Heiko Ludwig 🌈 @Taleel@octodon.social

Apologies to everyone I had to leave out! (your instances are great too)

From Witches to Dolphins, These Are the Communities That Make Mastodon Great https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/from-witches-to-dolphins-these-are-the-communities-that-make-mastodon-great #eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

And I actually don't care.

Please everybody - make sure to say "Hello World" when you create a Mastodon account - you might get a 🍍 if you do!

#knuckletats

POLY / DACTYLY

am I doing this right?

#knuckletats for the gay lady librarians out there

ISBN LSBN

Oh, I see unsolicited advice to chronically sick people has made it over here from twitter. How about don't.

it's funny! what i set out to do was basically talk about how talking about feelings and friendships and relationships is actually fucking hard work and yet so rewarding and important and... the toots just ran away from me. like that. ugh.

About risk profile:

- Mastodon is like email because you can't delete federated toots
- Mastodon is like twitter in that Google's search bots index it, unless your admins robot.txt it away
- Mastodon is like being a teenager because the people that own your instance can see all your private stuff

Have a talk with your admin about their policies.

By default, assume everyone will be able to read your toots forever.

Entire nervous system of an animal recorded for the first time
https://is.gd/9RFME3

TWITTER: “use first name last name if you can — it looks professional”
MASTODON: “Hi I’m fluffy at homosexual dot party”

Tech writers: mastodon is not a proper social medium
Masto users: but we're social all the time?
Tech writers: nono. what we mean is that our advertisers can't pump money into profit like they're used to
Masto users: [swears in French]

After three years, the probability of a physically very small USB flash drive being lost to the ether approaches 1.

Ja Guten Tag erst Mal

No ads on Mastodon is definitely refreshing, but most refreshing of all is the distinct lack of bullshit

I made a diagram to help you understand how the different timelines/columns work:

https://techn.ical.ist/assets/help.svg https://techn.ical.ist/media/zhoMEHOzhT2r6zlz034

*looks at twitter* oh good, i got followed by a tech exec and three more brands

*looks at mastodon* i got followed by 8 witches, 3 queer furries and 7 cybrepunks

When is Black Twitter going to get here? This place is white as fuck.

in actual fact tho, even games played by literal voice actors — Critical Role — was meandering, relaxed and casual, and it made me realise, even as the players are a thousand times more dedicated and prepared than I'd ever manage, it's okay to goof off.

Adam Koebbel, designer of the most popular and best-selling PBtA variant, is... and fairly okay dude doing the GM-ing. He's not a Thespian™ or Machiavellian genius in plotting, and... actually, he's lazy. he solicits input. it's great.