If you just have one account on one instance, you may not realize that Mastodon federation -- the means by which toots are sent from instance to instance -- is not instantaneous.
It may be seconds or minutes for a toot to traverse even directly connected instances. This depends on server load and how many messages are in the queue.
Toot lag. It's a thing.
The more you know! 💫
@mawr So I looked up the headphone jack mod and it 100% looks like something I can do! Do you already have a stash of jacks handy?
sadly all the analog in-line volume control cords I see look super cheap.
I kind of want .social to close for new accounts at 100,000. I'm more & more concerned that the task of moderating & nurturing a meaningful community within the instance will become far too large for the resources of our tiny, basically volunteer team. :S
I also feel like massing so many people on one instance weakens the potential of mastodon in general to play with models of building interconnected, human-scale communities.
zombie ant fungus
Woahh. Cordyceps fungus doesn't hijack ant brains, it bypasses the brain and directly controls the muscles.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/11/06/1711673114.full
While I understand why "wear a bomb suit and don't get within 50 feet of anything live" rules exist, it doesn't reflect the reality of most work environments.
Moving to @starkatt
I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
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