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Eugen Rochko

Reminder that you can enable "Auto-play animated GIFs" in preferences, which is off by default, to experience animated avatars, emojis, and well, GIFs, if you so desire.

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Brian!

@Gargron no, i'm American, mornings aren't allowed to be good until election season is over

Erick C.

@Gargron morning back! I’m new to Mastodon. I’m very amazed by it and all your work. Thank you!

Eugen Rochko

It’s already dark outside and I’m only getting up now. I’m glad I invested in some high-CRI lightbulbs but still

Eugen Rochko

I wanted to mention this because the messages in my notifications suggest the new folks might not be aware of this, but the timing is actually quite relevant: I've been working on Mastodon full-time for 4 years. Mastodon was first revealed to the public in a Show HN post around this time in 2016.

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Wooseok :sadness:

@Gargron i dream about this apps going global. so we can fight blue bird because they suck. eating my accounts just with no reason. please don't betray us.

BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO ROLEPLAY. :cate: :cate: :cate: :cwy: :cwy: :cwy: sorry if i'm being fuss. :cwy:

Eugen Rochko

Mastodon does not store passwords in plain text. This is trivial to confirm as Mastodon is an open-source project. We use the bcrypt algorithm for one-way hashing of passwords. I can't believe someone is spreading misinformation about something so trivial to debunk.

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FLM

@Gargron@mastodon.socia
@thegibson Been a while when I realised that some websites link to each other as a source to "validate" weird stuff like "secret governments", nazis on the dark side and so on. So it doesn´t surprise me some goofy goober is spreading this. People use "google searches" as sources to their so called scientific work. "The internetz" is full of weird shit.

grin

@Gargron Of course you don't understand since you live in Middle Africa!

;-)
#quality #fakenews

Santiago

@Gargron
I recently read that fake news spread 6 times faster than real ones... so...

Eugen Rochko

Building an artificial sun that looks unbelievably realistic - DIY Perks

youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPg

Eugen Rochko

There is no verified checkmark on Mastodon.

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harrypujols

@Gargron this brings back a ages-old problem with email, PHISHING! Where any account can impersonate a personality, institution, even my local bank, and fool me if cleverly disguised. This is matter is going to snowball if this system keeps growing.

Ryan Nelson

@Gargron look at Keybase identity verification. I can prove I’m the same person who owns my domain name, twitter account, GitHub ID, PGP key and mastodon ID. keybase.io/ryancnelson

Eugen Rochko

I prefer pronouncing #blåhaj wrong because I think it sounds cuter that way

Eugen Rochko

To everyone joining right now:

Welcome to the fediverse. With your account on mastodon.online you get access to people from lots of other Mastodon servers (in fact, this message you're reading originates from mastodon.social!). You can follow people from these other servers and you can even move your account (incl. your followers) to another server. Beyond that server stuff the UI should be familiar enough, there's a lot of mobile apps.

Enjoy!

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I like 2000s electronic music

@Gargron Can I use my Mastodon account on other fediverse social networks like Pixelfed?
I still don't know exactly what fediverse is

Eugen Rochko

Hm, mastodon.online server is now under heavy load from a lot of people joining...

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🎠

@Gargron what's the different between mastodon.social and mastodon.online?

Raven

@Gargron congratulations, here from Indonesia promotion this platform coz other platform suspended they account :tiredcat:

Eugen Rochko

I’m listening to the #Empath album by Devin Townsend again (in particular, the bonus disc)

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Rev.Dr. Nikolai Kingsley

@Gargron

i will complement this by listening to Deconstruction while shopping for the stinkiest cheese i can find at Woolworths.

> cheeseburger!
> cheeseburger!
> cheeseburger!

EmmyB

@Gargron You do need to have some similar features to Twitter that will make onboarding easier.

'Trend list' is a good start. It is one of the reasons why Twitter is so successful and popular.

Eugen Rochko

It’s starting to get lighter outside. It’s kind of cozy. It makes me think of that quiet path from the hotel to the airport when everybody is still asleep.

Eugen Rochko

I was on @tio's podcast today together with @heluecht and @hypolite from Friendica and @disroot talking about the fediverse. You can see my face, which is rare, looking like I'm in a David Lynch set.

You can watch it here:

tromsite.com/videos/#fvp_277,0

wakest ⁂

@Gargron @tio @heluecht @hypolite @disroot good to see you all sharing space in public view. Love that this showed more of the of different parts of the #fediverse together (only watched the first 30 min so far)

Tio
@Gargron Thanks a lot for participating!
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