Crash @crash@is.aaronbsmith.com

@thegibson From outer space?

@Morgan My friends from the late 90s /still/ only call me by the internet handle I used at the time.

@magicalmilly Could you repeat that? I couldn't hear you over Jason and countless screaming Argonauts.

@JohanEmpa @eylul @be @cadadr Maybe? I'm not sure, beyond the continued need for vigilant admin/mods.

@JohanEmpa @eylul @be @cadadr I imagine being able to post in a different instance's local timeline would be problematic.

@Jo
My favorite response:

“'I was actually fully aware of the evidence proving me wrong and still wrote this article' isn’t the slam dunk you thought it was Sarah."

https://mobile.twitter.com/SocialistLwyr/status/1422479814259322921

This is simply not the case for instances. I've met some good people through scholar social's and elekk's local timelines.

Of course I'm saying this on a single user instance, but then again scholar's local helped me learn it wasn't the place for me (even though it's still a great instance), and I still have an account on elekk /because/ of the local timeline there.

I think I just realized why Eugen puts so little value on the local timeline - his instances are so large that local is all but unusable for community building. It's like trying to hear a quiet conversation in a middle school cafeteria when the lunch duty teachers have stepped out for a moment.

I'm probably the last person on here to make this connection, but I've made it now.

I would like to be asleep now, but instead I lay down for several hours and thought about sleeping.

It's not super effective.

Please sponsor me and I'll put a png file of your logo on a website.

I didn't say it would be my website.

But it will be on /a/ website.

What if instead of running an instance I just gave a bunch of friends accounts with posting privileges on a WordPress blog?

(I am not actually proposing this as an idea for a social network alternative.)

Remembering back in the day when we had personal web logs where we wrote long-form posts, with paragraphs and images.

And sometimes responded to others who did the same.

And we subscribed to each other's web logs using a syndication method that was relatively simple.

Some would argue it was really simple.

@magicalmilly The fabled "soft skills" that companies want but can't articulate in their job requirements.

Also maybe there'd be enough spare money to pay a mod or two, but I suspect that's wishful thinking.

Idle thought, and I'm no expert, but maybe if registrations for the "official" instance had been closed instead of letting it get so large a 2nd official instance was needed the cost of maintaining it wouldn't require taking money from companies Eugen wouldn't want seen in his timeline.