@atomicpoet@mastodon.social ah yes, that's exactly what a trans-friendly company Meta claims to be would do

@atomicpoet Although this would be an exceptionally just and appropriate end as the largest self-own of all time!

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Please?

@atomicpoet and the downside is …?

@atomicpoet Don't think he's leading up to it. I think he's already propping up a dead body.

IMO, he knows it's dead. People would rather lose their check mark than buy Blue, advertisers are skeptical, he's about to fined a lot of money. Bankruptcy is near and he's just having fun with it while it lasts.

At some point, I really do expect Elon Musk to kill off Twitter during a weekend, and act like there’s still a party going on with all his bots talking to bots.

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It would be TERRIBLE for accessibility.
Good alt-text is not strictly about describing the image - it's about SITUATING the image.
@mistercharlie @fediversenews

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@mistercharlie @fediversenews as a prompt maybe. Anyone that lets LLMs write descriptions w/o editing is a fool.

@atomicpoet I hate Teams with a passion but one thing I don't mind is the fact that it doesn't have that weird, annoying clicky thing Slack has. Somehow, I find Slack's version even more stressful than 'bing!'.

But the red can f off.

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i'm not autistic but i obsessively disable notifications and icon badge numbers

@atomicpoet I only turn on notifications when they provide some use to *me*, and even then I make most of them go to the notification area and stay there until I'm ready to check them. I don't allow badges at all, I don't need to know how many unread messages I have, I'll clear them when I'm good and ready.

Pixelfed will have some insane updates this year. Just you wait.

@atomicpoet indeed a neat addition of this update for the App. 😁

@pixelfed @fediversenews

@atomicpoet @pixelfed @fediversenews have you tried @vernissage ?

@atomicpoet @thedextriarchy @fediversenews Yep. I’d put this suggestion *above* quote tooting.

@atomicpoet @thedextriarchy @fediversenews I don't like the look either but the main reason I used them inline is that my server has a 500 character limit, and often I cant waste it. Another idea would be if Mastodon hides the hash symbol and instead renders some subtle text effect to denote hash tags, so it looks less ugly.

Separately, full search would be cool. Not sure why anti-search, given other fedi apps have it. I thought maybe performance or index storage issues, or fear of scraping.

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Maybe if Muskrat paid his rent the landlord would be more accommodating.

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but it kinda fits, don't it ?

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Elon needs to get a job, seriously. I'm really starting to worry about how much time he spends on social media.

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:fediverse: If we're sharing bot lists, here's mine so far. :fediverse:

TV Third Eye - @tv

Bot Cocktails - @cocktails

Selfcare.tech - @selfcare_gentle

Town Builder Bot - @TownBuilder

Random fediverse bots - @botwikirandomfediverse

@atomicpoet I hope it's ok to post my bot

@glyphbot

@atomicpoet hold on, we had weeks of >1000 hourly growth. Surely these can’t all be good bots. Or what do you mean by “recent”?
I’m also skeptical about this months long hausse, in my own community I have barely seen a new face…

@atomicpoet @jwallen @fediversenews Those tools work again?! I thought Musk sabotaged the API.

@atomicpoet @jwallen @fediversenews I say use mastadon to begin anew

@atomicpoet ouch. Yeah, I'm always a little shocked when someone asks if they can connect with me on LinkedIn. Like, last time I even opened a LinkedIn page, it took me three years to stop receiving spam from them.

I mean, really, LinkedIn.

The biggest bullshit generator on the Internet.

The place where people brag about cooking food in a coffee pot in order to save the company money.

The place where AI writes posts—with full LinkedIn approval—and nobody notices.

That social network still has longevity. If LinkedIn still exists, so will Twitter in the next few months.

@atomicpoet does it though? Isn't it a Microsoft holding now? What's the probability Twitter goes into 2nd division pretty soon?

Side note, Lynda is playing 3rd division with Microsoft and LinkedIn as heads. Lynda was awesome. So was GitHub. Microsoft suck!

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Don't you mean when they do not return the ball?

@atomicpoet Hah or they are like my late dog - each time I threw a ball he would look at me as if to say, "you get it"

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I had a dog once who wouldn't fetch to save his life. But his favorite thing in the world was chasing other dogs as they did!

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I try to check it once a day. Explore is nice to get popular posts (and is how I found this post), but yeah, federated is great for finding stuff that is interesting, but not popular.

Also, depending on how prude your instance is, it's a great way to find NSFW stuff if you're into that.

@atomicpoet Classic

@atomicpoet checked the Federated timeline to discover people playing chess via polls!

@atomicpoet there is a difference between, don't talk about Twitter, and I'm tired of hearing about Twitter. CWs work nicely for that

@atomicpoet I prefer the sweeter taste of Mastodon.

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I'm one of those people to a degree. I'd like to go through my feed without having to see so many posts about Twitter. Twitter lives rent-free over here.

I thought most of us moved over here to get away from the mess. I didn't think we'd be discussing the mess in perpetuity.

@atomicpoet the men are Kevins

@atomicpoet Decided to block so I don't offend your rules.

@atomicpoet angry chris is not good for fedi! Dont make chris mad! Everybody behave yourself!

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@atomicpoet I wonder if different countries have different words for it. Swedish have “Hockeyfrilla” for instance:)

Also how did it get connected with Hockey?

If you want to know the current standings:

1. Peertube: 297,390 accounts
2. Misskey: 239,754 accounts
3. Pixelfed: 140,806 accounts
4. Pleroma: 127,515 accounts

@atomicpoet I’m going with Pixelfed just because it kinda makes sense for an Instagram replacement to take off next. It’s complementary to Microblogging without being a whole new thing, so many on Mastodon could start exploring it as a secondary Account.

@atomicpoet Hey, wow, I should be getting more traffic! /jk

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@atomicpoet Now tell us how many post are cat related?

@atomicpoet that poster forgot to put "to me" after "matters" in their reply...

@atomicpoet Single issue activists are tools. Literally. I have seen SO many single issue activists get derailed by Nazis because they can use that single issue fixation to promise them what they want while picking their pockets.

@atomicpoet The main reason this white cis feminist thing is important is that this time, the leopard is eating faces with political power. But yes.

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Don’t get upset!😁
Won’t help!😌😊

Yes, on this subject, we women who do or do not want to bear children should be consulted.
A pro abortion law is important for our rights.
I really can't imagine here in Germany that it would be forbidden.
Even in very religious Greece (I am Greek living in Germany) is abortion allowed.

@atomicpoet you don't need to have a uterus to be affected by these decisions. Maybe if more men spoke up about how it impacts them then things might change faster.