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To have a viral post on Mastodon is to be confronted with a long series of people asking the exact same question or providing the same “well actually” response, for days, because of the limits of federation. They simply can’t see those other replies. Sometimes they see *no* ofher replies, if they’re on a tiny server.

The experience isn’t great! As with customer service, it can be hard to remember that this isn’t actually the same person over and over again.

To have a viral post on Mastodon is to be confronted with a long series of people asking the exact same question or providing the same “well actually” response, for days, because of the limits of federation. They simply can’t see those other replies. Sometimes they see *no* ofher replies, if they’re on a tiny server.

The experience isn’t great! As with customer service, it can be hard to remember that this isn’t actually the same person over and over again.

@cstross social media isn’t in the Bible, either. That line of thought leads to pretty much giving up on technology altogether…

The physics suggest that a carbon capture technology that uses the ocean might be the only way to make carbon capture economical. There's just much more CO2 per liter of water than per liter of air, and ocean surface is an enormous, effective atmospheric CO2 capture mechanism. So I'm keeping my eye on technologies like this medium.com/predict/mit-may-hav

@maxleibman uggh and try being a pre-menopausal age woman. You get all that toxic positivity PLUS various suggestions implying your feelings are probably PMS and will self-resolve within a few days anyway, so just weather your “bad mood” with some “self-care” and chocolate, gaslight any of your unhappy thoughts so you don’t bring anyone down or irrationally take it out on anyone, and before ya know it you’ll bounce back and realize you were making a big deal out of nothing!

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Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections as #Ohio crash incites scrutiny to industry

Exclusive: employee says manager told her to stop marking cars for repair, as Ohio #derailment prompts hard look at industry’s record of blocking safety rules

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m

If you have a parrot and you don’t teach it to say, “help I’ve been turned into a parrot” you’re wasting everyone’s time.

Over 9.7 million people using Mastodon now. It is hosted on over 22,000 servers, but like with email, everyone can communicate with everyone else.

Since no one person or company owns those servers, no one person or company can buy them or break them. #Mastodon #TwitterMigration

"Your crowd are ideologically-captured, which is bad; but my peeps are mission-aligned, which is good."

My husband was given a bird feeder with camera for his birthday recently and it's proving very delightful...

Anti trans laws 

You don’t have to be a trans ally to recognize how horrible a state-forced transition would be. Imagine how horrified you would feel if your body now were slowly changing into the wrong gender from being pumped full of the wrong chemicals, and you were forbidden to do anything to stop it. Doctors that could help you turn away.

Would it help any to know that your own glands were the source of the chemicals? I can’t imagine that would make me feel one bit better!

NOTE TO SELF

The following is the list of QOTO administrators/moderators.

@freemo
@khird
@trinsec
@barefootstache

Note: The account @QOTO listed as the administrator is NOT an actively monitored account.

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Look, folks, if we want more people to leave the hellsite, we need more content like this 😂

twitter.com/kairyssdal/status/

WaPo Gift Link via subscriber @verruktekatze.

“But two senior FBI officials who would be in charge of leading the search resisted the plan as too combative and proposed instead to seek Trump’s permission to search his property…”

tinyurl.com/v7h229fd

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