Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣) @EubieDrew@qoto.org

#COVID Poll
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@neolithicsheep @greg_doucette ~

"[I]s it legal to dig a spike lined pit on my property if I call it an #art installation titled THE GAPING MAW OF #CAPITALISM??"

Depends on who you push in.

Varies by locality.

Toot!

Who is the best cat or dog..??

#mastodon #cat #dog

On 5 August 1888, Bertha Benz was the first person to drive the internal-combustion-engined automobile over a long distance, field testing the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, inventing brake lining, and solving several practical issues during the journey of 105 km (65 miles)...

#mastodon #oldphoto #photography #Trending #viral #reblog #FollowFriday #follow

I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”

For me at least, getting onto @Mastodon and appreciating the structure of the platform and the tone of conversation has made these other pop-up social networks (Twitter replacements) totally unattractive. No, I don’t want to move up on a wait list by “referring 5 friends”; no, I don’t want to be part of another Jack Dorsey project; no, I don’t want to be part of something with weird completely top-down control. Mastodon broke me for other platforms.

This is not a chart depicting Moore’s Law.

This chart is the CRAYOLA COROLLARY showing that the number of Crayola crayon colors doubles approximately every 18 years.

#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but Governor Hochul hasn't signed it and it might die. This would be a travesty. If you're in New York, visit https://eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!).

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Please reboost this #poll.

In your opinion (does not have to be informed), what is the ideal #Mastodon #Instance size for #content #creators? (For content consumers, see poll in previous toot.)

#MastodonMigration #Mastodonadmin @feditips @Mastodon @mastodonmigration @freemo

Please reboost this #poll.

In your opinion (does not have to be informed), what is the ideal #Mastodon #Instance size for most of us, i.e. #fediverse #content CONSUMERS? (For content creators, see poll in next toot.)

#MastodonMigration #Mastodonadmin @feditips @Mastodon @mastodonmigration @freemo

Every moderator you pay to reduce harassment draws a salary at the expense of your shareholders, and every catastrophe that moderator prevents is a catastrophe you can't turn into monetizable attention as gawking users flock to it.

So social media sites are always trying to optimize their mistreatment of users, mistreating them (and thus profiting from them) right up to the point where they are ready to switch, but without actually pushing them over the edge.

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