Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

Something I notice quite a bit when people are trying to convince others to try Mastodon is that they put most of their focus into the infrastructure.

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This is all well and good, but doesn't quite answer why someone should give their time and attention to it.

"Is it easy to use?"
"Who uses it?" "Are my friends there?"
"How do I find people to talk to?"
"Can I use it on my phone?"
"Which instance do I choose?"

if you think about it

toast is just

roasted dough

hey please use content warnings and don't boost posts that are missing them, thanks

Computers are magic.

No, really. There's a crystal at the heart of it doing all the computation, with some support crystals sending power to it and handling some data for it, and a timing crystal keeping everything working in sync. There's countless small liquid crystals acting as a display, changing colors in sync to form images.

brushed half of my hair, also i want a bandana https://glitch.social/media/GMSSjtJLWTaCkCznKIA