SecondJon @SecondJon@social.cleverlibre.org

Local timeline is more and more dominated by bots, you can of course silence them, but it probably doesn't look attractive for new users.

Maybe don't adopt an extreme all-or-nothing opinion for every "thing" the Internet gets mad about.

Ignore me if you must, but know that every toot you volley and riposte will slow-roast your soul in a smouldering furnace of rage whose embers are forever refuelled with the bathroom stall scrawls of the ignorant and the wicked.

Lay down your button-mashing canon. Make a hot cup of your finest tea, put on some comfy slippers and watch silly YouTube videos instead. 👍

Don't @ me.

lololol #truth

Alex Jones gets banned from birdsite and the alt right loses their minds. If any of you tell them about the fediverse, I will strangle you.

This is the best thing ever http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/405214-far-right-activist-interrupts-twitter-hearing?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true

@rks There are right leaning servers and left leaning. The left tends to block the right, the right blocks no one. QOTO has a pretty healthy mix of left and right.

@rks Nope, it's actually quite evenly spaced - I'm friendly with left, right, libertarians, and "alt-right trolls". Plus you're in the #QOTO instance, the most inclusive instance of them all. Hoping to see your intro!

I went from a complete Twitter addict to barely looking at it over the past few weeks. Observations:

1) Twitter is still really useful for aggregate stuff -- "what is Seattle talking about", etc.

2) I do NOT miss all the Twitter rage.

3) I've been reading news and longer articles more! But I think I still waste as much time as before, just with different things.

4) I really like how the longer post size here feels more like conversations, not edicts in the ether.

lol, its funny because its true.

Mastodon is written in Ruby. The creator of Ruby, @matz is on Mastodon (albeit inactive). Mastodon uses Sidekiq for background processing. The creator of Sidekiq, @mperham is on Mastodon. It's kind of a bizarre feeling.

A man and a child in an Irish pub, ca. 1950s. (Photo by Marvin Koner) https://t.co/OsSudXvnPg

Adversarial collaborations sounds like an interesting way to execute an argument. Looking forward to see what has come out of this experiment.

Oh, hashtag: #ssc #slatestarcodex

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/03/this-week-adversarial-collaboration-entries/

#QOTO just hit 1400 users just now! Congrats everyone!

Interesting #Mastodon tools for newcommers

Scheaduler
https://scheduler.mastodon.tools

Crossposster for instagram and twitter
https://moa.party

Instances search engine
https://instances.social/list/advanced

Some data about the federation
https://the-federation.info

The wiki
https://en.mstdn.wiki/Main_Page

Bot wiki
https://botwiki.org/bot/?networks=fediverse&opensource=true

Curated list of mastodon related stuff
https://github.com/tleb/awesome-mastodon