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

@Resident_Evil

In my ideal world every server would say "here's how we decide who to federate with" and it would range from "every server that isn't doing protocol-level attacks on us" to "every server on which I haven't personally observed behavior I think my users would prefer not to see, such as [examples]" to "every server not listed on [url]", and then people could decide which kind they want to be on.

There could be one or more fediblock-like tags that people could use to communicate about who to block, without it having to be an absolute condemnation that everyone agrees on.

(I'm on #qoto partly because it's in that first category, not blocking much at all at the server level, and I do like to see trash before burning it, but I'm totally okay that many people would rather not! It's okay to delegate large parts of your Mastodon filtering to a trusted admin if you want; nothing at all wrong with that.)

The problem seems to be that lots of people, including some admins, think that servers have to be divided into universally praised and universally condemned sets, and of course any universally praised server would never federate with a universally condemned one. Some people just want the universe to be simple! But it seldom is.

(And so qoto sometimes gets blocked just because it doesn't block some other server, which seems I think silly to me, although I can put together an argument to the contrary if I try.)

fwiw...

@MelonDC @genmaicha @karolat @newt

@ProfHansNoel ~

Essentially, the #ChaosCaucus wants the #HouseOfRepresentatives to perform the same transformation as #Twitter is undergoing right now.

They could be explicit about it, and vote for #ElonMusk for #speaker

Perhaps they could legislate through online polls? Fire most of the congressional staffers?

@terrygrundy

The object of #power is power.

The result of #pandering is more pandering.

♲ @johnastoehr@twitter.com:

14. Politics doesn’t come and go. It isn’t arbitrary. It’s our natural state. Wherever there are human beings who organize themselves according to agreements made over relationships of power and interest, as well as demands for limited resources, there’s politics.

Okay,I just figured out why #DonaldTrump endorsed #McCarthy over #Donalds for #Speakerofthehouse overnight.

There can be only one Donald.

@AkivaMCohen @EubieDrew

I think the whole controversy is dumb. The problem with quote tweets is the people, not the tech.

Further, quote toots are essential for conversation. I can’t wait.

#COVID Poll
Please boost to get a bigger response.

@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.