After no end of issues with mastodon.cloud (won't accept password, won't send password), I'm migrating to octodon.social.
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
Most importantly, stop putting institutional events on Facebook, stop using it at universities, stop making participation in Facebook mandatory through your institutional, organization, and activist roles. You can be online, and social, and connected without supporting Facebook.
William Gibson on the Silver Spook Podcast! https://youtu.be/HhkoIwKs5PA
An illuminating deep-dive into "cyberpunk" and the atemporal torch-passing of subversive sci-fi mindfuckery from British New Wave to CP to Black Mirror and Ned Beauman. #cyberpunk #scififri #scifi
After no end of issues with mastodon.cloud (won't accept password, won't send password), I'm migrating to octodon.social.
