⛵️holly 🇺🇸➡️🇯🇵 @holly@v.st

I'm #celebrating my #1000th #toot with a #gif of a #cat #fart, as seen through an #infrared camera. I'm feeling classy like that.

Enjoy 🐈💨🎉

(it's probably all downhill from here, but feel free to #follow for more highbrow content)

Twitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands

So, fun story. In the middle of ActivityPub's standardization, the Social Web Working Group nearly got shut down because we couldn't get the big corporate players to pay attention to us, and the W3C's membership structure required paid membership participation.

We tried *desperately* to get Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc to look at us. They weren't interested. What I heard was that they had written off the idea that decentralized social networks could exist or work by then.

Luckily, management agreed that the SocialWG's work was interesting enough that we should continue. And later having seen what happened when big players entered a standards group... ActivityPub was probably a better spec for being written by people passionate about it instead.

But anyway. That's all to say... it's so *weird* now to be in the present moment, as you can imagine...

Honderdduizenden mensen kregen zojuist een #NLAlert. Daarin wordt opgeroepen om @BrandweerAA@twitter.com op de vogeltjeswebsite te bekijken voor updates. Sinds kort kan dat niet zonder een Twitter account.😐

In geval van nood dien je niet een Twitter account aan te moeten maken, lijkt ons!

When the bottled water on your nightstand scares you to death
#OldMemesNeverDie

Any novel can be a suspense novel if you tear out the last two pages.

Fedi tip: nobody knows how mastodon works. Ive been on here since 2018 and i have my own instance and i still have absolutely no idea why some avatars dont load or i only see some of the replies in a thread or why gifs sometimes work and sometimes they dont. Just embrace the mystery

@husku

A thing that maybe folks don't realize about ActivityPub & the fediverse:

ActivityPub is for publishing your activities. It's mainly designed to disseminate and spread things around. It's not really designed to keep things secret or compartmentalized.

There are copies of your stuff in lots of places. Your server purposefully sends your stuff to other servers. Even "direct messages" are just sort of a friendly agreement between servers and admins, not a private channel.

If you don't want what you say to end up in front of many eyes, don't use this network to say it.

Building community is alright, but what really carries patreon-havers is people who sign up for $1 pledges and then completely forget about if for five years

If people say that they rely on advertising money, feel free to remind them that you don’t owe them a working business model