Samizdata ✔ @Samizdata@octodon.social

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.

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.

#followbots #federation #propogation

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.

me: oh there's dutch on my timeline, lemme see if i can try transl....

wait, this is the lyrics to all star isn't it?

I wrote a little bit about the problems I uncovered (quite by accident!) in some common OStatus systems. I also provide some suggestions for mitigating those problems.

https://www.fknsrs.biz/blog/whoops-i-broke-mastodon-statusnet.html

everything else aside I do really appreciate mastodon, its developers, and the stuff they are doing. I'm really excited precisely because masto is open source & has so many varied people working on it

More in line with my rustic theme:

Even if you're not a "rustic" person, it's good to learn basic survival skills and first aid

They may save your life or someone else's

At the very least, you should learn how to find water that's safe to drink, how to make a fire, and how to escape the elements

No one knows what the future may hold. While you may not be warding off zombies any time soon, Mother Nature can be just as scary and lethal

open source software is worthless unless it welcomes criticism outside of just the people who work on it

Folks,

Let's set aside our differences and come together to embrace our common hatred of coming together

Girl walking ahead of me has OG 1960s Morticia Addams tattooed on her leg. Respect.

@acw I followed you because you had APL in your bio :)

@Samizdata i used to think it was hilarious that i could talk about films i hadn't seen at length without anyone realizing until i got through 2 years of minoring in film despite only watching like, 3 of the set films.

@acw Are 🍍s like a 'hello' in Mastodon? I'm a confused newbie. 😅

@Samizdata I thought those PPC chips got so hot they'd disinfect themselves

Do people like the word "Rhubarb?" What's the world think of this word?

Places on the internet where I have seen frequent and sincere use of new/novelty TLDs:

- Mastodon