It's so funny how reddit-side of fedi is even more uncontrollable federated exposure that I've found myself posting to monyet with more manglish and melayu grammar simply so I can signal the post isn't meant to be international readers-first 🤣

You don't, but you can subscribe to the comms on that instance from your instance here.

If they're already federated with monyet.cc, in the search bar search !(community)@(instance). Unless it's kbin, then it's @name@instance.

If not (or just in general), get the full http url and paste in your home instance search bar and then subscribe

Justification to pay office rental 😌

Don't ask me details because I literally am just checking my fedi feeds today but the calckey rebrand has been unveiled and the new name is apparently firefish. Anyway was riffing on how it translates into Malay... Now, who's going to set up an ikanbakar.social or bellamy.rd or bella.my? (ikan bakar jalan Bellamy you'll always be famous)

goes “pst pst pst pst” when maintaining light throttle

Is this car for cats???

Very seriously, this sounds like you have to show up at the office in person and plead your case. You better have all your scripts and a real good memang can win simpati as to why you missed the cut off date. (Will this work? Realllly depends on the discretion of the officer and/or their superior that day)

Eyyo just to direct some eyes to the politics sub - @[email protected] updated the state elections thread with a new comment summarizing the state of play as we head into undi season. Really got me up to speed too!

RIP my office work, but-- that's right!

I knooooo, Singapore content (gasp), but this is such an interesting post, esp to those literate in written Chinese https://social.coop/@konrad/110670337211553442. About different way Singapore is spelled in hanzi over the years

The kbin erasure!!! 😂😂😂

if you have the patience: https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/

this is genuinely a good summary of the implications of Threads, but if you have any questions I can have a crack at it.

On the privacy thing, you have to remember, it's not apple-to-apple comparison, it's an apple-to-oranges. what your server needs to have from you in order the service you, is not at all the same as what meta does do as a rule, even as you leave the platforms. AP is quite leaky though, no doubt (i've raised this separately on kbin.social), but it's not the same issue, and is being worked on, because federation means someone is working on a solution somewhere.

but basically the contention is mainly on 3.5 areas:

• privacy and surveillance - as above
• market domination of open source standards - ask anyone running their own mailserver these days what's their rate of success sending anything to gmail or Office365 addresses (a lot of my work involve african IP addresses and institutions and they really kena)
• the protection of minority groups, both from infra pov as well as modding pov - meta famously do not give a shit; many ppl in fedi are from minority identities (2017-18 wave for example got onto mastodon because it was available as trolls attacking queer ppl got worse on twitter). infra pov is related to the privacy question; but smaller instances at least can jaga their members better and boot out haters and defederate from instances who won't control their members. this is the modding pov that is a critical difference from meta, which brings us to point 3.5
• capacity - small instances like this for example, got admin and mods who need to sleep. if trolls coming from diff timezones, how? belum lagi touch on traffic capacity issue.

sekian timakacih

Morning.... I had oatmeal. At least choco flavour.