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DirkGoing "fungal". Like going viral, but more organic because you're on the Fediverse and no artificial algorithm helped.
priryo@inanedirk
The ones that sit underground for months then suddenly spring up and noone knows why.
The ones that sit underground for months then suddenly spring up and noone knows why.
64 Islands Aroha Cooperative@priryo @inanedirk they spring up when another hyphae finds them. they intertwine and boost together as a fruiting body. itβs beautiful!
#mushtodon
#mushtodon
haluzinelle bin chicken nicole
ticho@inanedirk Oops, I dropped a spore!
Oblomov@inanedirk also the post pops up again at random times years after it was posted the first time.
Amy Maybe
Moritz Negwer@inanedirk it's the Fungalverse, running Mycelodon. No algorithm, only diffusion.
Pip Gowenlock@moritz_negwer @inanedirk Experts are conflicted about how joined up the whole thing really is.
Argie@inanedirk That is BRILLIANT. No notes.
Analog AI@inanedirk plus fungi are essential for recycling in the natural world
Radgryd@inanedirk Obsessed.
PaulaToThePeople π·@inanedirk Also funghi are essential for connecting the #WoodWideWeb just #FungalPosts help with federation and letting people find likeminded accounts (go to the original page of the fungal post you like to see all comments and follow the accounts with good replies).
Philip Johansson π΄ββ οΈπ@inanedirk It also implies you are a fun gal and/or fun gi
Shaula Evans@philip @inanedirk And/or fun them which I'll grant you doesn't' work the pun as well but hey, this is the Fediverse and we're inclusive.
(Maybe a Fun-by?)
FionnΓ‘in
Pxl Phile@inanedirk also as in the mycelium, sugar is the hard currency so we all better keep posting those cute kittens
hazelnot 
@inanedirk fuck yeah! And also, viruses aren't technically alive, but fungi definitely are!
@inanedirk both viruses and virii are correct, just depends which language's orthography you want to preserve, generally when speaking/writing in English I just go with English orthography π€·ββοΈ
Simplicator@inanedirk Posts are spores
Ian K Tindale@inanedirk
Ahem:
The changes in the behaviour of the fediverse posts are very specific, giving rise to the popular term "zombie fediverse posts." Behaviours are tuned for the benefit of the fungus in terms of its growth and its transmission, thereby increasing its fitness. The fediverse post climbs up the stem of a plant and uses its mandibles with abnormal force to secure itself to a leaf vein, leaving dumbbell-shaped marks on it. The fediverse posts generally clamp to a leaf's vein at a height of 26 cm above the forest floor, on the northern side of the plant, in an environment with 94β95% humidity and temperatures between 20 and 30 Β°C. Infections may lead to 20 to 30 fediverse posts per square meter.
(Taken from en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis#Life_cycle but modified to make sense here)
Ahem:
The changes in the behaviour of the fediverse posts are very specific, giving rise to the popular term "zombie fediverse posts." Behaviours are tuned for the benefit of the fungus in terms of its growth and its transmission, thereby increasing its fitness. The fediverse post climbs up the stem of a plant and uses its mandibles with abnormal force to secure itself to a leaf vein, leaving dumbbell-shaped marks on it. The fediverse posts generally clamp to a leaf's vein at a height of 26 cm above the forest floor, on the northern side of the plant, in an environment with 94β95% humidity and temperatures between 20 and 30 Β°C. Infections may lead to 20 to 30 fediverse posts per square meter.
(Taken from en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis#Life_cycle but modified to make sense here)
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Petra van Cronenburg@inanedirk But you know that even the Fediverse uses algorithms for certain live streams?! Algorithms per se are not evil. It depends for what purpose they are programmed. It's the difference between poisonous or yummy fungi.
Steffi JΓͺn π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώπ³οΈββ§οΈ@inanedirk I love that description!
Twobiscuitsπ΄ββοΈ 
@inanedirk underground but actually running the world π€©
we are the communication network between all the trees in a world where many ppl can't even imagine that trees communicate π
Frosch B@inanedirk let the mycelium grow
let the spores flow
let the spores flow
EndlessMason@inanedirk
A toot so good that they have to close airports and lunatics start posting about how not only is it not happening, but it's also a deliberate attack by a foreign government and a horrible research accident
A toot so good that they have to close airports and lunatics start posting about how not only is it not happening, but it's also a deliberate attack by a foreign government and a horrible research accident
Will π³οΈβπ@inanedirk And you embed thread-like tendrils deep into the ground, adding to the biodiversity and ecosystem as only you can?
@AncTreat5358 err, sure? π
@inanedirk It's a mental picture! Maybe diverging a bit from your message, but one nonetheless. π€£
Will Deakin@inanedirk I fear going bacterial, and that it is an antibiotic resistant strain...
Stefan Schmidt@inanedirk @alech you do realize the word fungal already exists and has a different meaning than what you use it for in this example, yes?
@inanedirk @alech actually never mind, i realized i was being a downer again and didnβt get you were trying to have fun there at first. Sorry.
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Sheepie@inanedirk But why? "Going viral" was a thing long before algorithms were? When every socmed was in chronological order.
Simon Tatham@inanedirk that's used to describe things that grow on you?
Gary Houston@inanedirk I'm not convinced. Viruses just go with the flow, carried on air currents or transferred along with fluids. Fungi can be like that too, travelling randomly as spores or single-celled organisms like yeast. But fungi can also form multicelled organisms, perhaps sending out mycelia that spread through the ground, acting out a kind of biological algorithm.
I'm not sure how to use all this in analogies.
Paul Schultze-Motel@inanedirk As Tom Lehrer once said: "Lacking exposure in the media, my songs spread slowly. Like herpes, rather than ebola."