Aaron Parecki

Sometimes I see posts on here like “mastodon is too serious and businesslike, it needs more selfies and shitposts” and I’m like are we even using the same website but then I remember we very literally are not

This is the best article about the recent rise in the fediverse I've seen! https://thenewstack.io/devs-are-excited-by-activitypub-open-protocol-for-mastodon/

And it opens with a quote by @evan and has several by me and even @blaine appears! Someone actually did their homework!

Relatedly, here's a lovely interview with @evan from just a few months back! https://thenewstack.io/challenges-of-creating-a-decentralized-open-source-twitter/

I'm gonna tell your grand-kids this is Elon Musk.

If, every time you see a terrible person saying something awful, instead of being outraged about it you just read a chapter of a book, your life will be immeasurably better and the cause of justice will not be set back even one nanometer.

Watching George Takei go from “We’ll try this mastodon thingie and see if its any good” to “We need to liberate our minds from shackles of billionaire oligarchopathy.” in one week flat, has been an absolute joy.

There was a terrible misunderstanding, and in an attempt to solve the four hardest problems in computer science (the other three are naming things and off-by-one errors), the cryptobros thought they'd nailed cash invalidation.

#sorry #notsorry