rainbowmverse

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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
No one asked for a citation on the widespread claim that exposing bad ideas to the light makes them go away, or at least decline in popularity. It's stated and taken as truth, but no one provided proof that it's true. I matched th
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
This thread is a good example of the "sunlight is the best disinfectant" fallacy. It is debunked by research. The thread has countless instances of it. In each, someone goes to the trouble of debunking it. The "exposing bad i
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Patreon Acquires Memberful(patreonhq.com)
25 points by rainbowmverse 8y ago|0 comments
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
You can mute switter.at if it bothers you. Click the three dots on a user's profile and you'll see the option.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
The kindness, quality, and eagerness to help is a big part of what propelled Mastodon. You'd log in, make your first toot, and have a pile of people welcoming you from the federated or local timeline. Same with beginner questions. I tr
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Yep. I don't think it's coincidence that Twitter's slide started right around when they started giving you notifications for likes/retweets of retweets and replies when before it was only for your own posts. Then it got
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
That's not spam. That's from people on Switter. It's an instance for sex workers.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
It exists. https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
I think this is what led to instance muting. Now admins can mute an instance, but people can still opt in to following someone there, probably without caching.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Don't forget the French wave.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Sounds like AMP. "Google hosts it for performance reasons!" I'm not too worried for myself since I plan to release it all in a Creative Commons album anyway, but I'll keep it in mind if I see someone talking up Google Po
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
That's weird considering you submit the podcast as an RSS feed. I didn't know they uploaded the audio to their own servers.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Someone's way ahead of you: https://github.com/jdenen/mastodon.el
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Star Trek movies are like if the Titanic had to fight off the combined fleets of all WW1 and WW2 powers. There's a reason the ships get blown up.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
A lot of the niceness comes from furries being majority LGBTQ+, so they know what it's like to be shut out of things, talked down to, and generally treated poorly for no good reason. One good place to start is with the main furry wiki&
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Fursuiters are a tiny part of the community. Most people can't afford the $1-17k they cost even if they want one. I don't know what they use to keep cool.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
There's no entry fee or test. Sometimes furries will even adopt people! Go look up Boozy Badger for a recent example. You can just decide you're a furry and find an entry point into the community. There's even a furry making
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
This has always been Star Trek's dichotomy. Many ships called Enterprise have been blown up (in a permanent, non-time travel magic way), and it happened in the movies. The movies are action. The series are where the characters and univ
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
You can see in-progress games on the page.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
I did not expect to test your little server! I figured it would fall away, then occasionally be discovered by people searching for chess and/or ActivityPub. Someone will probably come along and build a GUI that works with the toots. It
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing for a while to find the right thing. The nice thing about ActivityPub (or any federated protocol) is no one can just unilaterally shut down a project like this through policy or API changes that, who
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Chess over ActivityPub(castling.club)
203 points by rainbowmverse 8y ago|63 comments
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
One of the oldest hacker communities.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Mastodon is what Twitter could have been without having to serve the interests of people shoveling millions into it. The interests of people shoveling ones and tens of dollars into Mastodon are well-aligned with the users because they'
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Furries The best part is you not only get to hang out with lots of fluffy animal people (who often share your variety of not quite cis and straight), you get to bring all your hobbies along. Lots of furry musicians, programmers, writers, et
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Sounds a lot like traditional fiction publishing. They want exclusivity, sometimes indefinitely.
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
>> "I think you might be extrapolating from your experience with your own social class." You don't know anything about my social class. I'm not HN typical. People without much think about health too, and receive
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
I was out for a walk recently and overheard a group of kids talking, and the f word was present. Not only are things bad, the next generation seems to be the same. And that's with me being white and having the ability to pass as an ord
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
Familiar! Some of it, at least. Asking the "wrong" people out in middle school ('90s) sure was a fast track to being an outcast. Paradoxically, the rising positive presence of LGBTQ+ people in media in the '90s made thin
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by rainbowmverse 8y ago
The main thing I got out of this thread is that everyone thinks they know the right way to health, that everyone else disagrees with them, and I have no idea how to tell who's actually right. If you want to know why there's a heal

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