Hey all, I'm moving to a smaller instance!
https://social.coop/@christianbundy
I appreciate the hell out of mastodon.social (cc: @Gargron) for hosting me during my first week on Mastodon, but I'm looking forward to the cooperative ownership and governance model that social.coop is using.
I'll import my follow list, but unfortunately you'll have to follow my new account if you'd like to stay connected.
https://social.coop/@christianbundy
See you all on the other side!
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We have deployed Halcyon at https://itter.photog.social for our users.
It's a Twitter UI clone and has that old, familiar feel of Twitter. Great if the Masto UI isn't your cup of tea.
You can login to the interface with @[username]@photog.social and it will take you to your account settings to approve the application.
For other admins: the code is at https://github.com/halcyon-suite/halcyon
Ping this account if you're using nginx + php-fpm or similar and we can get you more info.
It's taken about a decade for me to start caring, but I have to admit I'm really not sold on arbitrary hashtags from a UX perspective.
Generally a message *about* a subject seems to be more on-topic than messages that are tagged #subject, so it's frustrating to see hashtags that are less helpful than a search.
Don't even get me started on small changes (i.e. #introduction versus #introductions), and how most systems don't categorize the above hashtags as having any sort of affinity at all.
Aside: I'd really love if more platforms supported Markdown. Unicode is generally fine for most formatting, but I think most toots could be better represented as Markdown than just plaintext.
Unfortunately the prevelence of Markdown-like deviants (e.g. Slack) make it unnecessarily difficult for most people to understand how their text will render.
Can we all just agree to start supporting CommonMark everywhere? Please? :~)
Just closed my eyes while trying to brush my teeth and I now understand why my friend's brother just took down the bathroom mirror for the month.
Bathrooms feel *much* smaller when you don't spend your time staring into the mirror.
honestly some of the best goddamn brownies I've ever had:
- boxed brownie mix
- neat egg
- tons of peanut butter
- crushed pecans and cashews
I'm not joking I just walked into the bathroom, and looked straight into the mirror before I realized what I was doing.
This is going to be a pain in the ass.
A few years ago my friend's brother decided to avoid looking at his reflection (mirror, camera display, etc) and said that it gave him an interesting perspective.
I think I'm going to give it a shot, just to see. Has anyone else done anything similar? I'd love to get some more perspective on this.
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