nullifidian @nullifidian@qoto.org

@happysinger Personally, I found dumping Facebook to be one of the best things I ever did. The wife still uses it, and when I've looked at hers, its become even more of a toxic commercial shithole than I could have ever imagined.

@happysinger I felt that way about Tumblr too, until it turned into the current hellscape: I loved the idea of microblogging (and I kind of get some of that feeling back here) so I have some "hopes".

@happysinger I will. I'm too full of chocolate to think properly just now.

@happysinger I guess he could be considered "fun" in the "rubbernecking a not-serious car crash where a mini ends up in a tree next to a bemused cat" kind of way. 🤷

@happysinger TBH you nailed it with the very first hashtag in the first toot, but I was too gorm- and coffee-less to parse it. 😴

I'm going to have to thank @happysinger for his enduring James Bond fixation for the inspiration.

I think the James Bond films gave us unrealistic expectations as to exactly how nefarious evil billionaires could be.

"Do you expect me to die?"
"No, Mr Bond, I expect you to post 'parody' on your social media account!"

@happysinger It also takes a critical mass and stable enough infrastructure, which it now seems to have. PubSubHubbub as-was just didn’t have that before.

@skanman I’ll take that as a tentative “yes”.

@happysinger I had the same notion, although I was somewhat sceptical that it would take off, mostly because the alternatives at the time (birdsite and, to a lesser extent, tumblr and other self-hosted alts) seemed to *mostly* sane. How the world has changed.

@philemerson I"m a fan of that Mr Dodgson.

@happysinger It most certainly is.

Is it mastodon etiquette (or whatever the portmanteau for this is) to "favourite" toots as "I like this" but without adding further comment?

@happysinger The older I get, the more I suspect that my entire youth was an egregious fiction, probably of my own fevered making.

@happysinger TIL that the line "all covered with sand" was a complete and utter lie.

Virtue is eating leftover birthday chocolates, *then* eating grapes, right?

Well, this is already less terrible than the birdsite.