@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.
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.
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
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…
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.)
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)
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...
As one who is basically a loner, and whose forays into "community" have been a consistent failure, I am finding that ideological reciprocity is not a requirement for my willingness to associate. Sure, I generally prefer the company of those who think more like me rather than less. But I keep my demands light, and am more responsive to simple esthetics and etiquette than I am to fealty.
hello world?
