rrmutt @rrmutt@mastodon.social
- Birdsite: @rrmutt
- http://rotormind.com
Gentle technology: lighting, kinetic art, electronics, embedded systems, signals and sensors
Joined Mar 2017
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programming whatever
me: I would like for the commands I typed six months ago to do more or less the same thing today
computers: no
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(Also it’s a weird time to not be depressed)
That thing about not being depressed after decades of struggle when you can’t tell whether your newfound cheerful self-confidence isn’t actually bordering on obnoxiousness
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Finalizing these talk slides and finding reassurance in once again including this concluding note
@scanlime via codinghorror’s link on birdsite: Alan Kay on Robot Odyssey (on orange site but commenters well-behaved) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17422245
Hey look at all the folks. This is good.
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protip(?): if you add ".rss" to the end of your profile url, you get a feed of all your public and unlisted toots that you can then plug into ifttt in order to cross-post to birdsite, with links on every one to remind people that you're actually on a much better website. here's how it looks on mine.
@Willow Thanks for ping. This is so much better than birdsite, but Metcalfe's law is a harsh mistress
Is my sticktoitivity of a quality to inhabit an oulipo.social avatar? It's a conundrum.
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It's an odd notion, talking with folks from mastodons that don't constrain orthography. Not knowing our local customs, do such folks think I just talk funny?
It's for this uncanny frisson that I plan to try not to sign up for any dissimilar mastodon instantiations, but to do just this as my primary link to mastodon world as long as I can.
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The only way Mastodon could fail is if it becomes a niche refuge for artists, bohemians, outcasts, and dreamers, and the vast bulk of boring people stay on Twitter. Oh wait
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I'm basically following people back randomly now. About as good of a system as any.
Fora while I've been wanting a birdsite alternative where I could be a little more personal and less inhibited. Seems like this is it but I'm at a loss as to what to do now…
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well it's about time you all showed up
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Friends, @Gargron's going to have to scale up to support this crazy (and awesome) spike in new users. Let's pay the man: patreon.com/user?u=619786
(Also consider new instances, etc, but we all know mastodon.social's going to get most of the growth for the time being.)
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Okay, with another influx of new people, here is again my article "Welcome to Mastodon: Here is what's different and why it's better" https://medium.com/@Gargron/welcome-to-mastodon-111d9227e56a (I am working on a better in-UI onboarding process)
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Is the wave of new arrivals even bigger now? Finally current servers are ~90% CPU capacity, might actually need to upgrade
My goodness imagine a social convention against viral-outrage-farming and virtue-signalling...
- Birdsite: @rrmutt
- http://rotormind.com
Gentle technology: lighting, kinetic art, electronics, embedded systems, signals and sensors
Joined Mar 2017
