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Jim Spath<p>Is this the Lilluptian tech support access corridor? <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ThinkSmall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThinkSmall</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>So apparently there’s been a denial-of-service attack on mastodon.social and it was down for a bit.</p><p>I didn’t notice.</p><p>(I have my own server.)</p><p>That’s the fediverse working as designed.</p><p>No server should be so big that its absence endangers the greater system. And if any are, that’s a problem.</p><p>If we want a healthy, resilient fediverse, we must keep the size of servers small and the number of servers high.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/resilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>resilience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ddos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ddos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/thinkSmall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>thinkSmall</span></a></p>
Joanna Bryson, blathering<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aral</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://eupolicy.social/@1br0wn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>1br0wn</span></a></span> You can get better thinking done when you <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thinkSmall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thinkSmall</span></a> (and a better quality of life), but don't disenfranchise people. Both types of system matter for different causes and capacities.</p>
Aral Balkan<p>Thinking more people are going to engage with you on mainstream social media “because everyone’s there” is like thinking people at a stadium concert are there to listen to you. It‘s only true if you’re one of the ones on stage. Not so much when you’re huddled in the nosebleeds.</p><p>Forget the numbers. Forget about “going viral” (leave it to the psychopaths in Silicon Valley to make virus-like behaviour aspirational). Embrace the joy of interacting with one another on a human scale.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ThinkSmall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThinkSmall</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>Here’s wishing all of you on the Gregorian calendar a Happy New Year!</p><p>(And here’s to building a smaller, kinder, more human-scale world in 2023 and beyond.)</p><p>2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 🥂 🍾 💕 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ThinkSmall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThinkSmall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/HappyNewYear" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HappyNewYear</span></a></p>
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