Care-Tags Mastodon Server Invitation

[bels]

Invite link:

https://mastodon.care-tags.org/invite/BM9JjvKN

Mastodon is like decentralised twitter, which sort of means we have our own care-tags twitter, which also connects to the twitters made by other communities. It's worth googling about it if you're interested (search: "Mastodon fediverse" probably)

Probably the big draw for most people on here (Other than contributing to a self governing independent autonomous internet space) is that you can upload images to there and then hot link to them here, so it's good for waywts/image memes etc. It has drag and drop / native android upload / copy paste image type functionality for the image uploads, so it's probably as easy as using imgur or whatever, but we have slightly more control over it. (I think it all gets stored on rjbomon' amazon s3 account or something. I doubt he minds)

I know I come across as very pro mastodon. I'm actually only slightly pro, but if you think that social media is "overly commercial" and runs on "surveillance capitalism" and "compulsion loops" and "sowing division" but you still wish you could use it and "find a community" I feel like it's worth taking a punt on? It's certainly worth me posting a link to. There are a couple of us who regularly use it (Hi guys! Love you!) but I'm sure it could only be better with more of you on there.

[Trench Witch]

get on mastodon to image host at least. works great and is not insanely annoying like imgur is getting to be

[cameron]

it has a cool name

[rjbman]

if you ain't on the mastodon you're really missing out on some primo "i have a kid. i'm a daddy now." content

[bels]

Congrat u lations Ryan on your bundle of joy.

[cthelll]

Is the mastodon server broken for anyone else?

[bels]

I restarted it...I think there's...a problem with it.

It's up now though

[bels]

Are people actually using it. The timeline is pretty quiet (I don't post either so I can't complain)

[ParallaxisRemix]

Bela would've prolly bought betamax

[bels]

The failure of alternate internet frameworks to replace the grotesque monolithic monopolies they imitate on a superficial level

[bels]

The mastodon server is AWOL right now. It got based by some hackers and doesn't work any more.

[ramdomthought]

and yet the forum persists!

[c.l]

The mastodon server is AWOL right now. It got based by some hackers and doesn't work any more.

still awol?

[bels]

Uh yeah it's still broken sadly...

[cthelll]

jeez man what are we even paying rjbman for...

[rjbman]

[rjbman]

i can look into standing up a server on a managed instance or something tho if folks really want it.

otherwise can just share any other accounts here (& idk use a hashtag? #caretagsdotorg?)

im @ryan@toot.bldrweb.org