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Mastodon

Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Apr 24, 2017 12:20 pm

I got in, you can find me on this instance: https://functional.cafe/@manuel_uberti

(a colleague put it up, so I left mastodon.social and moved to this one because I am a kind person)

I've always considered Twitter for news and chats on cinema and IT. Lately is more chat about nothing at all. So I gave Mastodon a try and so far I like it.

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:15 am

I only just got the hang of twitter.
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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by GekkoP » Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:36 am

^ I know :)

It's also the same for all the film critics/bloggers I follow on Twitter.

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:10 pm

^ that bad huh? :D
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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by GekkoP » Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:19 pm

^ Yeah, mostly me talking to myself at the moment :-D

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by wuxmedia » Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:22 pm

oh i try to join in when i can, it's a bit unwieldy really. for me.
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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by GekkoP » Wed Apr 26, 2017 3:24 pm

Sir Baconator himself is in too, you guys have no excuses anymore!

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Wed Apr 26, 2017 3:55 pm

^ Oh, now you got me thinking. :)

Thing is I never used Twitter and never understood the concept of it, at least not for my personal use.

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Apr 27, 2017 7:02 am

^ I know what you mean.
It's kinda weird talking to anyone - pretty good newstream and mostly, depending on who you follow, It seems to generate content. as in 'i saw that funny gif/joke on twitter last night'
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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:16 am

I use Twitter to follow Clojurists and film critics mainly. I find it easier to be up to date this way, and more often than not something interesting about functional programming or cinema have been coming from Twitter.

Only problem is lately it's been more of a boredom than something useful. That's why I moved to Mastodon.

And yes, the 500 characters limit means I can write more interesting stuff to myself. ;-)

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by machinebacon » Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:35 am

ivanovnegro wrote:
Wed Apr 26, 2017 3:55 pm
Thing is I never used Twitter and never understood the concept of it, at least not for my personal use.
Cool, and I always thought I'm the only person in the world who has no idea what 'twitter' is about - seriously :)

Just wanted to make Manu happy, so there I am. At least there's an emacs frontend to mastodon. Ha, the first time I read "mastodon' I thought of some colon cancer medicine.
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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by franksinistra » Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:39 am

Mastodon seems like a much saner place than twitter, but i don't have time to maintain it (unwieldy, basically what Wux or Ivan said).

I'll stick to the old way and just bookmark your mastodon page and other grillers. :)

Who knows... i might find gold like this one:
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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by vic » Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:35 pm

machinebacon wrote:
Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:35 am
Just wanted to make Manu happy, so there I am. At least there's an emacs frontend to mastodon. Ha, the first time I read "mastodon' I thought of some colon cancer medicine.
Very nice of you sir B! There is also a metal band named Mastodon. Will check this new thing up of course, but at the moment I am a bit tired of social media. Must admit though that it looks interesting. :)

Twitter on the other hand is some sort of insane sanity, and when I think about world leaders that makes Twitter an important channel for their political messages... :((
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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by doubledutch » Thu Jun 15, 2017 5:20 pm

I went ahead and grabbed @Nun at mastodon.social and @doubledutch at functional.cafe and witches.academy

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu Jun 15, 2017 10:21 pm

I made an account because I was bored. Now I just cannot remember where exactly. You should find me. I still have no clue about the Twitter thing but who knows. At least Mastodon is not Twitter.

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by slartie » Fri Jun 16, 2017 6:16 am

I did a thing.

https://writing.exchange/@gemek

The higher character limit seems very useful.

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by GekkoP » Sun Oct 08, 2017 4:18 pm

Turns out I am not really that "social" so I'm already leaving this behind.

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sun Oct 08, 2017 9:57 pm

:) I did not even give it a chance. In reality I already forgot about it after I made the account. Though I have no time to be that social.

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by doubledutch » Mon Oct 09, 2017 5:34 pm

My favorite instances were witches.academy (got deleted because of drama) and functional.cafe... because of liveliness and because of GekkoP/Mr. B, respectively.
Now my favorite instance is probably infosec.exchange... if this is what Twitter is like, even remotely, then Twitter isn't so great. The Amaroq client suuuuuuucks

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Re: Mastodon

Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Oct 10, 2017 10:44 am

ivanovnegro wrote:
Sun Oct 08, 2017 9:57 pm
... Though I have no time to be that social.

HAHA, i feel the same, I have an hour or so in bed for snarky twitter comments and a passive read of my feed.
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