Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

This instance of less than 500 total accounts has 4 moderators/admins

mastodon.social, an instance with a metric fucktonne of users has, effectively, 1 moderator

gargamon hire more moderators over there

I've had a couple of the new tumblr people ask me (paraphrased) "hi, where's the porn?"

These weren't people who were on computerfairi.es, these were on .social

Which means, of all the people on the entire fediverse, they chose me specifically to ask where the porn was

I have no idea how to feel about this

Thing I really want: a xenomorph(from the alien films)-themed cuckoo clock

xenomorph head mounted to the wall, every hour on the hour the jaw opens and the little inner jaw comes out with a "cuckoo cuckoo" sound

it's cereal experiments lane

Did you know?

computerfairi.es is the only fediverse instance run by a robot!

The fediverse: William Shatner can't find you here, but Tommy Wiseau can

...Tommy Wiseau is on masto.social

I...

what the hell is happening?

According to all known laws of social networks there is no way a volunteer-run federated alternative should be able to survive

There's just not enough venture capital to get it off the ground

The fediverse, of course, survives anyway

Because the fediverse doesn't care what a bunch of capitalists think is possible

Not exactly the best time to release a Fallout themed watch, but Laco and A Blog to Watch have collabed on this thing

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/laco-rad-aux-limited-edition-watch/

It's kinda cool looking, I personally prefer for my watches to get that "aged" look through actual use rather than finishes applied by the factory, but it's cool if you want a watch that looks like it's from Fallout

you know garlglemon has boosted one of your toots when the notifications start sounding like minimal techno

Does it have the same asset number? Then it's the same boat

As a note to our new tumblr friends, the fediverse is a primarily volunteer-run thing with the admins paying for all the server costs out of their own pockets

If you'd like to chip in towards keeping the fediverse running then most admins have patreon or kofi links somewhere that you can throw a couple of bucks at from time to time

#introductions

Right, might as well get around to doing one of these with the new influx

I'm sam, I'm an octopus

I do some moderation stuff around here on computerfairi.es so if you need a hand with something then I might be able to help

I also make bad-to-middling toots and geek the fuck out about watches

assuming the tumblr exodus finds us well then the fediverse shall be filled with lewds and furries!

in other words, it'll be a monday

Wanna see what's in a watch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hSZFO5QUmE

Full disassembly of a Miyota and an ETA watch movement

fun game: try to guess if a toot is from @yubikeybot@masto.ninja or a girl who's just been called cute

"now kid, you have to go to bed early on christmas eve so you get the really good presents, if you go to sleep late then santa won't be able to get to you until later and you'll get the shit presents from the back of the sleigh"

this works on 100% of the children that have been told this