currently on cybre.space @maunzikation@computerfairi.es

dear people who are confused about mastodon:
mastodon is weird and very not twitter its fine lol

Oh yeah feature new people may not know of: under preferences/data export you can export a .csv of everyone you follow and block - and then if you want to try a different instance you can import that csv at preferences/data import. I haven't used it in a long time and it was a little (very) buggy last time I used it, but it's helpful nonetheless. #introductions?

Omg how did i not know about halycon before now? it solves all my accessibility problems with mastodon. whaaaaaaaaa this is perfect

Does anyone publish #reviews of #Mastodon #instances (not just a list with stats, but info like "this one is especially for musicians" or "this one has a lot of lefty activism talk" etc).

Relatedly, I think saying that "hashtag" is a pronunciation of the symbol # misses an important detail. When someone says "hashtag" aloud (like John Oliver's running joke), it doesn't just imply the use of the # sign, like saying "pound" or "octothorpe". Instead, like saying "quote" or "quote-unquote," it is a modifier for the spoken words that follow, grouping them and indicating how they would/should be written.

But in a way it recapitulates in microcosm the history of written language: If emoticons and then emoji are direct visual representations (smiling face -> happiness) whose meaning depends on context (floppy disk -> obsolete technology, nostalgia) almost like determinatives in hieroglyphics, then using hypothetical filenames (smol snek finger bop.gif, cheezburger cat.jpg) removes direct visual representation.

If the name of a file is a part of that file, then this would be some type of synecdoche, I suppose.

What's the name for the rhetorical device of using a filename, or hypothetical filename, to stand for a bit of media? E.g., if I just typed

darth-vader-noooooo.gif

or, alternatively,

sad-trombone.mp3,

the meaning comes across through common (sub)cultural currency, without my actually including a picture or a sound.

When your keyboard matches your wallpaper. 👌 https://computerfairi.es/media/TmeFIldZPLJDpifwcWE https://computerfairi.es/media/Sa8eC6k60v4dvH_aU-8 https://computerfairi.es/media/m8-_6oD2ADXvh8Nc8mY

defeated by the fidget spinner...

#cat #defeated #fidgetspinner #blackcat #animatedgif

You suddenly realize you left Earth.exe open over night. What was supposed to be a simple simulation has instead generated a "Humans" folder that is rapidly increasing in size.
#writingprompts #writing

#introductions for @squirrel
• constructed 100% of cute/smol alloy
• radiates maximum gay (gaydiation)
• makes good things what you look at
• makes good things what you listen at
• best admin
• good hair