Bastian AllgeierNov 8, 2022

Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.

Show threadunfunkNov 8, 2022
@bastianallgeier I was just thinking the other day that I hadn't seen the Failwhale in ages, and that Mastodon needs something similarly whimsical instead of these 500-errors
Show threadKiran Castellino Nov 8, 2022
@unfnknblvbl @bastianallgeier There is a whimsically grumpy elephant, but you can only see it if the web app isn't loaded (so if you start getting a bunch of 500s, you might catch it if you refresh the page)
Show threadIwillyeah
@kiranc @unfnknblvbl @bastianallgeier The failephant?
Nov 8, 2022 at 8:00pmWeb