Chris Young 🇰🇪 @XopherY@octodon.social

@spiderrobotpig debating somebody right now over this. Basic attitude: "hey if you don't like something, block it. Troll control is an imposition on freedom".

Asked him if he was white cishet guy: "Um yea but so what?"

I always hit an impasse here—how do you explain harassment to someone who doesn't experience it and doesn't care about people who do?

(I remember someone said this re: defending the ACA:) "I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people.")

Hysterical.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/04/08/hysterical/

nature comes w its own music stand

tweet: 2 likes, no RTs, 1 reply
toot: 5 favs, 1 boost, 4 replies

The toot actually seeded some short conversations, so I'm only counting the first replies in the results. I have more followers on Twitter, but many are inactive. This isn't a large sample size, but it fits with my general impression that Mastodon is a warm place.

Seeing a lot of takes like ^oh mastodon will never work, it will never take off, it will never eclipse *birdsite*, it's too complicated^. Apart from my belief that it could be made easier to understand and use I LITERALLY do not care if it never has a billion users or lasts a million years: right now, this moment, it has been a place where I have had interesting interactions with people, found new art and music to care about and that's what matters. Nothing is eternal, the Temporal matters.

"In 10 or 15 years, we will look back fondly on the days when there were only a few thousand Middle Easterners dedicated to destroying the U.S. and willing to die for the fundamentalist cause."

I mean, that was sort of obvious even then but holy shit "serious" news was afraid to criticize the war at all much less CORRECTLY PREDICT ISIS

http://www.theonion.com/multiblogpost/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-regio-11534

One is very heavy and the other is a little lighter.

Seeing so many foreign language toots is really encouraging me to start back up with language learning again. I'd like to be able to converse with people without asking them to switch to English.

Somebody should start an 'official celebrity' Mastodon instance, and only let frightened celebs into it so they can all feel safe that their identities have been 'claimed'. Charge them a nominal fee. Make money. That's a free idea, you can have it.

@XopherY I love it. Seriously. Price wise it might not be the best deal, but I went to Ghana, Canada and other countries, and I would pay the same price for data and voice/sms. I wouldn't go back to anything else. Also paying for what I use it great.

@XopherY Love it. The only thing I don't love is not being able to pick the day it withdraws payment. I've had nothing but clear coverage and dependable bills.