Jon \0 @nullterminator@mastodon.social
Digital Humanities dork. Forever in beta. Interested in hacking, ethnography, and games. (twttr: @songsthatsaved) 🚧
I find this really impressive. It honestly wouldn't have occurred to me that roguelike games could be made playable for the blind. Very cool.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/04/05/playing-roguelikes-when-you-cant-see/
this is an excellent point about one advantage of decentralized systems that i hadn't thought about: https://icosahedron.website/users/chris_martin/updates/9678
Tip of the day:
You can bridge with Twitter so others can find you, and you can find them:
https://mastodon-bridge.herokuapp.com/
If you have the URL for a toot on another instance you can add it to the search bar on your home instance (above the compose field) to get your local interactions (boost, reply etc.)
As a human who has had the weird experience of studying at both halves of the Oxbridge thing... I find it strangely comforting that so many people here refer to Twitter as "the other place."
Some days, I really wish there were a "buy this person a beer" button on Stack Overflow...
Ok here is a handy map of the fediverse on GnuSocial. I would love to graph the others and see if there is any overlap.
Ok, so, it's now 8:30 in the morning, and I should clearly go to... uh... bed. (whoops) But I have to say that I've really enjoyed my first day here. Even though I'm a stranger, it feels cozier, and the ratio of signal to noise is great... having nice BBS flashbacks. (Bonus: no one made me answer stupid trivia questions about various colored boxes just to get part of a King's Quest III walkthrough...) ❤️
Ok, ok... let's see. I think I remember how being social worked before I got sucked down that Twitter rabbit hole... um, so, you guys want to join my web ring? Hm, not quite. Oh, I know! (Nailed it.)
So, It seems I can just give myself a green check mark. ✅Hmph. I wanted it to be the reward for embarking on a long, perilous, and (sometimes tedious) quest. You know, like finding One Eyed Willy's rich stuff, or becoming a Debian maintainer, or reading toots like this...
Ah, that exciting moment of starting out, surveying the landscape, and praying this doesn't turn into the next ello...
