"It was written in QSPL and ran on an SDS 940, an early timesharing system the size of eight refrigerators, originally used by Douglas Engelbart in The Mother of All Demos, which had been donated to Resource One for community use." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory
Wait no what the computer from the fricking MOTHER OF ALL DEMOS was the one powering #CommunityMemory ?
This is LITERALLY some fricking Mythic Artefact™ stuff right here.
By the way, for people who came to Mastodon only relatively recently, you should know that the Single Greatest moment in Masto history was when https://mastodon.co.uk had connection troubles for, like, a few days, and the when it reconnected with the rest of the federation it pushed all the backlog in a short amount of time and @bigben WAS GOING OFF CONSTANTLY FOR HOURS and it was fricking HILARIOUS.
So there's very little likelyhood this'll actually get seen by any of the current influx of people coming in off of Twitter, but I wonder what their initial reactions are to any of our other deliberate design differences are? Like, the only-hashtags searching, the no quoting, etc.?
@taiganaut@mayel have you thought about making one or more alts, to just poke around in places? There's no particular reason to have only one account in the whole fediverse... (it's not like people have only one email address...)
@mayel@Matt_Noyes and similarly, my neighborhood -- https://icosahedron.website -- isn't really interest- or affinity- based, I don't think. We just like the atmosphere, and say hi to each other and all.
... well THAT was a successful Opinionneing, I just got a bunch of favs, a small pocketful of boosts, a being-quoted, and three new follows in the past 10 minutes.
i'm sorry but pepe the frog is actually a nude photo of me and you are not allowed to post it on facebook anymore that's the rules i don't make the rules i just exploit them
@mayel And it also aims more at finding a small community to fit in -- you're "on Mastodon/The Fediverse", yes, but you're SOMEWHERE there, not in the meaningless ether of "try searching for things and following people randomly, maybe" in... basically all other social networks. You have neighbors and a neighborhood, which again -- communities, and communication.
@mayel More seriously I'd put emphasis on having actual conversations -- e.g. one of the less-noticed features is that boosting something ONLY brings it to your followers' attention: there isn't a reward for "liked your boost" or "boosted your boost". You get notified if someone engages with the stuff you write, focusing on the writing, interacting, etc. -- not the finding cooler things.