Net Flix or other streaming services should offer a watch together option where people can watch a movie synched up and talk to each other.
‘iceberging’ is where you tweet something that appears to be complete and self-contained, but which has a longer counterpart on mastodon. for example, here https://twitter.com/direlog/status/850449442591440896 versus here https://mastodon.social/@direlog/1929376
Once, you may have been known as "robertKJohnson_ca", but henceforth my Canadian friend you shall simply be known as "rob". Arise, sir rob
Hey 🎺.☕️ users, so apparently if you don't want to be followed by a followbot you can add #nobot to your profile. Details: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/000/183/429/original/fbdcda7e14c02db3.png?1491694530
I worked for a company in the past―a distributed company. We had a policy that all developers should be able to recreate their development environment within an hour of putting a bullet through their current one. Good policy. Kept everything distributed, and lightweight :)
@starkatt Skimmed. Based on a tweet. Confirmed after the fact.
something that I'm enjoying here in #mastodon - seeing the general timeline with people that I'm not following. and people reading me, also. It's interesting and engaging. Like a huge party where everyone is trying to connect with each other, despite not knowing anyone. refreshing.
(oddly, if I was attending a huge party "offline", I'd not engaging in any conversations. My phone would be my best friend)
@Idoubtit Yeah it seems like we might have noticed by now if it were a serious health hazard? But it keeps popping up in news and family (don't use your smartphone in the bathroom! Hide your toothbrush!)
@Idoubtit Oh oh do you have more info on aerosolized poop? I've been meaning to look into that.
It's #folklorethursday on the bird site. Might as well bring it over here. Here's my piece on fairy stones from my site Spooky Geology http://spookygeology.com/fairy-stones-natural-crosses/
@Mainebot I have no idea but I love octodontists.
@sungo you *can* delete federated toots, but it's a 2nd message that tells server "delete the previous one" - network delays and failures apply
but this is a good message in principle, it's true for everything that isn't e2e encrypted
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.
@JanCVanB Agree. Should be a way to make that exportable, I would think.
@JanCVanB Sounds like you can import toot history but not necessarily followers (so address book is tied to instance?)
@JanCVanB So you have an account on a specific instance (domain/server) but can talk to any other instance that doesn't have you blacklisted.
@JanCVanB That Mastodon works like email---is a protocol, can set up servers, have multiple accounts, the servers can communicate with each other or not
So is there any way the email analogy falls down?
This 500 character limit is blowing my mind.
@Livestradamus Ditto with life.
