volkris @volkris@qoto.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
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*first day at my new marketing job*
Me: Toblertwo
Toblerone executives: Holy fuck
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@Bwee I don't know. For me Mastodon seems to gather the worst people in the world and I get a lot of anxiety.
I've been here for two weeks and I've never seen so much bs on any social media before.
Mastodon is for people who need to really show other people how good they are by posting, what they think, is humanist and social justice crap. That is of course my opinion.
I've never seen a place where people are more afraid to say what they really think about stuff.
I hope we can change that
My experience with #Musk is more interesting than just he's a liar or he's a capitalist or most of the other stuff being thrown at him, and in a really important way:
Over years I watched interview after interview where some reporter or fan would press him to answer questions outside of his level of expertise, and he would tell them they'd need to ask an engineer, but they'd demand an answer from him until he sheepishly gave in and told them what they wanted to hear.
I think over time Musk largely decided it wasn't worth trying to resist and started playing along a lot more.
But this is something we see with many public figures. They become caricatures over time, becoming the thing the public wants them to be.
This isn't at all to let Musk off the hook for anything. But since I personally really don't care about Musk, the larger picture is more interesting.
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Anyone know of a fedi or at least free-ish alternative to SoundCloud? I like posting my stuff for archival and for whatever folks might enjoy listening to my brand of self indulgent improv, but I just have no desire to engage with that site anymore. What are the cool Indieweb kids using these days?
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current poltergeist levels are 46%
(46%) ■■■■□□□□□□
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"An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to block ads in it "
great insight by @pluralistic
I think this really captures the state of things with Republicans shooting themselves in the foot because even though these numbers will be staring them in the face, they're going to miss the critical lesson about independants.
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What t-shirt size fits on the 12 foot skeleton? How many Xs before the L?
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One more mention for anyone interested in tiptoeing into #BlueSky
I currently have 5 codes if anyone wants to try it out. As I've mentioned previously, it is more Twitter-like, but the top accounts have been used to being in a closed system and mostly just talk to each other which is... weird.
Not bad for real, unfolding American news. Otherwise, eh.
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Also if you’re a #puppet builder and/or performer, I’d be happy to expand the server and give you a channel. So far I’m the only puppet-based video maker I’ve found on the #fediverse but I want to carve out a friendly little space here for puppet folk
Reach out! Always happy to chat.
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I'm all for open source services, but realistically, what potential issues are there with using GitHub?
Every contributor has a copy of the Git repo, so isn't the worst case basically losing access to issues and similar data? And even that is very unlikely.
Tagging for people interested in #ActivityPub and #Mastodon development
Finally figured out why I hadn’t had much luck with edited posts on Micro.blog making their way to Mastodon. Mastodon requires an “updated” date, n...
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Why Starship IFT-2 upper stage didn't quite reach orbit but exploded instead:
#space #SpaceX
RT https://twitter.com/SpaceOffshore/status/1745946623958483273
#Biden's strike on the #Houthis shows once again that he screws things up coming and going.
The complete lack of response was probably not great, but apparently he was worried about escalation.
But then he overcorrected, with a strike of magnitude that won't bend incentives but will grant the escalation that was exactly what he was supposedly looking to avoid.
It's really the story of his whole administration, incompetent administrators lurching left and right as they find themselves in way over their heads.
Nobody's better off from that, and it's tragic to see so much death and destruction coming out of that utter failure to engage rationally with the world.
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Browsing #hashtags is quickly becoming useless. Even important ones for #MastoAdmin like #Fediverse and #Mastodon are filled with toots of random #photos and #art. Some even promoting their #porn or #gamedev #gaming project. Even random #journal or #blog posts FILLED with random irrelevant hashtags. It's quite infuriating...if you know what I mean.🤦♂️😬
It's the kind of #Trump moment that I love to laugh at.
The quote as best I care to remember it from his town hall:
Retribution? I won't have time for retribution. I'm going to be making America successful. That success is retribution.
Ah, so no time to make America successful?
I always say the way to undermine Trump's chances in the election is to focus on pointing out to his potential voters that he fails at the things those potential voters think he's good at. Too often people attack Trump in ways that actually make him look good to those voters.
Believe it or not, a lot of Trump supporters think Trump can talk good. Amazingly enough. So I would think making fun of his rhetorical gaffs would be a minor path of criticism, pointing out that he actually can't put sentences together as well as his supporters think.
But ah well, at least I'll laugh privately about these occasions.
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I have such grand ambitions for this account. Once I reach 100,000 followers I will launch a tshirt store. It will contain only one shirt that has a picture of a frog and says "A frog a day keeps the government away". The shirt will cost $20 and you will all buy it.
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
