John Holdun @johnholdun@mastodon.social

Guy proposed to his gf in Turtle Talk with Crush at Disneyworld dljfalskdfjjlkadfadf http://youtu.be/tq5uBDsBoR8

My birthday is tomorrow, holy shit
It's going down tomorrow ? Who y'all got
Just got into a random laughing fit
I sat in jail and thought about a lot

one day @johnholdun and I will duet some rap karaoke and you'll all be transported to a world of disbelief

made this lil page today http://poemexe.com

You can add GY!BE to any old man talking and it immediately works https://rabbit.zone/media/SE437JZglOU77L52KLk

So now that you're using Keybase to sign and validate your identity (à la https://mastodon.social/@mw/1923474), I've whipped up a couple of macOS Services with Automator to make this a bit easier.

A Keybase Sign and Keybase Verify Service are both available in my Keybase public folder: https://keybase.pub/wunsch/

Services are contextual menu items that allow you to to do some action. Here's a gif of the signing service in action. https://mastodon.social/media/QjmXD-Kwsz1U573DeWQ

Scuttlebutt, a truly decentralized, peer-to-peer, secure social network: https://staltz.com/an-off-grid-social-network.html

wooaah give it a read! kind of technical, highly fascinating. as long as we're having meta social network discourse here \o/

Mastodon: *paints beautiful wall mural*

Twitter: Who's gonna buy that? You can't even transport it?

Mastodon: *does an elaborate interpretive dance in front of the mural*

Twitter: Wait, is that part of the art?

Mastodon: *group meditation chanting "awooo"*

Twitter: Ok but how do you monetize?

Mastodon: *stretch*

Twitter: ...?

Mastodon: *a thousand voices sing a hymn to diversity as a million weirdos dance*

Twitter: We're, uh... we're going home now...

Mastodon: *builds space ship*

If you are interested in establishing a way to verify that you are who you say you are on Mastodon, you can do that with https://keybase.io!
See: https://mastodon.social/@mw/1794288

With the keybase command line tool, sign a message that states your identity:
keybase sign -m 'I am @mw and wunsch on keybase'

Post that message.

You can verify someone else's message with:
keybase verify -m '...'

or piping it in like
message | keybase verify -i -

Now you know!

In my latest Tinyletter, I wrote a bit about Mastodon and my social network fatigue before talking about Racket/C interop:
http://www.markwunsch.com/tinyletter/2017/04/mastodon.html

I really like the ideals and theory of Mastodon / GNU Social.

I'd like to try my hand at using the same set of protocols to build my own implementation. The possibility of building different front-end experiences to the same publishing/syndication network is way more exciting to me than hosting my own instance of stock software.