soooo..... the heretic question: is there a bridge from mastodon instance to 'the birdsite'?
here's some music for the dark witches: https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/differences-visions-of-contemporary-composition
the "birdsite", heh! 😏
time to go to bed. spent too much time on the virtual-social. but thanks for having me witches.town BBS and mastodon! the atmosphere is good! here's some music for everyone: https://novadeviator.bandcamp.com/track/sig-bender
Random thought:
I think federation of a social service, where independent instances cooperate to create a larger community without an overarching administrative entity with a corporate goal, may be conceptually difficult for some people because of the accepted norm that the role of a user is customer and/or product.
The idea you're a person, not a brand, is gonna be unfamiliar territory in some circles.
note to self: next self-imposed challenge: write music in #renoise with hidden pattern sequence matrix at all times! this will force me to focus on microstructures and work more from memory and imagination
my fantasy is that fb and tw have f'd themselves up with the ads, selling data and forcing us on algos and paying to 'boost' posts. there's so many people realising it's becoming bloated and useless. libre floss federated net ftw!
i'm 're-following' some people that i follow on GNUsocial quitter.se back here at witches.town
@chris_martin GNUSocial and Mastodon are implementations of a protocol called OStatus, and so are ineroperable, but do not share any code.
PSA: If you are in the web view of a remote instance of some user or toot, you cannot directly reply/boost/fav.
But you can copypaste the URL into your local Mastodon server's "Search" field, then it allows you to interact!
Wasn't obvious to me, so maybe boost this if it helped you. :)
So far I'm into how much Mastodon feels like every fictional dystopic cyberpunk BBS - the blooming politics of federations and collective vaporwave + witch + hacker imagery helps a lot. I'm living my own fantasy.
Always happy to see kind words on a release on our music label:
"There’s also Lifecutter, another local whose twisted, experimental drone-techno is every bit as intense and unsettling as you’d expect from an artist who titled their debut album Death(c)rave. Close your eyes, and it’s easy to imagine being trapped in an android’s nightmare as the Matrix disintegrates around you, the witching hour a perfect setting for Domen Učakar’s dark art."
ok, i know, using mailchimp - an email marketing tool - does not sound anticapitalist. but it's a free tool for informing people about what you are doing.
always hated when i made the newsletter in mailchimp and made mistakes with certain links - as duplicating previous campaing is easier that write the whole new one. now they have a nice link-checker tool where you check all your ... err... links.
just discovered @LVGHSTmusic it's soothing chillwave with great beats. name-your-price on bandcamp or patreon to support
i genuinely can't believe there's a social network for queer/trans witchy leftists this is like christmas minus the heteropatriarchal judeochristian capitalism
collaborating on this forthcoming album by BeatMyth
tusky client for mastodont seems pretty cool! thanks @Vavassor
you can find Tusky in google play store
note to self: more federated network!