Jacob Farkas @Farktonix@mastodon.social
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof, which 140 characters is too short to contain.
What is Mastodon? An animated video: https://youtu.be/IPSbNdBmWKE 🐘
I'm liking The Everything Report but I'm bothered way too much by the reflection of the green screen in the desk. //@red@social.targaryen.house
CWs aren't "censorship" or putting your toots behind some kinda wall, they're basically equivalent to lowering your voice so only the intended people can hear you in this crowded bar, as you talk about stuff that's potentially upsetting, TMI, or whatever.
People don't want CWs on "politics" (which really means "the news") because they're oversensitive and afraid of seeing the news, they read they news, they just don't want it to be a 24-hour punditry vortex in here.
hold up
is the mastodon icon a play on "timeline goes sideways" because holy shit https://mastodon.social/media/BOparaJcut5wDPFvlBM
Looks like you can't un-boost something. Be careful out there with your clicks!
Free Mastodon bot idea: @verifiedbot will take your profile picture and add a checkmark to it.
https://stownpodcast.org has gone in a totally different direction than I expected and it's pretty great so far. I'm only three episodes in and I'm really interested to see where it goes.
the great thing about open source is that instead of screaming into the void and then receiving bad features you never asked for, everything is broken but you shrug it off because no one has any money anyways
Can't wait for the Mastodon key signing parties so we can all build our webs of trust. 🙃
Looks like it's a requirement that Mastodon servers use a goofy TLD.
It seems like it's pretty easy to impersonate someone via federation. Create an account with the same user name and icon but at a different server URL. Most people won't notice since the server isn't displayed anywhere in the UI.
Currently trying to get AlgoVPN (https://github.com/trailofbits/algo) set up on my home router to encrypt all outgoing traffic without needing to config individual clients. Anyone have any experience doing that?
Is there any value to doing a single user mastodon server? Does federation make it feel identical to using mastodon.social, or are there drawbacks?
