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had a dream that my cat was running a really cool Mastodon instance

"Will Mastodon make any money?" scream the journalists, who have forgotten the joy of building sandcastles on the beach

But how can I turn Mastodon into a money-making machine?
*thinks about it*
*opens a webshop that sells pineapples, introductory books on the French language, and incrementally larger server thingamajigs*

the follow bots suggest an emerging use-case. I think the solution is to have the local timeline for any particular domain be a feed people/bots can subscribe to. in theory, this isn't hard for the protocols underneath to do.

@CobaltVelvet I'd be interested, but I have no significant experience in online moderating.

What if this place was just a platform for talking to people? What if we didn't compete for social space? What if there was actually respect for the ideas of others regardless of their social standing?

I see that possibility here. Please don't screw it up.

@lmorchard How about one where everyone is randomly assigned a generated set of political opinions upon joining, and must defend them as a form of rhetorical exercise.

Especially interesting is that one is bound to get at least one position one deeply opposes, possibly more. It's all a roll of the dice.

Doom is just an adventure game where all the solutions are >shoot imp

and there are so many of the "so-so has liked" posts... tweet, liked, tweet, liked...

another day, another bad change by 🐦 Show more

As my son Steve says, just 'smoosh' it in there. It's not a real word, but people seem to know what it means.