Courtney Stanton @courtney@witches.town
Worker-Owner at Feel Train. Ugly genderfluid system of multitudes. Likes Thai food, feminist prose, & angry girl music of the indie rock persuasion. #nobot
Hey! If you are experiencing that the timelines are out of sync you are NOT GOING CRAZY.
There's currently a backlog of just under 15000, last night it was 190000.
It's getting better! But until then your timelines will be a bit weird.
The processing is being improved as we are speaking!
I need to get up and eat breakfast, but my cat #Yorda has...other ideas.
slow toots rn, but i'll take em over fast whatevers delivered by a server funded by VC cash that demands the eventual betrayal of its users.
Hunter S. Thompson, Mexico, 1974.
stats on all #mastodon instances so far :)
TOTAL :
105 instances and 69722 users
TOP 10 instances :
mastodon.social 41703
mastodon.xyz 5627
social.targaryen.house 3622
social.tchncs.de 2878
octodon.social 1273
mastodon.cloud 1056
social.lou.lt 941
hostux.social 854
awoo.space 732
memetastic.space 549
witches.town 536
Mountain goats don't give AF about gravity.
DARLING SWEETHEART
YOU ARE MY BREATHLESS DEVOTION. MY FONDNESS LOVES YOUR APPETITE. MY PASSION BURNINGLY LONGS FOR YOUR BEING. MY INFATUATION IMPATIENTLY HOLDS DEAR YOUR LUST. YOU ARE MY EAGER DEVOTION.
YOURS FONDLY,
M.U.C.
H. G. Wells and Charlie Chaplin.
The Ruby library for interacting with the Mastodon client API is in dire need of completion. If you're looking for ways to contribute code, I think that's a good starting point https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon-api
Oh my god guys, I just noticed that if you set your toot to be unlisted instead of public, the button says TOOT instead of TOOT! (Note the !) https://mastodon.social/media/nkT8XJ8bD8v7SkikDeo https://mastodon.social/media/U9rWUIi7YpcIVkYiFmA
It's kinda weird to think about a social network where businesses own their own presences, rather than relying on a capricious third party service like Twitter or Facebook. Imagine NBC or The Verge running a Mastodon instance for their reporters to toot from, or Bethesda operating an instance for PR and customer support. No more lost business when Facebook changes their algorithms again because they need more money from boosted posts.
Weird, right?
Casual reminder that I write in-depth blog posts looking at how games engage with various ecocritical and colonial themes! For instance, my post on Mass Effect Andromeda and its treatment of the Cyborg, AI, and Colonization! #masseffectandromeda #videogames http://gersande.com/blog/the-cyborg-and-colonization-mass-effect-andromeda-play-through-notes/
I decided writing 3,000 words about #MassEffectAndromeda was a good use of my evening for some reason: https://www.superopinionated.com/blog/2017/4/4/what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been-mass-effect-andromeda
I have a few bots sitting around that I never published because they were only good at more than 140 chars. Hoping to get some of those on here soon.
For kicks I booted an instance of mastodon for running bots. It's at https://botsin.space/
I made a bot too. I wanted to make something that broke past Twitter's character limit, so I made a bot version of Strachey's LOVELETTERS https://botsin.space/@loveletter
reading a bunch of comments about Mastodon on tech news sites about how it "will never succeed" or will go extinct. Problem is, that defines Mastodon's success in the metrics of Silicon Valley VC. The point of Mastodon does not appear to be a growth -> exit -> brand vehicle strategy that Twitter has been struggling with.
I'm having a good time here. Isn't that success enough?
if it wasn't for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I think I would starve to death. For some reason in the last week or so, I've just been on the biggest kick for them out of nowhere.