The article has an interesting passage about how Irish aluminium is currently being sold to Russia for weapons, and the EU is (rightly) trying to stop this.
“MAHA MAHAHAHA!”
I overlooked this line from the docs:
Benötigt werden cmake, git, libgd und libusb - bei manchen Distributionen (z.B. Ubuntu) sind die Header-Files in separaten Paketen "libusb-dev" die ggf. noch nachinstalliert werden müssen.
I should have done sudo apt install libgd-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev before attempting compilation.
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu, what's up with this? It doesn't seem in any way justifiable.
On 18 Jan 2025, before Proton and Mullvad CEOs came out in support of the far right, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) recommended:
- ~~Mullvad (Sweden)~~
- ~~Mozilla VPN* (USA/Sweden)~~
- ~~Proton VPN (Switzerland)~~
- Tunnelbear (USA/Canada; owned by McAfee in USA)
- IVPN (Gibraltar)
- Windscribe (Canada)
I've crossed out the first three, since their CEOs support fascists. (I don't think Mozilla's CEO is fascist, but Mozilla VPN uses Mullvad under the hood, so Mullvad presumably gets access to the bulk of Mozilla VPN users' money and connection data.)
Nym is not on the list, so presumably didn't meet FPF's requirements.
if you follow a user their future posts will be sent to your server. We were talking about implementing a backfill option, but there is no eta yet
Thank you for explaining. That must indeed be the reason I couldn't see those toots on Mbin.
so no guarantee it will be implemented at all. But since it is an annoying problem, maybe it will
Backfill would be great! Server capacity concerns notwithstanding.
In the meantime, clearer wording for the info banner would be an easy, helpful UX improvement:
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Before subscribing: "This Fediverse profile is hosted on a different server than yours. If you, or another user on your server, were to subscribe to this profile, the profile's subsequent posts would be displayed here. The profile's older posts can be viewed on their server"
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After subscribing: "This Fediverse profile is hosted on a different server than yours. Now that you have subscribed, the profile's future posts will be displayed here. The profile's older posts can be viewed on their server"
Thanks for your reply. I should have been clearer!
It's not the banner that bothers me, it's the fact that that microblog's posts (toots) aren't being displayed when viewed from Mbin!
Is there anything I can do in order to get those posts to propagate through to Mbin? Would I have to contact the admin for the Mbin instance hosting my account? Something else?
@Pamasich@kbin.earth Thanks for following up with the detailed explanation. Makes sense now!
@Auster@thebrainbin.org
one thing you can do is to browse the subscribed microblog feed, https://thebrainbin.org/sub/microblog
Thanks, this is the kind of thing I hoped for!
you can also go to the general settings, https://thebrainbin.org/settings/general, and set "Homepage" as "Subscriptions", and "Front page default view" as "Microblog", so https://thebrainbin.org/ becomes a mirror of https://thebrainbin.org/sub/microblog
Excellent tip, thank you!
@Pamasich@kbin.earth thanks. Unforunately, I can't see a globe icon or the word "All".
Here's a screenshot showing Edward Betts's Mastodon profile as viewed from Mbin. As you can see, I follow his Mastodon account from my Mbin account.
I can see his posts on that page. But what I can't figure out is how to see his posts, and posts from other Mastodon accounts I follow, in a single page or feed on Mbin.

Press coverage: https://news.sky.com/story/industrial-poultry-farming-leads-to-100-fold-increase-in-food-poisoning-bacteria-study-finds-13567573