@wjmaggos @jay.bsky.team @Gargron icymi Trump's TruthSocial is built on Mastodon. It's just that nobody federates with it.

@thomasfuchs tell that to the Etsy witches

@hellomiakoda as long as there's no KennyG

@cwebber https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/did-congress-official-constitution-site-just-delete-references-to-parts-of-article-1/ar-AA1K0QFb

@hellomiakoda there are many recipes online

30 years ago today the first WikiWikiWeb launched. Thanks, @k9ox!
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiWikiWeb

@senatormeow Math *is* Satanism

@senatormeow "...The many-angled ones, as they say, live at the bottom of the Mandelbrot set, except when a suitable incantation in the platonic realm of mathematics—computerised or otherwise—draws them forth."
@cstross

@senatormeow or close enough
"everything you know about the way this universe works is correct—except for the little problem that this isn’t the only universe we have to worry about. Information can leak between one universe and another. And in a vanishingly small number of the other universes there are things that listen, and talk back...."

@ntnsndr just found this old book they both contributed to
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262621519/crypto-anarchy-cyberstates-and-pirate-utopias/

@delta @kinetix 99.9% of user's family/friends will not want to create a new account and learn/use another piece of software, at least not to get started.
You can repeat the "Sent with Hotmail" viral process.
Sounds like you should grease 2 transitions, to chatserver account, and to DeltaChat client. And you should support them in any order, as well as never doing either.
(You can ignore me, I'm not even a real user at the moment....)

@cwebber @Infoseepage see also Steven Roberts 1983 bicycle (no emacs, RadioShack model100)
https://microship.com/bikes/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_K._Roberts

@mekkaokereke I read the whole thread before my first response.
Saying "rhetorical device designed to curry favor with people that hate you" is wrong. Whose favor would Bernie's comment currying?
The first line would curry favor with Musk fans, then the rest would make them angry.
Did you mean "curry favor for 3 seconds before currying anger"?
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/028/720/t3qkhrohrh321.jpg

@mekkaokereke he's not agreeing, he's using rhetorical judo, pointing out that the people who complain about waste never touch the biggest waster.

@inthehands we need a Cube Rule for languages
https://cuberule.com/

@mtraven23 @screwtape who owns virtual marvin? ;)

@screwtape @mtraven23 @asb I wonder whether something like MOOSE Crossing would still be a viable gateway to having people learn programming....
https://muds.fandom.com/wiki/MOOSE_Crossing

@screwtape in fresh reading about MOOs I hit a @mtraven23 reference via @asb !
https://www.pcmag.com/news/wikipedia-the-most-reliable-source-on-the-internet#:~:text=my%20friend%20Mike%20Travers%20showed%20me%20a%20model
Mike, is Virtual Marvin still running anywhere?

was anybody here on MediaMOO back in the day?
https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/papers/journal/convergence.html

@screwtape @sacha I'm kinda bummed I was never on a MUD/MOO...