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 @user-246 
 
 also it consumes soooo much vertical space and since I use mastodon on a
 computer the vertical space is at a premium. Meanwhile the right 1/3rd of the
 screen is blank...
 
 not to be discouraging or anything, volunteer efforts are appreciated...
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 @user-763 
 
 ... how? I don't see that option (Mastodon)
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 @user-78 
 
 https://mastodon.social/@user-1752
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 okay I really need to get going. It's too easy to scroll mastodon looking
 for... um, "memes"
On the plains, it's easier to pass through a large country than a small one. In forested or mountainous areas, the opposite is true - they are large, wild, and untamed, and thus difficult to get through.  I am not personally prepared for violence, but that doesn't mean I won't tell you why to do it.  Talk to veterans for tactics and discipline.  Don't be worried, be *cautious*. Caution is actionable.  To convert from worry to caution, think about what is within your zone of control.  If you swim in the deep red sea, assume that all of your actions will be perceived
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 oh dear, Mastodon formatting makes that script look weird. Here's the script
 in picture form so you can reference and fix it:
 
 I would edit the original post with backslashes and such but I'm exactly out
 of characters teehee
a screenshot of some BASH code
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 @user-95 
 
 I hope I'm Mastodon-ing correctly but this reminded me of our conversation
 yesterday
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 when I complain about being lonely, it's not because I want followers.
 
 it's because my family doesn't use Mastodon. :'(
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--- #7 fediverse/1906 ---
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 I like Mastodon because it feels like I'm contributing to something larger
 than myself even though like, 30 people read each of my posts
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 @user-3 Hi, I'm new here too. I don't know how Mastodon works but I'm trying!
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 mastodon, to me, feels like tech plus tumblr
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 good morning. My Mastodon updated in the middle of the night, teehee
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 @user-883 
 
 I'm 99% sure the posts were just edited for some reason. I'm on the Mastodon
 web client and you can click a little button and it shows the edit history and
 you can see what you said before it was changed. Idk why that happened /shrug
 
 anyway, we can do remarkable things with computers. I'm amazed at their
 capabilities and the increasing utility they bring year after year. It warms
 my heart. ^_^
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 honestly I think everyone should have two mastodon accounts - one for people
 you like, and one for people you trust
 
 (I have one)
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 this is me on the fediverse:
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 whoever heard of cohost and mastodon??
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 @user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353 
 
 darn, that's good to know. I guess I could make multiple posts but I don't
 want to spam people - Mastodon tends to notify people whenever you do ANYTHING
 which I worry is bothersome. Hence the attempts to compress longer thoughts
 into smaller spaces...
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 @user-1074 
 
 [edit post]: I kinda feel like the United Nations should host five thousand
 Mastodon instances??!
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 I also think that it should be limited to a single server so people can test
 it out, because it's a big structural change that should not be applied to the
 current fediverse.
 
 like, it feels different enough to me, the idea of speaking while floating in
 a sea, versus most other social media sites which are more... focused and
 directed in personal connections.
 
 like, visiting the town square versus visiting your grandma.
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 @user-138 oh no you didn't misunderstand me I just didn't have anything more
 to add
 
 sorry I'm from Reddit where you're mostly talking to all the invisible lurkers
 in the audience rather than to the other actors on the stage. ~~Twi~~Mastodon
 is a bit of an adjustment
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 don't forget to download your mastodon archive! why not, right? just throw it
 in a folder with the 19 others.
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 the reason I say that is because if you block someone, they can continue to      │
 alter the dynamic of the environment you're in even if you don't personally      │
 see them.                                                                        │
 this is fine if you want to maximize ad views, but on the fediverse nobody       │
 cares about buying products.                                                     │
 this is fine if you want to maximize engagement, because new people (who         │
 havent yet gotten upset with the person) will engage and fight them. As they     │
 should. But eventually, if the person's a troll or a goon, they'll get tired     │
 of it and block them too. Thus the goon never has to face more than a few at a   │
 time, especially if there's quite a few trolls on board with their target.       │
 this is fine if you don't mind the water slowly acidifying, like the fish who    │
 have no choice because they don't know how to grow legs and walk like real       │
 animals (what a bunch of scrubs)                                                 │
 some people don't want to invest time in figuring out where to go next. How      │
 many people will hear of Mastodon when Twitter is fully vacated of cool people?  │
 Tell your friends IRL about us                                                   │
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 the neat thing about mastodon is someone can just... bookmark your profile       │
 page and always keep track of what you're up to by going through their firefox   │
 tabs and checking people one-by-one                                              │
 could also have like, several different tabs open, one for each profile you      │
 post from.                                                                       │
 "oh on twitter you can only have one account, but Mastodon you can have as       │
 many as you want"                                                                │
 I have one account                                                               │
 this account                                                                     │
 I'm nobody else                                                                  │
 just me                                                                          │
 just here,                                                                       │
 and my neocities page.                                                           │
 sometimes I post things on facebook. But only political things that are pretty   │
 normie for my family and stuff. Things that make sense to "regular" people or    │
 whatever.                                                                        │
 like, c'mon, they're normal too. You just gotta listen to them when they tell    │
 you their heart. which they don't often do. Why would they? you're from far      │
 away! plus they're all friends from high school, so whatever, right?             │
 ... sorry got off track. anyways the point is I only have one account on         │
 Mastodon so I pretty much could go wherever I choose.                            │
 like... I'll just make another one~                                              │
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 @user-1605 
 
 have no fear, people who are annoyed will block you and you'll never know, and
 people who like you just haven't seen you yet.
 
 that's how mastodon works. gotta keep posting until you find your people.
 comment on things, boost things, and read through people's profile pages.
 that's how it works!
 
 *this is the place to be annoying*, because "annoying" is really just "weird"
 and "weird" is for here.
 
 It takes time, but eventually you'll find someone or three who *get you* and
 they'll boost your stuff to all their friends who *get you* and then you'll
 feel less annoying. That's how it works! You can help by boosting things.
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 my fediverse posts are not campaign promises, and should not be received as
 things I will always continue to believe.
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◀═[BOOST] ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  It really is a shame that the fediverse is just a figment of your          imagination                                                               └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘                                                         similar                      chronological                       different─▶

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 your conveyals? are you really using twitter like a blog? ... >.> ...
 okay I'll stop
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--- #26 fediverse_boost/312 ---
◀═[BOOST] ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  Ya wanna change the world, but you need to do something that is cheap      and fast and risk-free.                                                                                                                               No problem.                                                                                                                                           Start here, now, on mastodon.                                                                                                                         Write a simple public message to someone here -- not me, please, i'm       well-supported -- whose output here improves your life.                                                                                               Don't star. Don't boost. *Tell* them. Use your words, honey. A single      sentence will do the trick.                                                                                                                           Takes one minute. Costs nothing. Risks nothing.                                                                                                       Just tell them.                                                                                                                                       To you, it's miniscule, useless, trivial.                                                                                                             To them, it's *juice*.                                                    └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘                                                         similar                      chronological                       different─▶

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 I have this friend who's in a different mastodon ecosystem and apparently he
 tried commenting on some of my posts but like, they didn't show up on my end?
 how weird. Kinda shattered my perception of this place as a free and open
 society where everyone could rely on everyone else to be who they said they
 were based on publically available accounts that they share with their friends
 who know them by their face and name
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 the fediverse made me
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◀═[BOOST] ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon &       the Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.              └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘                                                         similar                      chronological                       different─▶

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 @user-95 I like to think of each reply as the start of a new thread. sorta
 like... multidimensional arrays that contain arrays that contain arrays that
 contain...
 
 that's how it worked on Reddit so that's how I'm going to use Mastodon, hope I
 don't step on any toes...!
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 the part of me that thinks "woof I gotta stop posting on the fediverse" is not
 the part of me that posts on the fediverse.
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 Would work best if it was "town square style" instead of "federated style"
 because federations are based on trust while town squares are explicitely
 based on geographic proximity. Which should be something you can scale easily
 (little slider on the side, oriented vertically up and down, that determined
 how close the comments you see should be)
 
 Federations exist in mastodon. But we still need a town square. We need the
 ability to visit other town squares, through the ability to project our voice
 as infinitely far as they'd like to listen. But we also deserve the capability
 to interact with those close to us on a topic-by-topic basis, aka each and
 every individual web page that the Internet sees fit to create.
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 when they replace you on mastodon they change your pfp and name so that nobody
 can remember who you were
 
 it's not like you'd remember amongst your 6000 followers
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