Friends, just a heads up that I will be migrating to hachyderm.io, so you may get follow requests from @distractal
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I'll probably be refocusing most of my time around Mastodon again.
It'll inevitably end up like X.
And honestly, maybe it's a feature, not a UX ding, that Mastodon is harder for some people to figure out.
Which is to say, Twitter is dead, long live Twitter!
Well, I'm sure you've all seen it by now, but Bluesky seems determined to allow Jesse Singal to stay on the platform despite breaking its TOS and generally being a piece of shit.
Not only that, it seems to have specifically clarified a loophole to enable that to happen, and make it clear to others that they can use that same loophole, and they don't seem to care about how intolerant others are as long as they are true to the letter of their TOS.
Nora Reedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq8p0pDKTKA
I love this, I love everything about this.
Dreamwake - Memories (Official Music Video)
FOSStodon, looking for an org documentation tool built on markdown with a WYSIWYG editor and/or a live preview (kind of like Obsidian, but FOSS) that can be used commercially.
When I say "built on" I mean the primary storage medium is markdown files or something else widely used, that can be easily ported as well as backed up in an automated fashion.
Ideally free w/ paid support.
Looked at logseq, the level of dogma and self congratulatory prose on its site worried me.
It remains to be seen how things work when they scale, and the cashflow tightens up for them.
But as for right now, things are pretty good.
I remain hopeful that both platforms succeed, but I see in Bluesky the potential for the beginning of a movement away from surveillance capitalism.
Whether that is realized is another matter, but I have hope.
Bluesky added 1m users yesterday. I realize I haven't been as active on Mastodon.
Having spent a few months on Bluesky, I can now say I (personally) prefer it to Mastodon.
More diverse leadership, better moderation tools, more positive vibes & strong pervasive anti-bigotry.
This isn't to say Mastodon is bad. Mastodon is still good, but as much as some people didn't want another Twitter, it seems that's what the vast majority of people wanted, at least, interface-wise.
Decentralized communications are soon to become the only safe communications.
Get on that shit.