= MASTODON =
WHAT THEY EXPECTED: a VC backed startup intending to destroy twitter
WHAT THEY GOT: a bunch of cyberpunk kids hanging out behind the mall
@blackle lance shows up behind the mall and demands to know where william shatner is. no one noticed him doing amyls behind the dumpster when we were all giggling about bepis
@bleak lance is a dude in a business suit yelling about how a group of friend's treehouse will eventually start charging admission
@blackle but it's behind every mall and we're all group texting with our hoods up
.@blackle Cyberpunk? I wanted Tron Original. Or Automan.
Automan is *too* cool maybe all of *you* are the ones who only like it because you were eleven when it was on, did all of you think of that? Huh?
@Austin_Dern I'm having difficulty understanding your second paragraph
.@blackle I bought the Automan Complete Series DVD about a month ago and I've been afraid to watch it because, for instance, there's an episode where Automan gets hooked on soap operas. And I just *know* the show isn't going to be exactly as awesome as it was when I was a kid.
@Austin_Dern :clap:let:clap:automan:clap:enjoy:clap:his:clap:soaps:clap:
@blackle "the mall". Google tells me it's like Amazon in the sun place. Is that right?
@guildencrantz the mall is like a jail for products
@blackle If that's true, can I be Molly Millions? She was by far the coolest character. Unless we're going down a Snowcrash fork... In that case, Hiro Protagonist. Or maybe Constable Moore (Diamond Age)
@blackle Then again, I see this more of a Cayce Pollard world than a cyberpunk one if truth be told. Cayce would have been the 4th person on mastodon.social.
@soaklord _definitely_ snow crash
Isn't transhumanization either.
HOW IS THIS STILL GETTING NOTIFICATIONS???
@blackle you're fediverse famous :)
@blackle Tfw Good Post
@blackle now let's make a replacement for every other corporatized social network
@blackle Not seeing a downside?
@Samizdata exactly
@blackle this is, tbf, all i ever wanted from social media
@blackle …listening to weird music from an old 90s boombox, drinking cheap beer and passing around a joint. :grin:
@blackle And that is precisely what makes Mastodon so interesting, it is an other way, older, to build the Internet.
Yes, I know, I sound weird saying that but... It is the way we used to build our Internet. It was even before there were VC willing to create starups to sell them to large corporations.
Mastodon sounds like a revival of the sane way to build Internet. Makes it great :)
@blackle ...and interacting with queers and furries, don't forget.
@shivvi I don't think I'm going to forget, I'm both of those
@blackle I wonder what will happen if a predominantly furry instance ends up federating with a gorean instance...
It'd be something to watch from behind seven proxies and a Shatner, I expect, having been in SL.
@blackle and they're mostly gay socialists trading weed and estrogen pills for dank memes and vaporwave mp3s
@blackle where are these cyber teens you speak of
@blackle good this is perfect