Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

@cb@planet.chrisbeckstrom.com Bonkers isn't it?

@aimlessComposer Some of the nicest people I'd met were devs from Facebook, in LA (Don't feel sorry for me haha)

@aimlessComposer I was at a table full of their employees at a conference in Montreal a few years back. They were alright actually.

@aimlessComposer It's too close to my day job and Linkedin and all that shit. I can't stand it.

@djsundog I tried to update mine in the middle of it and broke it, because I'm a retard

@aimlessComposer part of the tech influencer sphere. That community and I hate to say it and the infosec community have a groupie problem. It's sort of icky.

I've been here since 2018, and before that on GNUSocial. It took me a long time to really get a handle on how it all worked. The people are very different to me; I would very rarely be exposed in my daily life to the diversity.

It takes a while to figure out how it all works. Does it annoy me that somebody that *just* got here acts like they get it all already? Yes it does. Fuck them.

@aimlessComposer There's been a few, but the latest is Aral Balkan

It is engaged with because it's seen as validation of the platform; here is this big shot (but he's ever so humble!) writing about our pet, and even if he's been here two minutes, it's nice to be noticed right?

It's interesting to see the modern content model being tried on Mastodon, with some success (because I see the boosts, although n=1 here so 🤷 )

Here's how it works:

Johnny Big-Follower Tech Personality writes an article - largely negative - about $CURRENT_THING that article is shared on $CURRENT_THING, generating clicks, revenue, and the fabled 'buzz' craved by every marketing dickhead in the land.

Rinse and repeat.

@aimlessComposer He was. regular on the 'net, and had. a blog (pre-substack). Always took himself extremely seriously. People like that are basically on a burning fuse.

@aimlessComposer Blocked me on Twitter a decade ago. He name searched and found me saying "Twitter policeman Graham Lineman" Long before this new thing he was a thin-skinned little twat. Notorious for it.

@aimlessComposer Didn't he get thrown of social a while back? He has a new instance?

@fasterthanlime@octodon.social We've yet to see the ramifications of the engineering decisions behind mastodon. We will shortly, though.

@linearchaos@x0r.be It's become a big enough issue that our config management is getting defeated by it, because all It can really is say 'please update'

Windows : No

@walruslifestyle My life. My lashes touch mine, and after a day it looks like I've been licking them (I don't lick them)

@hdyar@mastodon.gamedev.place