TealIt's too dignified on Mastodon. Where are my trash goblins at?
There's hardly any swearing here
Singapore Sling 🇪🇺 🎞️Coming to Mastodon from Twitter feels like busting in the door loudly brandishing a half drunk bottle of tequila and finding everyone sitting in horrified silence holding cups of tea and academic papers
Agas Ramirez 🌙✨@Teal This is hilarious. 😂 But yes things are very different around here, in a good way mostly.
Nika Shilobod@Teal Don't forget, there's those of us in the back pouring the tequila into our tea.
Jeffrey P BurdickOh, you don't need to sneak away for that. We don't mind.
Condorito@burdickjp @NikaShilobod @Teal
Sneaking it is part of the fun.
apophis
queer as in fuck your borders@NikaShilobod @Teal Yeah I promise there is drunken swearing here too. :)
PalmAndNeedle
Ravensrod 🫖 🍰
Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder@ravensrod @PalmAndNeedle @NikaShilobod @Teal
Hah! I have that in an apron, with the slogan, "Is it me you're cooking for?"
🤣
@NikaShilobod @Teal you have tea!?!
Krupo@NikaShilobod @Teal we already spiked the tea pots.
You're pouring tequila into your tequila now.
DragonFlame@Teal You came into the library, try the hashtag rooms and you will find like minds. But they are respectful even when passionate and above all we have a sense of humour.
Ferdi Groenewald 
@Teal this is probably the best description of Mastodon ever haha
[C]hicken [G]od@Teal this description kind of lf reminds me of the old /r/Proper.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
Ken Newquist@Teal Sounds about right.
gemelen@Teal I like tea, though
Michael Stanclift@Teal that’s not fair!
Some of us drink coffee.
Olav
arclight
Matt (backup)
Nicola Elle 🏳️⚧️@Teal Not quite. The academics are likely to look at the bottle of tequila and go, "We have a great margarita recipe, if you'd like to join us..."
Catsnfats 🇺🇦@Teal 😂😂 it’s just a matter of following lots f people until you finally find the “fuck.”
Rehabilitated Redneck 🏳️🌈
Old Man Fire@Teal and then you realise that it's not horror on their faces but they're waiting for the twquila to be shared around
DaSkinny ⚜️
Ek Ong Kaar K Michaud
Michael Gemar@Teal @mastodonmigration So…are you sharing that bottle or what?
Not a Spring Onion@Teal I described it similarly to a friend a while back.
Less a debate on the verge to a fistfight, more like sitting in a library with a few people reading books, smoking pipe and now and then someone makes a witty remark and is rewarded with an appreciative nod. 
the roamer
Justinas DūdėnasThis is definitely a factor.
I also think that the different instance "topics" play a role, which gives more a sense of "community" and less of everyone for themselves.
And then of course "the algorithm" aka "optimization for conflict".
I think it could be interesting to "simulate" several algorithms in fedi (only as experiment of course, not as a permanent addition):
- A Twitter-style "conflict" algorithm that maps people with opposing views (and rewards angry texts with Favorites).
- The complete opposite "filter bubble" algorithm.
- And then of course the reality of fedi, but we have that already.
I am not sure how many people grasp the full extent of manipulation due to the Twitter algorithm. I'm not sure I do.
@Teal But in a GOOD way. Right...?
CareyontheRoad@Teal I find, never having had the joys and sorrows of Twitter, that you have enlightened me and made me laugh.
3wombats@Teal Pretty much
crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts@Teal No, it's not that bad.
They're all just waiting for you to share with them. Because the pots are emty 🤣
They're all just waiting for you to share with them. Because the pots are emty 🤣
Domen@Teal Yeah this exactly! And everyone is to polite to confront you or kick you out.
toolbear#🌶️Coming to Mastodon from Twitter feels like busting in the door loudly brandishing a half drunk bottle of tequila and finding everyone sitting in horrified silence mid nose boop except for the tickle pile that's also silent but isn't sitting
☝️ furry instance rendition
Yaoi Box Balloon@Teal There is vodka in my tea but yes, that unexpected rowdy behavior would give me a bit of a fright.
Spot on.
Geeks anciens@Teal This post reminds me so much of the beginning of this scene in "Hail Caesar" by the Coen brothers:
https://youtu.be/NYh18c8seZA
https://youtu.be/NYh18c8seZA
Hail, Caesar! (2016) - Study session with the Communists
@GeeksAnciens omg yes absolutely
Oh, hello. I see you brought a bottle of tequila, great. We've just been sharing cocktail recipes and felt sorry not to be able to try them out. Whilst Brandon here fetches the grapefruit juice and soda, would you mind telling us a bit about yourself? And does it always have to be tequila?
Thomas Kahle@Teal @MaiKueper the academic papers are about how to drink tequila the right way. and they instantly start lecturing you about the future of tequila drinking. No tequila is consumed ever.
Maike Küper
skua@Teal
Welcome.
We're all potential RoboDebt victims here.
I've had a difficult day on the cognitive abattoir floor, now the Baroque has run out and it's time for my first sip of Napoleon since Tracks was laid-back and the Steel Pig was irony.
Mandi@Teal That's a fair analogy... At first. Don't worry, there's lots of weirdness and swearing here, too. You just have to find your people. And your topics.
The Skeptic's Book of Lists@Teal Mastodon still remains, blissfully, a place where people talk about their research, their recipes, and their cats.
Tony Wells"Ma'am, this is a Mastodon Instance"
@Teal Good description of the experience.
Kate Watson@Teal Ah but what’s really in the tea cups? 😜
Gregory Hays@Teal Best description of Plato's Symposium I've ever seen.
calvinprocyon@Teal honestly that is EXACTLY the vibe 😂
Blake 🇵🇸@Teal or like escaping into a house covered in mud and blood wielding an axe looking like Ash from Evil Dead and there's just a catgirl in a rocking chair knitting
Pēteris Krišjānis@Teal I am actually sipping beer, you are welcome 😅
Asiny@Teal hahahaha
Kit@Teal I think if you walk past the front room everyone is on mushrooms but also still drinking Tea
Another Angry Woman@Teal Then you look closer and in fact the cups contain piss and the academic paper is an analysis of what would happen to an elephant if you farted your own dick off at relativistic speeds
Ian Tindale