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ArchieThis is Mastodon and this is why it rocks!
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@Archie8 100% want a friend group where we eat sandwhiches together and talk about how we fixed our janky bicycles.
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Earthworm 🐌To find people in your region, I strongly suggest using and following hashtags (#Madrid, en tu caso 
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And in Spain, there were lately several #FediPaseo with fedi-people met for a walk and had a lovely time.
Vicente ⁂@earthworm @peluchecero why haven't I ever thought about following hashtags about my local area?
lol. me alegro haber sido de utilidad 
@earthworm gracias por ayudarme a conectar con mi comunidad jajajaj ojala encuentre cosas interesantes así
Siii!
Tengo algunes mutuals de mexico (no sé las regiones, pero). Si quieres, te pongo en contacto (les preguntaré antes, por privacidad y tal).
Un abrazo 
@earthworm por mi excelente! igual ya tengo varios mutuals en México (see instance) pero no está de más
maloki 🍍
@Archie8 I can't tell if that's satire or not.
Asbjørn UlsbergPaul Ford (@[email protected])
This is from a couple months back but just went onto the web today, because it’s Sunday. https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/
Jon Shell@bitbear @maloki @Archie8 @ftrain Seconded. One of the best I've read in a while. Insightful, wickedly funny and some of the best throwaway lines I've read in years.
Favourite quote:
“My children, I designed your brains to scale to 150 stable relationships. Anything beyond that is overclocking. You should all try Mastodon.”
Dr. Guillermo Power 
Edvin Malinovskis@Archie8 those all sound like fairly decent town square activities too
Jens Hannemann@Archie8 That reminds me that I do have a bicycle to fix. Will have to substitute the sandwiches with noodle casserole, though. There’s a nice Scandinavian word for it: #hygge. The German #Gemütlichkeit comes close, but is not quite the same thing. The English #cozy works. Mastodon sure is a cozy place.
@JensHannemann I'm enjoying it as well Jens. This is a friendlier place 🙂
0xC0DEC0DE07EA@JensHannemann @Archie8 oh, crap, so do I. I cut the tire off one of my wheels to give my kiddo’s PowerWheels vehicle enough grip to go up hills. Yes, I could have bought a new tire that wasn’t already on a rim, but that would have required forethought and not have involved an element of personal sacrifice.
@c0dec0dec0de @Archie8 Hah! For me it was just as simple as putting air in the tires and adjusting the gear shifter.
@JensHannemann @Archie8 I do not know how to adjust my shifters. Goes doubly for the road bike because I’m terrified to mess with that one.
Katrien M Michiels@c0dec0dec0de @JensHannemann @Archie8 park Tool has a really nice YouTube channel on fixing bikes, including shifter adjustments.
BashStKid@JensHannemann @Archie8 Let’s get more coverage for hyggeligt.
Dr Micha Campbell@Archie8 they're describing my utopia and they don't even know it.
@michcampbell I know! 😇
Kevin McMurphy 🤔
TbakerHow’d you fix that bike? Looks great!
@Tbaker new brakes. Learned how to bleed brakes and run an internal cable. Placed rotors, reset the air fork, new grips and pedals.
It was a great adventure. Put 25 miles on her yesterday in a bid to remove all energy from my body, and it almost worked!
My business partner just got a new bike with hydraulic brakes. First encounter with them on a bike for me. Really nice.
@Tbaker oh yeah. The stopping power is amazing. Two fingers is enough to bring me to a screeching halt.
Aaron@kevinmcmurphy @Tbaker Sounds like I need to upgrade!
Took my Surly Crosscheck with rim brakes out on gravel roads in West Virginia a few months ago - thought I had plenty of stopping power, but loosing 1,000 feet of altitude in a few miles, I had to rest frequently because my hands hurt from braking so much.
Took my Surly Crosscheck with rim brakes out on gravel roads in West Virginia a few months ago - thought I had plenty of stopping power, but loosing 1,000 feet of altitude in a few miles, I had to rest frequently because my hands hurt from braking so much.
TheIronFox(MOVED)@Archie8 “doesn’t seem like enough to build a town square on”
what the actual fuck? i don’t want to speak for anyone else obviously but a friendly, supportive, caring group of people is LITERALLY what i would want to build a town square on/with.
so tired of media not just saying what they mean…”seems hard to squeeze for profit.”
blow it out your ass wired
@Archie8 sorry friend, this one got me riled up. didn’t mean to be all aggressive in your mentions <3
maegul@TheIronFox @Archie8 that was basically my thought. Hanging out and eating sandwiches together, fixing stuff together is what you build a town square out of. The implied need for profit making and a stable business model really reveals what’s wrong with the “town square” metaphor.
@TheIronFox @Archie8 that was basically my thought. Hanging out and eating sandwiches together, fixing stuff together is what you build a town square out of. The implied need for profit making and a stable business model really reveals what’s wrong with the “town square” metaphor.
Sean PendletonThe rest of the article is more about how centralization will inevitably become a Tower of Babel situation (as Birdsama has). One that frustrates billionaires who would like to turn everything into a profitable town square where capital E Everyone hangs out.
The screen shot paragraph is from the POV of said billionaires, to show how they’re foolish for trying to squeeze profit out of such a thing.
edgeoforever 🍎@TheIronFox @Archie8 I believe it refers to the billionaires’ view of “town square” which was the misnomer for ex-twitter.
bewilderbeast23@edgeoforever @TheIronFox @Archie8 billionaire town square is where we're all sweating for them and being busily miserable. They're far away in separate castles on islands, flying in v young kids to abuse.
space slut 
@TheIronFox @Archie8 a town square in this metaphor is an impersonal place to advertise and make people listen to your bs - the twitter algorithm is what you get with town square thinking
a friendly, supportive, caring group of people is what you build actual communities on
David's Alias 
@TheIronFox
After giving the article a read, it seems to be sarcastic; it describes that Mastodon is good earlier on, as it establishes the fact that centralization with billionaires is not the way to go. The goal of the article is to express the messy, fluctuating nature of humans.
After giving the article a read, it seems to be sarcastic; it describes that Mastodon is good earlier on, as it establishes the fact that centralization with billionaires is not the way to go. The goal of the article is to express the messy, fluctuating nature of humans.
MVNDVS PATEAT@Archie8 For those using screen readers the text in the picture says
How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much. Their smartphones are six versions behind and have badly cracked screens. They fix bicycles, then they talk about fixing bicycles, then they show their friend, who just came over for no reason, how they fixed their bicycle, and their friend says, “Wow, good job,” and they make tea. That doesn’t seem like enough to build a town square on..
グレェ「grey」
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦@Archie8 "That doesn't seem like enough to build a town square on."
Counterpoint: that's a great town square.
...I kind of wish I knew what I was replying to here. Something about libraries, maybe; that'd be pretty on-brand for me.
Mark Hughes@Archie8 I confirm. A few days ago I joked "Can anyone help fix my bike?" and in two minutes I had two offers to help and they kept coming.
Sooooo, who likes sandwiches?
MOVED:They faux'd around & found out!@[email protected]
Hold my tea… I got this.
(breaks Twitter)
We Can Be Gyros@Archie8 get off our lawn, Wired!!! Or stay if you like my bike.
HylianTom 🧲I read this and think of my beloved 24-year-old bike, my no-frills phone, and my assortment of teas, cheeses, and sandwich breads in the kitchen.
I feel *very* seen at the moment. Good luck targeting me, advertisers😅
AskPippa🇨🇦@Archie8 This is so me! I fix my own sandwiches, eat bikes, my phone screen is tea, and my tea is cracked! And people here get it! <lol>