semaOct 3, 2025
Void Chicken

Werner Herzog’s Mastodon: A Descent into the Federated Abyss

(Footage of server error messages, ancient memes and a lone penguin trudging across ice)

Herzog voiceover: Mastodon is not a social network. it is a cruel experiment in decentralized yearning. Each server a fragile island in a sea of loneliness held together by spite and CSS

The people here: disillusioned scholars, artists, shitposters, furries,and someone named [email protected]
, speak in codes I cannot decipher

There is no algorithm. there is only what you choose to see.
and what you choose may destroy you

Oct 2, 2025 at 2:01amWeb
Show threadThomas SturmOct 2, 2025
@Taweret 😂
Show threadAndrew Benedict-NelsonOct 2, 2025
@Taweret this should be required reading for the fediverse
Show threadMy camera shoots fascistsOct 2, 2025

@Taweret

This is a ritual riddle one is presented with when requesting an account.

Those who fail to respond appropriately are banished to mastodon dot social.

Show threadJef PoskanzerOct 2, 2025
@Taweret If you gaze too long into the Federated Abyss, the Federated Abyss asks you to add alt text to it.
Show threadElectricKaibutsuOct 2, 2025
@jef @Taweret XD
Show threadAlexander KnochelOct 2, 2025
@jef @Taweret ah, the wisdom of Federatrich Nietzsche.
Who would have had 8,1 billion twitter followers btw.
Show threadSu_GOct 2, 2025

@Quantensalat
Surprised there isn’t a Nietzsche bot doing daily posts, given his many aphorisms. 🙂

@jef @Taweret

Show threadAlexander KnochelOct 2, 2025
@Su_G @jef @Taweret I'd lie if I said that I haven't considered it
Show threadCharlse the GliderOct 2, 2025

@jef @Taweret

Nonsense! I've been running from alt text and it hasn't caught me yet!

Show threadMike FraserOct 2, 2025
@jef @Taweret If you gaze too long at the federated abyss a safety troll appears complaining that abyss gazing should be an opt in feature.
Show threadPaul EdwinOct 2, 2025
@jef @Taweret "Please describe the Abyss for those of us that are unable to gaze into it."
Show threademeritrixOct 3, 2025

@paul_edwin @jef @Taweret

ALT:
The Abyss is a dimensionless void of empty nothingness; a bottomless gulf, pit, or chaos, lacking in light, absent of meaning or morality, immeasurably deep.
The Federated Abyss connects to other abysses through finicky connections that require signing in repeatedly.

Show threadAlexander DyasOct 4, 2025
@anarchademic @paul_edwin @jef @Taweret <realises it's The Abyss he's been staring at all this time>
Show thread@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNoteOct 4, 2025
@jef @Taweret 🤣 🤣 🤣 👍
Show threadHugo MillsOct 5, 2025
@jef "An abyss. Dark, cold, unforgiving. Cute eyes gazing back."
Show threadozamidasOct 2, 2025
@Taweret why do i kinda like that depiction of the fediver tho
Show threadmilitant_dilettanteOct 2, 2025
@Taweret is there a crowdfunding campaign for this project?
Show threadDavid B. HimselfOct 2, 2025
@Taweret This is beautiful.
Show threadurigOct 3, 2025
@Taweret brilliant! Rotflmao
Show thread👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵Oct 3, 2025
@Taweret
Show threadNazaniOct 3, 2025
@Taweret Off topic: I sincerely hope Herzog's mockumentary Incident at Loch Ness makes it back to TV this Halloween season.
Show threadJohannes RaggamOct 3, 2025
@Taweret i hear his voice when reading this.
Show threadSteve's PlaceOct 4, 2025

@Taweret 💯 🤣

I should record a video of this in my worst Werner Herzog voice. I'll need footage of server error messages, ancient memes, and a lone penguin trudging across ice, but I am tempted, lol.

Show threadSteve's PlaceOct 4, 2025

@Taweret THAT'S IT!

My next album release will be called Into the Mastodon Abyss.

Your words yearn to be the first video on the album.

After all, who am I to deny the sadness, the torrent of guilt, the miserable pining for hope never realized, that temptress always out of reach, which these words symbolize and evoke in the dark heart of man?