✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill@octodon.social
I'm Ben. This is a dormant account.
🍭 I'm not that into shipping fandom, but being adjacent to it has ruined me. Someone just said, "I don't know what [they] think the end game is," and I immediately responded, "Probably Beronica."
No one else in that circle watches Riverdale, I'm p sure and I doubt any of them know what that meant or why I said it. 🤦🏻
@CobaltVelvet Good post. Making the case for the confederation.
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It is worth noting that a federation has mandatory inclusion. You cant leave.The united states is a good example of this.
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A confederation does allow "states", in our case instances, to enter and leave at will.
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What we really want is the confediverse.
Mastodon politics, safe spaces, and breaking the federation for fun and profit.
https://blog.xomg.net/mastodon-politics.html
One thing that I like about having more than one Mastodon account: The domains are just radically different, so my password manager knows exactly which account to match and I don't have to indicate (as opposed to having more than one account on some centralized thing).
A note to new wierdos (and I guess to anyone else too): @ambassador runs on this account and automatically boosts all local toots that achieve a (constantly moving) threshold of favs.
So fav your neighbors toots to help them be boosted and promoted and seen outside of our little circle!
Goal is (1) provide at-a-glance view of our 'best' content, (2) make followbots redundant, folks can follow the ambassador, (3) give the community agency in self-definition.
The unintuitiveness of federation as a concept seem tied to a long time of being accustomed, as users of the internet, to monolithic and centralized services. "We need to find a better way to make this relatable" makes sense to me. "We need to mask/change the nature of this thing because it's incomprehensible to stereotypical average users" doesn't.
I've seen people get frustrated that Mastodon is "winning" even though it's buggy, breaks OStatus (allegedly), and has missing features.
Worse is better. "Bad" software that addresses user needs will always win over "good" software that doesn't.
Also: Mastodon has been more successful than previous implementations of OStatus because it has features people actually want instead of relying purely on the expectation that users will choose open-source for its own sake. How shocking!
This is what trans petty-bourgeois equality looks like.
One last one for the road: Anyone who refers to reports of harassment or bigoted speech as someone's "feelings" is an asshole.
Nice comic about gender norms and how violently society enforce them https://thenib.com/if-it-looks-like-a-duck
Also: "If you want it you should write the code yourself" mentality is basically the #1 thing that has stopped wide adoption of FOSS software in the consumer sphere since forever.
Also also: If you claim to care about free speech you should also care about the basic principle of voluntary association, and thus people not wanting to hear or propagate your speech. *For any reason.* Defederation is a *basic requirement* for free speech to exist on Mastodon as anything other than a recapitulation of the worst corners of the internet.
TFW someone tooted a cool article, but my timeline scrolled so I can't find and boost the original toot. Politics, interesting... Show more
When I was younger, I thought being smart was the most important thing. Now that I'm older, I think it's more important not to be a douche.
Psst
hey, hey you.
You're great and deserve to have a good night/day
I wonder if it's possible to adapt Mastodon for role-playing purposes
like have an instance that's its own world with its own rules and each user is a character in this world
maybe change the codebase a bit to incorporate rp-friendly stuff
hey fediverse, I'm a journalism student in college and I'm interested in writing a story about Mastodon for a class -- any power users or instance admins out there that would want to talk about the platform and what makes it unique?
