Notices by Carl Muckenhoupt (carlmuckenhoupt@mastodon.social)

@mcc (I guess the difference is probably driven by the underlying tech? With RSS, you are literally looking at multiple separate feeds from different sources, embodied in separate files from separate URLs. The most straightforward way to implement a UI for that is to keep them separated there, too. Whereas the big social media sites are presumably just pulling everyone's posts from the same database. But federation probably complicates that?)

@mcc (That's pretty much the default for RSS readers, yeah. I don't know of one that just mixes together all the posts from everyone into a single feed. And now that you've drawn my attention to it, it seems kinda weird that these two tools that serve basically the same purpose, keeping up with posts from sources you follow, have completely disjoint conventions on this matter.)

@SpindleyQ I remember some developer commentary (maybe in the Roberta Williams Anthology CD-ROM package?) where they explained that the purpose of all the heavy accents and dialects was to make it clear who was speaking in scenes where you eavesdrop on unseen conversations, even if you don't have sound enabled.

Maybe that's true, maybe it's after-the-fact rationalization. But even if true, it takes a Sierra to think it was a good solution to the problem.

@MicroSFF The scariest thing about this story is the implication that there are people out there being given special powers, and every single one of them is the sort of person who would consent to it without knowing why

Why do so many extremely wealthy people own yachts? I have zero desire for a yacht, and I have never heard my peers express a desire for one. Does the culture of extreme wealth instill a love of yachting? Is it aggressive marketing? Is it that they're desperate for things expensive enough to justify their continuing pursuit of more wealth?

Or is it that everyone but me wants a yacht and just doesn't talk about it

The difference between Twitter and Mastodon at this precise moment is that no one's talking about Eurovision on my Mastodon feed right now. And to be clear: My twitter feed is set to "Following". In both places, it's just a chronological feed of people I've chosen to follow. To a degree it's the same people. But it's nonstop Eurovision over there.