Why do you need to understand any of that? Now, none of it is wrong - but it’s not something anyone signing up at a Mastodon instance absolute must know about to use the system and have a good troll-free social network experience.

On the contrary. Maybe those are exactly the things needed to avoid becoming Xitter. Bluesky is rapidly becoming another instance of the hellhole at this very moment.

What do you need to understand about the technical concepts? Join an instance (mastodon.social if you have no reason to select another one), post and follow.

Bluesky isn’t decentralized - and might never get there.

setting up a Relay requires around 4.5 TB of disk space, and that it’s growing by around 18 GB a day

https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won

Until there is another instance it’s not federated.

We’re seeing a substantial increase on the Mastodon instance I help moderate too, but there’s no aggregate marketing department at Mastodon so we don’t get any headlines.

You want Matrix. Synapse if you intend to host for others, Conduit if you just want to host for yourself. There are quite a few different clients but I do indeed use ElementX on mobile.

This is surely more about packaging of apps on top of something that exists rather than creating something new. A huge bonus would however be a way to pay open source developers working on the tools deemed necessary to include in such a distribution.

Shops in Sweden very often state that they don’t accept cash - and it’s perfectly legal for them to make that choice.

We have cash?

o_O

Haven’t used it for years.

Troll comment.

You do that - you die.

Please show me that guideline, anywhere.

/Swede living in the deer countryside

Climate change is not a risk to human survival. Please study the WG2 parts for the possible risks we’re facing depending on when and how much action we take.

You’re correct in that large parts of Russia don’t have indoor toilets and proper sanitation. Not sure that’s a positive.

Maybe you should read the IPCC reports?

Tell me more about the US government requiring their soldiers to rape pre-teen girls then.

Or, you know, they really aren’t the same.

I’m in Sweden. The idea that the US is somehow more of a danger to us than Russia is laughable.

Let’s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin

Agree, but the Russia bootlickers are otoh equally obnoxious.

Heard about what Russia has been doing in the occupied parts of Ukraine?

“basically”

You’ll be surprised if you actually challenge your convictions.

There is an extremely arbitrary distinction made between the USA and Russia.

Your world view seems to be highly influenced by propaganda. It’s very easy to draw a distinction between these two countries. Let me start with an easy one:

Russia is a dictatorship, the US is a democracy.