currently on cybre.space @maunzikation@computerfairi.es

Everyone read this incredible essay by @u2764

"Mourning Mastodon"

https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616

If you're wondering why I stopped working in MastoDev, and why my posts about how development already includes marginalized voices are no longer applicable, then read that essay because it gets into all of it super fucking well

Book selection thread for the first official scifi.fyi book club:

So far the suggestions have been:

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Let me know if you have more suggestions and/or a preference on one of the books already listed!

Wow, my favorite Birdsite client, Twidere, now supports Mastodon. Excellent! https://twitter.com/TwidereProject/status/855861538405482496 @Gargron

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I love this.

hello all!

i have a new glitchy project up and running to tell you about!

here's the deal:

i set up another mastodon instance and it lives at https://dev.glitch.social

and it is running a fork of mastodon found at https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon

if i think you're trustworthy, i'll give you write access

for now i will be the only one who can deploy the changes to the server, but i'd like to change that pretty quick

anyway hit me with your thoughts, and feel free to boost!

follow up to my last (announcement) toot

my main motivation for this project (https://dev.glitch.social and the glitch-soc/mastodon fork) is to create an environment for working on AND USING features that don't exist/aren't prioritized in the original project

some of my interests:

private (followers only) toot federation
user level domain blocking
local instance only tooting
public timeline removal

and generally anything that gives users and admins more control over how the software is used

I enjoy listening to audiobooks in the car while navigation is also on.

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He cut off the dragon's head in a furious swipe of the greatsword and exclaimed, "IN ONE THOUSAND FEET, TURN LEFT."

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Really makes for immersive storytelling.

Oh how I would love to have a website which could recommend me #books — and whose recommendations would actually work!

I've been using #Goodreads for years, but one of the features I would most love there is one of the worst: recommendations. They just don't work. They're total bullshit, based on commercial ends more than on artistic attributes of books.

I want working recommendations. Do you know where to get them? And algorithmically, so that they won't run out.

　　　　　　　　　　
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I have some thoughts about making a Persian-speaking community here in Mastodon. This may consists of several steps:

- finding Persian speakers already here
- translate Mastodon interface into Persian
- reporting and fixing RTL bugs in the interface
- making a new instance with Persian defaults
- inviting friends from Twitter, G+, etc. to #Mastodon

If you speak #Persian, #Dari, or #Tajik, please boost this toot!

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@ticky Oh my god, Firefox's reader mode is now compatible with mastodon.

Well, sort of: https://mastodon.social/media/WcQWMA9iRMt6y2dG7lQ