looking back at the bird site after being on mastodon for a while:
Personal bio:
Evolution enthusiast trapped in an engineer's brain.
Married thanks to Obergefell v. Hodges :)
I watch way too many movies, and I still miss Roger Ebert.
Two dogs, both corgis, named Fufi and Glen Coco. If you haven't seen them on here yet, you will.
Enjoy golf, playing guitar, casual game playing, NYT crosswords, and reading (mostly science nonfiction, with an occasional crime/mystery thrown in.)
I don't even want to hear about free speech. You aren't entitled to someone else's attention. Trolling is not a Constitutional right. You want to do that, spin up your own instance.
And certainly, someone could start a free-speech-anarchist instance with all pest controls off. For mastodon.social, though, I think they have a real responsibility to crack down on this shit.
The right to abuse is not about freedom. It silences people. It restricts freedom and expression—it never enhances it.
oh my god mastodon is a way to be nice but in a chill way to strangers on the internet
this is all i've ever wanted in life time to MAKE SOME MOTHERFUCKERS FEEL GOOD
I CAME HERE TO BE NICE TO PEOPLE AND CHEW BUBBLE GUM AND I'M ALL OUT OF PEPPERMINT BUT NO WORRIES I TOTALLY HAVE OTHER FLAVORS SO HERE HAVE SOME GUM!
Welp, it's been a fun first day on here. I leave you for the night with one final corgi pic. Cheers :) https://octodon.social/media/hxQOTuRDr7xgsVXmFIU
Part of what is making this experience so pleasant is that my timelines are virtually DJT-free. It's like a vacation from the internet, on the internet...
...which makes it especially jarring whenever my mind does manage to wander back to reality. (sigh)
They say that science is the universal language but I think that's a little presumptuous. If we really want to increase our chances of alien contact we should be sending pics of cute cats and puppies out into the cosmos.
another srs post here, wont be long:
we are happy there are more folks here but FYI newbies, Mastodon's community was founded by gays, trans folx, POC, furries. Not only do we take no BS from Nazis, we won't have you ruining this place for us.
YOU ADJUST TO US. Mic drop 🎤
I feel like we are living in that montage from The Social Network where everyone is happily trying facebook for the first time and trent reznor is dropping cool beats.
I think that was before the "chicken cannibalism" sequence though so everyone be safe out there.
Feeling trapped between the desire to explore Mastodon's features and fear of the crushing humiliation that will accompany any misstep.
As you settle into Mastodon, be sure to learn the lingo:
- "toot": a tweet
- "tusking": starting a pointless fight with another user
- "woolly": going viral, as in "wow, that toot really went woolly"
- "extinction event": when a whole instance goes down
oh god i made it worse
Mastodon feels like we all just walked into a stadium expecting a big show, not knowing what that show would be.
Then we realized that we ARE the show, and now everyone is looking around the stadium at each other, thinking, "I suppose I'll stay for a bit and see what other kinds of people walk in, and ooh--those pretzels look tasty..."
Struggling to remember how to proofread toots before I toot them.
Struggling to remember how to post to post to social media in greater than 140 characters.
"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain... The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain."
Must keep practicing...
