The difference between Home and Other Servers

If you're always checking Mastodon by hitting the Home option, that's an automatic echo chamber of people you already follow. Brace yourself for a firehose and click Other Servers instead...on older software, it's Federated.

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♲ Ross of Ottawa - 2023-09-26 12:30:36 GMT

If you're observing that Mastodon is "super quiet today" and you're following fewer than fifty people, that might be a root cause.A reminder to click that follow button when you see stuff you like. My sense is that about 200 ppl or so is where you reach a critical mass.

You can unfollow easily later any feeds that diverge from your interests, or where people are aloof and just want to broadcast without interacting.

#subToot

The Country of the Blind, by H.G. Wells (1913)

The had become purblind so gradually that they scarcely noted their loss. They guided the sightless youngsters hither and thither until they knew the whole valley marvellously and when at last sight died out among them the race lived on. They had even time to adapt themselves to the blind control of fire, which they made carefully in stoves of stone. They were a simple strain of people at the first, unlettered, only slightly touched with the Spanish civilisation, but with something of a tradition of the arts of old Peru and of its lost philosophy. Generation followed generation. They forgot many things; they devised many things. Their tradition of the greater world they came from became mythical in colour and uncertain. In all things save sight they were strong and able, and presently the chance of birth and heredity sent one who had an original mind and who could talk and persuade among them, and then afterwards another.

https://archive.org/details/countryofblindot00welluoft/page/536/mode/2up?view=theater

#HGWells #Fiction #Narrative #Parable #Metaphor #Blindness #Subtoot #Tablets #GenerativeComputing