Aaron Parecki

The fact that the federated timeline is essentially useless on single-user instances mean if you decide to run Mastodon in the most decentralised method possible, you miss out on a core feature of the software.

This is not really a new observation, I have mentioned before that joining the fediverse for the first time with a single user instance is playing on hard mode. You are missing the bootstrap that is the federated timeline.

I am attempting to upgrade my personal Mastodon instance from 2.0.0 to 2.1.x to 2.2.x to 2.3.x to the current version, 2.4.3. If this account disappears for a while, know that I'm in sysadmin hell

I think Mastodon is finally mature because I'm seeing Medium articles being shared here that fill me with white hot rage

Seems like the best blogging system is the one you use.

I have a sort of Mastodon Stockholm Syndrome where this starts to feel normal:

1. See a post (toot) in my app timeline, want to view all replies.
2. Open post.
3. Click "View in Browser" to see post on its home server, which includes all replies.
4. See a reply I want to favorite. Copy link to that reply.
5. Paste URL into search box on my home instance. This adds the post to my home instances database.
6. Fave reply.

My kingdom for restaurant websites which have a text-only one page version of the menu without so much javascript that google translate can't even parse it and nothing is copypastable. https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/08/websites

Hang on, do custom emoji from one Mastodon instance display on other instances?!

Gonna start a Mastodon parody account about Tesla and SpaceX and call it Elom Tusk

I’m still on Twitter, but I blog at bitsplitting.org, indiestack.com, blog.punkitup.com, and red-sweater.com/blog/. For starters.

If you don’t have at least one blog on a domain that you own, you’re not really “on the internet.”

that glorious excitement when something works the way it's supposed to 😀

Twitter has decided its a safe space for bigotry and hatred..

This doesn’t mean anyone else has to use it, so:

• I deleted all my tweets & unfollowed all
• I removed twitter syndication from my micropub endpoint, nanopub
• I’ll be working harder at writing here.

Just to clarify I'm here because Twitter is bad. Bitcoin is basically adult men trading beanie babies. Don't toot me. (Do people say don't toot me here? I hope so.)