Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

[dec23k@mastodon.ie]

@Mabande @MarkAssPandi @rysiek
I had 3 different mobile Twitter apps in the Before Times, not counting the (very bad and totally overrated) official app.
Can't even remember the names of them now.

[dec23k@mastodon.ie]

@sturmsucht @rysiek
Excellent alt text!

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@johnlogic

@stux

[benjaminnelan@mastodon.social]

@rysiek *casually reading '8 years ago', not really believing it, looking at the calendar and groaning*

[dhinojosa@mastodon.social]

@rysiek I love Mastodon, but the term "toot" is still ridiculous and reminds me of farting. I had wished "verse" (as in Metaverse) was the choice for posting something, and if someone reposts it, it would be a re-verse. Which would have been a clever word trick

[nanianmichaels@tech.lgbt]

@rysiek "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"

- Fediverse

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@rysiek John Mastodon has risen!

[alberto_cottica@mastodon.green]

@rysiek that's a masterclass in passive-aggression, Michal. Well played!

[ddgulledge@social.linux.pizza]

@rysiek I wasn't aware there was a specific day to celebrate.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@alberto_cottica

[hikingdude@mastodon.social]

@rysiek

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@dhinojosa the term "toot" is only dirty for a tiny minority of users of the English language. So, ‍️

[dec23k@mastodon.ie]

@rysiek @chrisp
Unfashionable take, but I really liked G+ (in the early days, before the mandatory YouTube disaster).
I got in as part of the first wave of general public users, courtesy of an invite from a friend who worked for Google.

Woz was on it, and I found a lot of interesting music there (that wasn't being pushed anywhere else).

It (unsurprisingly) went to shit after they added the mandatory requirement to have a G+ account to add comments on YouTube videos.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@dec23k why unfashionable? I never used it, but that doesn't mean it was bad. That was years before all the really toxic social media stuff started happening. No shade if you liked it.

The point I was making is that this here tiny little fedi has way more staying power than a social network with over a hundred million users at the time, pushed hard by one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

That, to me, is the superpower of decentralized services.

@chrisp

[dnparadice@mastodon.social]

@rysiek it was fortold that the troglodyte Lance Ulanoff would emerge from his rock and proclaim that mastodon was not his friend then go back under his rock while shaking his fist at the clouds in the sky. And so it was

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@rysiek I remember well using it in it's beginnings. But I gave up because I could only find tech nerds at that time instead of Gene Roddenberry. When I came back years later, the audience fortunately had widened.

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@rysiek that scrub, what a fuckwit. I am glad that saying toots literally hurt him. may he keep saying it. on twitter. where he belongs.

[wordsmith@writing.exchange]

@rysiek it sure has failed as an experiment!

Sent from my iPhone

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@dec23k @rysiek @chrisp
The funny thing about Google+ was that it was shut down in order to cover up a rather nasty security breach.

I only know this because @hipsterelectron mentioned it

[ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org]

@dhinojosa

If you can post verse, you can post prose. So maybe Fediverse posts should be called "Prosts" instead of toots or verses?

Nah, "verses" is better.

@rysiek