rag and bone shop @rag_and_bone_shop@anticapitalist.party

Free business idea: buy everyone in the world a puppy; corner the market on paper towels; profit. (I just rescued the 3rd roll of paper towels of the day from the ever shredding teeth of my puppy).

I'm glad I'm old enough that I didn't grow up with smartphones and social media and whatnot, because the lack of skepticism my kids have for both is disheartening. The privacy, she is dead.

Idea: when the anticapitalist.party server goes down for maintenance, the splash page should read "Party Resuming Shortly, Currently On A Beer Run/Throwing Rocks at Pigs"

Coworker on a long rant about how to make always listening voice things (Alexa and Google Now) more secure. I asked why not just maybe don't buy one, and he answered that he could order Dominoes by voice from his couch. I think we're on different wavelengths idk.

I do think that's a risk though. I almost feel like the right way to do mastodon from a security standpoint is for local (offline) affinity groups to start their own instances? IDK, but the snitch sitch in a federated social media setup seems more hazardous in some ways.

Join me on my new instance totallynotanFBIhoneypot.trustmeseriously

Mastodon Breakdown:

60% speculation on its survival
20% rehashing twitter
10% memes
10% declaring war on opposing instances (in looking at you capitalism.party)
10% math mistakes in getting to 100%

*scribbles furiously* "work is like a series of endless broken bones..."
*crosses that out*

"work is like a series of kicks in the genitals...."

*angrily crosses that out*

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer." much better

Just as twitter went from:

'stream of public discourse wrangled into a rough semblance of coherence'

to

'stream of public bullshit wrangled into a rough semblance of emotional abuse',

someday Mastodon will go from

'federated series of instances interacting with each other to form a larger community'

to

'tribal instances warring in an AI filled bot-scape for control of the fediverse'

Mark my words. It's like clockwork, people.

Current Mood: staring at trees moving in the wind and side-eyeing my work email.

geek question: has anyone used mastodon over ORBOT on Android? problems?

suggestion: replacing the word "instance" with "tooter-pool"

#why #can't #we #escape #the #hashtag

Seriously, internet anthropologists in 4000 years will be writing theses from their underground bunkers on the mystery of our religious commitment to the pound sign

Other mastodon observations:
1) it's bot-tastic already, but so far just follow-bots
2) if a TOOT is a TWEET than a WOOT is a WHEAT, watch your backs celiacs.
3) federated social media is cool until you realize it's still social media.
4) i like that instances will collapse and take people with them, living on the edge of annihilation is exhilarating

the cool thing about a new social network actually gaining some traction is that we can look forward to a whole new ream of sociology students writing serious thought provoking tracts on how it's a game changer in organizing, all while the world burns and capitalism marches forward unchecked.

you know, when twitter was still a soapbox and not a synergized brand rectangle

on a positive note though, mastodon is small/new enough that it still has that 'screaming into the abyss while drinking coffee' feeling that twitter had in 2008