Zac Bir @zacbir@mastodon.social

Happy Pride Month to all of you, especially if you can't wave your flag or haven't found it yet.

Toot toot! @Mastodon just got a native Linux client! #Tootle is now available in @elementary OS AppCenter.

AppCenter: https://appcenter.elementary.io/com.github.bleakgrey.tootle.desktop
GitHub: https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle

#elementary #linux #mastodon

The fediverse is probably the most important thing i feel like I'm involved with right now. As we start having these conversations about social media, the fediverse is something I can point to where many kinds of community models are explored outside the almost defacto context of ad-driven services. It feels good to be here. It feels good to know that we have relcalaimed some of the most revolutionary social technology from monolithic exploitation.

actually the thing about mastodon that keeps hitting me is that it's a return to the governance model of the internet of the 90s, which is the "local dictator", with a single admin or a small mod team who are the sole owners and operators of a site. and like, oh right, anybody who's only used, say, twitter and facebook and youtube and tumblr and myspace and so forth and so on would have had absolutely no exposure to, because all major social media platforms online for the past ten years or so have been huge corporate monoliths (or wannabe huge corporate monoliths). getting mad at brad on livejournal was a very different thing than getting mad at jack on twitter or david karp on tumblr, because lj was brad's site in a way that was very different from jack being CEO of twitter

A collection of things I made for people new to #Mastodon, based on questions I commonly see in the public timelines during influxes of new folks. :)

Privacy settings: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99766026886377926

Local vs. federated timelines: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99766033723472311

A two-way 🐘🐦 @crossposter: https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/

How to find and interact with toots that haven't reached your instance yet: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99766038792455458

Trending topics: https://mastodon-tags-explorer.hcxp.co/ @tagsexplorer

#FAQ #FAQs #mastopedia #tootorial #meta

I want to run a D&D campaign where the big villain is a lich bard. He was originally a bard but he became a lich so he'd have centuries to perfect his poetry. His massive villainous scheme is to manipulate cultures over centuries, starting wars and introducing cultural shifts and destroying whole kingdoms of people. His ultimate goal, though, is just to change how the Common language is pronounced, so that he can find a word to rhyme in one of the stanzas of his poem.