Chapter 3 of Cory Doctorow's new novel, Walkaway, which is being released later this month. The links for the excerpts of the first two chapters are on the page, or you can click the link to Cory's page for them, and other great things he's written.
http://www.tor.com/2017/04/17/excerpts-cory-doctorow-walkaway-chapter-3/
hi all! i have a thing to share with you! my new instance is ready and it is a little different...
toots on this instance are ephemeral; they disappear after a while (between 5 minutes and an hour) depending on the current phase of the moon.
https://ephemeral.glitch.social
something glitchy, something witchy...
feel free to boost
let's
break
this
software!!!
Ah the inevitable "no *you're* doing it wrong" phase of FOSS projects.
My thoughts? I like instances that set tone by blocking the ones they won't work with. I like instances that show full throttle shitposting from wherever because sometimes there's a nugget in the crap.
That's why I have accounts on multiple instances.
It's super cool how quickly Danny from the EFF jumped on this issue to inject some legal sanity: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1847#issuecomment-294305367
(re. pawoo.net and content caching)