It looks like I was added to a Mastodon starter pack under 'Miscellany'.
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It looks like I was added to a Mastodon starter pack under 'Miscellany'. I don't mind.
Some days I post about food and recipes, other days about octopus and sea slugs and cats and dogs. Other days about bicycles and some days about AI and data ethics and software.
Miscellany is the right bucket.
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@skinnylatte wait. Mastodon starter pack?!
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@MayInToronto haha, i saw it pop up yesterday.
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@MayInToronto @skinnylatte are people doing this via lists or something ?
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oh totally forgot about the film photography and film dev posts also. my brain (and life) is a crowded place full of many wonders
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@MayInToronto @skinnylatte ha, that’s so Mastodon an approach
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@dave @MayInToronto yep!
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Jared White ✊ RESIST 🙅🏻♂️replied to Dave 🚀 last edited by
@dave @MayInToronto @skinnylatte CSV is the plain-text flavor of "everything's just a spreadsheet"
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Jared White ✊ RESIST 🙅🏻♂️ last edited by
@jaredwhite @dave @MayInToronto i've been pushing the idea that 'most of the world is explainable through the lens of cults and databases'
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@skinnylatte I'd agree with you, but all those microcommunities and tiny non-profits are using google sheets or sending 20 copies of spreadsheets, and you know it. What databases?
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@MayInToronto @jaredwhite @dave spreadsheets are mini databases
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@skinnylatte That's why we follow you.
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@skinnylatte The chaos goblin felt compelled to boost this to anger the devs.
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@joewynne hehe thank you!
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@MayInToronto spreadsheets and Notion db pages and Airtable and every iteration of all of that just tells me that some db dev should focus on a Microsoft access replacement on web, or make SQLite more user friendly
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
Thanks for mentioning the Miscellany pack. You are a great addition.
If anyone is interested in these Follow Packs check out this federated blog for a FAQ and Directory >>> @mastodonmigration.wordpress.com
In short, follow packs are a way to import entire groups of follows. They’re kind of like Bluesky Starter Packs, but not quite as convenient.
What's cool is they import follows into a list, so kind of a feed!
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Absolutely, this is just a stop gap solution. There are efforts to create better, more integrated solutions coming. In particular @dansup is planning to introduce something soon. Looking forward to folding these Follow Packs into something better, but this is what we can do today.
