arcalinea @arcalinea@mastodon.social

Can anyone recommend a Mastodon <-> Twitter bridge?

building software is easy. building software that doesn't randomly break and works beautifully and seamlessly is hard.

Gopuram icon - how did fontawesome manage to represent such a complicated structure in an emoji-sized icon? https://fontawesome.com/icons/gopuram?style=solid

Maybe my brain is internet poisoned, but I often don't try to read books linearly. Like, look, the book is there to serve me, not vice versa. I'm going to read it how I want.

I've appalled people by sometimes starting in the middle of fiction books. If the end was good I'll go back and read the beginning. There are so many books out there, I had to see if it was worth my time!

You're Hardwired To Love Social Media https://medium.com/s/love-hate/youre-hardwired-to-love-social-media-it-s-time-to-deprogram-c59cd1a7bc20

Is public discontent with Facebook reaching a boiling point?

Individual privacy, freedom of speech, all these things are margins of freedom for a society that let divergent thoughts grow and alternative paths be explored. Lets evolution experiment.

Subsuming the divisive groups of individuals under the unified will of one rule may be more efficient in the short run, but I doubt it's the best way in the long run.

We're honestly very lucky that despite how much power has been concentrated through technology, the US has been relatively benign in suppressing dissent. As bad as you think it is, it's not as bad as it could be. What scares me is the potential for how bad it could become.

A state secure in its power does not over-react. I wonder how much longer that will last.

I wish I could drag these columns around or minimize them.

Mastodon complaints: I also really don't like the UI of all the things I click on being just in the right-hand column, and notifications being in the center right. Are these columns in any way configurable?

Still looking for suggestions of good follows though!

Discovery is hard here.

Do people have suggestions for accounts to follow?

Am particularly interested in:
- p2p tech design challenges
- privacy & cryptography

Yes I know I am rather one-dimensional right now.

I miss quote tweets