So… I cut a hole in the side of the house and installed a window. Now my home office can have a cross-breeze and the room has tons more light. Next steps: finish the wall, fix the pocket door, drywall and paint.
Note: I don’t actually know what I’m doing. I’m just figuring it out as I go along. 😂
@liztai I've heard of the novel of Journey to the West, and I've wanted to read it. I never heard of the 1986 tv series. I just found it and watched a few minutes. I can totally see how a kid in 80's/early 90's would love it.
@Gargron Remember, it's a product. The decision to make a product is based on market analysis and the conclusion that making the product and getting it to market will generate a profit.
@atomicpoet I used to be on a BBS, then I was on Myspace, then I was on Blogger, then Wordpress, then Facebook, then back to Wordpress, then Instagram, then Twitter, and now Mastodon. I still sometimes blog and I only follow family on Instagram. We all have different likes and needs & they change over time. I love Mastodon today & I'm not looking to move, but if something better comes along or my needs change then I might jump. It's really not that big of a deal if someone doesn't like it here.
@Gargron Corporate greed is incessant. Meta has zero interest in ActivityPub except how it might help drive up their stock price.
My gut says to the degree that the nature of ActivityPub will not allow Meta (and other rich capitalist companies) to do what they want, they will then try to control it and change its very nature at some point and in some way we likely, today, think cannot be done and therefore will only learn about when it's too late.
@Gargron I would guess most who want that function have come from Twitter. Over there quote tweets are a huge part of that site's negativity. Also, it's a lot easier to grab someone else's content and repost it than coming up with one's own good content. By not having quote posts here, I would argue, has elevated the content and engagement here over what we see on Twitter.
If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.
@Gargron I had similar thoughts recently. I wanted a quote function, but then I thought about it and about my experience on Twitter. Best not to have than IMO.
"Brothers, sisters, dear social poets..."Random posts from an undisciplined polymath. Also find me on Stage32: stage32.com/TuckerTeague[Header image: French/Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard being arrested during the May 1968 Paris protests.]