Poor people aren't lazy and also being lazy doesn't mean you don't deserve a decent life.
#latestagecapitalism
Apparently Patreon raised more capital than they would reasonably be actually valued at and need to make up the difference to investors, so they're trying to pull this shit https://twitter.com/cwbuecheler/status/938787629738397696
actually the thing about mastodon that keeps hitting me is that it's a return to the governance model of the internet of the 90s, which is the "local dictator", with a single admin or a small mod team who are the sole owners and operators of a site. and like, oh right, anybody who's only used, say, twitter and facebook and youtube and tumblr and myspace and so forth and so on would have had absolutely no exposure to, because all major social media platforms online for the past ten years or so have been huge corporate monoliths (or wannabe huge corporate monoliths). getting mad at brad on livejournal was a very different thing than getting mad at jack on twitter or david karp on tumblr, because lj was brad's site in a way that was very different from jack being CEO of twitter
Setup my own instance and following a few folks there. Lets see if it sticks.
Pro tip: Leaving Mastodon open in a tab may cause a cpu to spin and consume lots of ram. :grin:
FYI, the "swiftonsecurity" on Mastodon is not the real SwiftOnSecurity from Twitter.
So much deja vu on Mastodon discussions today. Heard so much of the same issues and questions back in the early/pre Identi.ca days. Abuse and harassment controls seems to have eclipsed spam prevention, tho.
"'Subtooting on the federated timeline' is a great piece of garbage sci-fi dialogue"
Yup...
"Yessss! I am now a proud patron of Gargron on @Patreon, and you should be too: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=619786"
Scanning the public timeline and jumping into conversations like...
Tusky for Mastodon is an amazing client on android. Would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for one!
Mastodon....
Tooting here until I decide if it's worth setting up a personal instance.
