Mastodawn

Jan Wildeboer 😷

I see a lot of anger motivated posts, from people claiming they really hate something. I also see posts from people that absolutely love something (and most of them are honest and fun to read, some very few try to sell me something). what is completely missing however are meh posts. Where people say that while something isn't as wonderful as they want it to be, it still gets the job done so all is good. So. Post more meh stuff :) The world isn't binary :) Let's call it #MehPost

Jan Wildeboer 😷

I'll start. My supermarket now has these fancy self-checkout counters. I still prefer to go to the register with a real person behind it, but when I only buy a bottle of milk and some other little things, the self-checkout is fast and convenient.

Jan Wildeboer 😷

My electric bicycle is a cheap and simple no-name. It was less than €700 and its electronics are not very modern or comfortable. But it runs completely offline, has no Bluetooth or GPS or App and gets me from/to work and around town reliably since almost 2 years. It's truly meh and I like it that way :) It uses more or less standard batteries that are cheap to replaee, though my original battery is still going strong, so no need yet to replace it.

Jan Wildeboer 😷

The hate posts and the total love posts are IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) hard to overcome habits from the centralised "social" networks, where extreme posts get reach as the algorithms prefer outliers over average to provoke more interaction that allows them to sell more ads. ActivityPub and Mastodon are fundamentally different in that regard. Here we are people. Not influencers. So share more #MehPost, it's what makes us different. And better :)

Jan Wildeboer 😷

I did 4 machines of laundry today and all socks ended up in pairs, no leftovers to worry about. It's now all on the drying racks and the smell of freshly washed laundry is making me feel good.

Fabian Transchel Feb 18

@jwildeboer You put eight socks in and got eight socks out?

I call BS, good Sir! 🤡

Szescstopni Feb 18

@jwildeboer Entropy dropped its jaw.

Eike Hellmann Feb 18

@jwildeboer Zeichen und Wunder 😝

@jwildeboer I like VM’s :) #mehpost

@jwildeboer What's a Meh Post? 😄

Martin Wiesemann Feb 18

Mike Fraser Feb 18

@jwildeboer I find I often have to de-program new users. There's no cred farming here, your likes literally don't matter except to you..

@mike Still, if you get a nice amount of followers, it makes your life easier when you have to ask a question.

Someone popular recently asked a question about panel mount connectors, and got maybe 50 answers. I had asked almost the same question a week prior, and didn’t even get one boost. And I used hashtags and they didn’t.
@jwildeboer

Mike Fraser Feb 21

@oscherler @jwildeboer You're right network effects are the same no matter where you go.

ghose 🍉 👣Feb 19

@jwildeboer that's my thing!, #mehpost nobody cares about XD

(on serious note, thinking about what other people may or may not like/engage is something I still struggle with and try to overcome after many years out of big corp. ad platforms)

Daniel Blake Feb 20

@jwildeboer Meh.

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