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OT. finally a mastodon link not about mastodon, X or Elon Musk. Made me happy

by finnjohnsen2 3y ago

gvurrdon 3y ago
I've tooted plenty on topics other than those - not that anyone seems to be remotely interested.
- finnjohnsen2 3y ago
  To be clear I did not aim anything at you or your posts otherwise. Last I was on Mastodon, it was too much about taking a piss at Elon Musk and Twitter, and not a whole lot else going on. This is why this post got me meta-excited.
  - gvurrdon 3y ago
    No problem. There does seem to be quite a bit of good stuff these days, though it's not easy to get much engagement (I'm probably too dull).
    - finnjohnsen2 3y ago
      Mate. You’re front page HN
SantalBlush 3y ago
Mastodon or Twitter links don't make for good HN posts anyway, except for a few rare cases when the comment itself has some bearing on current events.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  I just wish that the message being linked to was also quoted in the description as well.
luu 3y ago
Finally? If I look at the last N mastodon.social links that have >= 15 points on HN besides this one, they are: Porting games to Linux pays for itself People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability Curl on track for non-experimental HTTP/3 support Jeff Johnson: "Passkeys are a lie and contradiction." Swift was not given the chance to prove itself as a language The only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars Bevy Needs Sponsorship That's the entire first page of results. On page 2, we have: Things that didn't age well Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com Google Search Is Over Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team One thing that has changed in the professional game industry is that SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023 Mozilla should call for the removal of Google from W3C because of WEI How Stuff Works replaced writers with GPT-generated content and laid off editors A fun new feature we are working on in systemd: userspace-only reboot Mastodon's active user base has increased by 110K over the last day Mastodon has reached 13M accounts It looks like about 10% "not finally" content and 90% "finally" content. You can see the same thing by clicking "mastodon.social" at the top of this page.
- finnjohnsen2 3y ago
  good stuff

OT. finally a mastodon link not about mastodon, X or Elon Musk. Made me happy

gvurrdon 3y ago

I've tooted plenty on topics other than those - not that anyone seems to be remotely interested.

finnjohnsen2 3y ago
To be clear I did not aim anything at you or your posts otherwise. Last I was on Mastodon, it was too much about taking a piss at Elon Musk and Twitter, and not a whole lot else going on. This is why this post got me meta-excited.
- gvurrdon 3y ago
  No problem. There does seem to be quite a bit of good stuff these days, though it's not easy to get much engagement (I'm probably too dull).
  - finnjohnsen2 3y ago
    Mate. You’re front page HN

SantalBlush 3y ago

Mastodon or Twitter links don't make for good HN posts anyway, except for a few rare cases when the comment itself has some bearing on current events.

JohnFen 3y ago
I just wish that the message being linked to was also quoted in the description as well.

luu 3y ago

Finally? If I look at the last N mastodon.social links that have >= 15 points on HN besides this one, they are: Porting games to Linux pays for itself People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability Curl on track for non-experimental HTTP/3 support Jeff Johnson: "Passkeys are a lie and contradiction." Swift was not given the chance to prove itself as a language The only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars Bevy Needs Sponsorship That's the entire first page of results. On page 2, we have: Things that didn't age well Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com Google Search Is Over Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team One thing that has changed in the professional game industry is that SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023 Mozilla should call for the removal of Google from W3C because of WEI How Stuff Works replaced writers with GPT-generated content and laid off editors A fun new feature we are working on in systemd: userspace-only reboot Mastodon's active user base has increased by 110K over the last day Mastodon has reached 13M accounts It looks like about 10% "not finally" content and 90% "finally" content. You can see the same thing by clicking "mastodon.social" at the top of this page.

finnjohnsen2 3y ago
good stuff