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lardmotel

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Not very serious about serious music. Weird shit and utter rubbish.

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Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185226/meta-threads-fediverse-likes-replies?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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lardmotel ,
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@SDF I’ve been geoblocked from trying this so far no direct experience. But Threads has reciprocal problems to mastodon. Too many voices all yelling into the void. Deaf to conversation.

Here it’s too few voices to build any larger conversation. You can work hard on some fun and it goes out to the desert and dies. Symptoms include seeing 11 posts in a row from one user today!

I’m not exactly sure what would happen. But if the bridge was optional I would turn it on to find out.

lardmotel ,
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@SDF by the way the geoblock apparently has been lifted so I will see if I can be a Guinea Pig for the team. Have to go to Threads and see what has updated.

lardmotel ,
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@SDF @BeAware when I come here I go to the big federated feed and roll through everything for at least a few minutes looking for some souls I might have missed that look worth following.

You already know that 15m accounts doesn’t mean 15m active voices. The number of active accounts sometimes grows but it shrinks as well. It seems down at the moment but I have no stats.

lardmotel ,
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@SDF I honestly don’t know it works. I’ll have to study it a bit.

lardmotel ,
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@SDF The blurb says it should work but I am not seeing the icon that is supposed to be now on the Threads interface. Probably Error 1 ‘Australia is not worth the trouble’.

lardmotel ,
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@BeAware @SDF It is very active. I should be clear that I’m just one user with quite specific interests that aren’t being met and so offering to be made a Guinea pig to see if federation is a good or bad idea.

lardmotel ,
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@BeAware @SDF

OK I should be @lardmotel

icm , to random
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Pacific Commodore Expo is this Saturday and Sunday 11-5 in Seattle. Come enjoy vintage Commodore and Amiga computers and new things!

https://sdf.org/icf

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Pacific commodore expo

lardmotel ,
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@icm What on earth is that last micro Amiga thing?

lardmotel , to random
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I made an account at Threads, which is Instagram's tentacle reaching out to join Mastodon. Instagram is vapid but Mastodon isn't really hitting home runs for me either*. I don't expect anything specific from this experiment - let's just see what comes of it.

Right now the connection isn't working for Australia. I'll just see what life is like on the other side while keeping busy here.

  • partly I'm tired of hearing about USA politics. There's 195 countries in the world.
lardmotel OP ,
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@MaxCorp yes sir

lardmotel OP ,
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@MaxCorp @SDF hi Stephen - it’s likely because the service is not yet open to Australian users. Only for US UK and JAP. I’m not sure why maybe it’s still beta.
But in looking there not sure whether Threads is a good Mastodon partner. There are many people on there with all the effects of scale. Could be a culture shock.

lardmotel , to random
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Suddenly I realise why there’s so many fancy dress dorks in town today…

May 4th

lardmotel OP ,
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@SDF the kids would just die for that

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