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mastodon 👏 is 👏 what 👏 disruption 👏looks 👏 like

but wait how will it make shareholders money 🤔

I made a couple bird-site bots, and I'm ready to try porting one over to the tooterverse. Would you prefer one that makes algorithmically-generated Mondrian-style GIFs (Piet Botdrian—twitter.com/pietbotdrian) or one that tweets a New Yorker cartoon with a random caption from a different cartoon (Bot Yorker Cartoons twitter.com/thebotyorker) or something else entirely?

What's the story with bot creation here in the tootverse? I'm assuming folks would prefer they stay out of timelines? Other guidelines?

"there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" she mutters to herself between sips of pepsi

Jack Dorsey held the relic in his hands.

"I wish for @anildash to have less than 200 followers."

The mastodon's paw curled.

#deleteuber Show more

A distributed social network must not let number games be the primary reputation. Any such system will fall apart when these metrics fail. Instead, reputation needs to be modelled by identity management and knowledge about the community itself. Discovery should be ranked by relevance and not follower counts.

uber is treating its drivers like game pieces, in the neoliberal game of amassing as much wealth as possible

qz.com/952445/uber-has-crossed

Long, earnest toot in praise of Mastodon Show more

expanding brain meme but every panel just says "toot"

For your pleasure, here's half a joke. The punchline is "toot suite". You're welcome.

Update: now making portmanteaux/puns with the word 'toot'. It's toot much. Might have to delete this app.

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Update, I went to kiss her, and she made a fart noise into my mouth. Won't stop saying toot and laughing.

I explained Mastodon to my partner and said, about the local TM, "there are just hundreds of people tooting!" Now she won't stop laughing.