Justin @JustinLyles@octodon.social

= MASTODON =
WHAT THEY EXPECTED: a VC backed startup intending to destroy twitter
WHAT THEY GOT: a bunch of cyberpunk kids hanging out behind the mall

https://witches.town/media/W3D78Wl4aSMo16n88sE

I think it's telling that the dude who wrote that bad thinkpiece about masto was pissed that he can't find or follow like a damn actor or whatever-- he isn't coming here to talk to people they know or to get Cool Updates from people in their actual field, he's here to follow a fucking actor

Misgendering trans people on purpose is very asshole-y. Even if you think they are jerks.

:bird: something is wrong and Twitter should do something to fix it

:elephant: something is wrong and oh I guess we need to work through this complex problem and come up with a solution as a community that works for us and if other people prefer something different they can do that too

retoot if you love smashing capitalism, and being a bit gay

Twitter: The world is literally burning and we are all seriously going to die screaming.

Masotodon: Yep. Do your best! We believe in you! Do you like my art? You have such a great instance domain name!

Dear Fellow Anglophones,

People are allowed to speak their own language in public. We do not own the internet.

I repeat:

WE DO NOT OWN THE INTERNET.

Sheesh!

Dear Francophones (and other non-anglophones)

I'd say "feel free to carry on" but you don't need my permission.

I am sorry people are jerks though.

2007: twitter.com
2017: bingus.planet, gay.water.source

another srs post here, wont be long:

we are happy there are more folks here but FYI newbies, Mastodon's community was founded by gays, trans folx, POC, furries. Not only do we take no BS from Nazis, we won't have you ruining this place for us.

YOU ADJUST TO US. Mic drop 🎤

Six reasons why Mastodon will fail
1. I don't like elephants or dinosaurs and a mastodon is both
2. Being distributed is an inherent flaw with no upsides
3. Toots is a silly word, unlike tweets which is a serious word
4. You need to remember a number, not a handle, and I don't like that and also I'm wrong about that
5. You can't search the whole network at once
6. Apps for a new thing have unpolished UX

I'm perfectly content to see federation whitelisting, blacklisting, and graylisting in the Mastodon ecosystem.

It's clear from the history of email that all three approaches are necessary:

* Blacklists for e.g. the known spammers.
* Whitelists for e.g. corporate email that needs to stay in-house.
* Graylists for e.g. Google Mail, which has to deal with everyone.

The tools for a wide spectrum of federation approaches are being built even now.