Sure. It’s in our nature to surround ourselves with like-minded people. Back in the old days, people would subscribe to a newspaper, watch TV and listen to radio stations, or go to pubs with folks they felt comfortable with, and that would often lead to gruopthink. There is only so much we can do about it with different platforms. The rest is up to us, individually and collectively. Being polite, open minded, thoughtful and critical takes effort. But it’s also in our nature.

What you wrote is probably true, but it’s not the end of the story. Ownership model of corporate social media creates incentives to polarize and divide people. It drives engagement and creates moats. Also, billionaire owners of those media have their own political goals, and are happy to use the platforms they own to advance them.

Good idea. I’ll grep it and see.

Good point, but no. I avoid this crap like a dirty nappy.

Thanks for your help @infeeeee@lemm.ee ! I got in touch with admins at chaos.social and it turns out my IP is getting blocked because something on my network is making requests with user agent set to Googlebot 😬

It’s definitely not something I run intentionally. I suspect some malware. Will post about it in a separate thread I think.

While waiting for the results I’m educating myself on traceroute. It was super slow, but here’s the result. How do I interpret it?

$ sudo traceroute chaos.social
traceroute to chaos.social (5.9.119.202), 64 hops max
  1   192.168.1.1  0.777ms  0.714ms  0.621ms
  2   5.132.112.1  4.105ms  4.055ms  3.946ms
  3   10.10.10.174  7.384ms  7.338ms  7.204ms
  4   10.226.4.3  7.275ms  7.230ms  7.053ms
  5   *  *  *
  6   80.249.209.55  9.276ms  7.288ms  7.112ms
  7   *  *  *
  8   213.239.252.45  18.652ms  12.801ms  12.992ms
  9   213.239.224.69  17.158ms  17.165ms  17.119ms
 10   213.239.254.190  17.323ms  17.269ms  17.427ms
 11   5.9.119.208  17.327ms  17.332ms  17.211ms
 12   *  *  *
 13   *  *  *
 14   *  *  *
 ... asterisks all the way down
 63   *  *  *

~ took 15m23s
$ echo $?
1

It seems to stop at 5.9.119.208, which seems close to the destination 5.9.119.202.

Note to self: traceroute has to be run with sudo, otherwise only gives asterisks.

Edit: I’m getting almost exactly the same result when connecting via mobile network, when the connection to the site works. Am I doing it right?

One feature that is missing that I like to use is curly brace expansion to produce multiple arguments. For example,

$ mv *.{jpg,jpeg}

Maybe this will work for expansion: https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/blob/main/modules/filesystem/expand.nu

It’s in the “filesystem” section, but I think it works on any string, not only paths. See the ugly duck example. I didn’t try it myself yet.

BTW the nu_scripts goodies are available in Nixpkgs, so since you are using Home Manager, it’s easy to integrate. Take a look at my config for starters: https://gitlab.com/tad-lispy/nixos-configuration/-/blob/bb614ae3639a504912db167f5bd7e6651d28f604/tad.nix#L39-47