I also didn't use Twitter but wanted to try to get into mastodon. One thing to note is that the official mastodon app currently doesn't allow you to follow hashtags, only people. The FEDILABS app allows you to follow topics by hashtags. Since I'm new I didnt have any people I knew of to follow off the bat, so it was nice to be able to follow #scuba and automagically see a bunch of stuff I care about pop up in my home feed.

The account @feditips@mstdn.social is full of gems like that.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

For years, I was hoping to be the very last American to catch COVID. I'd dodged a couple near misses, including being...close 😏... to my wife the night before she tested positive.

When it finally got me it was quite mild. I tested + when I had very mild symptoms, so I went for a run before things got bad. Felt crappy the next day, but the day after that I felt good enough to get another run in.

Not sure if it's related, but every time I got a vaccine/booster I thought for sure that the next one would kill me.

Like those damn dirty neutrals, I don't feel strongly one way or another. But I really love that if you hate the way our instance goes on this you're free to just move to another instance that shares your views. And you'll be doubly free when they get account migration up and running.

Long live Vlemmy, and may there always be a bounty of other options.

That's really cool. Are they photos from a camera's sd card? Or do you pop them over from your phone?

I'm in a tough spot here. I know I shouldn't knock it 'till I try it, and I REALLY want to tell you that this is absurd and ridiculous. But for me to say that,I'd probably have to try it first, what if it's really disgusting? Even worse: What if it's really really good? Would I have the courage to tell anybody about it?

Instead,can I just how you ended up trying this in the first place? Were you desperate on a desert island? Or did you lose a bet?

It's a a send-up of the supposedly "feel-good" stories about people that go above and beyond to make the horrors of some societal problem (usually capitalism) less horrifying for somebody. Like, when a child holds a 48 hr lemonade sale marathon to erase the lunch debt of his/her peers. Yeah, it's a nice thing to do, but it should NOT be necessary.

The idea is that we would see stories talking about how great this person is for slowing down an orphan crushing machine, without questioning the need for an orphan crushing machine in the first place.

I've met some men from Florida before, but this is the first time I'm getting to meet the esteemed "Florida Man"

It's truly an honor.

(My apologies if I've incorrectly assumed your gender, but I have a hunch about this one.)

Finding answers about Lemmy is an easy, 3 step process:

1. Enter search query, followed by Lemmy
2. Exasperated sigh, because apparently I haven't learned my lesson
3. Enter search query followed by "Lemmy -motorhead"

If you're brave enough, you could throw on some VR, have the drone follow you, and drive around in 3rd person.

When people say "modders need those tools" does that mean:

• modders like to mod from the 3rd party apps cause they have easy buttons for stuff like, PURGE and BAN?

or

• Modders are using bots and stuff that use the API to find and auto-delete posts with racial slurs or something like that?

That's nice to see. When I first saw the policy of having no downvotes, I wondered if that would leave no recourse against trolls and scumbags, but I guess strong moderation is the key.

I probably wouldn't want the entire internet to be so strongly moderated, but I'm really glad there are some popular places that are. Thanks for doing that.

I think you're justified to be wary of the buzzwordiness of Blockchain though. For the 2 days I spent learning about what all this is before I signed up, every time I heard "de-centralized" I kept asking myself, "How sure am I that this isn't some weirdly elaborate crypto scam?"

Bonus fear: I was also concerned for a while that this was just going to be a refuge for hate groups who have been kicked off of major platforms. I've been pleasantly surprised so far.