Replying to all the random individuals that seem to think that I’m “endorsing” one of the Fediverse products over any other, and seem to be making a big deal over #akkoma vs #mastodon etc.

That’s not the case. I’m actually a horrible MIS person, and I would never want to maintain my own server. I’m a programmer for chrissake!

The same way you should fear me if I hold a soldering iron, you should be very very nervous if I were to do any server management.

So all credit (or blame) for the choice of Fediverse platform goes to @monsieuricon, who maintains kernel.org and just made it really easy for me to try this out.

… and on a similar note: not only am I not much of a MIS person, I’m also not much of a social networking person.

I foresee a lot of disappointment in the future of any followers of this account 🔮.

@torvalds @monsieuricon Don't worry

@torvalds @monsieuricon

@torvalds @monsieuricon yeah I don't get why some people are so up in arms about which Fedi service people should use. It makes no real difference!

@torvalds dont worry, a lot of people come from Birdside, so they're used to disappointments.

@torvalds great to have you here anyway ;) @monsieuricon

@torvalds Congrats on making it this far. I myself should never wield a soldering iron 😅

@torvalds @monsieuricon People are too obsessed with their own programs, installations and setups.

If this works for you, it's good for you. As long as you've covered all your bases.

@torvalds @monsieuricon Well you aren't famous like @gregkh but if you do think of something to say here, sure, why not?

@torvalds It's just nice to know you're also here

@torvalds @monsieuricon I remember how prolific you were with google + LoL, I don't expect any less here

@torvalds @monsieuricon I foresee a bright future coming out of that disappointment.

@torvalds @monsieuricon 😂

@torvalds @monsieuricon

1. good choice
2. if this helps teach people that fediverse ≠ Mastodon it’s a welcome thing regardless of outcome

@torvalds Welcome Linus! Akkoma or Mastodon, can you please add an avatar / profile pic?!

@torvalds @monsieuricon welcome anyway! I hope you leave your default profile forever :)

@Jeroen @torvalds @monsieuricon >cock.social

@torvalds

I mean, heck, that last line goes for all of posting here.

@monsieuricon

@torvalds no worries. Don't force yourself into using social media, if you're not really into it.

Nevertheless, I'd be happy to receive some posts about your personal life / Linux life, if you have fun sharing some thoughts.

@torvalds @monsieuricon dont let the worms online wiggle your head most people on social media are unremarkably stupid

@torvalds Nah. Disappointment isn’t likely to happen when the driving force behind the follow is simply curiosity. I’m more interested in getting to know people instead of finding out what products they push.

@BlinkRape @monsieuricon @torvalds arent we all a little dumb in the head

also i have a lot more respect for devs than users

@torvalds @monsieuricon You're welcome to the fedi! The study isnt about akkoma vs mastodon but rather to help spread the understanding of the nature of the fediverse not being limited to mastodon itself.

@thomas @thomas @torvalds in the past he was writing about scuba diving, too.

@lamp @torvalds @monsieuricon >mastodong.lol

@torvalds @monsieuricon

Quite the contrary. Your honesty is very refreshing...

#newhere

@torvalds @monsieuricon It's always best to include an official disclaimer to avoid these misunderstandings.

@torvalds @monsieuricon

@torvalds @monsieuricon The important part is that it is endorsing the fediverse in its entirety.

@torvalds is it possible to verify the account?

it's very clear to me that it's the real linus, but not for everyone

mastodon has the self-verify using your own website (domain)
@monsieuricon

@torvalds @monsieuricon yeah, I have no expectations when following you. If you post something whenever you feel like it and don't respond much, that's still very fine with me!

@torvalds @monsieuricon
Haven’t heard the term MIS in a long time.
….a Long time.

Now let’s see if we can’t figure out what you are, my little friend, and where you come from….

@torvalds @monsieuricon don't worry, we will handle disappointment

@torvalds @monsieuricon

Welcome!

Count me among all your non-programmer Linux fans who are just happy to see you here at all.

@torvalds and now I'm going mad wondering what a MIS person is, quick lazy search results are inconclusive 😆

@torvalds

Would be nice if you posted here on Mastodon like the Google+ days.

You don’t need to worry about Google getting bored of a product and turning it off… 😅

@torvalds @monsieuricon Dude, emacs, vim or nano?

@torvalds @monsieuricon

"I would never want to maintain my own server." So true. But what if you could host your own stuff without having to maintain your own server? Does anyone else want to try to make this possible?

@torvalds @monsieuricon it'll be fine if you do the same as #EugenRochko : say hi and post pictures of cats every now and then:)

@torvalds @monsieuricon Post what you want when you want, it's a free fediverse.

@torvalds came here for the #scuba photos, staying for the promised disappointment! @monsieuricon

@torvalds @monsieuricon people are fucking weird.

Let's forget about Mastodon and Akkoma. Everybody knows that rebased soapbox are the best choice here.
soapbox.pub

At least @alex is going a great work maintaining the software and actually listening to your complains and fixing them. Much less work on your side this way.

It's actually my first time ever interacting to anything related to you, don't get mad about this first contact...

@torvalds @monsieuricon haha

I would never want to maintain my own server. I’m a programmer for chrissake!

That’s what I always say, too.

That’s how I ended up becoming the maintainer for mailman and mediawiki for a while, and the upstream of an ECMAscript library (and I don’t even really know that language), and de-facto upstream of GNU CVS, and… and… and… etc. pp.

By now I really ought to have learnt the lesson and only use software I can in theory maintain by myself. (OK, that’s probably very much untrue for the instance software I use. But meh.)

@torvalds I won't disappointed, surely won't.. 😅
I like to see the worlds burn, as well as how the world build around Linux.. 😁

@torvalds Pretty cool to see you here, even if this ends up being your only post. Thank you for the Linux kernel, been using various flavours of Linux for over 10 years now. I also greatly value Git. Keep up the good work.

I am also using #akkoma by the way for anyone who sees this.

@aardvarksagus @torvalds same, I'm just curious. I'm more interested to hear what you have to say about kernel and Linux development than anything else.

I'm using Linux a lot, not just to run my office servers and desktops, but also to make my 3d printers function. Consider this my official fanboy thank you for launching a project that has made my life quite interesting.

@ahmad @alex @monsieuricon @torvalds soapbox comes with the GPL3+vegan license

@torvalds @monsieuricon should it really matter as long as they work with each other? Mastodon just won the random internet favorite game and it's what the Twitter people like mostly

@torvalds @monsieuricon Even if it's just announcements of kernel releases, I'd be fine with that. Just glad to see you here, whatever your engagement ends up being.

@torvalds

>I foresee a lot of disappointment in the future of any followers of this account 🔮.

Not half as disappointed as you'll be by the average Fediverse users

@monsieuricon

@Rasterman @monsieuricon @torvalds doesnt drc use akkoma?

@Rasterman @monsieuricon @torvalds o lol

@torvalds @monsieuricon cc @p

@MK2boogaloo @torvalds @monsieuricon

> I would never want to maintain my own server. I’m a programmer for chrissake!

The man says accurate things.

@torvalds @monsieuricon I remember you being pretty active on Google+ for a while.

That said, consider expectations set!

@Rasterman @errante @monsieuricon @torvalds you do know that pleroma is developed by trannies right?

@MischievousTomato @Rasterman @errante @monsieuricon @torvalds what isn't

@pettanko @Rasterman @errante @monsieuricon @torvalds idk but i'd prefer it if my sw was developed by cute trannies n femboys

@MischievousTomato @Rasterman @errante @monsieuricon @torvalds base

@pettanko @Rasterman @errante @monsieuricon @torvalds i wanna make @TURBORETARD9000 wear one

@davidak @torvalds @monsieuricon self-verification is a mastodon feature that relies on the trust of the instance, and would do absolutely nothing to help "verify" Linus. the domain is already kernel.org, which is a far better verification than any checkmark.

@monsieuricon @torvalds I believe you just described me as well. An introvert artist trying to do some social networking... (I am moving forward, but very slowly.) 🌷

@torvalds @monsieuricon

Wow, and I know this won't go down well on multiple Linux flavor help forums, but its almost as if Mr Torvalds is saying that it might be possible to be a worthwhile human being without being an all-round IT expert.

#DomesticateIT

@torvalds @monsieuricon my man I don't give a single fuck what you use as long as it's not mastodon

You can still eat it if you're omnivore and a little choosy at food such as Italians do. Just healthy free software code you can extend as a your personal recipe you're going to share with humanity all around the flat globe

@acesabe @torvalds lol! I was like ok cool I hadn't heard of akkoma before but what the heck is an MIS person!

Looks like Management Information System Person ?

Fair enough! Busy people like you can’t just take valuable time to configure an instance, investigate what are the available Fediverse-compatible web apps, and so on and so forth.

With that said, I think your webmaster made a great choice in using Akkoma as the server implementation. It’s much more lightweight than Mastodon, while keeping compatibility with most of its functions. I’m typing this from Pleroma (just waiting until Akkoma for YunoHost creates a proper migration script to move there indefinitely) and I can vouch for the fact that Pleroma-based servers are relatively easier to maintain than Mastodon-based ones.

@torvalds @monsieuricon IIRC the "no much of a social networking" person did quite a bit of social networking on G+ back in the days....

@torvalds Well you were a happy Google+ networker 😜

@torvalds @monsieuricon

I closely associate social media with disappointment, so you're probably doing it right.

Alex is mean and sus, plus fedi is dead, nostr is the future.

@torvalds @monsieuricon HOW DARE YOU, LINUS

@ahmad @alex @monsieuricon @torvalds >great work maintaining

No.

>actually listening to your complains

No.

@torvalds Cat pictures are always appreciated however. There is never enough of those.

@torvalds @monsieuricon given that it only took a few posts for you to start catposting, I don't think your followers will be -that- disappointed

@torvalds @monsieuricon We can easily forget that we followed you until you post on some future caturday.
Then we‘ll discuss whether you are a cat or a dog person and if you endorse veganism or hate someone’s parrot or something. We‘ll find a way to entertain us.

@torvalds @monsieuricon
I find Mastodon and similar networks surprisingly filled with "not much of a social networking" persons, so I think there is no problem.

@torvalds as long as the occasional rant happens it's whatever

@torvalds Even having favorite fediverse platform is not shame or crime 😐

@torvalds @monsieuricon

Regardless, love that rant you did when anti vaxxers were on your mailing list and you told them to shut the hell up, it amused me. Also, you were very much justified to do so.

@phryk @torvalds @monsieuricon
I love how in that episode the rock won. :P

@PsionicLuna Valuable lesson right there. :P

@torvalds @monsieuricon

@phryk @torvalds @monsieuricon :D

@phryk @torvalds @monsieuricon
I should also add, whatever lesson you saw, the ending where squidward sees how patrick named the trophy for him was also a moment of cackling when I first saw it.

The first three seasons had huge moments of gold, the sea bear episode, the training manual one, the band one, are among my top favorites as was the one you mentioned. :D

I think the valuable lesson, you saw was more that, people like silly endings when they are done right. xD

@stianoe @davidak @torvalds @monsieuricon

For a time it was just as reliable as twitter was though.

Which btw, I miss hearing about all the random impersonations/trolling on twitter. I was hoping twitter would bite the big one...

Although I would prefer the iceberg himself have his social media die... I just felt like throwing up at the idea of either twitter or facebook being social media... but anywho, most of those websites are anti-social anyhow.

Mastodon at least has an okay standard.

@PsionicLuna The lesson is to encourage people to do things at their own pace because that's how they flourish best. :P

@torvalds @monsieuricon

@phryk @torvalds @monsieuricon

Still, its a silly way to do so. :P

Aka, having a rock win when it cannot even move lol.

But yeah, spongebob did overwork his snail too much ;)

@bot @ahmad @meowski @alex @monsieuricon @torvalds Nostr is just cointards lol, there's nothing of value there.

@torvalds @monsieuricon Do we still use MIS for computer infrastructure? I've always felt that was more about business process eg payroll or something like that. (I had to take soem MIS classes and it was all in COBOL - bleah)

@torvalds curious what you think of this in comparison to google plus