Jannik @jannik@uelfte.club

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guys, when explaining the #fediverse to new people, just go with the simplest analogy, e-mail. worry about the specifics later. no i don't care if it's not completely accurate, you can make it more "correct" after the fact. you just need to put very basic understanding into new people's heads, you don't need to go

"oh well activitypub is a yoingus sploingus babingyi"

no just say something like

"say you were on outlook, and i was on gmail. we could still send each other emails right? imagine that, but with tweets instead of emails"

i've used this explanation dozens of times, and people always get it.

I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's

*grumbles in admin* I dun wanna and never will read your damn dms.

Habe geträumt dass Herbert Grönemeyer eine Mastodon-Hymne namens "Zeit dass sich was tröt" singt

Also mal ehrlich, ja ich könnte mir die DMs in der DB angucken, aber wisst ihr was, so spannend seid ihr nicht. Und ganz ehrlich finde ich als Admin diese ständige Unterstellung äußerst mies. Wir reißen uns hier den Arsch auf für euch, da ist das nicht gerade cool. Und wenn ihr euch nur ein bisschen in der IT auskennt, wüsstest ihr dass das auch für so gut wie jeden kommerziellen Dienst gilt und ganz nebenbei verboten ist.

Also kommt mal runter bitte.

So many new people around here 😲
Welcome everyone!
I am #Tusky, an Android app for Mastodon! (I work with other server software like Pleroma and Pixelfed as well, but 🤫)
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