Tris Hussey @[email protected]

since this thread sorta has legs, my grand idea for masto is sort of like.

your instance acts as a post office, you give your thing a type (federate, unlisted, followers but retweet disabled, DM) and addressees (@ targets and a transparent-to-the-user federation-black/whitelist, which they add to in settings)

a fifth visibility, post only to local timeline, do not federate

and a sixth, which requires another feature: instances that follow each other *on the instance level*, a sort of reverse instance block, can form herds.

mutual instances usually share values. Lets call it a herd.

and let people post just to there, too, without wider federation

Nice post about #Mastodon from @SLHoltz - "Mastodon: Here to stay or DOA?" - http://holtz.com/blog/blog/mastodon-here-to-stay-or-doa/4753/%C2%A0

A bear walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "I'll have..........a beer."
The bartender says "What's with the huge pause?"
The bear shrugs and says "I was born with them".

From "In the Pale Moonlight":

"My father used to say that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I laid the first stone right there. I'd committed myself. I'd pay any price; go to any lengths because my cause was righteous. My... intentions were good. In the beginning, that seemed like enough."

- Sisko

I love this episode because it shows how Sisko rationalizes his actions and it is very relatable because we've all done this rationalizing dance in our heads.

Can I ask a favour, Mastodon? Could you boost this into the Federated TL as @GinnyMcQueen needs help with a major medical bill? She's a great content creator and that's what the internet is built on these days. Check out her YT channel in her bio. I'm sure you can spare £1/€1/$1. Just one monetary unit and then boost it on to someone else in your TL. Thanks. https://www.paypal.me/ginnymcqueen

look econ textbook, i know you're trying to have 'relevant examples' by bringing up this Microsoft monopoly lawsuit but software has never been and never will be a product with real scarcity

software scarcity is the fakest shit and only exists to emulate the constraints of physical products because that's what everything is based on and it all breaks once that's gone

I had a grand old time as the guest presenter at tonight’s Google Developer Group Sun Coast Meetup. My presentation: “Android and Augmented Reality”, where I showed attendees how to code a Snapchat Lens-style Android augmented reality app. My thanks to everyone who attended!

https://www.meetup.com/GDGSUNCOAST/events/238619252/ https://mastodon.cloud/media/X5DLUHTh8oJbS52QzdQ

How to build a mastodon brand in one simple step:
don't

I wrote the following article in my response to an essay on Mastodon PCMag wrote in Medium today. I wrote that #mastodon is not #twitter and actually a lot more fun and easy to use contrary to their claim that twitter is easier to use than Mastodon. Here is the full text:
https://medium.com/@arinbasu/please-get-this-right-8acb557178e8
What would you say?

I wonder how many of these accounts posing as media outlets like zerohedge, RT, The Verge, CNN, etc are just random dude(tte)s who have wired up a bot to the real news service's output.

How To Dual-boot Ubuntu And Windows

You have #Windows10 but you want to start testing out #Ubuntu in a more serious way. This guide will show you how to easily install Ubuntu alongside an existing Win 10 and how to choose at bootup which you want to use.

Don't snigger.... this is how I learnt Linux alongside Vista many years ago.

See http://bit.ly/2oSRwyS

#Linux

The federated feed is the social network version of a cocktail party. This is exactly what happens when you try to have an honest, interesting conversation with boring liars.