Is there a Mastodon hot take out there I haven't seen yet
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
@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?
But seriously I'm seeing people subtweeting a bad take and I'm like
https://mastodon.social/media/wEOK-ynwlgnkIuNTeac