AB @ab1@octodon.social

“The history of finance is the history of sales. There are lots of great ideas, it’s not until someone pays enough to attract aggressive sales people that the ideas bear fruit.” —Aaron Brown, “A Wall Street Rocket Scientist
in King Arthur’s Court” https://storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-28782334/documents/595d1aaba9c67K1RvYqt/Rocket%20Scientist%20in%20King%20Arthurs%20Court%20200507.pdf

Eerily applicable to programming languages and styles, among no doubt many, many other things.

the answer to many of the questions about harassment is "rely on your instance admin" - but right now, visibility on how to pick an instance is so low, you could very easily not know:

- who your admin is
- what the CoC for your instance is
- how soon can you expect a response

So I'm seeing some discussion about why Mastodon isn't necessarily taking off with certain minorities (let's be honest, they mean POCs while trying to dance around the term, this place is super White asides from the apparent Japan contingent).

Here's some thoughts:

1. The whole notion of "instances" is really unintuitive. When you Google "Mastodon", you get an instance like mastodon.social, but it's not immediately apparent that M.S isn't your only option or WHY you'd want a different instance