naxuu @naxuu@octodon.social

this might be better in the long run! but it's best to also acknowledge this is going to lead to a SHIT ton of grief and chaos as users conflict with instance owners and people jump ship and accuse each other of being shitty allies and etc. this place is "social justice eats itself" central and it's going to be crazy

i love being an early adopter on social media because, for a brief moment, you're surrounded by like-minded travelers: tech journalists, developers, UX designers, armchair internet law activists, github jockeys - my people! i'm racist and classist

INTRO TO FEDERATION:

1. "mastodon" is a piece of software that runs on a server. It's made of "code", or little spaghetti-like strings of information

2. An "instance dominatrix" can chew and swallow these code strands to create an "instance". Every stomach contains at least one server

3. Our gut bacteria populates the server, and can talk to, or battle, gut bacteria from other stomachs

4. The game of "mastodon" ends when your gut bacteria populates the entire universe. Go forth and conquer!

man it's a hot one, like seven inches from the mastodon, i'm sorry every body. i'm sorry

well, there's the clueless tech libertarian white dude mindset in a nutshell

i'm convinced this whole federation thing will be an absolute shitshow that will descend into highly insular, complex drama and anger, and at least in the abstract i'm 100% here for it

Meet The Strange New Mastodon Instance That's Cosplaying As If They're On AOL In 1997

my parents discovered Mastodon and shamed me for my instance not being hip and weird enough

did everyone already make the joke about an app called Toot Suite. fine

i bet there's already porn of the mastodon mascot

it's extremely disorienting that you all use capital letters

can't wait til we get past the awkward phase where we all talk incessantly about the platform and instead talk incessantly about whatever bullshit trump said or did that day

still wrapping my mind around 'federations' but the term makes me think of those giant space battles in EVE Online that ruin the lives of everyone in the entire game for years

i'm also a #mefite if that helps me make frands

"name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile"

#synthesizers
#experimentalfiction
#drone
#aesthetics
#ironyasadefensemechanism
#absurdity
#artandcultfilm

hype: mastodon is twitter without the nazis
reality: literally found the nazis in like 5 clicks