Oulipo.social#mastodon
The shitposting is cancer, and there's so much of it - the GNU Social half of the fediverse actually does it pretty well, but the Mastodon half is mostly awful. Post-ironic-memes aren't funny. Slightly misspelling words intentionally doesn't mean you're part of some elaborate in-joke. The hidden content jokes are stale and everyone's using the same joke templates from Tumblr circa two years ago. On top of that, the meta-discourse and moderator drama is getting so bad that it sucks the fun out of the entire timeline.
I've met a lot of great people through Mastodon, and I think it's a great app overall. I particularly like that it works well on my phone, so that I can engage with the fediverse on the go. That's awesome!
There's just too many goddamned hipsters, and they're the worst offenders. They''re just perpetuating the worst parts of #Twitter and #Tumblr, and the political discourse on there has all of the depth of a Facebook comment thread.
I shouldn't feel this crotchety. I'm sorry.
I think a lot of us on #Mastodon watched the #G20 'riots' in Hamburg #Germany in the past days with amazement – it has been a few years since a large scale Anti-Capitalism Left wing protest resulted in massive and organised battles with the police.
Most Left discussions about this kind of political violence result in predictable circular debates about 'Gandhians' vs 'Red Army Faction', or whatever.
I suggest that for this #MondayAnarchy we watch this 1min #video of #SreckoHorvat from the #G20. While Srećko is not an anarchist (I don't think) he does have many deep thoughts.
Is it correct to always point to the greater state violence (wars) when explaining away political street violence like at the #G20? Is he explaining the protest or evading answering about it?
click the video to watch....
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Things I'd like for Christmas: linebreaks that show up on GS instances. #mastodon
Proposal: A #Mastodon instantiation automatically substituting any noun in a toot with its 7th following noun in a particular dictionary
So… who's shown an Againtoot™ of a non-public but non-hiding, non-follow-only toot? #mastodon
Birdsite has capped uploads to 7Mb
Which means #Mastodon is now more media friendly at a default image upload size of 8Mb 😚
And it's #Caturday https://mastodon.social/media/GRREdJV6kxuFp8Oy8CA
[EN] A few of us would like to create an autistic-friendly instance on #Mastodon but don't have the technical knowledge to do so. Can anyone help us? Thank you.
[FR] Nous sommes plusieurs à vouloir créer une instance #Mastodon accueillante pour autistes sur #Mastodon n'avons pas la connaissance technique pour le faire. Pouvez vous nous aider? Merci.
Observation: #Mastodon admin culture is toxic as fuck.
I saw one admin say they're shutting down a tiny instance last night. Because they don't want to deal with the bullshit from a select few other admins.
Others are soul searching about whether Mastodon is something they want to spend time and energy and money on given the stress load of the toxic admin politics. It's harder for them to walk out because they have 100s or 1000s of users. They still might.
Something to think on.
oh there's also an #mastodon channel on irc freenode
You know I am Brazilian, but it is peculiar when I join websites from Spanish speaking countries and they send me to their English versions. Without asking. Why?
Lista con los clientes de #mastodon para Windows, iOS y Android.
https://github.com/Ametlles/documentation/blob/Espa%C3%B1ol/Using-Mastodon/Apps.md
Ca y est. En moins d'un mois, #Mastodon a passé 500.000 utilisateurs.
Il avait fallu un an à Twitter pour atteindre 1 million.
Et nous sommes 800 sur l'instance de l'Etat https://mastodon.etalab.gouv.fr/
There are now over 500,000 accounts on #Mastodon. :3
🇫🇷 Ami·e·s mastonautes, sachez qu’il existe désormais un wiki multilingue sur Mastodon hébergé par https://nofftopia.com/. Toutes personnes voulant contribuer est la bienvenue.
🇬🇧 Dear mastronauts, there is now a multilingual wiki about Mastodon hosted by https://nofftopia.com/. All people who want to contribute to it are welcome.