My favorite thing is when I notice the chain is emailing people who don’t need to see it and Reply All after moving them to BCC (I add a note saying “moved X to BCC” for transparency).

People love me :-)

Sounds like an old Palm Pilot game I used to play.

Space War

Russia?

The default iPhone app and sign-up process for the main instance is pretty darn straight-forward. I’ve never been a Twitter guy so I can’t speak to functionality, but it seems fine to me already.

It’s really nice to see a normal person resisting fascism instead of just magical space wizards.

Sports journalists in particular — so annoying that all breaking NFL news goes through Xitter.

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times? You stupid monkey!

How do you get better at playing the guitar without actually playing the guitar?

(edit): Point taken, but “playing the guitar” still wins by a mile

What’s rough about it? I’ve never been a twitter guy so can’t really compare, but I have a Mastodon account that I pop into periodically, and it works fine.

While I agree with others pointing out the oddity of a portable server in general: this sounds like a great use-case for a laptop.

Built-in battery, wifi you can broadcast out as a hotspot, and it even has a display/keyboard/mouse for troubleshooting!

An older laptop with the optical drive stripped out could have a 2.5” 5TB HDD in addition to the boot drive for some decent mobile storage.

I think the mobile app developers should run their own instances and default to that so it feels less confusing to new users.

Nextcloud had ActivityPup support (I think I heard they were deprecating it though)

Also not great when you’re trying to explain something to a client.

whispers quietly in your ear: “Usenet”

Looks like you edited it to make sense, cheers. Beep boop.

Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

That’s pretty funny since manually searching some keywords can usually provide helpful data. Should be pretty straight-forward to automate even without LLM.

I mean, it wouldn’t stop them from continuing to post to Xitter. They can do both!