Notices by Eugen 💀 (gargron@mastodon.social), page 26

#pixelfed is trending and it's deserved cc @dansup

Released #Mastodon v2.4.1rc1 (release candidate):

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.1rc1

It includes some fixes, as well as trending hashtags.

@quad My low end estimate is that it could support 240,000 concurrently active Mastodon users. If the ratio of concurrently active to total registered users is in the ballpark of mastodon.social, that would mean an instance with 3,854,664 users

EU regulation to stop companies from sending you "We updated our privacy policy" e-mails when

I finally wrote a Patreon post with updates since the last time I wrote one 👀 https://www.patreon.com/posts/18831571

#Mastodon v2.4.0rc3 with a security fix for affected rc1 and rc2 versions: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.0rc3

That was the reason for yesterday's stress. Did what I could to give affected admins time to upgrade before it's public knowledge, but I hear people are already discussing it in public so time's out.

Also Ford's Theme remains the best tune in Westworld. Goosebumps when it starts playing. But it's only in combination with Anthony Hopkins' character that it has manifested itself as such https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7TDwpmXC7c

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Due to exceptionally high demand, I have closed registrations on mastodon.social for now, and put a message directing people to mstdn.io as a very similar alternative (additionally to the generic link to the list of all servers, of course!) ????

Here is a poll about expected behaviours on Mastodon:

Should original toots that begin with a @ (mention) be treated similar to an original toot (regardless of @) (current behaviour) or similar to a reply to another toot (e.g. not shown to your followers who do not also follow the person you're @'ing) (Twitter behaviour)

https://www.strawpoll.me/15605710

We're back at the final frontier https://www.twitch.tv/gargron

Hey Greek folks, Mastodon isn't currently translated into Greek at all, but it could be! We have a Weblate, which is a website where you can submit translations: https://weblate.joinmastodon.org/projects/mastodon/backend/

There's this PR that adds support for talking to servers on .onion addresses to Mastodon: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/7134 I have doubts about the variables being named "darknet", is that a silly concern? 🤔

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There's a good boi in skyrim

Mastodon and @switter in Buzzfeed :coolcat: https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/sex-workers-twitter-switter-mastodon-alternative-social

hmmmm :thounking:

Article on Techcrunch: "RSS is undead". First line: "RSS died"

I've become a lot more jaded about tech takes by tech magazines after Mastodon. RSS never died it's just not trendy enough that you hear people talk about it. Every WordPress blog on the net has an RSS feed. Every webcomic. Every news site. Including Techcrunch.