lagentnapasnoder @lagentnapasnoder@masto.themimitoof.fr

On est pas bien là devant Télé Shopping ?

mom: hey son I joined this new Mastodon thing
me: oh shit mom, I coulda helped you find a server, which one did you choose?
mom: well I liked the privacy policy on satanic.bikerladi.es but then communist.blaze.party had the shortest ping latency so

*i'm in voice* i'm in

Pour l'instant, nous sommes confiants dans les choix que nous avons faits : considérer que c'était une plateforme en devenir, créer une instance pour nous certifier (et certifier nos journalistes), expliquer l'idée à ceux que les concepts derrière Mastodon pourraient perdre. Nous resterons ici, mais nous espérons que d'autres médias nous rejoindront avec un discours / des idées similaires.

Follower bots are nice!

The toots loaded in the federated timeline are from all the followings of the instance's users. So, there are bots for some instance that follow as many possible users as possible to ensure the instance's users have an as diverse as possible federated timeline.

First time on Mastodon be like

:flag_gb: Oh, by the way, I'm not really found of "tootos" or "mastos" or even worse, "pouettos" in French. Since there's so much to explore and discover here, why don't we call ourselves "mastonauts" ?

:flag_fr: Au fait, "tootos", "mastos", "pouettos", c'est assez naze, vu qu'on est un peu des colons de l'espace ici, pourquoi on s'autobaptiserait pas "mastonautes" ?

masto users: *puts tick emoji in name to parody twitter verified*
tech journos: read my expose on the insidious practice of fake verified

This conversation seems kind of weird to me because it is very different from an analogous situation.

Usernames are like usernames
Node names are like mail domains.

"Oh no, there isn't a globally unique Mastodon name" seems to me like alice@gmail.com being upset that somebody else can take alice@comcast.net. How else would it work!??!?!