslieBurns@Liliana Wikipedia doesn't have a check for that? Like, automatically check the meta/location etc of the uploaded pic and accept or reject after verification? 😳 Didn't know it was a free for all.
@LeslieBurns@Liliana E.g. If I check the EXIF info of the link that OP shared, I see the following details. A majority of photographers strip this before uploading it to their website.