Notices by Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club), page 17
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Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 05:30:49 UTC 
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Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 03:14:44 UTC
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@cws contrary to prevailing opinion on our side of the fediverse, the code of Mastodon that I have looked at, with only few exceptions related to scalability, is very good. Servers will fail because docker makes it really easy to set up a server, so easy that people who don't have the skills or attentiveness to maintain a server over the long haul will set one up, then either get bored & quit or lose the db in an outage or botched update.
This next part is an area I have direct insight into: there are very good things on the horizon with regards to federated social networks. The interest in Mastodon has attracted some very skilled and motivated people. -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 03:05:19 UTC
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@cws My estimate is half will be gone in two months. Multiple servers will be lost because nobody is doing regular backups, 90% of those users on dead servers will say "fuck it" and go back to Twitter. 3/4 of all the new users will be gone in a year.
A few brands, a couple "actual famous" not "Internet famous" will pop in for a while, bring another burst of attention with them, and then let their accounts languish.
None of this means Mastodon has "failed" it's just regular attrition. Bottom line is as cool as Mastodon is people want a centralized service because they can't stand that there are servers full of people that can't just be banned from the network (like mine); and find the incongruous usability experience of federated servers to be annoying and unnecessary. There will be many people who remain, and the fediverse, with a large number of Mastodon servers, will continue to exist and make its users happy. "Niche" groups that find the Fediverse (most likely through Mastodon) will be kink groups, bot-makers and experimenters that are fed up with Twitter's shitty rate-limited API, communities based around shared trauma or unique social experience. Other groups will stick around, too. Most of the GNU Social instances will not go away or convert to Mastodon. These people will all come together to Keep the Fediverse Weird (the way it ought to be, tyvm.)
Those are my public predictions. I have other predictions that I am not sharing because sometimes saying the future changes the outcome. -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 19:31:57 UTC
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>Mastodon is a free, open-source social network.
The network is the Fediverse and it existed for years before Mastodon, I really hate this phrasing. -
Drew DeVault (sir@cmpwn.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 02:29:05 UTC 
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MFW someone probably blocked me because they misread "direct threats to defederate" as "death threats"
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Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2017 22:11:52 UTC
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Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2017 19:22:05 UTC
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New idea: may not spending so much time ruminating on the true motives and goals of mentally disturbed weirdos. -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2017 03:23:53 UTC
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I'm not sure but it looks like the thing that bugged in the queue daemons was an outgoing message to fknsrs lol -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2017 02:23:15 UTC
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Whoever is crapflooding servers with requests for /about/more can you please detect if the server is even a Mastodon server first and keep track of that? I'm getting thousands and thousands of hits on that URL right now. -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 21:13:51 UTC
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(7/7) Intro
(pomf) What are we gonna do on #PGPDay?
We are gonna
1. create new free email accounts
2. create a PGP key for our "identity"
3. send messages to each other by mail, or post messages in other places for people to decrypt. Encrpyted messags are fun to get! Send fun stuff to each other.
This works best if you have a friend you can do this with, but we'll be sharing enough info anyway.
OK We get started soon. It is customary to help people who are having difficulties. -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 21:08:29 UTC
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(6/?)
> I am a security expert and it is grossly irresponsible to teach people the bare minimum details of PGP, a notoriously hard-to-use tool
Chill out grandpa, this is for fun and I repeat DO NOT USE THIS FOR REAL SECURITY IF YOU'RE A BEGINNER, WE'RE TRYING TO SHOW YOU A WHOLE NEW WORLD
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Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 21:03:29 UTC
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(5/?)
What are the downsides of #PGP?
1. It encrypts your data in transit, but it does NOTHING to hide your (for our purposes, pseudonymous) identity, and passive observers, if they have access to the encrypted data, can tell who is talking to who, and when, even if they can't read what's inside the messages. It doesn't hide your "social graph"!
2. (crypto nerd thing) If someone steals your key, they can decrypt all old messages. Newer systems can prevent this from happening, but PGP is kind of a lowest common denominator for exchanging private stuff.
These posts will get interesting again soon, I hope. Just trying to make people understand. And again, we are doing this for FUN, with PSEUDONYMOUS IDENTITIES. -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 20:55:38 UTC
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(4/?)
Why would I NOT want to use #PGP / participate in #PGPDay
1. Your abusive government is overtly hostile to crypto users rather than the US standard of being covertly hostile to crypto users, and you could get in serious trouble for using it.
2. You think you need PGP/strong crypto for purposes which, if revealed could result in death or incarceration. This is a FUN, LOW-RISK BEGINNER'S PGP EXERCISE
3. You are resistant to pressure from pseudonymous Internet people and have better things to do (lol no you don't.)
4. You don't like challenges. It's not bad, but it's not a walk in the park either. -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 20:43:39 UTC
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(2/?)
2. What is #PGP, the "reason for the season, so to speak"
PGP (which stands for "pretty good privacy) is an ancient, arcane, poorly-documented and questionably-coded, hard-to-use piece of software with bad defaults.
BUT, can also:
* encrypt messages so that only recipients can read them, without having to first share a secret key or passphrase
* Encrypt files on-disk so that only you or the recipient can decrypt them.
* Causes ass-hemmoraghing in people that hate PGP and want it to die, including but not limited to: the federal government, your country's government, the NSA, the CIA, your local police, and oversensitive infosec experts (who are technically right, but lol.)
* GIVES YOU VALUABLE NERD CRED
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Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 20:34:57 UTC
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PGP DAY: (1/?)
1. What is #PGPDay?
In April 4, 2016 the world experienced an unprecedented event: Through mere peer pressure and boredom, as many as twelve under-20 youths and a handful of older adults willingly and without coercion, successfully installed and used #PGP to communicate. It is believed that this is the largest number of people to correctly install and use PGP in a 24 hour period in the history of the world, and defied claims that it is too hard or not cool.
In 2017 on the first weekend of April that @moonman is not overwhelmed with work, we honor this day and hope to repeat its success. https://shitposter.club/attachment/572169 -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 20:25:07 UTC
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OTR/OMemo over GS/Mastodon is not so great because the typical user interface is web, which is delivered from a central party that can deliver you busted or malicious E2E code. unless you use a third party client you can trust for other reasons. -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 19:08:39 UTC
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Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 11:58:26 UTC
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@cyberpotato @nepfag @dolus
I feel like at some point in the last 15 years or so people stopped getting taught that most of the time it is actually better to keep your head down because 1. you don't know all the facts of what happened between two separate third parties, and 2. by jumping up and screaming bloody murder naturally a whole bunch of people are never going to want to work with you ever again because they don't know if you're going to do that to them next time. It sucks when there actually is a problem and you really do have to stand up and say something, because life isn't a movie where you're the star, most of the time correcting an institutional wrong involves significant personal risk. -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 21:07:45 UTC
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The real reason is I just don't care because somebody posting a swastika doesn't turn into the third reich, I just don't believe it does. if I were to apply those kinds of rules here I think as a culture we are much more going down the path that leads to glaze-eyed mobs exerting struggle sessions on people for perceived ideological impurity or counterrevolutionary thoughts/actions. Anybody seen anything like that happening lately -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 18:44:39 UTC
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Tomorrow is #PGPDay
Preparing documentation tonight.
All Bobinas P4G content and data are available under the 
