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Lol, the first answers are by “autinerd” and “ocdtrekkie”. Mastodon is really something else.

by nells 4y ago

nextstep 4y ago
those are also their handles on Twitter... https://twitter.com/autinerd https://twitter.com/autinerd https://twitter.com/ocdtrekkie https://twitter.com/ocdtrekkie I don't get it
- intelVISA 4y ago
  Perhaps the implication is that it's poor form to publicly announce you understand How Things Work so you should use a more neutral handle like SoyLord66 or DankM3mer - same reason nerdctl is a worse Docker.
  - executesorder66 4y ago
    Who is publicly announcing that they understand How Things Work?
    - intelVISA 4y ago
      The nerd suffix is poor form was my vague point
- pjc50 4y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ocdtrekkie https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ocdtrekkie is also on here and a reasonably prolific poster.
mschuster91 4y ago
> Mastodon is really something else. My biggest gripe with Mastodon is just how bad their thread support is. With Twitter, it's easily noticeable which reply belongs to which chain, Mastodon just flattens everything.
- jurip 4y ago
  Depends on the client, I think. Toot! for iOS visualizes threads like this and at least it's pretty clear: https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/toot/id1229021451 https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/toot/id1229021451
- superkuh 4y ago
  My biggest gripe is that it is just like twitter: there's no HTML page with text or images. There's only a javascript application to run. For twitter I could use a nitter mirror. For mastadon... I just close that tab because there's no way to avoid executing the javascript that I'm aware of. Does anyone know of a way? edit I found a way. You can use the JS api, like: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/109432034039353503 https://mastodon.social/@bagder/109432034039353503 becomes, https://mastodon.social/api/v1/statuses/109432034039353503 https://mastodon.social/api/v1/statuses/109432034039353503 which returns the post in json form. Readable without execution.
  - mschuster91 4y ago
    What would I give for an API that returns HTML-formatted JSON for browsers... Rancher for example does that.

Lol, the first answers are by “autinerd” and “ocdtrekkie”. Mastodon is really something else.

by nells 4y ago

Lol, the first answers are by “autinerd” and “ocdtrekkie”. Mastodon is really something else.

those are also their handles on Twitter... https://twitter.com/autinerd https://twitter.com/autinerd https://twitter.com/ocdtrekkie https://twitter.com/ocdtrekkie I don't get it

intelVISA 4y ago
Perhaps the implication is that it's poor form to publicly announce you understand How Things Work so you should use a more neutral handle like SoyLord66 or DankM3mer - same reason nerdctl is a worse Docker.
- executesorder66 4y ago
  Who is publicly announcing that they understand How Things Work?
  - intelVISA 4y ago
    The nerd suffix is poor form was my vague point
pjc50 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ocdtrekkie https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ocdtrekkie is also on here and a reasonably prolific poster.

mschuster91 4y ago

> Mastodon is really something else. My biggest gripe with Mastodon is just how bad their thread support is. With Twitter, it's easily noticeable which reply belongs to which chain, Mastodon just flattens everything.

jurip 4y ago
Depends on the client, I think. Toot! for iOS visualizes threads like this and at least it's pretty clear: https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/toot/id1229021451 https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/toot/id1229021451
superkuh 4y ago
My biggest gripe is that it is just like twitter: there's no HTML page with text or images. There's only a javascript application to run. For twitter I could use a nitter mirror. For mastadon... I just close that tab because there's no way to avoid executing the javascript that I'm aware of. Does anyone know of a way? edit I found a way. You can use the JS api, like: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/109432034039353503 https://mastodon.social/@bagder/109432034039353503 becomes, https://mastodon.social/api/v1/statuses/109432034039353503 https://mastodon.social/api/v1/statuses/109432034039353503 which returns the post in json form. Readable without execution.
- mschuster91 4y ago
  What would I give for an API that returns HTML-formatted JSON for browsers... Rancher for example does that.