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Trying out the Mastodon mobile web app experience (iOS safari --> Add to Home Screen) and it's nice but every time you click on a link, when you come back to the app you start back at the menu and lose your scroll place in the timeline, no bueno
is there a late 90s/early 00s emo mastodon instance
Jazz is like a whole other extra music as though someone thought music wasn't music enough
Anyone have any good suggestions for multi-instance apps, particularly for Android?
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☑️ got a DO instance of Mastadon running
☑️ got a local version running to test out
☑️ built things out of wood
time to drink!
young people: being an adult means you've got your shit together, right?
me, an adult: i haven't done my taxes yet, and I'm eating toast and doritos for lunch.
Underappreciated: contributions to OSS that just make it fail more clearly. You can save the next person hours of debugging.
so when's someone going to make a nintendo switch instance that only accepts 10 users every 3 weeks
Visited the RSS memorial today. After all these years, it's still amazing to see the lightning hit it—every hour, on the hour—and then watch as the sparks ripple out to the aggregator towers at all the cemeteries that are still subscribed.
"OAuth After Midnight", a meditation on masochism
The Mastodon github repo looks like a nightmare of feature requests and endless debate. I opened a small security issue but I think I'm going to refrain from participating anymore unless it's to submit a pull request that fixes a known bug...
I just can't imagine how I'd be helping at all by adding my voice to the chorus otherwise
OK. Step 1, robot head complete. https://toot.cafe/media/cfLhAvoBcjMz4tXx1ZE
https://toot.cafe/media/o5fflwdmxZ9gVFLfG2M
THE REDCOATS ARE COMING
@nolan
Mastotip: You can click on the time of the post to open it on the posters instance and thus see everything they see. This also makes you see the whole thread so you don't miss out on replies.
SSL: :white_check_mark:
Rails erroring constantly because of a missing secret_key: also check
mastodon is twitter if twitter was just people talking about installing their own twitter instance
ok nginx up and running, now to figure out letsencrypt ... eek
i got mastodon *installed* on a DO box via docker pretty easily, but there isn't much in the way of instructions about how to get it running tbh