Edward Loveall @edwardloveall@mastodon.technology

People who still use harmful social networks feel like single-issue voters to me. "Oh, I don't really care about $CANDIDATE's views as long as they support $ISSUE."

Seems exactly the same as "Yeah, I don't like some of Twitter's policies, but where else can I build my brand, you know?"

@mastonaut Am I misremembering or did there used to be profile/hashtag search in Mastonaut? I can't find it!

To do Q&A they've set up "sticky note walls" in each room. You can vote on the notes. #RoguelikeCelebration

I should be tagging these #RoguelikeCelebration

Each room has a little description and some interactivity. This is so neat.

So I'm at a conference for rogue-like games this weekend (https://roguelike.club/) and they built a whole interactive virtual space you can move around in

Or not, what do I know. I've never built a platform. I just grumble at NPM all day.

It is for some (like a lot of us here, me included) but it makes me think that to gain critical mass on a platform, it has to have something *new* that people recognize as a feature. Something that will improve their lives there and then. Once it has users it could potentially expand out and supplant the previous dominant platform.

Thinking about platforms and critical mass...

It feels like all major platforms gained traction because they offered some new and desirable feature. Tumblr/Twitter had takes on microblogging, Facebook: social graph, Vine: micro-videos, for example.

So when a platform alternative pops up that does basically all the same things that the original did but it's open-source/decentralized/whatever, it's no wonder it doesn't catch on. Open-source isn't a feature to most.

Just switched my website over to use https://www.kindmetrics.io It's a privacy-focused, open-source, analytics service. Cheap, too!

@plausible Is your website down? Your service is really intriguing and I'd love to check it out!

Consider the Tomato

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/consider-the-tomato

The only good thing about single page apps is that the API they are forced to write can be exploited for... uh... no reason in particular.

Man promotes renaming "boneless chicken wings" at Lincoln City council meeting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQdVrmjBIp0

POS really is the best commerce acronym