Aaron Parecki

mastodon vs twitter.

Reading people arguing about decentralised social web stuff makes me 50-50 want to pick back up my own implementations and make them work, and leave computing forever to hide in a cave.

The compromise between these tensions tends to be go back to my day job / pick up a book / go to the beach / make a sandwich.

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/08/social-web

@bradenslen @simonwoods @eli Twitter was the same way. Everyone on Twitter spent the first three years talking about Twitter. Eventually the masses came and discussed everything else, but if you look, there are still people talking about Twitter. I notice the same thing with Mastodon and even micro.blog.

Part of it all is also those in the IndieWeb modeling behaviours and examples to others who might also say, "That's interesting. How did you do that? How can I do that?"

@aaronpk I'll see your plant wall and raise you this cafe scene in which someone is actually reading Deleuze. (Victoria, BC)

Got my blog working again! Many thanks to @veganstraightedge for his expert Ruby help.

@aaronpk My greatest shitpost will be a Slack theme with support for threads

slow down federated timeline u go too fast

note to self: download dependencies BEFORE leaving the house to work at a coffee shop

Sometimes I think about my grandparents who lived their entire lives without ever thinking, "that guy just said something terrible to me on the internet."

do you ever look at someone's list of demands for social media and realize that what they actually want is a self-hosted wordpress site with comments enabled

Here is a tiny warthog for your troubles, fellow tooters.