Notices by vulp (vulp@wetdry.world)

imagine if the barber insulted your hair when you go to get a cut like dentists do your teeth

checking out my university's discord student hub

I think the main reason newcomers thought fedi was confusing was because people kept referring to Mastodon as if it's a platform, and not just a bunch of websites. It's easier to recommend specific instances to people, while letting them know they could talk to people on different websites. The idea of following people on tumblr from twitter is instantly understandable and appealing. Trying to explain Mastodon as if it's all one platform doesn't make any sense.

I also think referring to the network by a piece of server software is a mistake. This also happened on reddit when Lemmy would be suggested. People would search it up and usually find the GitHub page for Lemmy. It's like if you told someone to check out the world wide web, but then linked them to the homepage for the Apache webserver.

@thatonecalculator @esm ???? :happypete: so true! @this_vid @aceCourtBot render

I hope fedi never reaches the state of people posting random unrelated memes in the replies of a popular post in an attempt to hitch a ride to getting attention

@kib48 @esm media server seems to be broken :(

if I try to load an image on its own I get "502 bad gateway, could not establish a connection to pool.jortage.com"

@amd64sucks put yuh rescue team badge away Waltuh. I'm not having missions with you right now Waltuh