☭🚀🐕 Bodil 🐕🚀☭ @bodil@mastodon.social
Celebrated author of eslint-config-cleanjs
(Cue the "well, you see, young one, actually identi.ca and Mastodon are both part of the fediverse" crowd.)
It occurs to me that this is the same pattern I saw on identi.ca, 9 years ago, and again on every "let's show Twitter what for" migration since. It still feels like Mastodon may have enough momentum to be different, but I'm not reassured by what I'm seeing generally...
Checking back in with Mastodon. People in my feed here are still largely tooting about being on Mastodon, or about Twitter.
I'll be back later, I guess...
Well, TIL that getting the flat with a north facing balcony by mistake may not be the worst thing after all - it's still warm but never to excess, and, crucially, I can see my laptop screen at any time of day.
Bonus: view of the River Lea in every direction.
Some interesting (and wrong imho) pushback on here at the moment, mostly from Gnusocialists saying "It's just flat out WRONG for one instance to ban another instance because of the bad behaviour of a few people on that instance!"
Well, no. Actually that's part of the excitingness of this place. Users will start self-sorting into instances which have the federation policies they want. Me, I don't want federation with instances which have assholes.
Birdsite can't give me that. Mastodon can.
I keep scrolling back through my notifications and finding mentions there which definitely weren't there before. 😓
I'm assuming this is federation lag or smth, and not that I'm hallucinating? It's more than a bit unfortunate, I wonder if there's a way to adjust for it.
Most of the time the furthest thing from my mind is running a Masto instance, but then I remember that I own the domain vim.sucks.
@bodil any city that has pumping stations that look like this is okay in my book https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Crossness_Pumping_Station%2C_Belvedere%2C_Kent_-_geograph-2280114-by-Christine-Matthews.jpg/800px-Crossness_Pumping_Station%2C_Belvedere%2C_Kent_-_geograph-2280114-by-Christine-Matthews.jpg
People who tell me London isn't beautiful can sod off. And maybe get off Oxford Street and go see the real city.
Had a lot of programming I meant to do today, but I went and walked the Thames Path for a good four hours instead.
Good decision, imo.
Hi btw, fyi, people telling me "my instance doesn't have a culture:" if your local culture matches your ambient culture, there's still culture, even if you don't notice it. (And "my instance is free for all comers" is _definitely_ a cultural decision too.)
But I've learned two important things already:
1. Instances come with particular cultures and cultural norms. I think this is a good thing, but it's something that needs to be emphasized especially to new users - before they pick an instance to live on.
2. I should probably move to another instance, because this one isn't quite where I need to be to get the sort of value out of this that I get from Twitter. But I've no better idea where to go.
This isn't going anywhere in particular - I'm just ruminating about the properties (built in or emerging) of the fediverse, and trying to figure it out. It'll be really interesting to see how it works out, especially how it scales (or not), and how the social systems develop. I think there's a lot of potential here to grow something new and useful to the internets at large, whether it's this fediverse thing or something informed by it.
And mastodon.social, in particular, which I think most new people here just defaulted to, already had its own very particular culture. That's good, I suspect that's a feature, by design or otherwise, but it turns out it's not _my_ culture: a lot of things I like to talk about (politics, in particular) feel a little taboo here, and the last thing I want to do is disregard the existing community or try to change it to suit me.
So here's a problem I have with the Mastodon model, and, I guess, with mastodon.social in particular, that has been on my mind the last week:
The network is made up of instances with their own particular subcultures. Being on an instance is almost like being in someone's house - they have social norms they expect you to follow, and disregarding them would be rude.
Owning a buffet heater is probably as much of a warning sign as being into sourdough or sous vide. But dat buffet heater. https://mastodon.social/media/eqL1nqTIJCr4OEsN8fs
Good morning, btw - had to find out what my new buffet heater was good for, so I went all in on the fry-up. https://mastodon.social/media/gUvKTGrk98P8NpyRQYg
Welp, my notifications feed is definitely not keeping up with reality, sry if I've missed any @ toots or follows, and thx for the nostalgia trip back to 2007 Twitter.
Oh hi, so does Tusky just not support them? Posting that same gif from it gets me a static image.
Help, what happened to animated gifs? https://mastodon.social/media/kTASDUJmTBuW7cW0hPI
