Hi friends, moving to https://xoxo.zone/@potentato :wave:
@dougen they just added the emoji after their name
kɜ:ʳ 
INTRO TO FEDERATION:
1. "mastodon" is a piece of software that runs on a server. There's a lot of servers that run it & u can follow ppl on other servers.
2. When u follow someone from another server, your server receives their toots.
3. The federated TL is all public toots that the server receives, ie all of the toots from everyone that ppl on your server follow.
4. ERGO: if u want to see more toots in the fed TL, follow + get other ppl on your server to follow ppl from other servers!
@material_boy As far as I know, this is Moog's first drum machine, too. So should be really special.
@material_boy details are thin, but it's a percussion synth. They're calling it "Drummer From Another Mother". Not sure if it will have sequencing or not, but I'm guessing it will. Last year's workshop synth was call "Brother From Another Mother", and it has the same housing as the Mother 32.
@material_boy Well in this particular case, I'm building a Moog-designed synth at a workshop at Moogfest. So I'll let them name it LOL
If for some reason I loose access to whatever server hosts my Mastodon handle, I need to be able to point my name elsewhere
Migrating my Mastodon handle should be as straightforward and decentralized as migrating my SMTP and MX records
@material_boy If I find any free ones laying about, I'll hook you up. I'm building one, but that's MINE
Last year was a *fantastic* experience, but at the same time I know I missed some equally great stuff. It doesn't help that I don't know a lot about a lot of the speakers/artists
Moogfest full schedule came out today and I'm already feeling FOMO anxiety because of simultaneous events
@discoursemarker when Ello had their signup rush, that place was nowhere near finished. Mastodon at least feels more complete. That might make people stick.
@yo it's just an emoji, copy and paste this to your "name" :white_check_mark:
@Lohenglamm people you follow show up in the "Home" timeline, if you want to ignore the Federated. Federated is going to get unusably busy as the system grows, anyway. Can you imagine trying to read the equivalent on Twitter? They don't even offer that feed anymore it's too big.
Legion is the best show but I have no idea what is going on
@mathowie I was asking the same this afternoon. I'm no mathowie but I'd like to own *me*
How does this system handle unique usernames? It seems like a flaw in the system if other people can take unique-seeming usernames on other servers. Will this network be overrun with impersonators?
One plus to Mastodon being the subject of the day, I am reminded there is a new Mastodon record I need to listen to.
