McLean 🌝 @mcccclean@octodon.social
I'm into jokes and programming and making video games and being a leftist, thanks for your time.
I really think we should expose the federated timeline to the public.
Dont let people post things, just watch.
Let people without accounts look at the current activity, find subjects that interest them, and see if people they know are already here.
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Could go a long way towards getting people to join...
RADICAL THOUGHT
maybe the point of life *isn't* to accumulate wealth and capital but instead to have a nice time with your friends and loved ones and help others do so too
More like six reasons clickbait websites will fail in the absence of a monolithic platform on which to promote content
Six reasons why Mastodon will fail
1. I don't like elephants or dinosaurs and a mastodon is both
2. Being distributed is an inherent flaw with no upsides
3. Toots is a silly word, unlike tweets which is a serious word
4. You need to remember a number, not a handle, and I don't like that and also I'm wrong about that
5. You can't search the whole network at once
6. Apps for a new thing have unpolished UX
Things I won't miss from the bird place: Nazis, political bots, threads, #brands, nested quoted tweets that don't pay off when you get to the bottom, institutional accounts that exist for PR without thinking about what content a follower wants to see, accounts that tweet with so many abbreviations and hashtags that you can't derive sense from it, brands that tweet the same content multiple times per day, being forced to make grammatical errors to fit in 140 characters, and oh yeah, Donald Trump.
is it true that mastodon is actually a psyop created by hover and namecheap to spur people into paying crazy prices for hip domain names such as "balls.hypno.gongle.sigil", "godzone.fuck" and "will.i.am.shitner"
My housemate sent me this pic of my cat doing some good step sitting
You're not like sand. If you were in my bed, I wouldn't anxiously scrabble-kick you onto the floor and then keep going for a few more minutes just in case there was still a little bit of you left
My new theory, developed from staying at a beachside resort the last few days, is that the entire prequel trilogy was developed so that Lucas could author filibuster about how annoying sand is, and that he was right to do so.
Hey who is an indie game dev? Basically the main thing I got out of bird website is just admiring people's screenshots of wips. Star this if you make indie games (incl Twine games! Don't need to be screenshots it's all good) and I'll follow ya. 🙏
slow toots rn, but i'll take em over fast whatevers delivered by a server funded by VC cash that demands the eventual betrayal of its users.
There are entire newsrooms full of reporters who *just* got the hang of saying "tweets" without it sounding ridiculous. They have no idea what's coming
I coulda just grabbed @mclean I guess hey. But I'm four c's everywhere else! I'm married to the c's
anyway it's great to see a lot of familiar faces here from *reads note scribbled on palm* Ello
The last missing feature is there are no Australian politicians on here that I can @ to whinge about cutting peak hour tram services on the 96 line are you kidding me Dan Andrews you low dog
Regarding squatting usernames I personally would be fine with federations being like "if there's a username dispute we'll defer to the person who owns the corresponding keybase.io account" (or something along those lines; exceptions in cases of super plausible username dupes like "joe")
Yeah picking a federation seems huge. First class migration is the main missing feature of this app. Looks like people are working on it though! Or at least thinking about it super hard. So... cool!
