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Sean Tilley

This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?

Check them out!

Facebook replacement: Friendica
Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
YouTube replacement: PeerTube
Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
Reddit replacement: Lemmy
Podcasting replacement: Castopod
GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm

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MOVED vantablack@cyberpunk.lol

content warnings meta 

hey new peeps from twitter who're makin a big fuss about content warnings

y'know how the saying goes

"when in rome, disregard local customs and force the romans to do as you do"

...right?

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Alex Vranas

Thank you to my 800+ new followers. The fact that my viral Tweet gained me more followers here than there speaks volumes!

I plan to follow a lot of you back, but I have a lot of profiles to review through before I do that.

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Christopher

Lotta talk about replacing Twitter.

The better dialogue is how to get people to re-evaluate how they engage with the internet.

Personally, I'm convinced of two things:

- You can't 1:1 replace Twitter unless it's a similar top-down walled garden.

- Most people probably shouldn't want a Twitter replacement, since Twitter is bad for us.

Instead of finding/molding/creating a replacement, we should encourage people (and ourselves!) to focus on what they like most about internet interaction.

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Eugen Rochko

I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's

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Determinerik :antifa: :bij1_flag: 🇵🇸

Mastodon right now.

(Yes those are all birds)

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Alex Vranas

American Christians can be the most unchristian people. This is a Baptist church in my neighborhood.

Jesus didn't hate the poor, and neither should you.

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Alex Vranas

There is way too large an overlap between people who say "I refuse to live my life in fear" and people who carry a gun everywhere they go because they're convinced people want to kill them.

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Alex Vranas

My site is powered by data offered up by pouet.net

An excellent resource if you're interested in this flavor of retro computing.

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Alex Vranas

I've gained 400+ followers in a day because I went viral on the birdsite, and if anything, I hope I encouraged people to Google "demoscene" after reading my bio.

For a crash course, I'll shamelessly plug my own Demoscene website: prods.page

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Alex Vranas

People have asked why I don't just join an existing instance instead of running my own.

C'mon. Look at my domainhack. I pretty much had to.

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Alex Vranas

Folks on the birdsite are going wild after I shared this absolutely legendary response to a Nazi by @Gargron

I'll take this guy over Musk any day!

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

I see quite a lot of #Science posts expressing concern if The Public will follow their authors' #TwitterMigration over on here.

Here's the thing: they don't even have to. Every #Mastodon account has an #RSS feed. For example, here's mine:
mstdn.social/@rysiek.rss

Every hashtag has an RSS feed as well (as seen from a given instance), for example:
mstdn.social/tags/Science.rss

Your audiences can follow you without ever setting up an account on fedi, with any RSS reader.

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Radical Edward :hackers_town:

@thegibson "I don't even see the code. All I see is enby, furry, Hackers movie reference."

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Alex Vranas

I have something terrible to admit. On my work computer, I have officially switched to Microsoft Edge...

I know, I know... I tried out the Vertical Tabs, and now I can't go back. Once Chrome does this though, I'll probably go back.

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Alex Vranas

Getting a PoS cash drawer delivered monthly via Amazon subscription.

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MOVED vantablack@cyberpunk.lol

heyyo, are you interested in learning the secret silent art of video editing, but don't know where to begin?

check out my "video editing for newbies" guide!!!

all the software i talk about in this guide is free and open source

it costs nothing to get started, except the amount of energy it takes to read the guide and do the stuff

write.as/vantablack/vantablack

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Alex Vranas

Brands can totally come to the Fediverse, they just need to understand how it works.

Think of it less like joining a Social Media network, and more like starting an IRC channel.

If you come in trying to monetize your existence here, expect to get dragged.

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Alex Vranas

So I took a look at this "Tribel" social network that liberals keep talking about as an alternative to Twitter, and it is a complete hellscape. Similar baseless hysteria to Parler, just on the other side of the aisle.

And we descend further into the post-truth era.

Alternative social networks shouldn't be factioned around political parties like this. It's dumb.

Fediverse FTW.

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Alex Vranas

My favorite part about using a Mac is that it refuses to understand what the scroll wheel on my mouse is for. Am I scrolling up, am I scrolling down? My computer certainly can never decide...

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