Notices by stux⚡ (stux@mstdn.social)

Nowadays when I talk to people who play games they often have no issue with the "standard" endless in-game purchases (with real money) for items or whatever IF they can also get it for free in the game

And I understand, for their gameplay it maybe doesn't matter but I am truly amazed by how normal it has become that every single game is filled with purchases left and right

Some games feel like cryptocurrency, they only exist to make more and more money regardless of anything else

C'moooooon!

The problem with these endless purchases is the so called "whales"

Over 98% of the players will never spend a dime but the other 2% are paying for the rest of the playerbase.. the addicted ones

Being addicted to such games does not only eat up your literal life time but also has bottomless spending pits designed to get as much out of the player as possible

This is becoming a real issue that seems to go rather unnoticed 😟

Tonight on 00:00 CET+1 mstdn.social will go offline for a planned server migration⚠️

I’m trying my best to make this all happen as fast as possible but I estimate a max of 6 hours of downtime.

In the meanwhile you can keep an eye out on our status page at: https://status.mstdn.social

I need your help ❤️

Over 4-5 days new server- and media storage bills are coming in for this month

Currently I am still over €428 short this month😿😟

For upcoming weekend I have a server migration planned to scale down the costs by another €200 on the main servers but that will only take effect next month

If you can, please help out 🙏

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://liberapay.com/mstdn
https://opencollective.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost

Thank you ❤️

So trueee

@koosswart@mastodon.frl Voor FB hebben we bijvoorbeeld Friendica https://friendi.ca :ablobwink: dit is ook gefedereerd en werkt ook met Mastodon etc!

Uhh tja.. Facebook heeft een wat andere doelgroep deze dagen :blobcatgiggle: Enkele dagen nadat ik mijn FB heb verwijderd jaren geleden ben ik deze instance begonnen

#Mastodon is kinda the open source alternative for #Twitter but there's more!

For almost all 'mainstream' (social) platform there are FOSS (free open source software) alternatives you can host yourself!

Here are some you should checkout:

Pixelfed (Insta alt): https://pixelfed.org
PeerTube (YT alt): https://joinpeertube.org
Matrix (Chat): https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/synapse
Pleroma: https://pleroma.social
Misskey: https://join.misskey.page/en-US
WriteFreely : https://writefreely.org

There are also a lot of websites with information and staticstics about each instance within the #Fediverse.

We want to be transparant, no fake numbers, no bullshit!

Here are some websites about the Fediverse you should checkout:

https://fedidb.org
https://the-federation.info
https://fediverse.observer
https://fediverse.space

To get started I recommend following and checking out the toots of @feditips and @FediFollows

For some more in-depth information about how #Mastodon works be sure to checkout the docs :cat_hug_triangle:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org

Wanna go all the way? Setup your own server with Mastodon for FREE!
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

The end of the month is here again! 😮

This brings also new server- media- and email bills with it 💸

Please think about supporting us with paying the bills for the servers, media storage and emails ❤️

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://liberapay.com/mstdn
https://opencollective.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate

Together with you we can make this all possible! :blobcathearts:

American fries™️

It's time to address the elephant in the room, or actually Threads

As many of you may know Threads went live in Europe and with that they started testing federation with the Fediverse

At this point there is a choice to make

1. Block Threads on instance level, that will take away the choice for each person

2. Do not block and let people block if they want to(1 search and 2 clicks)

After much consideration and talks I think we need to go with option 2 and let people decide for themselves

@JamesLHSprague @CanadianCrone If you go to this profile: @mosseri

and click the following 😉

Everything..

Just a random red carpet

@administrator Cats are the police! haha

All those years in jail for those racists who tried to overtake the capitol on Jan 6 :blobhappy:

That’s what you get when you try to overthrow a democracy with a fascist leader :donaldtrump:

They can be proud in jail now

Another great changelog :blobcatgiggle: @Gargron

@coloco John Warnock

Thank you John :pdf: :photoshop:

RIP