It blows my mind that in my jurisdiction dogs need to be registered, up to date on shots, leashed, kept on your property. Cats are a free for all. They can be left outside and are free to trespass. They kill over 2 billion birds a year in the US alone. Cats piss on everything on my property, use my yard as a litter box. I had to take down my bird feeders because it was a death trap. And there is NOTHING I can do about it. Fuck cats. For good measure, fuck irresponsible dog owners, too.

Governments have been PAYING to inform the public via commercial services for… ever? And requiring citizens to do the same. Have you ever seen a public notice in a newspaper? At least posting on Twitter is free (for now).

It’s called docker. Linuxserver.io offers very close to “mastodon in a box”. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/mastodon

I use Unraid as my host OS with a Windows 11 gaming vm. If you say at my computer you would never know it’s not native. I can shutdown/reboot windows and it doesn’t affect any of my home server applications, including a mastodon instance.

Someone on your instance needs to be following for it to get pulled into “all” on your instance. On a large instance that might be rather “all” encompassing, but it’s an important distinction. On a fresh single-user instance “all” will contain zero posts.