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Developing Mastodon, I strive to use terminology that is familiar to as many people as possible so as to not put up unnecessary barriers in understanding. For this reason I am happy that we went away from calling posts "toots". It has always been a point of friction for people. Not that I dislike branding, quite the opposite, but in my experience receiving feedback over half a decade, it had a negative effect on the platform for little benefit.

Probably not a lot of people know this now, but Mastodon's web app started out with "Publish". In 2016 a famous YouTuber jokingly offered to support Mastodon's Patreon forever if I changed the button to say "Toot" instead. Needless to say, this was a really early, and not very informed decision. The first glimpse of attention and financial support. As a non-native speaker I had no idea there was another meaning.

@DavidBlue I'm perfectly happy being called Eugene by anglophone speakers. My name has a local flavour in every language.

Feel like I'm an outlier in not caring how people pronounce my name. Any variant of the same root will do. I've been Eugen, Eugene, Евгений, Женя, Eugenio (jokingly), Eugène...

lately my mind is just [ps2 startup sound.wav]

jeinforcement (jean reinforcement)

Somebody gave our Android app a 1-star review on the Play Store because "there is LGBT" [sic]

jocialism (jean socialism)

alright Mastodon, I have a cultural question for you... I happen to be privileged to have known (and know) a great many people of a particular originality and talent - many of whom have managed to turn that talent (music production, motion graphics, and video editing are the core) into real professional lives.

Attached: 1 image Added a viewer count to :pixelfed: Live! Will be sharing links to download the app this week, along with instance configuration documentation 🚀 #pixelfedLive #liveStreaming

i just heard the word "hegemony" said out loud for the first time and let me tell you i am shocked

Attached: 1 image Maintaining some open-source projects...

Attached: 1 image I have no idea where this image came from, but I couldn't resist sharing it.

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This is how computer programming should be portrayed

Playing #microsoft flight simulator #introduction, my #copilot is julian #assange and if this motherfucker doesn't shut up about #github I am going to let it rip with the worst #gas possible haha lol also ps we are crashing the plane into the server farm hosting pixiv #911neverforget

Attached: 1 image It do be kinda like that tho.

@esvrld@octodon.social sincerest form of flattening

"Fuck around and find out," I whispered into the top of the ant hill

American evangelicalism is a political movement masquerading as a religion, and a dangerous one at that.

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Attached: 1 image The atmosphere is putting on a real show tonight

Attached: 2 images Let’s follow the change! 🤩 #Mastoot

Attached: 1 image #Mastoot 1.11 is released with new icon and accent color! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mastoot/id1501485410

Attached: 4 images YAY, another #PixelArt thing done! Going a bit more classical today. Phone wallpapers included, ofc :) ENJOY! Do you want to buy a t-shirt, mousepad or a mug with this art? Then go here: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/115732716 Thank you all so much for your support, you are all AMAZING! ❤️ #mastoArt #digitalArt #art #landscape

jokes on you bitch im made out of metal and cant bleed. alexa. whats the address of the senate.

People who commission art regularly (furries or not), do you stick with a set of artists you know you like or do you try and find new artists? [ ] Stick with artists you know you like [ ] Find new artists most of the time

@DavidBlue Cubasis 3 and Beatmaker3 are solid Garageband alternatives for iOS (unfortunately they're not free like GB or Audacity though)

Imagine if YouTube was shut down. It would be a literal tragedy for the human race. Billions of hours worth of creativity would disappear in an instant. "That would never happen!" some believe. But it already has. Remember Google+? All of it's gone forever. Or remember all that media stored on MySpace? It's vanished. We must stop depending on Big Tech to archive our data. Their mandate is to profit off our data, not preserve it.

@brandndaslva@mastodon.social @DavidBlue@mastodon.social Ok. If you want Audacity-like : Hokusai 2 If you want Audacity-lite : Voice Record 7 Pro If you want a DAW-like App : Audio Revolution If you want a DAW midi-driven : Nanostudio 2