John Mifsud @imabuddha@qoto.org

Masto tonight feels like https://youtu.be/u3CKgkyc7Qo?t=12

Possibly unpopular opinion here…but all these complaints about how the influx of new users is impacting Mastodon culture, it just dawned on me that it’s akin to how people speak about immigrants (i.e. “THEY came here, they should assimilate to OUR way of doing things, and adapt our culture”)
As an immigrant myself (in real life) I know first hand the impacts of this inflexible way of thinking. It’s a nuanced topic, but just something for the OG Mastodon inhabitants to consider.
#FoodForThought

Glad to be here.

So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).

Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).

Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.

Fuck you, ocean. If you have something to say, say it to my face instead of through a shell, you piece of shit.

Dax wants to know why he can't eat the cat poop?

Twitter, when the microservices fell.

Walter Molino (1962)

Occasional treats. Occasional means daily right?

This probably an unpopular opinion, but I would love see ActivityPub implementations not tied to a AGPL/GPL license. After poking at WriteFreely, the only thing stopping me from PRing a half-dozen improvements is the weird license choice.

AGPL/GPL is terrible if you want to write stuff that you can reuse for other projects (commercial or personal). Viral licenses tie the hands of the original authors as much as those of contributors. Folks tend figure this out only when it is really difficult to fix (ie. getting (C) reassignment or CLAs in place for all past contributors).

You can work around it by putting code into freely licensed subpackages instead, but it forces weird design decisions. I get that some folks are concerned about being SaaSed, but the AGPL choice still has a cost.

Anywho, MIT/BSD licenses are your friend now, and a friend to your future self who needs to reuse that code for something else in a decade.

Is this the real wifi?
Or is this just 802.11b
Caught in a LANslide
No escape from this latency

The Milky Way arch over Namibia’s Quiver Tree forest - when it’s really dark, you see more than darkness. #milkyway #photography #astrophoto #astrophotography #fotografie #travelblog #namibia

This news doesn't lack a hint of irony:
Former Twitter workers create their own instance on Mastodon https://macaw.social/about

#Mastodon

And while I personally don’t make music for the money, there are other small music outfits that depend on such.

If there is a small creator you enjoy, buy their merch, throw coin at them on BandCamp, go to a show and buy merch, spread the word of their works etc.

There’s no guarantees your favorite musicians will have enough to make music another day, support them now if you can.