Mastodawn

Listening to Radio 4 whilst dropping 19 to work this morning and there was an article about social media damaging relationships and our ability to form connections with other people - making us lonelier and less connected. And the whole time I was thinking..... that's not social media you're describing. It is Instagram. It has not been my experience of Fedi, at all. Which continues to be a source of connection and conversation and friendship.

Goldmaster Apr 30

j_bertolotti Apr 30

"The Mastodon time line is empty and boring"
Listen, I posted the picture of a couple of poorly panted Warhammer miniatures, got a few likes, looked at who liked it and followed those who seemed to boost a lot, and now I am awash of photos of gorgeously painted miniatures!

Your timeline is as alive (or dead) as you make it!

Goldmaster Apr 27

Liam S-H Apr 27

It’s frustrating to see so many seemingly flock back to regular posting on X.

I’m now repeatedly missing some work stuff for @gamingonlinux because prominent people and companies rarely use their Bluesky or Mastodon accounts :/

Goldmaster Apr 18

readbeanicecream Apr 18

You Don't Need a Tech Stack. You Just Need a Text Editor.

Plain text files built the internet before technology stacks were a thing. Honestly, there is no reason why your web presence cannot just be a simple TXT file.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026/04/17/you-dont-need-a-tech-stack-you-just-need-a-text-editor/

#tech #technology #plaintext #textfiles #indieweb #writing #blogging

You Don't Need a Tech Stack. You Just Need a Text Editor. - ReadBeanIceCream

Goldmaster Apr 17

Natasha

🇪🇺Apr 17

The way my brain works:

1970 was 30 years ago
1980 was 20 years ago
1990 was 10 years ago
1995 was 10 years ago
2000 was 10 years ago
2010 was 10 years ago
2015 was 5 years ago
2017 never happened
2018 was two years ago
2019 was last year
2020 was also last year
2021 was a few months ago

Goldmaster Apr 16

Randahl Fink Apr 16

Why is Mastodon the best social medium in 2026?

Picture 1: If I share a post with some objectively good news, it gets 97 boosts and 140 likes.

Picture 2: If I share the same post on Threads, it gets zero interactions — zero! — because it contains a link to the competing social medium YouTube, and on Threads, Mark Zuckerberg has decided that the algorithm should not promote such content.

Threads is where the rich decide what we can talk about.

On Mastodon, we decide.

Goldmaster Apr 15

Well #Im2SMS an app designed to import #whatsapp messages into your phones internal sms storage system is now in beta. It supports previewing both group and 1:1 chats and importing 1:1 chats including media such as photos or videos.

You can become a tester here. https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.goldmaster.im2sms?pli=1

To cover play store costs, the app is 59p but you should be able to download for free.