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OT. finally a mastodon link not about mastodon, X or Elon Musk. Made me happy


Finally? If I look at the last N mastodon.social links that have >= 15 points on HN besides this one, they are:

  Porting games to Linux pays for itself
  People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage 
  Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability
  Curl on track for non-experimental HTTP/3 support 
  Jeff Johnson: "Passkeys are a lie and contradiction." 
  Swift was not given the chance to prove itself as a language 
  The only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars 
  Bevy Needs Sponsorship
That's the entire first page of results. On page 2, we have:

  Things that didn't age well 
  Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com 
  Google Search Is Over
  Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio 
  A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team 
  One thing that has changed in the professional game industry is that 
  SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023 
  Mozilla should call for the removal of Google from W3C because of WEI 
  How Stuff Works replaced writers with GPT-generated content and laid off editors 
  A fun new feature we are working on in systemd: userspace-only reboot 
  Mastodon's active user base has increased by 110K over the last day 
  Mastodon has reached 13M accounts
It looks like about 10% "not finally" content and 90% "finally" content. You can see the same thing by clicking "mastodon.social" at the top of this page.


good stuff


I've tooted plenty on topics other than those - not that anyone seems to be remotely interested.


To be clear I did not aim anything at you or your posts otherwise. Last I was on Mastodon, it was too much about taking a piss at Elon Musk and Twitter, and not a whole lot else going on. This is why this post got me meta-excited.


No problem. There does seem to be quite a bit of good stuff these days, though it's not easy to get much engagement (I'm probably too dull).


Mate. You’re front page HN


Mastodon or Twitter links don't make for good HN posts anyway, except for a few rare cases when the comment itself has some bearing on current events.


I just wish that the message being linked to was also quoted in the description as well.




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