I remain genuinely and pleasantly shocked that in the course of 10 days or so, we all just went, “no way, eff this, we’re going to @Mastodon”, and now we’re just here and people are so nice and writing alt-text in their images and sharing great stuff and using content warnings and everything. Obviously none of this would have been possible without years of work by #Fediverse / #ActivityHub devs that came before. Even so, this is really something, no? 😃
Holy hell the twitter exodus is **still** accelerating. The influx of new users is up about 33% from yesterday, our biggest day so far. We are now seeing over 1,300 new users every day on QOTO!
U.S. Politics & Twatter
If you're really wondering what the rush for blue checkmarks for more than just "verified" was really for so close to midterms.
A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.
For context, this is one of my favorite climate graphs, showing 800,000 years of atmospheric CO2, including the massive run-up over the past century. We're now around 420 parts per million (ppm), more than anytime in 800,000 years (actually more than anytime in the past 5 million years) and completely outside the natural ups and downs in the record. This is the driver of the current #climate crisis.
MaterialYou themeing, profile page, threaded replies.
Really starting to come together.
Playing around with a threaded replies view similar to reddit for this hacked up mastadon client.
Personally I think it's a better way to consume conversational content.
I'm really starting to like some of the ideas I have for it.
#flutterdev #flutter #mobiledevelopment #android #ios #technology
Some laid off #TwitterEmployees asked to come back. Sure, but let me get through that class action lawsuit, k? 😂 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-06/twitter-now-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back
Hacked together a super basic Mastadon client in flutter that is hitting the public feed.
Names/Colors are far from final, but was a lot easier than I thought.
Handling attachments and html content was a breeze.
Software Engineer by trade. Tinkerer by necessity.
PNW. UNL. Staff Eng - Android @ Google.
Former alien as documented by the government.
Worked on #CyanogenMod as an embedded hacker (now #LineageOS).
Views are my own. Interested in #Android, #Flutter, #NLP, #Accessibility and anything I can take a soldering iron to.