Alastair Toft @alastair@mastodon.gamedev.place

Because big corporations are not forever.

Say about them what you will, but there IS a value in social media, they do satisfy the need, they do scratch that ancient itch of human beings to hear each other and be heard. They do it quite perversely, as a side-effect to filling their shareholders' pockets, but still, as a matter of fact.

The corporations though, do close down for all kinds of reasons.

There was a time before Twitter. Someday Facebook will disappear. Someday, YouTube will go dark.

The Fediverse, in this sense, is a toolkit, that will allow people to rebuild the Internet as we know and love it today in the future, when most companies have gone extinct.

The Internet is not a thing that "just is", it's "what people do". The Fediverse recognizes and embraces this fluid, dynamic nature: every now and then there's new servers that pop up and old that ones go down. It's not really a big deal around here. And it's... beautiful?

"Computers as I used to love them" - Tonsky: https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing/

The second idea i had for "Celestial" last week. I hadn't intended to animate it, but I couldn't help myself after finishing the static version.

#pixelart #space #SciFi #MastoArt

There's over 1,000 games and other goodies in the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. All proceeds go to NAACP Legal Fund and Community Bail Fund. ONLY A FEW HOURS LEFT!!! https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality

love too live in a democracy 🙃

#mastoAdmin #meta

Hey everyone, we need to talk a bit.

Words have meaning. Here, we expect you to use the meanings which afford others respect.

"Guys" is NOT, I repeat, NOT universally "gender neutral" or work-appropriate. It is slang.

I will ENCOURAGE you to not use this word for mixed groups. Better, non-contested options exist. Unsure of some? https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-use-gender-neutral-words

I will REQUIRE you to stop using it when someone asks you to. Not to "debate" with them, but to immediately comply.

This Trump speech is I think his most authoritarian to date and that is saying something. It's terrifying. He just promised to deploy the US military to any city whose government does not deploy "overwhelming force" against their own citizens. Even as an empty threat it's terrifying

Excellent post reflecting on the design and success of the Ninja build tool, from its original author: http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2020/05/ninja.html

My favorite thing on mastodon is when people are nice to each other just because it’s a nice thing to do