Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
Paleolithic hunter-gatherers arguing about the Agricultural Alignment problem.
When I ask "why do you believe that," I'm not asking <what is an article you can find with a quick Google that expresses an argument you think would be convincing?>
That article is almost certainly not why you believe that. The argument it contains is probably not either.
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FACTS ABOUT MASTODON
If you are curious about leaving the cooked turkey site and going to the elephant site, here are some important tips:
1. It sucks. But then, so does every site.
2. You can still shitpost. Take great glee.
3. Picking your server instance is super important.
Ideally you should start at a large instance, and leave because it's full of white suburban NIMBY reactionaries who joined in November because they were promised 0 uncomfortable experiences in their lives and lash out whenever this turns out not to be the case.
Then you move to a smaller server where suddenly you can't talk to your friends because the admin of your instance is feuding with the admin of their instance. Then you wait a month before you can move again.
In this regard, the feudal structure of Mastodon instances is very like early 2000s message boards, whenever the admin got drunk and deleted the site.
4. You can work around the feudalism by running Mastodon yourself. It's the size of a mastodon and costs a fortune.
You can run Pleroma, which is smaller, and is also favoured by Nazis by unfortunate historical accident. Pleroma is perfectly good software that fulfils a need for something smaller than Mastodon, but also the devs are definitely not Nazis but are the other ten guys at the table.
There was a hilarious moment where the guy behind Spinster was so obnoxious he got kicked out of Pleroma and started his own fork called Soapbox/Rebased. He is now known as Soapbox Terf.
The nice people went to Pleroma fork Akkoma, which Soapbox Terf calls the "tr***y server", a review I understand they were delighted by. Try that.
There's also Misskey, which is a bit weird and Japanese, and supports cat ears right there in the protocol.
5. Any bozo who complains about your posts with assertions about the Fediverse that assume it all runs on the rules of mastodon.social is one of the suburban NIMBYs and invariably joined in November. Block and don't look back.
6. If anyone annoys you about your posting, you can improve their feed for them by blocking them from ever seeing your posts. The blocking tools are marvellous.
7. There are NO QUOTE TWEETS on Mastodon and anyone who wants QUOTE TWEETS is an invader, pollutant and corrupting influence despoiling the suburban vistas of Mastodon who only wants quote tweets so they can wreak EVIL.
So quote-tweeting is well supported in Akkoma and Misskey (and forks thereof), is in the Treehouse fork of Mastodon, and will be coming to more Fediverse software soon.
8. In Mastodon, Eugen Rochko has achieved the creation of something greater than himself. And he will *never forgive it*.
9. The Fediverse interprets Website Boy as damage and routes around him.
10. Mastodon is yet another demonstration that worse is better. So come onto Mastodon, and *be* that worse.
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EDIT: this post is attracting some very dumb reply guys. Consider *not* posting debate club fatuity.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
If you don't, just have a nice day.
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@thomasfuchs
Sometimes, I take comfort in the fact that there is a group of individuals who study Bigfoot and chupacabra, who are VERY upset about everyone else's use of "crypto".
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The best way to get into mastodon is just start posting stuff nonstop without thinking about it.
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Actually cannot believe this. After 13 years, Sony/BMG have decided to take down Rick Astley's "Never gunna give you up" due to a dispute with Youtube over ad royalties.
It's completely blocked globally. Actual end of an era.
For http://moa.party:
Why did you stop mirroring this thread halfway through? Your behavior is kind of inscrutable.
Also, I wish you could distinguish between QTs and links to tweets.
My Aunt: I'm not a big Twitter account. I only have 9000 followers.
Me: Yeah.
For Glowfic:
You're wasting a bunch of my time and then the threads are all "on hiatus" and nothing is ever finished.
For The Android Spell Checker:
Please stop marking the last word in every sentence as misspelled because of the adjacent period. It's very frustrating.
For Twitter:
There used to be a way to untag people. Will VGR and Elon get notified on this entire thread? Who knows?
For Congress:
I wish you would do your job instead of handing it off to the Supreme Court, the Executive, or Administrative Law.
For my father:
Moving to Florida in the first place was a bad idea. Rebuilding there after the hurricane is worse.
For my brother:
I understand that you feel like you need to prioritize your nuclear family, but I really wish you would help more with mom. Especially since you are the one who drove the push in the first place.
For my mother:
I wish you weren't such a god damned disaster.
For the fediverse:
Leave it you you clowns to make an even worse environment than Twitter.
The fediblock campaigning to get instances defederated is truly gross and mostly serves as an object lesson in how shitty people can be.
For @elonmusk:
I have no idea what you're trying to do here. Is there no plan?
