NicePoint 🐋 @NicePoint@octodon.social
I may look like a nice triangle, but I'm silently judging you. I'm a real People, BTW.
date: so are you more of a cat person or a dog person?
me: the pet lover binary is a harmful social construct that must be eradicated.
having reputation scores is a fucking black mirror episode
like im not making a comparison of what it's like
there's literally a black mirror episode about it, iirc
I saw a request to block whole instances because they speak a different language. I say why not get some translation api like google translate or bing so that other languages could be translated?
Let's connect people like the social network that we are and not separate them :D
I had a conversation with a japanese person earlier today using google translate and it was awesome haha
#mastodev
#mastodon
Whenever the Mastodon new car smell wears off lets all remember these past couple of weeks where we all worked to be inclusive and supportive of each other, where we gave every new member a pineapple as a welcome gift, and where we enthusiastically created more than EIGHT HUNDRED small communities in the hope that everyone could have a place where they felt at home.
I have seen a few people going this, as mastodon is beginning to show evidence of identity and verification troubles.
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Here it is: My very own verification gist. https://goo.gl/q9HJJg
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It would be good digital hygiene for most users to do this, I think.
I kind of feel like I need to don formal red Federation attire and slap on my communicator.
Welcome to the United Federation of Federations (federation)
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UFF(f)
@LanceUlanoff so basically thanks for writing this article.
It’s helpful to understand why people misunderstand or even dislike a distributed service like this.
Lots of the problems you encounter could be solved by documenting it better or have a clearer user interface, some others probably need more teaching in why distributed systems *are* different to centralized.
