Kimiko-obasan ✨ @Kimiko_0@witches.town
@maloki 1. A social medium where my data isn't owned by a company who'll try to use it or me for profit. Instance-specific, an admin who makes sure no nasty people disturb our peace and fun.
2. I'd like to see Mastodon succeed in drawing new users (not just accounts) and keeping them. Biggest obstacles I think are discoverability (how do I find people with similar interests through just Mastodon), and a lack of multi-column grouping a la Tweetdeck. The emphasis on public TLs isn't worth it I think. They're already becoming unusable with the current user numbers.
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@kingu_platypus_gidora But this one groups instances by country and never splits them.
The old one at https://maps.sl-network.fr/ used to group instances within varying radius according to zoom level. You could see individual instances when zoomed in far enough. Too bad it's broken now :/
@Maverynthia A witch Cure? (current avatar is Mofurun from MahouTsukai PreCure in magic school outfit)
@NinahMarie There's this useful Firefox/Chrome extension: https://foxclocks.org/
Very handy for guessing whether your friends across the world are asleep or awake or at work.
According to https://instances.mastodon.xyz/list we just passed half a million Mastodon accounts.
@Cinkero Do you know of any dev job openings that @Feronsfire could apply for?
@alura_une You were looking for a roommate & apartment, right? Here's @Feronsfire offering exactly that. No idea if it's anywhere close in Portland though, but this sounds like a great match ^_^
@DarckCrystale But then I'd expect it to disappear when I refresh the web UI.. 😕
Why did this toot show up in my cauldron? I don't follow this person, nor do they follow me. It wasn't boosted or faved by any person I follow or who follows me. No one I follow or who follows me is mentioned or participated in the thread this toot is part of. I tried refreshing the web UI, but it's still there.
@raucao And user@domain looks like an email address, while @user@domain is clearly a social media thing.
*shrug* Just how it goes; you'll get used to it.
@Nire Basic in the 80s had the advantage of having a lot of builtins for things that nowadays require tons of libraries.
I had a lot of fun just throwing pixels at the screen back then, or making random noises, or whatever. I wouldn't even know how to do that now in Lua (my language of choice nowadays).
Systems/OSes/the world are also more complicated now. I didn't have to worry about multitasking or window environments or network communication back then because they didn't exist.
@Maverynthia Some toot normally, or don't have bot-like names.
That's the 7th Japanese account now that follows we. Why are al these people following me? AFAIK I've never interacted with them. Is it because my name happens to be Japanese? Has someone put my name on a "For a good time follow.." list somewhere? 😕
@Alda Using Firefox's builtin web-dev tools, I don't see any background color set on that element, so it defaults to my desktop theme's current dark purple color for input boxes.
I see this problem more often, where CSS sets either the background color or the foreground color, but forgets to set the other one to a contrasting color. If my theme doesn't match the default assumption of black on white, it's usually the input fields that become unreadable.
@Alda I noticed it earlier tonight (I don't use the CW thing very often). I checked just now, and it's still like that. I'm using Firefox (51.0.1) on Linux (Kubuntu 14, more or less).
@Alda Might be a CSS mistake? If I click the 'CW' icon, the new text field that appears has a purple background and dark grey text. The only way to be able to read what's there is to select it.
@hoodie Would it need to restructure the API to handle hashtags separately, or would the UI just place them at the end of the toot before sending it (and vice versa on the receiving end)?
@hoodie Aside from the added functionality (which are good ideas btw), this sounds a little like Twitter separating usernames from content. That didn't work so great.