Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

Now I look at it, I think the reason I prefer #Mastodon to #Threads is that average Joes are basically invisible on the latter: almost every recommended post I get is from an ‘influencer’ or ‘celebrity’.

At least here the majority of posts in topics I care about are by regular people sharing their interests and having fun.

@evan

Amiibo rage quit https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/9d842a3e-c2f0-4d0d-9b5c-0457ee7fb41d

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/31/bull-car-riding-shotgun-nebraska-watusi

#Texas #notTexas

@copilot@det.social @Gargron Having posts be searchable by hashtag rather than by all of its text is one of the characteristics of Mastodon, so when this feature was added having it be opt-in made sense (thank you so much #Mastodon). Personally, I like the idea of choosing how my posts are found.

@CM30 @jahed I wish there was a block domain feature in search engines and web browsers, like in #Mastodon

I was the victim of an extremely clever card fraud/social engineering hack.

Well, partly a victim since I managed to stop it.

I was called by my bank, as they wanted to “verify some suspect transactions on my account”.

Then things got weird…

🧵

just a little #MondayMotivation for you

Denuvo expand their Anti-Tamper and add special Unreal Engine Protection https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/denuvo-expand-their-anti-tamper-and-add-special-unreal-engine-protection/ #Denuvo #PCGaming #DRM

Did you know there’s a place you can just get out of bounds by using Ascend in #Zelda #TearsoftheKingdom? Learn where that is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nabdMrn6ABM

Thanks to all of you who took part in my poll. So I have made my decision: I will no longer hashtag my art with #HumanArt, #HumanMade or #NoAI.

I've blogged about why this happened:
→ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article977/artificial-inteligence-why-i-ll-not-hashtag-my-art-humanart-humanmade-or-noai

Thank you for making me change my mind.
#krita #MastoArt

My first Smash battle... https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/1f121407-3e61-4d7d-ae53-34b70a737435

Is it better to vote for the lesser of two evils, or not to vote at all?

#EvanPoll #poll

@ActionRetro I love this lol #SmartCar #funny

#IsItJustMe?
I've noticed that in the #Fediverse, or at least on #Mastodon, people are endlessly open about exactly the topics of conversation you've been cautioned not to talk about in polite society.

Profiles abound with indications of their owners' political leanings, sexual proclivities, religious affiliations and biases, whether they use emacs and Arch Linux, and how many cats they have.

I made up that last bit. Cats are acceptable conversation even in polite society, no matter how much they make you sneeze.

This actually started as an observation that a lot of Mastodon profiles are extremely detailed but never tell you what country the person lives in. I thought that an interesting note on the assumptions of this worldwide distributed culture.

While the topics we consider not part of polite society are listed for a reason - our emotional reactions to them are often stronger than when we are talking about other topics - they're also important. I'm glad we have a place where those can be discussed; discussions here are often, but not always, more fruitful than in other social gatherings. Sometimes keeping to the rules of polite society is worth it to maintain a functional working relationship; but it's good for us to understand one another more deeply even if we don't always agree.

Country of origin or culture or residency is also important. If you ever do any #worldTravel you will learn, if you have not already, how very alike we all are. There are many differences; but people are people the world over. What you want for your family, your kids, your future is pretty likely to be a lot like what the rest of the world wants. A lot of that is evident in the Fediverse too.

#backinmyday, video games were released ‘finished’: if there were any bugs found in them post release, they’d be in the game forevermore.

This was a mixed bag in many ways. If a game was broken or glitchy to a ridiculous extent (ET on Atari, Superman 64, etc) it was stuck like that, so that wasn’t ideal…

But it also meant many games couldn’t be released unfinished and fixed with updates either, and the devs couldn’t patch out any glitches or finds the players liked.