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You can mute switter.at if it bothers you. Click the three dots on a user's profile and you'll see the option.

The kindness, quality, and eagerness to help is a big part of what propelled Mastodon. You'd log in, make your first toot, and have a pile of people welcoming you from the federated or local timeline. Same with beginner questions.

I tried GNU Social a long time ago, but it was mostly technical people talking about technical stuff. Great if that's what you're into, but it's no basis for a general use social network. Niche networks are fine, but I don't get the impression that's what early federated social media proponents wanted.

Yep. I don't think it's coincidence that Twitter's slide started right around when they started giving you notifications for likes/retweets of retweets and replies when before it was only for your own posts. Then it got worse with quote tweeting.

That's not spam. That's from people on Switter. It's an instance for sex workers.

It exists. https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/

I think this is what led to instance muting. Now admins can mute an instance, but people can still opt in to following someone there, probably without caching.

Don't forget the French wave.

Sounds like AMP. "Google hosts it for performance reasons!"

I'm not too worried for myself since I plan to release it all in a Creative Commons album anyway, but I'll keep it in mind if I see someone talking up Google Podcasts.

That's weird considering you submit the podcast as an RSS feed. I didn't know they uploaded the audio to their own servers.

Someone's way ahead of you: https://github.com/jdenen/mastodon.el

Star Trek movies are like if the Titanic had to fight off the combined fleets of all WW1 and WW2 powers.

There's a reason the ships get blown up.

A lot of the niceness comes from furries being majority LGBTQ+, so they know what it's like to be shut out of things, talked down to, and generally treated poorly for no good reason.

One good place to start is with the main furry wiki's own definitions: http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry and http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry_fandom

Fursuiters are a tiny part of the community. Most people can't afford the $1-17k they cost even if they want one.

I don't know what they use to keep cool.

There's no entry fee or test. Sometimes furries will even adopt people! Go look up Boozy Badger for a recent example.

You can just decide you're a furry and find an entry point into the community. There's even a furry making new ones with every match in the fighting game community.

This has always been Star Trek's dichotomy. Many ships called Enterprise have been blown up (in a permanent, non-time travel magic way), and it happened in the movies.

The movies are action. The series are where the characters and universe are built.

You can see in-progress games on the page.

I did not expect to test your little server! I figured it would fall away, then occasionally be discovered by people searching for chess and/or ActivityPub.

Someone will probably come along and build a GUI that works with the toots. It would be a neat browser plugin project. Are you planning to open source this?

Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing for a while to find the right thing. The nice thing about ActivityPub (or any federated protocol) is no one can just unilaterally shut down a project like this through policy or API changes that, whoops, prevent this use case.

The wonderful modular world you saw was only delayed, and now it's going to happen with much cheaper CPU, transfer, and storage.

One of the oldest hacker communities.

Mastodon is what Twitter could have been without having to serve the interests of people shoveling millions into it. The interests of people shoveling ones and tens of dollars into Mastodon are well-aligned with the users because they're the same people.

Furries

The best part is you not only get to hang out with lots of fluffy animal people (who often share your variety of not quite cis and straight), you get to bring all your hobbies along. Lots of furry musicians, programmers, writers, etc.

Sounds a lot like traditional fiction publishing. They want exclusivity, sometimes indefinitely.

>> "I think you might be extrapolating from your experience with your own social class."

You don't know anything about my social class. I'm not HN typical. People without much think about health too, and receive plenty of conflicting advice.

I was out for a walk recently and overheard a group of kids talking, and the f word was present. Not only are things bad, the next generation seems to be the same.

And that's with me being white and having the ability to pass as an ordinary dude most of the time. Trans women (especially of color) die every day, and that's just the ones who get reported on. Just as many get treated as "brawls gone wrong" or "tragic suicides" because their family didn't accept them and give correct information in the obituary.

There are more cisgender and heterosexual people willing to stand up against it, but that mainly helps when it comes to policy. It doesn't help much with the day to day for most.

edit: I do appreciate you asking. Way too many people assume things are fine now because there's gay people on TV, or some other arbitrary metric. There's still a long way to go.

Familiar! Some of it, at least.

Asking the "wrong" people out in middle school ('90s) sure was a fast track to being an outcast. Paradoxically, the rising positive presence of LGBTQ+ people in media in the '90s made things worse. People were on the lookout for us!

I don't know if it was worse than the '80s where our presence in the media was almost universally negative.

Later, I found Twitter, and met a friend (also bi) who had lived mere miles away all my life. We probably never would have met without the internet. Having backup when we hang out has actually made me more social because I'm not worried about being alone up against a crowd who decides it's time to make an example of someone.

The main thing I got out of this thread is that everyone thinks they know the right way to health, that everyone else disagrees with them, and I have no idea how to tell who's actually right.

If you want to know why there's a health problem in some developed countries, the confidence of all the factions in the back and forth in this thread is a shining example. Unless you can afford professional guidance (and know how to tell if they know what they're talking about), you don't have much hope unless you stumble on to something that works for you.

Apple is worth $1 trillion in the same way an asteroid hurtling toward Earth contains $1 trillion in precious metals.

Tim Cook has yet to prove he can do more than maximize profits while someone somewhere is working on the thing that'll undermine the source of Apple's value while they're not looking.

edit: generalized away from a specific example because it distracted from the point.

I save anything that looks interesting in Pocket and sort it out later. My to-read list never gets bigger than 10 articles. Other people seem to struggle with this.

That's what Moments is supposed to be for. People can make their own, but I rarely see it.

I'll keep this in mind for when I can afford a version of Live that supports this.