k I'm finally in a place where I feel like I can shift to a more narrowly focused instance, but I'm not finding one that speaks to me. How did you all find yours?
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Joshua Foust
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@larand Oh yeah, not topic-specific, just interested in a cool community is all
@andrew Neat but I don't think that's a very practical approach for me!
@michaelflynn Yeah I mean I'm not worried about following folks or anything like that but I keep hearing that smaller instances are how Mastodon becomes really powerful so I want to see what that's like.
@larand Neat! And what's the draw for me? Sorry if that sounds harsh but like, why do I switch to your instance?
https://www.theverge.com/23451629/meta-quest-pro-vr-headset-horizon-review
The only people who seem excited about mass VR adoption are managers. You can’t do much, it introduces intrusive mechanisms for workplace surveillance, it STILL doesn’t work well with glasses, and I have always gotten a migraine and I assume others do too (can you IMAGINE trying to work a spreadsheet?).
Beyond some genres like FPS and flight sims I don’t even see what it gets you for gaming, either. Who wants this?
David AmadorIn Fallout 3 the Trains are actually a character wearing a train model as a hat. Engine didn't allow for vehicles, so this way they could reuse NPC movement code. #gamedev
Caspar van LissaMy department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Social Data Science! I would love for this job to go to someone knowledgeable about open science, reproducibility, and meta-science. Our department is fun, supportive, and has extensive expertise in structural equation modeling, Bayesian stats, regularization, text mining, meta-science, and research synthesis. The campus has a small forest, and the city can be easily reached from Utrecht, Rotterdam, even Amsterdam. https://tiu.nu/21154
Paco HopeBack in 2010 #twitter launched their “t.co” link shortened. And I thought at the time how profoundly terrible that is. If the database and/or ability to look up t.co links ever changed, we would literally lose information. We will no longer know what URL was tweeted. It burns a huge hunk of internet history to the ground if we lose that. It was vain and shortsighted and stupid. Now in 2022, I wonder how many months we have left when we can resolve those links. And what happens to collective internet history when they’re done?
In another funny twist, what about trials or legal matters that hinge on the content of a tweet? And suddenly you can’t get the content of that tweet? Or where did that link point to?
Nobody saw this coming except for all of us who saw this coming.
Caffe NekoDear Twitter ex-pats. When we all flounced out of Twitter loudly proclaiming we were going to Mastodon this sent a message to trolls, nazis that they could set up servers & come here.
If anyone gets harrassed with hatespeech pls note that that is not the culture of Mastodon. Please report & block those users. If you notice a pattern from the same weird domain, block that domain, write a post of the server name w/ a hashtag fediblock so your server admin can follow up & block it for everyone.