RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116274780736888284

Technology is always political.

You own your choices, you own your words and efforts, and you own the world you try and help come into being.

If you think your Mastodon timeline can sometimes get a little depressing, if you wish to add a touch of lightheartedness, here are some hashtags I recommend you follow.

They all include pictures of cute non-humans doing their things, sometimes with their human companions. 😍

Here they are:
#dogsofmastodon --> cats seem much more popular than dogs on the fediverse, so if you're a dog person, follow this hashtag to balance out your timeline

#birdphotography --> usually professiolan shots of wild birds, what could be more uplifting?

#teamcapy --> yes, capybaras are cute, funny and sooo nice to have on your timeline. How can you miss this hashtag?

#asstodon --> because donkeys are so very cute and not loved as much as their cousins the horses. So let's show them some love by adding some photos on our timeline. :)

#follow

thanks to @mark who let me know about the existence of a very obscure piece of BBS software called Falken and its door game Shadow Realms, i just rediscovered a 35+ year old RPG MUD that ran in MS-DOS

this isn't Legend of the Red Dragon with a bunch of menu options. this is a full-blown MUD with a text parser, monsters, objects, rooms, and characters.

as far as i know, this is the first time this software has been run in decades. i found it buried in a bbs ftp archive

i've still got some bugs to work out as it doesn't seem to be too happy with dosbox, but i have it running under Falken

i have never ever heard of a mud built for DOS and i am fascinated by the prospect. multiplayer, multi-node gaming over modems and no internet in the very early 90s.

#mud #dosgaming #msdos #bbs