@Kaldo

'no proof anyone signed anything'
I don't know exactly what kind of proof you expect.

I agree that it could be more clearly explained. There was a fair bit of discussion on 'Mastodon' about it so some of that context might not be clear.

Re the donation links. It is quite common for people who show up on the fediverse and put in some work to ask for donations.

I mean it is a attempt to rally community to a cause but it was put together by one person off their own bat.

@Kaldo it was put together by VantaBlack. I'm fairly sure most of the people who signed up to it do take it seriously.

@14specks
the person behind the feditips mastodon account is, I am fairly sure a different person. But it is a pseudonymous account, so in theory it could be.

[Posted from Mastodon]

@Labotomized
BBS - bulletin board system

1970s-80s
a person would run a server (often from home) and people would dial in over a regular phone line and browse the forum(bbs) and leave a text message. If you had one phone line only one person could log in at a time. you might wait weeks for someone to reply to your message. Both ends needed a modem to encode decode from digital to analog and back.

[sent from the microverse(mastodon)]

@liaizon
this is a really good idea. Say #kolektiva providing a mastodon, lemmy, funkwhale, pixelfed, peertube etc. to all users. I think any communities that do this in an organised fashion would gain a lot of new users..... but it is a lot of work. Would love to see mastodon.art do this.

@atomicpoet how terrible to suffer the same fate as mastodon:

12,500,735 accounts
+2,597 in the last hour
+64,969 in the last day
+283,802 in the last week

source:
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110555668394528723

@whitehouses this is the sort of thing the big tech companies do.... and then they claim that the fediverse sites(lemmy, mastodon etc) do it, in order to scare people from joining the fediverse.

The tracking that facebook, twitter etc do is not the way that fediverse sites operate. It is not a for profit space.

[this is posted from a mastodon account]