I have started using this metaphor when recommending friends to use it.
The metaphor extends to the available feeds:
'Home': chat w/ my friends circle, including neighbors and visitors you invited in.
'Local': building party, hang w/ neighbors.
'Federated': take a walk down the street, see weird stuff, chat w/ random strangers, but keep your guard up.
Of course, it's not a perfect match, but I think it quickly conveys the social experience and trade-offs between different instances.
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hi new users! this is a reminder that mastodon's culture is NOT the same as twitter's-- you're entering a community, not a void, and we're reading your posts and want to interact with you
please don't treat this place as "twitter but with a new ui." the influx has been overwhelming for some of us who've been around for a while, we're happy to see new faces but please be considerate of the people around you as you join this space. thank u
Mastodon tip: you can customize a column to list multiple hashtags (and block-list some of them too). It's a good way to discover all the posts gravitating around the topics you like (eg. for art, #mastoart is a popular one). That's really a feature I love here and wanted to share it to newcomers.
Built my Ploopy today, so enjoy this terrible shot of it under my Ergodox!
Reachable by a stretch of the thumb so I never have to leave my home row again.
#ploopy #ergodoxez
OMG! First blog post in 9 years! :O
I wrote a bit about how my email is now set-up. It covers how I run IMAPFilter, isync (mbsync) and Notmuch through Docker on my NAS.
https://cybolic.me/posts/mail-mirror-on-nas
RT @SnaccHBG@twitter.com
@MRDADDGUY@twitter.com While you're all here... (source is below the title)
I hereby declare the winners to be:
#1: Whatever lets me see what's going on
#2: Whatever colour the LEDs on my cyber deck are
#3: Aqua
Tried to write up a bit more about couchdb and decentralised data - getting better at articulating this setup https://researchnot.es/decentralised-data-with-couchdb/
I'm having a hard time getting a clear picture of the issue as well.
The people defending RMS are unhinged, toxic cesspools of hate and mysogyny and I want to stay as far away from them as possible.
On the other side, the open letter from Gnome seems to be willfully quote mining or misrepresenting some of what RMS has written.
Where's the factual discussion?
Note: I was hoping GamingOnLinux would have been the place, but that discussion got overrun by the RMS defenders as well.
I'm a software/web developer and Linux advocate with a love of #opensource, #scifi, #film, #music, #gaming (story-based or retro) and the occasional #3Dprint. My education is in audio engineering, and I've released a couple of albums as "untied" and "tether".
I believe deeply in openness, inclusiveness, respect and common rights.