I am warmed to see a number of older voices throughout the cybre imploring all who hear to consider slowing down, building for each other, connecting, and love. this is a societal shift I can get behind.
#gopherdon #ios client now supports the local & public timeline views.
https://mastodon.social/media/H_ir9Q0a5BvPntcv-Zs https://mastodon.social/media/kISeaXCq9YpEvz5zfgs
I'm hearing about mastodon over gopher and getting irrationally excited. This could be the best Christmas in twenty years.
Bandwidth throttling Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US Senate https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=815548411&oldid=814112596
Remember when a distributed wireless mesh was a fantasy and not a badly needed bulwark against a dystopian reality?
Hahaha good times
*cries in cyberpunk*
https://social.freedombone.net/url/65578
maybe "millennials" will be the last named generation; "boomers" will keep calling everyone younger than them millennials until they all die off and then we can all just stop talking about generations having characteristic beyond what emerge from their material conditions
i have a british colleague whose last name is gwilliam and i love how that means he had an ancestor who went to france and had his name frenchified and then had a less distant ancestor who went back to england and had his name anglicized its like analog reverse google translate
Back when I was active on Usenet it was considered pretty normal to have house rules for any newsgroup, you were also expected to refrain from posting long enough to notice and learn the unspoken customs (this was called "lurking").
Nowadays people see it as an orchestrated attack against free speech, shout references to 1984, and threaten to move elsewhere.
Yet the ones asking us all to behave politely are called "hypersensitive"?
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People:
1) pyrokinesis
2) bioluminescence
3) omnipresence
4) eyebeams
5) pine scent
6) robot arm
7) gills
"The Minimally-nice Open Source Software Maintainer." A wonderful bit of introspection from #rustlang's Brian Anderson:
kɜ:ʳ 
wait so once ur jacked in to cybrespace how do you jack back out again
i forgot to read the manual and now my hands are nintendo powergloves
2 Rules of Dealing with Witches:
1. Don't fuck with witches.
2. See Rule 1.
tbh that's a pretty good business model. Let's just make an instance for rich people to spend money on "ranks" with associated emojis and some ban on emojis in names for the instance.
Then nuke the whole thing and keep the money. Repeat until capitalism ends.
The real value add of Mastodon is giving everyone an excuse to finally put something on all the weird domains they've been squatting
Just in case you didn't see it, I finally made a Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/CobaltVelvet
IIRIRCC ("If I recall IRC correctly")
lol 4 CPUs at 100% on the app server
Considering the dial one turns when building social software, between emphasis on people and emphasis on the spaces they occupy.
Compare being "in" a channel or rooms vs. "following" an individual. Systems focus on one or the other (yet always support both: DMs and privmsg; hashtags and groups)
Anyway this all needs to be rebuilt atop matrix.org or something because content addressing. Seriously it's 2017 and we're back at "overloaded server, can't load". Not even like zooko's triangle.
