Ross Grady @rossgrady@awoo.space

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

❕ 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 #mastodown 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).

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 🤷‍♀️

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.

*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

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

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