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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • As an amateur artist, mastodon is really not friendly to newcomers like me.

    I had to figure out what an instance was and pick one (I chose mastodon.art since I was interested in that)

    After wondering why I couldn’t find other people’s accounts, it turned out that I shouldn’t have picked that instance because it had defederated from almost anyone else.

    So now I had to create another account in another instance, which turned out to be so full my posts were not getting any traction.

    With Bluesky I just created an account and I immediately gained a few followers

    It is just not worth the hastle.





  • You need to research about African decolonization movements back in the 60’s.

    When African countries declared themselves independent they mostly got support from the USSR, while the US and the west in general acted in a very hostile way.

    Anti-apartheid movements got labelled as “terrorists” by the US, but on the contrary, received a lot of support from Russia.

    Ir certainly says something that nobody in the west opposed apartheid until socialism was no longer a threat in the 90’s