Maverynthia🌱 @Maverynthia@witches.town

Side note: I wouldn't recommend using Telegram; they market themselves as a secure app but there's no e2e encryption unless you specifically enter a "secret chat", and then it uses some custom crypto they came up with. It's all very dodgy.

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witches.town no longer federates with counter.social

One of the reasons we defederate is when an instance makes it clear that they
exist to provide a space for things that are, ironically, counter to our rules
and ideals. counter.social is the epitome of this.

It had only taken this long to act because federation is opt-out, and we had
not thought to act. This was preventative and not in response to anything.

--@dconley

Hey #Mastodon folks, I am not familiar with the API, and didn't exactly see a way to get an array of card entities, but I wanted to ask: is there a way to get all the statuses on an instance that include a link to a specific domain (like every mention on my instance that linked to interi.org)?

Because if so, I could use that to start conversations with my static site, and just have it pull over the conversations on build. And that would be neat. ^_^

This is the VST I'm using for some new synthwave sounds I'm working with https://obxd.wordpress.com/

and these are the super cheap patches I grabbed for OBXD https://t.co/9lIm5JwKgQ

Re that last boost: Mastodon is hard to get into without a guide and some focused usage.

The things that make it less toxic also make it harder to discover people to follow.

Without people, you just kind of feel like you're tooting into the void. It makes Mastodon a lonely place that you're less likely to return to. I mean, this is why Twitter and Facebook put so much energy into recommendations.

I don't think Mastodon should try to solve this problem. But let's acknowledge the hurdles.

Tootdon glitched out and started displaying the same image for a bunch of unrelated posts and it took me a second to realize this wasn’t some new meme I didn’t get

Reactions to Meltdown and Spectre exploits
http://www.commitstrip.com/2018/01/04/reactions-to-meltdown-and-spectre-exploits/ https://t.co/lj4ndjLSC0

As it turns out, men are untrustworthy with leading a social media platform

Yall can forgot about that Twitter alternative 'codename exodus'

dude did a demo of his platform where he says he's gonna block nazis and bigots and the first trial user her brings up (that he's also following on his own platform, where he's going to ban nazis and bigots) is vabvox, a notorious terf

i point this out to him and boom https://mastodon.starrevolution.org/media/CnCihi8v48zvjKyBXLU

Smartphones need a button for "lock the screen but show what's currently on it and don't allow swiping through other things in my photo gallery or changing apps and don't dim the screen or show notifications or anything until I unlock it because I'm passing around a photo and some people have poor smartphone etiquette."