[cybre] Kasran @typhlosion@cybre.space

also another thing mastodon really needs is a way to tell what network software a user is coming from. under the user hamburger menu there should be something like "Info" that says whether they are a native mastidonian or GNU Social user or a Friendica user etc. We need to know this to know what features each one supports as all these networks are a bit different.

the follow droids are out in force

don't be disheartened by the phrase "twitter clone". I still remember that period of the 90s when there was just the one First Person Shooter and a load of Doom Clones

INTRO TO FEDERATION:

1. "mastodon" is a piece of software that runs on a server. There's a lot of servers that run it & u can follow ppl on other servers.

2. When u follow someone from another server, your server receives their toots.

3. The federated TL is all public toots that the server receives, ie all of the toots from everyone that ppl on your server follow.

4. ERGO: if u want to see more toots in the fed TL, follow + get other ppl on your server to follow ppl from other servers!

oh god what if awoo became the next desu

Ok guys, very funny.

@typhlosion old records mostly

also i've been accumulating them for about 7 or 8 years now

To those of you who are putting political posts behind the content warning option - THANK YOU.

Ultimately Mastodon's killer feature is that it's a public good that someone built because they thought it needed to exist and not a startup someone built because they wanted to get rich quick selling other people's data.

https://soundcloud.com/colonthree/swegfault-1 my only attempt at an amiga tune previously was this short wee ditty

hope to do more 4ch stuff soon

@typhlosion - it took me a few iterations of the explanation before I fully grokked it. Now I just think of it as "friend of a friend" networking.

@typhlosion If this really takes off that will make a great t-shirt someday.

@Vonk - more precisely, the federated timeline on the instance you join will show you all of the local posts, and the posts of people being followed by everyone on your local instance.