Abu Godot @abgd@octodon.social

You know what fucks me up? If you talk to your average capitalist, get to know them, gain their trust, they will admit to you that they know capitalism is shit. They know the market doesn't optimize for efficiency or social good. They just see it as an inevitability, and want to be on the winning side. I'm not saying all of them are like this, but I've met too many to think it's a coincidence.

As the inevitable result of the explosion of TLDs, children will one day ask the sensible question "why does every domain name have a dot in it?" and we won't have an answer

Proposal to rename "follow bots" to "the feds"! That way everyone can yell "Oh no it's the feds!" instead of "Oh no it's the follow bots!" and we can at least get a chuckle?

I have eaten
the cookies
that were on
the counter

and which
you were probably
saving
for dessert

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so soft https://toot.cat/media/J_GkmFb2Zfv_C1BQfhE

the year is 2020, there are no good urls left, all the good urls are mastodon instances

Some people missed the point here, and they were all from countries with health care. (shocking)

When your country does not provide health care, the answer isn't "well people shouldn't have to help you".

Saying that health care should be free does exactly nothing to help people who are currently in pain, sick, and dying.

Stop @ me to tell me I'm fucked and people shouldn't help others in their community who are suffering. That's insane.

You missed the point of my post.

woolly.af is still available. You people are not serious.

if u wanna see my content
u gotta boost all my friends
federate their instance
centralisation's met its end

Please toot me your favorite one-line definitions of Socialism and/or Communism and/or Anarchism!
Also please boost, I want multiple responses.
Thanks :fist: :two_hearts:

I remember reading a few months ago an excellent article by The Economist stating :
"The mechanisms of (internet) are only now beginning to be understood. One crucial process is “homophilous sorting”: like-minded people forming clusters."

What I love about Mastodon is that unless you go to the lenght of blocking everyone having a different opinion than yours, you are perpetually confronted to different perspectives, which I really think is a wonderful thing 🐘

source : http://econ.st/2ccgdMT

Some interesting (and wrong imho) pushback on here at the moment, mostly from Gnusocialists saying "It's just flat out WRONG for one instance to ban another instance because of the bad behaviour of a few people on that instance!"

Well, no. Actually that's part of the excitingness of this place. Users will start self-sorting into instances which have the federation policies they want. Me, I don't want federation with instances which have assholes.

Birdsite can't give me that. Mastodon can.

Q: How private is Mastodon / GNU Social?

A: Not very. Use email, XMPP, or other secure, encrypted protocols if you need privacy.

See: https://community.highlandarrow.com/notice/826830