Is there a Mastodon hot take out there I haven't seen yet
@sarahjeong what if...it's good?
@sarahjeong Is there a Mastodon hot take worse than "William Shattner couldn't find me"
@Gargron @sarahjeong he couldn't find you because he was busy climbing a mountain. No idea why. He probably loves the mountain, I guess.
@Gargron @sarahjeong William Shatner has yet to follow me either, so I'm pretty sure the fediverse is dead
@Gargron not yet and it's going to be a banner day when that one gets one-upped
@sarahjeong I "coined" this one: Mastodon instances are like Bitcoin exchanges.
It feels weird to be on the Mastodon beat now because is it really a "beat" or a "thing"? 🤔 I do think there are a lot of interesting lessons about communities and centralization/decentralization though
But seriously I'm seeing people subtweeting a bad take and I'm like
@sarahjeong i would but DMS ARENT PRIVATE
@catte is that still bugging out
@sarahjeong no idea, so let's assume so
@catte @sarahjeong DMs were NEVER private, given that the aviary never implemented E2E DMs either.
Subtooting sorry
I'm all out of practice
@sarahjeong I'm imagining that scene with them walking into a room filled with shelves upon shelves of pineapples now.
@sarahjeong It's been a thing for quite a while, I guess it's just the slick UX this time around that's drawing more people in.
I really need to put a timeline of this together, starting with laconi.ca and statusnet, the precursor software that eventually led to the protocols that drive Mastodon (and the fediverse at large).
@sarahjeong Was there an Ello beat?
@sarahjeong Mastodon is the new LifeJournal.
...or was that one taken?
@sarahjeong have you followed the lolicon / pawoo.net ban / caching illegal content debate?
@sarahjeong Has there been a hot take about Masto and furries yet?
@sarahjeong Lots of promise. It has the right combination of techno-utopianism and hackability.
@sarahjeong it's bad and everyone should stop using the internet