Good luck with all the alcoholic types you're going to be generating as a side effect of forcing people with anxiety issues into talking in a public space. You'll be seeing self-medication for gaba dysfunctions as people try to keep their job. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4303399/

This appears to be a managed hosting provider offering access to a pleroma instance underneath, not a software package.

That's sort of my point. Managed hosting is exactly what I get for free from SDF (or mastodon.social), so what's the benefit?

_you_ don't get managed hosting from mastodon.social the site owner does (if they used a service like this). You just get an account that someone else manages the infrastructure beneath.

This gives you your own instance, which in addition to using your own domain, means you can can set the rules of the server (what kind of speech is and isn't allowed), you can boot people you don't want. You can control who gets in. you can control what other servers are blocked (i assume that is an option in pleroma too).

Do you really get to set all the rules? This lists no terms of service at this point, but is there any reason to assume that the rules will be significantly more lax than e.g. twitter.com?

As a person who've had their VPS disconnected by OVH over a malicious link posted by a third-party on my service, I am very skeptical.

Additionally other instances could very well block all Togethr instances if they see abuse from customers, the same way they can block an instance if they see abuse from their members.

Every Togethr instrnce has a separate domain name and IP address, so blocking them all for no reason isn't really possible.

Blocking any given one is of course.

By "not possible" you mean that it's not a feature that exists in Mastodon today. In that sense you are right.

I mean there is no way to tell if an instance is hosted by Togethr or not.

It's running a custom version of Pleroma and is therefore very identifiable.

A clear business model and alignment of interests, as a customer. Also no lock in since the customer owns their domain.

How is SDF funded? How can anyone be certain it will continue to be funded, if it offers a service gratis that costs the provider money to operate? Is that funding source aligned with my beliefs and interests? These are questions you don't have when you just pay for things.

Another example: I use FastMail with a custom domain. Yes, I could just use Gmail, but I don't, for the reasons listed above.

SDF has been a self-sustaining non-profit since the 80's. I'm much more skeptical of a newcomer than of them, personally

But you can't use Gmail with a custom domain for free. I bet that's a decision point

You can't use Fastmail for free at all, custom domain or no.

Yes. But what I am saying is since gmail becomes paid for custom domains, you _then_ decide, you might as well pay someone else.

In one of the former fediverse hype cycles (either 2020 or 2018...) I made an account on an instance that was not one of the main 5 ones and followed a bunch of people. Some weeks ago I looked at that account and literally 90% of the accounts I had followed had vanished because the instances _they_ were on went offline in the meantime. Honestly a little surprised the one I chose was still offline, as it's also just a random small one.

Yes, this is probably not so likely for mastodon.social or SDF, but still. It's just like getting a free email account at some random place, it could be gone every day.

I agree, but I was concerned if mastodon.social was sufficiently funded so I started giving them a tiny amount of money every month.

I suppose it would be good to have Mastodon on my own domain, but I really don't care that much (I have had my website on my own domain for 30+ years).

Your own domain?

you get to set your own federation rules, and perform your own moderation.

And switch to self-hosting or another hosting company whenever you want, never need to change your address because you own the domain. Control and freedom.

Also support from humans who are paid to support you.

LEARNING COBOL IS VERY GOOD IF YOU WANNA INFILTRATE AND HACK LEGACY SYSTEMS.

I think you meant:

    IDENTIFICATION SECTION.
    AUTHOR ULTIMAPE.
    PROGRAM DIVISION.
    CODE STARTS ANY MINUTE NOW.
    YEAH, REALLY.
    LEARN COBOL GIVING HACKING RESULTING IN INFILTRATION.
    CODE ENDS HERE.
    REALLY.
    THE END.

In the context of buying used hospital equipment and the concerns of a layman making a mistake due to the very confusion you highlight... Seems at least relevant.

Maybe. There was a guy who induced aphantasia after a stem cell transplant and one of the hypothesis is the loss of gut bacteria via antibiotics. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8143657/

I reversed a life-long case of Prosopagnosia after doing some n-of-1 experiments with replenishing my gut bacteria, so it seems plausible to me that losing intestines could impact this.

I also have a friend had her intestines removed due to Crohn's disease. She had an infection from the surgery that put her in a coma she woke up unable to picture things in her head. Hard to say what caused it.

Many of the plastics have stress lines that show up under polarized lens IIRC. And many of the techniques used to detect crystals in fluids also use polarized light that would be incompatible with such a lens.

Pubg itself is a ripoff of minecraft hunger games.

The Minecraft Hunger Games (later rebranded as Minecraft Survival Games) started in 2012 when that movie was hype and it hit the game streamer scene, cross-polinating the Arma2 modding and streamer scene into creating the "Survivor GameZ" in closed groups, which as legend says, PlayerUnknown couldn't join due to not being a streamer. So he made the "Battle Royal" mod in 2013 as a free for all. It was quite obviously influenced strongly by the movie of the same name. All one big happy family back then. Those were easier times, when it wasn't about "hundreds of millions of paying customers".

Next level game theory: going with AGPL specifically because google banned it lmao.

I found a bunch of churches were built on ground that has been shown to contain soil bacteria with anti-biofilm properties. This means the 'holy ground' was literally able to heal wounds. Likewise, a lot of 'holy water' has similar healing properties because it often contained gold and silver nanoparticles.

The ritual use of these sites usually occurred afterwards once economic situation and custom solidified it as an area of rulership. Often cargo-cult'ing what would have been a genuine healing process.

Obesity is a risk factor for many types of cancer and also risk for Alzheimer's because both are tied to the hip with blood sugar problems.

Most of the older folks to who get cancer and age related neurodegenerative disease also seem to succumb to age related diabetes symptoms and poor insulin.

These things aren't separate-able as cleanly as you suggest.