Your daily reminder that working from home was a beautiful dream while it lasted, for workers and the environment. For some reason corporations want to keep us commuting and polluting!
I'm trying to convince the last friends I have left on Facebook, X, Threads, or BlueSky to join the Fediverse. Some have tried but felt a sense of loneliness. Nowadays, many people are so used to doing what algorithms suggest that they can no longer make independent choices.
My timeline here, on the other hand, is beautiful.
I see what I want, I follow people who post what I like, and no one tells me what I should do. Freedom may come with a "cost," but whatever it is, it's worth the effort. Always. #Fediverse#Mastodon#SocialNetworks
In that case, I feel bad for you and am glad you found another instance.
Left or right, at some point telling other people what they can and can't do is a bad thing. I would absolutely agree that the data scraping that AI companies do is a bad thing, but I don't see how my joke pictures of #JohnMastodon actually hurts artists enough to ban the practice. Now, an art gallery or magazine, that is another thing. But I digress.
I do think as we get many more larger more "open" instances, like Vivaldi, that kind of experience will become less likely.
On the positive side, I have seen very good evidence of very cool instances -- for example there is an instance for people who like type fonts, more organizations now have their own instances and so on.
Your daily reminder that neither grandpa Joe nor crazy-uncle Don should be on the ballot. Somebody get gramps to bed and uncle back on medication before it's too late!
Oh sure, everyone SAYS Mastodon is named after the elephant-looking creature, but I absolutely KNOW it is really the metal band Mastodon. Where did I hear this? From #JohnMastodon
I heard #JohnMastodon was just a title taken by many pirates sailing the internet seas, passed from person to person as they plunder endlessly exploiting the wealth and greed of those who think themselves monarchs and rulers
Word is, there's coming pirate war against the Amazon Trading Company over new taxes on the people
Original drafts of Winter Wonderland contained the lyric "in the meadow we can build a snowman / We'll pretend he's Mr. Mastodon" before the humble #JohnMastodon requested the wording change.
@rich before 6000ish years of abstract mono and polytheism, before 25000 years of animism and astronomical worship, there was 2.5M years of worshipping rocks, #JohnMastodon was there
#JohnMastoclaus delivers presents to the naughty kids, because every kid deserves the dignity of getting a present even if they have the emotional intelligence and judgement of a child.
#JohnMastoclaus also delivers his presents on a sleigh that flies through the ground, since it's a shorter distance and JohnMastoclaus doesn't compromise on efficiency or anything else.