blinry [old account] @blinry@octodon.social
Old, mostly inactive account. Please follow me here: https://chaos.social/@blinry
This was my first full active day on Mastodon. As an experiment, I decided to leave the birdsite for a week.
And so far, it's working out really great! I'm thrilled about all the atypical, queer and poly folk in here, and I'm impressed by everyone's openness and kindness. I feel really comfortable in this diverse environment, and I'm glad to be part of it! :sparkles:
Yesterday, in our weekly creative meetup, I felt the urge to draw this! :)
https://octodon.social/media/4lfW1G8mbRIsrHN9JUA
@mattrified Hello! :wave: @viTekiM said you're awesome, and why shouldn't I trust this total stranger!
Step closer to @awedjob, and they'll declare you a legitimate artist: http://tiny.cc/WOL
@awedjob Thanks for making me a legitimate artist! :dizzy:
a pyramid scheme but for hugs
A dystopian instance where boosts are called "propaganda" and favouriting is called "groupthinking"
Photos are called "surveillance" and content warnings are known as "thought police."
Emoji are banned.
The act of tooting is known as "thoughtcrime."
The federated timeline is known as "Enemy propaganda", and the local timeline is known as "goodthink."
#introduction tag cloud time!
Hi, I'm Sebastian, but my friends call me blinry! If you find me in a search, make sure to say hi! :)
#german #english #spanish #swedish #japanese #asl
#juggling #go/#baduk #astronomy #origami #riddles #games #cooking #travel #design #painting #drawing #pixelart
#opensource #linux #hacking #programming #ruby #vim #git #javascript #webdev #gamedev
#computerscience #geometry #algorithms #computergraphics #math #science #visualization #explorables #hci
Honestly its pretty great when children clock me. They often ask me "are you a boy or a girl?" or something similar, and I get to tell them "neither!" or "you can be whatever you want!" Their parents often try to make their kid stop talking to me, but I see the look of possibility in the faces of those kids. It's lovely to see.
@blinry I think the enchroma glasses for colorblind people work the same way
"パオる" means TOOT in Japanese for now. It originates from パオーン(paooon) which is the onomatopée for elephants.
@blinry @dredmorbius Is there a feed for the "home" page, ie. the feed of everyone I follow ?
"Enhancement of human color vision by breaking the binocular redundancy"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04392
This is nothing short of amazing. The authors designed a pair of glasses which gives you super-natural color vision, by putting different color filters above on eye. Clever! https://octodon.social/media/InSywcEWzfwBKmM-U5k
You know, in my early days on the birdsite (10y ago, yigoonie) there was much a similar atmosphere to here — well, actually more like the busier instances. I was late for an early adopter, user 1M+, but even then it was *social*. Then as it got busier I fought the tide. I unfollowed rapid tweeters. I tried to read every tweet.
Then I let go and just let the noise take over. I heard what I heard and didn't worry about what I missed.
But this reminds me of those old days. That's friggin awesome.
@dredmorbius is collecting many more findings and Q&A in the replies to this toot: https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/34102
Oh! Mastodon has built-in Atom feeds for each user:
https://SERVERNAME/@USERNAME.atom
For example: https://octodon.social/@blinry.atom
(via @dredmorbius)
Some things I learned about the Mastodon web UI:
The profile page of a user on another server won't show all of their follows/posts. Open it in a new tab (by middle-clicking their username in a toot) to view them all.
To boost or fav a toot on an external site, copy its URL into the search box on your local instance. The toot will be shown as a search result.
I started writing a wishlist for #Mastodon, so I don't forgot about bugs / ideas even when I can't afford the time to write issues (happened at least three times already).
