But how can I turn Mastodon into a money-making machine?
*thinks about it*
*opens a webshop that sells pineapples, introductory books on the French language, and incrementally larger server thingamajigs*
@sargoth Plush elephants!
Marketing stunt: sell them at the RNC, and then watch the blogosphere explode as all those good decent people realize they contributed financial support to an ungodly cyber-cocktail of witches, queers, anarchists, atheists, and—worst of all—all of the above, in French.
@csilverman @sargoth Why can I not like this 1000 times
@Gargoylezoo @sargoth FEATURE REQUEST.
You can only like things *once* on the birdsite
@csilverman @sargoth I don't know that that should actually be a feature. It would be too easy to harass someone by spamming their notifications with thousands of likes.
@Gargoylezoo @sargoth Yeah, I'm joking, for that specific reason. Also, it would pretty much render "likes" meaningless.
As an artistic commentary on the vapidity of social media metrics, though, such a feature might have potential. I briefly entertained the thought of starting a joke social network where each person starts out with 600 followers, and every post is automatically liked by bots, but then I thought—what, really, would be the point of such a thing?
@csilverman I love it