Koos 🆗 @koos@octodon.social
I like making things. I live in Berlin. I work as a designer. I'm married. We have a little son and a little daughter.
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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.
somewhere, a senior interactive strategist is pitching mastodon tours and mastodon insights to clients
@andybaio You are not wrong, though I think most of the chatter (however inane) about Mastodon: Twitter Killer Or Flash In The Pan? isn't really engaging with that question. For folks orienting Mastodon as the latest entrant in an all-or-nothing corporate tech rivalry, "it's got basic legs and people will keep using it because it's nice" isn't one of the narrative paths on the table.
*Hypothesis*
If:
- We follow more frequently than unfollow and
- User growth stagnates
Then:
Eventually any person on one instance is followed by at least one person on any other instance and all federated timelines become largely the same and contain all toots, except for some blocks.
➡️ Am I missing something or is federation going to blow up and eat server resources like mad?
Is there a way I can see my favorites? I don't just fave to make you tooters feel good!
why does the standard keyboard have so many shifts, ctrls & alts but no em-dash?
@EdgarMed the "replace twitter" narrative is from a press that pits everything as a war of domination and VC finding and valuation.
For me, twitter kind of sucks, and most of the simple monolithic corporate social networks don't have my best interest in mind. All they've got on me is the Stockholm syndrome we call the network effect.
You're not wrong that this is a little more complicated. And that is a barrier at this point. But I'm still hopeful that this can be a viable alternative.
Rule of Mastodition #22: Everyone on Mastodon is cool.
Rule of Mastodition #21: There are no cool people on Mastodon.
Guys. Don't block the follow bots.
I know on bird site we block the follow bots, but on Mastodon, follow bots are our friends.
They come to your instance and follow you, and by doing so, they bring your posts into the federated timeline on their instance.
This is how federation works; the follow bots are to help us connect.
Someone was arguing with me that Mastodon is going to fail. To me it is already a success even if all instances would go down tonight.
Now I feel guilty for not recommending my other favorites.
My last #podcast recommendation for today was recently released, all episodes at once:
S-Town
Not your normal crime podcast. It starts with murder (or does it?) goes weird places and I binge-listened all episodes in a few days.
https://stownpodcast.org/
Another favorite #podcast - it makes me look forward to Thursdays when they release episodes:
Reply All
"A show about the internet": not so much the tech, but the strange stories of people on it.
https://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all
This is one of my favorite podcasts:
You Are Not So Smart
"A celebration of self delusion": pysychology, biases, logical fallacies presented and explained in a fun and interesting way if you like that kind of shit. And at the end of every episode there is a 🍪
https://youarenotsosmart.com
I will follow anyone who does podcast recommendations. Show more
CWs aren't "censorship" or putting your toots behind some kinda wall, they're basically equivalent to lowering your voice so only the intended people can hear you in this crowded bar, as you talk about stuff that's potentially upsetting, TMI, or whatever.
People don't want CWs on "politics" (which really means "the news") because they're oversensitive and afraid of seeing the news, they read they news, they just don't want it to be a 24-hour punditry vortex in here.
