Chris Young 🇰🇪 @XopherY@octodon.social

Welcome octodon.social to our federated instance list! They're the biggest instance we've started federating with other than mastodon.social :O

awoooooo~

@CobaltVelvet

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quick thought: Bible is fake news.

I want mastodon to work, I really like it I have to say.

Seems like spring finishes today after only one nice day yesterday in #scotland

Means that it's time to play on the simulator with my new #taranis #qx7 😄

#quadcopter #freestyle

"Federated Timeline" always reminds me of the time that Worf returns from the bat'leth tournament on a shuttle craft through a time distortion and keeps slipping into increasingly zany facets of the multi-verse (http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Parallels_(episode)

Only slightly related: no Star Trek instance yet?

#goblue

I have reworked the two-factor authentication page to require a confirmation and it is now live on .social. Given all the other fixes I am considering tagging a v1.1.1 release right now

@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.