Look at this sleepy boy
https://witches.town/media/jEczYpbKmeeCQv82tGU
a matter of time before some idiot decides the Getting Started column is a fine place for ads
also under the tootbox is ample unused space..
Mastodon growing or shrinking?
"birdsite" is my favourite masto term, it's like we're all in a speakeasy and we don't utter that we all came from there lest we break the code of Mastodon converts
Are Cameroon pet scammers offline too? https://social.freedombone.net/notice/152012
a traffic light with a red light on it
An Electron-based desktop app for Mastodon that lets you use multiple accounts https://github.com/rhysd/Mstdn
Internally, big sites like birdsite are massively distributed databases.
Look at the federation bugs you see on #fediverse. Delays. Glitches. Missing posts.
Twitter has the same issues, because these are fundamentally hard computer science problems. The tinfoil hat brigade sees censorship and conspiracies, where people who know how these things work just see the expected bugs.
:rotating_light: mastodon.social closed registration again
yes, securing identities and impersonation are problems, but being able to jump between servers freely is a feature. be a person, not a globdamn #brand
There are only two things that are certain in life
Another detailed .gif on how to get verified.
Reminder that according to Mastodon Socials ToS the only thing anyone "HAS TO" cw or mark as sensitive is overtly sexual content.
Just because you can't handle something doesn't mean it's "simple" or "common courtesy" for someone else to recognize.
Example: someone who follows politics is not going to see it as something to hide.
It is not other people's job to curate to your brain.
