Christopher Chapman π» @m3mnoch@octodon.social
fluent speaker of http and color. infrequent game designer. enemy of capital letters. wearer of flip-flops.
@GinnyMcQueen the bummer is that i flip through other people's followers for cool users to follow.
so, sure. as long as we figure that "who to follow" issue out, i'm totes down.
@CobaltVelvet *shakes fist at file descriptors and inodes*
When someone asks why you're on an instance called witches.town
heh.
lucky for me, it's signed by the keybase filesystem: https://keybase.pub/m3mnoch/mastodonproof.md
magic!!
PSA: support your sysadmins
@dmoonfire @mallaidh @Jamjars
@zacanger
zac's answer is correct. basically, the only way for a user (say mr. moonfire) to show up in a different mastodon instance is for someone from that instance to follow him. then, the new instance knows to look for messages from him and drop them into the federated timeline.
automatic followbots are combing around, linking people to instances. it's not for bumping up people's follow counts.
@CobaltVelvet righteous.
@CobaltVelvet sweet tools! go, go, go!
oh. and what's "score"?
@CobaltVelvet @sir that smells very bittorrent-like.
@acw πππ
sup, y'all!
just wanted to make a little list of all my mastodon identities. especially since i see this rolling out as a ton of virtual communities, all loosely joined together, i feel like i'll eventually have a scattering of identities across them.
anyway, these are me:
- m3mnoch@octodon.social (my main account)
- m3mnoch@mastodon.cc
- m3mnoch@aleph.land
- m3mnoch@social.nasqueron.org
inception-flavored proof:
https://m3mnoch.keybase.pub/mastodonproof.md
So all of these federated mastodon instances are neat, but I'm not seeing anyone making up interesting weird rule sets yet.
It seems like if we're gonna to build a galaxy, our planets should have cultures, right?
I want instances where you're not allowed to use the letter p. Where you can only use a different subset of unicode every day. Where you can only post from certain geographic locations or while going certain speeds.
Basically, I want oulipo mastodon.
so. i was thinking. (always dangerous) since this federation of microblogging thing is rolling out like a bunch of virtual communities, each with their own distinct flavor, there's a LOT of similarity with virtual worlds. especially with everyone putting together their instance's (aka community) terms of service.
luckily, raph has a sweet "declaration of the rights of avatars" he wrote up a decade or two ago.
https://www.raphkoster.com/games/essays/declaring-the-rights-of-players/
pssst! hey guys! (and girls, of course!)
who's going to run sentiment analysis on all of the mastodon/gnu social instances to determine an asshole score? and then drop all that into an api to monitor instance connections?
c'mon now. raise your hand. don't be shy.
mastodon tools ftw!
@hermeslispegistus -- nah. it's a just fine strategy.
that's what's so great about this whole gnu social thing. eventually, communities/instances will start becoming valuable. to stay in the "united nations of mastodon", they'll have to boot jerks. then, through an eventual appeals process, they'll be able to rejoin.
or, if they don't care about being part of the larger group, smaller instances will fill with dickheads and/or the SUPER-easily outraged and be off on their own.
omg! watching one punch man on netflix. IT'S AWESOME!
tusky is pretty nice given the speed of development. even if push notifications don't work.
@CobaltVelvet We're the Goldilocks zone of Mastodon? That instance is too big! That instance is too small! This instance is juuuuuuust right.
@luisbg right?!?
@CobaltVelvet duh. they obviously talk too much. or not enough. #teamoctodon
