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   blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 13:28:34 JST blaine

   Everyone: The Fediverse calling them toots was a bad idea, but I'm having fun!

   Absolutely no-one: I remember the original Twitter logo, which was totally normal and not off-putting to potential users AT ALL.

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 09:53:26 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     @blaine dents, toots, scrobbles, tweets. All of these terms are bad.

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 10:20:58 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     @blaine fair. I do miss those early days of all this stuff.

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     blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 10:20:59 JST blaine

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     • Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

     @mattl I kind of like tweet, though apparently I coined it so I'm biased. ?

     (https://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/)

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 10:33:46 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     • Anil

     @blaine @anildash Now I just want to paint my models and peer into this stuff from time to time these. I’m still running Libre.fm but that requires almost nothing anymore. Occasionally PHP breaks but I don’t know or really understand how these modern apps keep working with all their moving parts.

     I also love that I avoided selling out by having nothing to sell out in the first place.

     Next step: move to a forest and write a blog by USPS.

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     blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 10:33:47 JST blaine

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     • Anil

     @mattl this might (re: probably will) fade, but @anildash was just commenting that this has that same wild feeling. Honestly, if the potential ahead is as big as Facebook et al got, things are going to be extremely great and so terrible (but hopefully mostly extremely great, at least compared to the trainwreck of the past 10-15 years).

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 10:44:14 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     • Anil

     @blaine @anildash will do. Lmk if you’re in New England or coming here. I’ll never stop thinking about this stuff but I get no joy from it. Painting old pieces of lead, making monkey movies, watching old media and pissing about with NeXTSTEP is still fun.

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     blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 10:44:15 JST blaine

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     • Anil

     @mattl @anildash we all want the same things, I think. A nice place to sit. I'm in the forest these days, blog deliveries by Canada Post, but lmk if you ever want to visit a nice lake in the mountains of British Columbia!