You can import/export most things to CSV (follows, lists, blocks etc)
This way it's easy to set up a new account on new server (as I said, I've been instance hopping for a long time).
You can also download your media archive in its entirety. And you should.
You should also turn on scheduled deletion of your old posts. You don't really want to leave 6 month old messages behind you. You don't have to lose your stuff, just stick the archive somewhere safe (local disk, or dropbox, whatever). These are all standard Mastodon features.
unless they authenticate you in some other way and that’s a major pain.
You should always authenticate yourself on Mastodon if you're "serious" about your identity. It's very easy to do and re-pointing it to your new "official" identity is just one line of HTML.
Mastodon has also feature for moving instances and forwarding your old identity to your new one.
If your instance admin suddenly disappears and shuts down the service, it's a pain, but obviously you run the same risk with any commercial company shutting down your account without notice or recourse to re-open it. So keeping regular backups of your data is a good idea, the import/export tools are there.
The only thing that isn't automatic is followers. And if your followers are a huge concern (for example, part of your livelihood/patronage) you should probably adopt a multi-platform social media strategy anyway. This way you can always reach your followers, no matter what happens to Twitter or Mastodon (or whatever network). You should be on ALL the networks.
But for most people who are not "content creators" the amount of followers isn't really very relevant. It doesn't mean anything. The quality of the discussions is important. And you can participate in discussions without any followers. It's not like other commercial networks where the algorithm squelches you if you don't have enough "clout". You don't need followers to discuss with people on Mastodon.
will come and go and users will lose their identity or home base each time this happens along with all their followers and their connection to the wider social graph. This seems not great.
I'm not sure what this "wider social graph" you mention is, but you don't really lose your identity - you verify it with external website, so it's easy to switch the pointer to a new identity (I've been around since 2017 and I instance-hop often, I go back and delete old accounts couple of times per year)
Losing followers - well yeah, that sucks if your livelihood depends on your social media reach and patronage, but in that case, you should probably have a more solid base for all your social contacts, random Mastodon instance is probably not the best choice.
Well that's good. It's a great game. I've been spared of some of the technical problems, so I'm good - but there are still some bugs lurking around. Could have used couple of more months of polishing before release.
Holy crap this was amazing work.
I was active during "the Providence Wars" (shoutout to all Ushra'Khan peeps) and it's probably the most immersive MMO-experience I've ever had.
Good times with 4am alarm clock stront hauling ops
F1 does have feeder series up the wazoo (F2, F3, Formula-E, F1 Academy), it just doesn't market and broadcast them very well.
They wouldn't really need to spice up the actual GP if there was stuff happening with the feeder series through the weekend.
For once, Horner says something I can agree with.
The sprints are targeted towards DTS and growing market fans (the U.S mainly) and were supposed to bring "fast pace action and drama" to each day during GP weekend.
It failed. Now let's fire the people who came up with this, go back to the old format and never mention this fiasco again.
And give new fans a bit more credit than "oh, they're just too dumb to enjoy practice sessions, we need to create DRAMA for Netflix".
I wish international law regarding war crimes was actually enforceable. There's a long list of world leaders who've gotten away with mass murder with no consequences.
Just have to remember which repos are “managed” and which are not. Installing stuff from PyPi or NPM might actually require you to read through quite a lot of code before installing. I don’t think most people are that diligent.
Yeah. I guess that depends on your use case, but I do quite a lot “sewage plumbing” (malware analysis) so it’s nice to have that extra layer just in case I fuck up.
I’ve been using ESET for a long time, but I don’t actually know what it costs, I get licenses from my company. Might not be suitable price range for home use.
Today the relevant legal concept is "product liability" and the
fundamental formula is "If you make money selling something, then
you better do it well, or you will be held responsible for the
trouble it causes." For better or poorer, the only two products
not covered by product liability today are religion and software,
and software should not escape for much longer.
The EU legislation has good intentions. Software should not escape product liability. However, the current proposal is somewhat flawed (unless EU actually intends to finance security testing for FOSS projects!) and it needs some language to protect open-source innovation and distributed development models.
I'm hoping the EU will allow a model where FOSS developers can receive donations/charge for support without having to risk huge penalties.
I've been using Inoreader for a good while now. It's everything I wanted Google Reader to become.
Web based, runs everywhere, there's a mobile app - supports keyboard shortcuts etc.
You can import/export most things to CSV (follows, lists, blocks etc)
This way it's easy to set up a new account on new server (as I said, I've been instance hopping for a long time).
You can also download your media archive in its entirety. And you should.
You should also turn on scheduled deletion of your old posts. You don't really want to leave 6 month old messages behind you. You don't have to lose your stuff, just stick the archive somewhere safe (local disk, or dropbox, whatever). These are all standard Mastodon features.
You should always authenticate yourself on Mastodon if you're "serious" about your identity. It's very easy to do and re-pointing it to your new "official" identity is just one line of HTML.
Mastodon has also feature for moving instances and forwarding your old identity to your new one.
If your instance admin suddenly disappears and shuts down the service, it's a pain, but obviously you run the same risk with any commercial company shutting down your account without notice or recourse to re-open it. So keeping regular backups of your data is a good idea, the import/export tools are there.
The only thing that isn't automatic is followers. And if your followers are a huge concern (for example, part of your livelihood/patronage) you should probably adopt a multi-platform social media strategy anyway. This way you can always reach your followers, no matter what happens to Twitter or Mastodon (or whatever network). You should be on ALL the networks.
But for most people who are not "content creators" the amount of followers isn't really very relevant. It doesn't mean anything. The quality of the discussions is important. And you can participate in discussions without any followers. It's not like other commercial networks where the algorithm squelches you if you don't have enough "clout". You don't need followers to discuss with people on Mastodon.