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@pee_zombie
Cracking open a cold one with the ingroup
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Weird starship names generated by neural net software.
Yes, they sound like something out of an Iain Banks "The Culture" novel
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How to game the chronological timeline:
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Over time on the Fediverse I’ve figured out how to improve engagement with posts. It’s related to the chronological timeline. What works for Twitter doesn’t work here, and vice versa.
First, post something actually interesting. Then think of something else interesting to add on.
Wait for someone to reply who gives you the opportunity to say the thing that you want. Then reply with the thing, and write your reply for a general audience.
Your reply will appear in people’s feeds, and if it’s interesting they’ll click it to know more, thereby seeing the original post. Continue this process. Each time you do it, it puts something in the feed people can click to see the original post.
As people reply and you reply back, it becomes a collaboration.
This is actually the natural way people engage, which is why the Fediverse is successful.
But you have to be careful about who you reply to, and why. Don’t reply based on emotions, reply to have your message seen by an audience.
For that reason, replying to negative posts is often bad, as it draws audience attention to the negativity. Unless you reply back with a joke, then people see you’re a good sport.
Some other tips:
If someone writes a really good comment on your post, you can repost it. This has the same effect as replying.
After some time, you can repost your own post to put it back into people’s feeds.
Don’t overdo it, or people will get annoyed and unfollow you. (Your posting behavior should be natural and not forced.)
It’s kind of obvious, but if you’re used to sites like Twitter with algorithms, it might take a moment to adjust. People are filtering in and out all day, and no algorithm is going to magically put your posts in their feed. So to be seen, you have to do a little work.
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the safest way to use computers is still abstinence
gm masto crew how we doin td
invite code in here! DM me for any issues/questions
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RT @pee_zombie
@tautologer @Delca__ @poiThePoi @WomanCorn ok, i've fixed the http://schelling.pt server and its open for signups! here's an invite code for y'all (good for a week), if it doesnt work pls DM! also would love to hear feedback on what you like/what could be made better after y'all try it out
https://schelling.pt/invite/jEqZR9BF
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1588714574340968449
twitter got you feeling sus? I invite you to join my Mastodon server, http://schelling.pt
can't promise it will survive longer than this place but at least it's got a better name
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RT @pee_zombie
concerned/upset about all the social media outages? thinking about how you'll possibly be able to find your people should Twitter vanish?
this is one of the main issues with centralized social media, and decentralization is one solution, sp…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1445126676489322507
welcome new schelling.pt residents! hope y'all getting situated, pls feel free to ask me any questions you have about how Masto works!
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elon musk and gargron are secretely the same person
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I saw someone confuse etymology and entomology, and it bugged me in a way I couldn't put into words.
there are many valid criticisms of the crypto ecosystem, many of which I agree with (such as the hypecycle nature of the + web3 wave, the speculative nature of most image NFTs, & the immaturity of the end-user UX & onboarding/security flows)
but a grift that doesn't make
many crypto-skeptics miss that a significant contingent of the crypto ecosystem is values-driven & as such is prone to engaging in apparently suboptimal behavior, as their optimization window is much longer term than one would expect for the profit-driven
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RT @pee_zombie
I posit that the divergence is one of values and theory of change, specifically in how one envisions the relationship between the two. does change flow from values?…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1436006844984594435
there's certainly good arguments that can be made regarding how decentralized "crypto" really is based on funding structures and resource imbalances, but the nature of the technology is such that there simply is not any one party capable of unilaterally enacting changes
the command hierarchy bias is a useful metabolic optimization, as very many phenomena can indeed be accurately explained in this way
but it becomes incoherent when there isn't a central authority from which causation flows
decentralized systems are not explainable in this way
this pattern is a manifestation of the same command hierarchy bias that drives the conspiratorial impulse; people tend to privilege explanations of phenomena with a single agentic actor over epiphenomenal explanations where it emerges from the behavior of many independent actors
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RT @dystopiabreaker
a pattern i've noticed with some loud blockchain critics:
if something about the system isn't ideal or they don't like it, they of…
https://twitter.com/dystopiabreaker/status/1479740076775002112
A: crypto is useless, just a useless overly complex pile of tech in search of a problem
B: oh ok. what are you working on instead? something more useful?
A: yeah, Haskell.
the entire economy is one big risk management play
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RT @polyparadigm
Technical debt default hot-swap. https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1458809237740527620
https://twitter.com/polyparadigm/status/1479687195849945088
