Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.

Just gonna say it again

If you're using the official mastodon app on your phone: Stop It

It doesn't support basic features of the platform

Try Tusky on Android or Metatext on iOS

Bunny potion 🐇

#Furry #FurryArt #Bunny

me: working from home gives me the opportunity to focus on tasks free from the the distractions of a noisy office!

brain:

TROUT

TROUT

LET IT ALL OUT

THESE ARE THE FISH I CAN DO WITHOUT

SALMON

I’M TALKING TO YOU

SALMON

me: cool never mind

You know it's strange, How many people apparently want mastodon to have an algorithm to boost their friends posts.

Just kinda wild to me considering like, that's one of the big things everyone hated about the dead bird site.

Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.

This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.

If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".

So #KeepFediWeird.

If “the cloud” were meant to be a reliable storage medium of data, it would have been called “the fortress” or “the bedrock.” Instead, the cloud metaphor fits how it can slip away at any time

Fuchsia #CD56B2
Black Russian #1E021B

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I am currently in your mastodon timeline

Learning new things in your mid-40s.

#furry #furryart #furryartist #comicstrip #Mastodon #ElonMusk

For-profit advertising based social media sites have really given #hashtags a bad wrap- I notice a lot of people are leery of using them in their posts and that tends to read like culture after a while.

Hashtags on the #fediverse frequently work more like chatrooms than soapboxes. If you're looking for friends, tag your shit like a bare concrete wall!

Love it when people don't like mastodon cause they were on the normie instances and found it boring there

#FediTips (or perhaps #FediWarnings?):

Something I discovered the other day on accident is in Mastodon and derivative software, if you are sending someone a DM, and you spontaneously tag someone in the middle of the message, *that person now has read access to the DM in which they're mentioned*. This is a neat feature if you're using it on purpose but could be awkward if you're just trying to link an account and suddenly that account can see you talking about them…!