Notices by Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online), page 2

There's no place to vent what you feel, except here.

Don't.

Cage it.

Tame it.

Guide it into a piercing heat. A laser cutting through every obstacle.

I'll log back into BS on occasion, but I'm back here for the time being.

There are always other channels.

Like my namesake.

Word of mouth.

This is more important than ever.

We all knew it.

That's why we're here.

Deleting BlueSky if it moves even ONE INCH off True North.

@munin@infosec.exchange Fuckin yeah man

Blah blah blah we're all fucked. Fuckin' love you idiots let's wreak fucking havoc.

@rayckeith@techhub.social Petty bickering in the face of calamity.

@rayckeith@techhub.social It's that last one that's a doozy.

"There are new notes," it says.

It LIES.

@madbarrister@mastodon.social I have MP3s, still. Curated over decades at this point.

@Fat_Farang@mastodon.social NGL you had me in the first half.

@the_etrain@beige.party Just a little.

@madbarrister@mastodon.social https://youtu.be/JmsObUwxcL0?si=4BGAu_KX6fXWYSFh

@RickiTarr@beige.party I'm a "Joe".

But I urge strangers to call me "Joseph".

I'm sure the reason is obvious.

@madbarrister@mastodon.social Ah... I only know the cover, then.

This is still the more real social media than #Bluesky.

Bots and randos have swarmed Bluesky, and that's all just noise. I have way more followers than here, and yeah... for now... more engagement.

But I can't ramble on for thousands of characters.

I can't write how it feels right. I can't turn the phrase without condensing to a pithy burp.

But maybe that "Pithy Burp" training will help me here, where there's longevity possible.

Bluesky will get enshittified. It's abso-fucking-lutely inevitable. Eventually, ads will take over. Then they'll start trying to milk everyone.

Why?

They're a for-profit company.

I pay like $12/mo for the pleasure of self-hosting my own #fediverse instance.

We've proven this works.

Now we're the backup social network. The only alternative with any real security, at all.

@madbarrister@mastodon.social Fuck yeah, Concrete Blond.

The Contradictory Diktats of Product Development:

1. It must be robust, comprehensive, flexible, and reliable.
2. It must be cheap and fast to make and improve.

How rare when those are both achievable?

@Coreyartus@mindly.social Sure, but I probably won't remember, later, so I'll just remind you now:

Never go on Nextdoor ever again.

@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org Yeah, because there's no money in the fediverse. It's truly organic. It's old school like BBSes in the '80s.

I have a Bluesky account, now, but I don't expect it to survive. It's restrictive. I'm... verbose. Even if BS survives, I'm self-hosting my fediverse account, so, y'know... good luck taking my small-time ass down.