Benjamin Newsom @Rasgueado@octodon.social
I'm a musician, raconteur, roustabout, and public policy interloper in the Vancouver, BC area.
There you go, a explicit list of topics requiring a CW in public timelines. https://octodon.social/about/more
Simple: put a CW on NSFW or violence in any way or you get silenced/banned.
Use more of them in an opportunistic way, for anything negative or depressing.
I've been away for a day... let's see what I've missed in 36 hours! #SleepAttack
Anyone that likes games: Gamasutra has an article up where they interview Ron Gilbert about Thimbleweed Park!
Ok guys, very funny.
thanks @CobaltVelvet for keeping octodon.social up when it's getting flogged hard. population's nearly doubled since I signed up this morning.
@Rasgueado similar reasons to yourself but also saw.de domain at social.tchncs.de - have always had respect for German hacker/open source ethos since 1980s and days of Chaos Computer Club etc.
German folk (away from big corporates, politicians etc) tend to be smart, produce and share cool stuff and keep projects going even when there isn't profit involved) - I still visit (German language) websites about tech and electronics that were set up in the 1990s and running to this day.
Since Mastodon.social has been down for registration, what id driving you to pick your particular instance?
Personally I went with the next highest userbase, uptime, and the stated amount of federation.
How about everyone else?
I'm not going to lie... it's been a long time since I saw a concentrated group of people doing a first post as Hello World. =D
@Rasgueado that's my impression. it's like email: you can be bob@gmail.com and I can be bob@yahoo.com. The host is part of specifying who you're referring to -- username alone isn't enough.
So, it seems like it is possible to have multiple people with the same username, but attached to different instances. Though those people can be federated into one public timeline.
Is that accurate? Like... I could make another account on a different instance with the same username?
Last bit of fuzz for tonight. #catsodon
Current mood: #kitty
New service = excuse to travel down memory lane. #PAX was a lot of fun that year.
Let's see how quickly we can also fill this up with cat photos!
I'll always feel thankful for being able to see these sunsets. #Vancouver
Thanks to Jim Crawford for posting about Mastodon!
