Samizdata ✔ @Samizdata@octodon.social
A guy that interjects into random
conversations with truly bad jokes.
#MeFite
#ThatSameSamizdataYouHaveSeenEverywhereElseEXCEPTBritishLibertarianism
References and reshares mean that even if you block a source directly, indirect references to them in threads will still fill your space. If this presents a problem to you, then it's a problem which blocking alone cannot address (or at least not simple origin-based blocking -- a source-and-replies filter might). Some reshares might also leak through.
If you're blocking someone because they create shitstorms wherever they go, then at the margin your own blocking won't improve the situation.
@Samizdata you have a fantastic username, and I love your toot about Whitman. I appreciate your wisdom :)
@Orwellia Cheers. Smile achieved!
You know what I love most about this steady, formidable revolution? Its spark is written in Rails.
With time there'll likely be other, more efficient, faster, x-something #mastodon server implementations. But the origins of this federated bundle of joy will always be Rails.
And I love that. #rubylove ❤️
@Orwellia Hit me!
@Elizafox As something of a corollary, never season my cooking without trying at least one bite. Try it and season away if you must. Don't try it and I will SHANK an eater!
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Seeing toots and boosts propagate through the exploding network of federated instances is like watching the hyphae and filaments of some subterranean lifeform, threading mycoforms and fruiting bodies through the bare earth in a cascading birth of a brand-new ecosystem.
What I mean is, woohoo, I think my posts are going fungal.
@andyAstruc Why, thank you. You're not so bad yourself!
@maiyannah Or, you know, you use the tool for the job it was created for. That's why we use lug wrenches to change tires, and not vases,
On the Followbot issue: whilst I don't think it's helpful to follow /all/ users on /all/ instances indiscriminantly, picking up the toots of those who've been only recently followed, but have longer histories on their own Instances, would be useful. E.g., @aral seen from mastodon.cloud has only about 22 posts, not the 147 at his home Instance: https://mastodon.social/@aral
This is an automated catch-up feature I think I could endorse.
@wakest Wakest, we have phantsign the likes of which even God has never seen!
@sl2c Because it can be?
I read all the internet. The fun project I'm working on needs a break. Already watched John Oliver. Not 11pm yet. No current fiction book eating my head. Kind of at a loss. 😶
It harkens back to an era in the internet, and in computing, where things were named by whoever was making them based on personal whimsy, rather than being the product of a focus group.
@andyAstruc Who? Me? <wanders off looking at nothing and whistling tunelessly>
