"The world's first transparent, decentralized Ponzi Scheme built on the blockchain." http://ponzicoin.co/home.html

As measured by https://instances.social/list/old , Mastodon just reached (pinkie to mouth gesture) one million users.

And 52% of them are on the three big Japanese instances (pawoo.net, mstdn.jp, friends.nico). That percentage is down from a peak near 54% earlier, but if you throw in all the other Japanese instances (which are most instances, overall), that side of the network remains a large majority of Mastodon and likely a bare majority of the entire "fediverse." https://mstdn.io/media/ROqRZTsUmbaVq5QHXPk

@clacke yeah, it fell to me to suggest to the proprietor of "Odin's Exchange" that he ought to rethink his Web site domain name

@moonman Charles Stross's comments on this are apt: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/01/why_i_am_not_an_environmentali.html

Almon Strowger is best known for inventing the first deployed automatic telephone exchange in the late 1800s, but his main business was as an undertaker. He invented the exchange because he believed that a local manual-exchange operator, married to one of his competitors, was redirecting calls from his potential customers to her husband instead.

The net neutrality issue goes back a long, long time.

Still waiting on the bicolour LEDs, but other than that, the MSK 008 prototype seems to be in pretty good shape. If it takes me a long time to get the Web store really open for business, the silver lining may be that I get to launch with this as well as the MSK 010. https://mstdn.io/media/QngjrEqZxI9na9OmI0I https://mstdn.io/media/3VzlImdTwRaY5uCsvHY