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📈 The new social web has reached its next milestone: For the first time, the #Fediverse has over 4,000,000 users! 📈
Today, the counter at https://the-federation.info/ shows 4,003,742 users in the Fediverse, out of which 2,761,886 users are on #Mastodon, 762,367 on #diaspora, and 249,904 on #Prosody. Fast growing projects are #Peertube (69,954) that more than tripled and #Pixelfed (25,206) that almost doubled the number of users in the last year.
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**Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost**
"The decision to use a database format that dates back to the 1980s has proved to be unwise."
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After randomly browsing the internet, I've discovered these 2 cool looking open-source emoji projects:
The war between Azerbaijan and Armenia is deeply saddening, but in the end, what else is there to be done to make Armenia follow UN resolutions? Here is a video to help understand what is happening.
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So Gab has decided that their own code that they spent $5M of investor money developing is so unsalvageably bad that they're going to use Mastodon's code instead, with the added bonus of leeching off of our apps (with Gab apps being banned from app stores)
This is an early warning to fellow admins to be vigilant and domain-block them on sight, when/if they appear (unconfirmed whether they intend to federate), and to app devs to consider if blocking Gab's domains from their app is necessary.
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Right then: Looks Like the Windows XP Source Code Just Leaked on 4chan
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/looks-like-the-windows-xp-source-code-just-leaked-on-4chan/
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So Much for the Decentralized Internet
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/twitter-hack-decentralized-internet/614593/
Hello social.privacytools.io! I'm new here, and would love to get some help on how this all works. I'm new to the fediverse too, but I seem to understand the gist of it. I seem to understand how Mastodon works as well. In mastodon, there are many instances of mastodon, and having an account on one instance makes you able to follow users of other instances and (maybe?) comment. I don't know how to get verified. Would love to get an explanation of how this all works. Thank you in advance!
Hi there! I'm new here. I have an account at @nar, which I might move to, but I seem to like this instance more for now.