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(DIR) Post #Ak0VFwdaN4mVXBUinI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T02:09:29Z
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A neat way to introduce the fediverse is to write down your email address:myname@domain.net"you know what this is it's an email. OK what about this?"@futurebird@sauropods.win"This is a new kind of address. This is mine. You need to get on the fediverse to use it. It's like twitter, but no one guy owns it. We run our own servers, it's independent social media."This got my brother more interested. The handle format is kind of eye catching and people like to keep up with "new tech"
(DIR) Post #Ak0VcWpiTeLAADwB4S by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T02:13:39Z
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@SrRochardBunson I also like to say "Someday you might be able to connect it to X too @name@X.com but twitter hasn't kept up with the new protocol you can only see X people there."
(DIR) Post #Ak0VlfW9Yeaphk93nU by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2024-07-17T02:15:04Z
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@futurebird I wish people didn't get so hung up on thinking it's super complicated. Yeah, the Fediverse is harder to use than, say, Facebook. Meanwhile, Facebook pretty much knows what color undies people buy and Mastodon *really* isn't that much harder to use.IMO the real problem is just how much people just seem to not be willing even to make the effort to change. Even when that effort is actually shockingly low once they sit down and actually do it. I swear, some of the biggest lockin seems to occur from just sheer laziness of the average person.
(DIR) Post #Ak0WfKGtjluk1mY6dc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T02:25:21Z
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Everyone remembers when website and emails started cropping up... then later twitter handles and hash tags. And some people remember not keeping up and they might want to.Go on and put a fediverse address on your email and contact cards. DO NOT explain it on the digital contact card (or your apple "My Card" if you are like my students and obsessed with those for some reason)(My students get my contact info for social media server that they run on our intranet.)
(DIR) Post #Ak0Wx87rdKfJZSoTpY by CedarTea@social.coop
2024-07-17T02:28:33Z
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@futurebirdThis is how I explain to people too. The email analogy works well too in that you can explain how we can communicate even though we're not in a centralized walled garden. It's just like how people with different email clients can send and receive messages with each other.
(DIR) Post #Ak0X4iXedcYqXYUiHY by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
2024-07-17T02:29:56Z
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@futurebird @SrRochardBunson If X-Crement ever federates on ActivityPub I'm blocking it faster than I blocked Threads.
(DIR) Post #Ak0XBI4LSfXiSnv4F6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T02:31:08Z
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@drakenblackknight @SrRochardBunson yes yes me too probably ... but... it helps them to get it
(DIR) Post #Ak0XFOZJErEXmOMNlo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T02:31:54Z
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@grumpasaurus waffle iron
(DIR) Post #Ak0XH2SQPyKjmZvKCW by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
2024-07-17T02:32:09Z
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@futurebird @SrRochardBunson No it won't. Just look at when Fecalbook adopted XMPP then dropped it.
(DIR) Post #Ak0XHVolG0QoqFb4Xg by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-07-17T02:32:18Z
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@nazokiyoubinbou @futurebird I have to use Facebook for work. For me, Facebook is way less user-friendly that the Fedi.
(DIR) Post #Ak0XKHLdVnKkpjIF1c by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T02:32:45Z
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@grumpasaurus I mean I thought this was a pound sign: £
(DIR) Post #Ak0XN7kBfxY3uq8KjA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T02:33:18Z
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@ChrisWere @nazokiyoubinbou It's disgusting how little work they've done on the UI over there. It's a joke.
(DIR) Post #Ak0XPCYckZwrQKiQ76 by miblo@mas.to
2024-07-17T02:33:31Z
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@futurebird On this kind of thing, there was a turn of phrase that occurred to me the other day. Wish I'd written it down, but I think it was this:1994: "Are you connected to the internet?"2024: "Are you connected in the Fediverse?"
(DIR) Post #Ak0XYNP3nNO7fRcJhg by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2024-07-17T02:35:18Z
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@futurebird @ChrisWere I haven't used FB since 2015 or so. Has it really stayed that bad?
(DIR) Post #Ak0Xhtp0dKiEomIN3w by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T02:37:01Z
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@nazokiyoubinbou @ChrisWere God yes. I force myself to use it once a week for GOTV reasons, and in a futile attempt to rescue the people there. I really need to FORCE myself. It's horrible. Even with all the ads blocked and a bunch of software extensions to "protect" me from the worst of it.
(DIR) Post #Ak0Xr20xXgZwpkEuGm by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2024-07-17T02:38:43Z
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@nazokiyoubinbou @futurebird It's so annoying difficult to do the simplest thing.Different pages have different ways of doing admin things, for no reason whatsoever.Privacy settings are really confusing, and I consider myself pretty good on both privacy knowledge and navigating bad UIs.It's just horrible in every way you can imagine, and being 'good with computers' in no way aids you thorough the quagmire.
(DIR) Post #Ak0Z94GnzjaUznocro by ArchiteuthisFlux@hackaday.social
2024-07-17T02:49:17Z
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@grumpasaurus @futurebird I had to force myself to start thinking of those as "hashtags" when I realized I would be a terrible person for giggling if anyone brought up the "pound me too" movement in a situation where they could see my face.
(DIR) Post #Ak0Z95jCZdtdWA6olc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T02:53:08Z
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@ArchiteuthisFlux @grumpasaurus 😬
(DIR) Post #Ak0Znw2DWBZpKMTkw4 by ArchiteuthisFlux@hackaday.social
2024-07-17T03:00:29Z
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@futurebird @grumpasaurus Yeah that is the exact reaction I was trying to avoid.And a, "wait no, that situation is very serious but let me explain why I find this other tangentially related thing funny" doesn't go over well in the moment.
(DIR) Post #Ak0aAQTN1zaU6Fu7nM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-17T03:04:35Z
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@seanderson It's pretty dead since it's the summer, depending on how it goes with the club next fall I'll post more about it.
(DIR) Post #Ak0aUKBe6ydAOd6OUS by HoustonDog@mastodon.world
2024-07-17T03:08:08Z
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@futurebird kinda like thirty years ago in 1994 for the early homepages with "@" user links (not ~user) neosoft.com/@moi * an email address was implied (suffix becomes prefix) but the person seeing that line on a business card had to first find something called a "web browser" ... and specify ":8080" if their school or work network included TCP/IP
(DIR) Post #Ak0cx7UeaHWfKnqpnc by bluewave_kiwi@mastodon.nz
2024-07-17T03:35:45Z
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@futurebird but no one guy owns it.I beg to differ
(DIR) Post #Ak0eO1AMJiQTU2kSQK by gregly@retro.pizza
2024-07-17T03:51:47Z
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@futurebird @grumpasaurus Octothorpe!
(DIR) Post #Ak0ku72qav48hxvE5A by krrw@c.im
2024-07-17T05:04:47Z
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@futurebird Fediverse handles that resemble emails easily get false-flagged as spam though.
(DIR) Post #Ak1IMbnl8H9ih53nrE by Dianora@ottawa.place
2024-07-17T11:19:47Z
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@futurebird I've tried to explain it this way as well but you did a much better job tbh. 🙂
(DIR) Post #Ak1OCvTFkOT6WgEcgC by stefan@graz.social
2024-07-17T12:24:53Z
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@futurebird but what if you end up with @futurebird@gmail.com ?
(DIR) Post #Ak1fEV3Ee0WaO3OxJA by philsawa@ioc.exchange
2024-07-17T15:35:55Z
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@futurebird the @form@ Reminds me of an AT-AT walker, which also haopens to look strangely like the shape of our chi, Mollie:
(DIR) Post #Ak3OpmWfKKEoOTHLOK by bjemming@mstdn.plus
2024-07-18T11:41:42Z
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@futurebird @DHSDarcy Have you tried it yet Darcy?
(DIR) Post #AkAL841vwfb6BW5Nk8 by frogzone@wizard.casa
2024-07-21T20:03:17.176441Z
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@futurebird even better, write :butterfedyC: fediverse with its cute flitter-fluttering emoji.come for the decentralized social network.... flutter around :butterfedy1: :butterfedy2: :butterfedy3: for the fun of it.Viva :butterfedyA: fediverse