ACTION! Spread These Graphics No Kings is tomorrow. Here's something to do today. Get these great No Kings graphics out! Both here and, ON OTHER social media. Mastodon is a relatively tiny social media community, but we punch above our weight. Artists here have created these great certified AI free No Kings graphics. @npub12mx9...ttea - Defenders Of Democracy @npub1kqk6...7emt - HOP @npub1nr6q...6wqx - Rosie The Ribbiter Help get them out there! @npub1uuce...2xt3 @npub1thdj...h8wc #NoKings #NoKingsArt

FOLKS! The incredible fantastic street artist David Zin @npub168k7...fgpt is on the Fedi! Follow him. Welcome him. Welcome, David! Really glad you've decided to join public social media!

To kind of summarize some of the recent #Bluesky drama. Yesterday Bluesky changed their Terms of Service to require binding arbitration. Users are unhappy, but there's nothing they can do about it because Bluesky is not decentralized and there is no place they can go. Today, Bluesky banned a user for wishing ill of J.K. Rowling for her anti-trans hate. Users are very unhappy, but there's nothing they can do about it because Bluesky is not decentralized and there is no place they can go. Get it?

Video: Tik Tok @angel.invests | "Don't Attack The Only People Still Willing To Pick Up A Damn Shovel" Young construction entrepreneur discusses how work on his home building projects has been brought to a halt by fear of ICE. h/t Christopher Colt on Threads @npub1pr2l...d794

So, you may have heard that JD Vance is "The Most Blocked Person On Bluesky" (

AV Club

JD Vance immediately becomes most-blocked person on Bluesky

JD Vance immediately becomes most-blocked person on Bluesky

He is now blocked by over 100,000 users. So with 36,800,000 users, that's a whopping 0.2% of #Bluesky users that are blocking JD Vance. Just sayin 🤷

To #Bluesky users. CEO Jay Graber has said #Bluesky is decentralized. If you don't like what the company is doing, you have the option to move your account. So, for instance, if the company welcomed and verified JD Vance, as has now happened, you could move elsewhere. Well folks, this was a lie, #Bluesky is actually a centralized platform. There is no place on Bluesky to move to. But you do have one option. Move to the Fediverse. A truly decentralized defensible public social media network.

Harris up +4 In new Morning Consult poll. We finally have a new high quality non-"red wave" poll, and Harris continues her solid lead. This is down two points from the same poll two weeks ago. @npub1aa9v...umwm

While federation is great, it does create some confusion. For instance, when you want to refer to someone else's post, you may have tried to copy the link a post and it doesn't seem to work right. Unfortunately, you might need to understand a little about the way the fediverse works. Check out this new blog post from the new Mastodon Migration Blog (https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/): Understanding Mastodon Federation: Original and Local Pages >>>

Understanding Mastodon Federation: Original and Local Pages – Mastodon Migration Blog

#MastoTips #fediverse

Mastodon News The tech press is picking up on WordPress federation... PC: Forget Twitter - WordPress.com Blogs Can Now Connect to Mastodon >>>

PCMAG

Forget Twitter: WordPress.com Blogs Can Now Connect to Mastodon

Still curious about Mastodon? The commercial version of WordPress.com now integrates with the social network, meaning your blog can become a profil...

"Your blog can take on a new social-media life of its own if you publish it on WordPress.com. This commercial version of the open-source web publishing platform WordPress now offers an ActivityPub option to turn a blog into a fediverse presence on Mastodon and other federated social networks operating on the open standard."

Live Posting Trump NY Fraud Trial For those interested, @npub1v2sy...mqq5 has been live posting Trump's NY fraud trial here on Mastodon. Here is today's (10/4) thread >>>

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Laffy (@GottaLaff@mastodon.social)

As always, I’ll do my best to live toot reports when they start. This will be the thread. 1/…🧵 Via Klasfeld: Good morning from #NewYork....

Here is yesterday's (10/3) >>>

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Laffy (@GottaLaff@mastodon.social)

I’ll be posting the thread here, as I did yesterday. 1/… 🧵 Via Adam Klasfeld: Good morning from #NewYork. #Trump's trial resumes with mor...

And Monday's (10/2) >>>

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Laffy (@GottaLaff@mastodon.social)

When does he NOT look “glum”? Via Adam Klasfeld: #Trump enters the courtroom for the start of his $250M civil fraud trial. He's flanked by h...

Huge thank you to Laffy for this great service. We know it takes a lot of effort and your work here is greatly appreciated. 👏 #USPolitics #Trump #TrumpFraudTrial

These robot cars are starting to kill people. SFGate: Injured person reportedly dies after Cruise cars block first responders >>>

Client Challenge

"Two autonomous Cruise vehicles and an empty San Francisco police vehicle were blocking the only exits from the scene... forcing the ambulance to wait while first responders attempted to manually move the Cruise vehicles..." "The pedestrian later died of their injuries... linked to the delay in getting them to the hospital." #RobotCars

So, full text search is now live on mastodon.social and mastodon.online. It is "opt-in", meaning you need to check the Preferences box to enable your posts to be searchable.

Mastodon just keeps getting better! Full text search is here! Well, almost here... Mastodon core engineer @npub1cx7g...8tc2 has just announced that version 4.2.0 beta3 has just been released and will be rolled out to some instances over the next few days. (

Oisaur

Renaud Chaput (@renchap@oisaur.com)

Full text search has been merged in #Mastodon `main` branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta 🎉 It is opt-in, so it will take so...

This much requested capability has been in development for a long time and promises to transform Mastodon into a much more capable platform. Thank you to everyone that has contributed to making search a reality. #search

So folks, we have arrived! NANCY COMICS BY BUSHMILLER @npub1y432...q5uy, a totally fun account devoted to "classic comic strips, with Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller being my favorite" just started posting here on Mastodon. This account has had a huge following over on the other place, and we are very fortunate to welcome them here! If you are into classic comics, or just want to put some enjoyment in your feed consider following @npub1y432...q5uy! #Nancy #Comics #Welcome #ClassicComics #Bushmiller

Congratulations to #Curiosity, the #MarsRover, celebrating its 11th birthday today! 🎂 Still operational after an amazing 4016 days! Check out more #astronomy #space and #astrophysics at @npub1rlsa...7sp6

Remember the thrill of catching breaking #USPolitics news events on Twitter by following posters who were generally on top of the latest happenings? Well, a good source on Mastodon for this kind of thing is Laffy @npub1v2sy...mqq5.

So, hat's off to CandyK @npub1d3ja...pz3q! This is a pretty powerful way to Mastodon... (

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CandyK (@lovelylovely@masto.ai)

Attached: 1 image Please study this (image) because this will be 2024 if we do not reelect President Biden 2024👇

#USPolitics #Trump

In one media article after another we read about how Threads and Bluesky are "decentralized social media platforms." Guess what, you are not "decentralized" if you only have one "centralized" server. Can we please stop giving #Bluesky and #Threads #Meta credit for being #decentalized platforms when all they have done is announce the intention to actually someday be decentralized. Both are currently entirely #centralized corporate platforms.