evacideMay 11
If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
Show threadMariel GM
@evacide There was a shooting more or less in my vicinity today. My first reaction was to long for the days when a simple text search on Twitter would have been enough to figure what was going on.
May 11 at 9:19pmWeb
Show threadNoodlemazMay 11
@marielgm @evacide absolutely. I miss local news and perspectives massively. That and being able to get some fucking customer service from actual people at shitty companies. People power.
Show threadMariel GMMay 12
@noodlemaz A time when yelling at politicians felt fun AND productive
Show threadClickyMcTickerMay 11
@marielgm @evacide I think it would be nifty if we could geotag our Fediverse posts and thus be able to find recent posts near me (chronological posts within a fixed distance). Would bring back that concept, albeit not as widespread as Twitter was.
Show threadGeorge BMay 11

@ClickyMcTicker @marielgm @evacide

You kind of get that at a coarse level by joining a geographically local instance if one exists

Show threadMariel GMMay 12
@gbargoud @ClickyMcTicker IMO the beauty of Twitter was its text searchability and old chronological feed organization, no need for geolocation data. I don't think Mastodon has to /could be what Twitter used to be. But I still miss it
Show threadStrypeyMay 12

@gbargoud
> You kind of get that at a coarse level by joining a geographically local instance if one exists

... or if it doesn't, by helping to start one, and recruiting locals to set up accounts there, even if only to post about local stuff. Ideally including public organisations and media outlets.

Toot.wales and their Tŵt Cymru is a great Proof of Concept for what can be done.

@ClickyMcTicker @marielgm @evacide

Show threadStefan BertelsMay 12
@ClickyMcTicker @marielgm @evacide
Maybe add coordinates using #FediMap
https://fedimap.de/en/ @fedimap
Fedimap.de

Fedimap is a reallife usermap of the Fediverse.

Fedimap.de
Show threadCainmark Does Not Comply 🚲May 12

@marielgm @evacide

I found out about Melissa Hortman and her family's murders on the fediverse before mainstream news picked it up. Reminded me of when I was learning about Ferguson back in the day.