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Mastodon is French in the morning and then switches to English by late afternoon, which should hold steady as long as Quebec doesn't find out about this site

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❕ Hey, new folks, noiob here, I am (currently the only) mod here on awoo (we're pretty smol). There's been concern about influx due to the stuff. I'd like to remind you that we are not "yet another instance" but an experiment to provide a safer space than the mastoverse currently is.

That includes us having a stricter federation policy: You will only see posts from whitelisted instances here (currently only mastodon.social iirc).

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Talked a bit about Mastodon on a phone call with a friend and said "and then everyone subtooted him on the federated timeline" and he started laughing and couldn't stop 🤷‍♀️

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Did I ever tell you about when Orkut started and within about 8 hours all the people from the cypherpunks list had joined and were excitedly entering their social media graph into it and I was like "WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING". Cool times.

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*gesturing around*
Savor it folks, this is what it's like to witness the birth of a new social network
*shitposting everywhere, servers keep crashing, everyone's a furry*
and it's just as beautiful as a human birth

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but more importantly, how do we put this on a blockchain

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eventually there's going to be some crazy scheme for verifying accounts through key servers and key signing parties and it will be an extremely bad idea

Oh OK so Mastodon:Twitter::Diaspora::Facebook/G+. Got it. I'll keep that in mind as my follower count ticks slowly towards the high single digits.

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