=== ANCHOR POEM === ◀─╔══════════════════════[BOOST]═══════════════════════──────────────────────────╗ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ You may not be aware of the economics of Mastodon if you're used to Twitter, or Insta, or Facebook. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ Please - go look at the /about page for whatever server you're on, and see who's running it and now to contribute, financially. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ You are not the product on Mastdon. Your information is not being sold to other companies or advertisers. So your activity here *costs the person running your service money*. It's often a person, not company. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ If you value Mastodon, and you can, please cover your cost. │ ║ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ║ ╠─────────┐ ┌───────────╣ ║ similar │ chronological │ different ║ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────╝─▶ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/4136 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐ ║ the kind of old people who post on mastodon because that's the best place to │ ║ do so too │ ║ │ ║ ... er I mean "gee wouldn't it be nice if our grandkids taught us how to host │ ║ our own mastodon server for our weekly poker night?" like how you have discord │ ║ servers for D&D groups, except, less proprietary and more freedom. │ ║ │ ║ I bet someone could make a lot of money by just loading a raspberry pi with │ ║ pre-built software built from an image that automatically hosted a mastodon │ ║ server just based on information about your networking company so they can │ ║ keep tabs on all that you do. │ ║ │ ║ gee sure would be nice if we had a government run computing infrastructure │ ║ project which turned the entire USA into a hive-mind computer. I bet you could │ ║ be paid pretty well to do processing in your own LLM-generated voice. │ ║ │ ║ like... feed it your published works, whether artistic or scientific, │ ║ alongside the breadth of human understanding... then optimize for temperature. │ ║ That which is most different. AKA the user's produced data and habits from IOT. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴──────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/4831 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┐ ║ 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~ │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴──────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/1504 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── @user-1013 posting any kind of link to externally hosted content (even a miniature DNS like link shorteners) is risky because you don't control the data you're sharing / pointing to. If you can, try and remember to download videos you like. Save songs that resonate with you. Take screenshots of important tweets that other people make. Then, you can share them when they're thoroughly divorced from the context in which they were made, and in doing so share information to a group of people who might not otherwise have heard the words you're sharing. Like posting Mastodon links on Facebook - can you imagine! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/4073 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── post until you can't anymore capitalism wants to drown your voice do not let it speak until you cannot speak then go do some pushups then find some friends then pitch a tent in the park then explain to the cops that you're not actually homeless and living there you're just trying to do this as a social statement because someone on the internet told you to then use your phone call to call your representative and complain about how much funding the police get then study law for 30 years because that's how long the government decided your life was worth by then you'll probably have figured out a better plan moving forward, so, use that one instead ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/1612 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── @user-1040 also, I miss most of the names and faces in this archive and I think it'd be neat to say "oh yeah I remember them because it wasn't so long ago and it's weird how they're not around these days but I forgot about them because their profile pic changed or maybe they stopped using mastodon or whatever" - idk it feels empty sometimes because your follow list is always growing, but the number of people who post seems to always go down. Or maybe I just read Mastodon at unfortunate times when there's nothing going on. Who can say ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/3018 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── I think it'd be neat if Mastodon boosted posts that someone had personally seen. like, adding a degree of separation to knowing people - if you follow someone, you'll hear what their friends are saying. so, like, if you subscribe to someone, you will see them boosting the posts that their friends made. or at least the people they're following. in doing so, you can always know everyone that someone is connected to. which is more than enough to determine how true and honest they are. (ideally with a way to filter out duplicates - like perhaps an icon of the persons face at the bottom to show they also saw it? and so they have mutual friends, which are fully known and displayed to all others. could be an interesting experiment at least, especially if it federated with NO other servers. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/4521 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── I have between one and ten hundred visits to my website every day, but I don't really post it anywhere new anymore. I also have zero followers on Neocities. On Mastodon, I have ~70 followers, most of whom are inactive. Seventy is a good amount, a normal amount, a reasonable amount, an unsuspicious amount, and yet every time I see someone wearing the colors I can't help but wonder if they know me. I'm too busy being furious to be lonely. I used to be, before I realized how important I am. How important? Just as much as you are, I know it. I'm a sprinter. I didn't spec into endurance at character creation. Nobody chastises the mage for skipping leg day. I act in fits and bursts. I am sharp like a scalpel, but needles dull just a bit when piercing the lid of the HRT. Good thing I'm not made out of metal, I can bend myself back into place, so long as everyone else can keep pace. I don't know who needs to hear this, but you do. you are crucial. Listen to this. Care for yourself and for others, do it for u ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┘ --- #8 messages/1202 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── Do you ever ask yourself why we don't have mountaintop bazaars or expeditions to the bottom of the oceans? Why we lack tree forest cities, how we're struggling to find moss, sunlight, crystal, stone, and gold, all in the same setting? Capitalism makes it easy to think of profit as all that matters. It's not. Its nothing of it. It's a metric like any other. Optimize it or not, struggle for what you believe in. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┘ --- #9 fediverse/2623 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── have you ever noticed the people on Mastodon who used to have cool and interesting ideas but now just kinda repeat the same basic things over and over again? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse_boost/4588 --- ◀─╔════════════════════════[BOOST]══════════════════════════─────────────────────╗ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ @user-220 The other day @user-1704 posted a poll about "If your employer had a Mastodon server for staff, would you use it?" and I just want to say that if a company had a Mastodon server where all their engineers posted foone-style rants, I would be 1000% more likely to give that company my business. │ ║ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ║ ╠─────────┐ ┌───────────╣ ║ similar │ chronological │ different ║ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────╝─▶ --- #11 fediverse/1813 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── I want people to watch me. I enjoy being viewed. Please offer guidance, but maybe limit the abuse. Simple requests for a media company, true? And yet advertisements (which is the only way people agreed to fund the LAVISH projects they put on for our tender moments) Performance is an art, and I sing the song of my heart. (perhaps in too public of a place) (but what use is it if nobody knows you?) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/610 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @user-456 Hi, I'm an undergrad computer science student at Western Governor's University. I'm interested in applying for this job posting, and I was wondering if I could ask you some questions about it? I have experience as a lab technician working at Intel and an interest in multiprocessor computing. I primarily program in C but have experience in other languages and Linux. In addition I am fascinated by the fundamental questions of the universe and I'd love to discover things that nobody else knows. Let me know if I can ask you some questions. I'm pretty sure I'm using Mastodon correctly, and I've set this such that only you can see it (direct message) but if I'm wrong I apologize! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/927 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── @user-638 kinda makes me wish we treated software design more like a science open source by default, working together to create understandings about how to best process information, incorporating the needs and desires of multiple different fields / types of person, creating useful conclusions or programs that people can use for their own enrichment or benefit, and oh wait funded and directed by people who don't care about the technology/science and instead just want results I feel like we'd learn a lot more in our CS degrees if we were tasked with making open source projects. Then maybe professors (or other people doing research) could show us and explain why we're doing things right / wrong. And if we were encouraged to use our peer's tools, then we could work together to design a team. Museums are great because you can meet other people who are also interested in history/biology/ecology/anthropology/science/art/any-other-type-of-civic-good-y ou-can-think-of/ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #14 notes/words-2 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───── words messages to myself, public fediverse posts, and notes to the gods second edition - ri tselen menardi james cameron king anja rosalia vavadane nike featherflame citrine hydalia thegn edain the quintessential quanetetrick seleo who is deathless feldowinn and reyvadin lumineyra fsharia and of course, the anarchrist. with help from many more. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┘ --- #15 fediverse/5109 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────── does anyone know of a website where I can host videos on my neocities that isn't youtube? maybe something I can set up on my own server computer at home like a file server or something? how do I do that, what should I google, which is the easiest and closest to the metal tools I can use? [practical, sensible, courageous. these are the adjectives we need.] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/1356 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── subscribing to subreddits is kinda like saying "yeah I'd like some of this in my life" because then it is made so following someone on Mastodon is kinda like saying "yeah, I'd like to have more of you in my life" and like... if you have too many, then how are you going to remember them all? we can only remember about 70 people! that's why in-person relationships are important. we need to have a cohesive social framework that we know is not developed under someone else's control or ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/676 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── would be nice if the Fediverse wouldn't let you post something on Mastodon unless you filled out a content warning for it. sorta like a post title on Reddit, allowing people to say "nah I don't feel like reading something from X perspective right now" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/4864 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┐ ║ thank goodness for "character limits" on Mastodon posts. I'm sure glad my 1024 │ ║ characters are just the PERFECT amount of oracular foresight to entreat with │ ║ the gods. YOU FORGET THE MOST IMPORTANT PART said the demons who want violence │ ║ and bloodshed. Ha! Ha I say. [gets stabbed] │ ║ │ ║ oooof ouch owwie wow that's grim and cruel. Do you really think I would do │ ║ that to you? The part where we're divided is the part that separates me from │ ║ you, like two islands looking upon one another and rejoicing for a shared │ ║ fellow to live life on. │ ║ │ ║ have you ever considered the nature of a "landmark"? To position and orient │ ║ one-self in space. Having some stable tether to our surface gives us... │ ║ anti-anxiety. It helps us remain stable and aware of what's going on in our │ ║ nears. [near senses] │ ║ │ ║ [a bit later] │ ║ │ ║ anyone who [bounce, because I typed [a bit later] argh the cursed cost of │ ║ editing] │ ║ │ ║ ======================= stack overflow ===================== │ ║ │ ║ sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss │ ║ sssssss │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴──────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/6267 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────── if you have TTS software you can listen to anything with any tone. this makes it difficult to find things. ============== stack overflow ============ some people work by asking for funding. others work by saving up. ============== stack overflow ============ teach your animals to be actors so they know how to develop the scene. then they will truly come alive, as their narrative curve gives them determination in the outcomes of their goals. ============== stack 1234flow ============ I believe it is good and natural actually for parents to guide their children as they grow? "oh but they can't consent to giving up their control" well too bad they're 2 "ah but what if they WANT to run with scissors?" thus widening the [redacted] gap. "ohhhh she redacts things when she can't spell them" and also for comedic or dramatic effect sometimes. was not ACTUALLY redacted. redcoated. red coded. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┘ --- #20 fediverse/2844 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics-violence-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-831 those billionaires are using their money as a weapon to "vote" toward what companies they think capitalism would most grow from. Unfortunately for us, they often aren't very efficient because they're only looking at what sells. human interest is not the only factor to optimize for, and yet that's the only one they're incentivized to. kinda makes me think that the only reason to replace them would be to institute something that could not be incentivized because it was more objective or decentralized. (the only reason they'd accept) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ |