If he’s referring to Lemmy.world he’s wrong. Lemmy.world has a different admin who’s not connected at all to Lemmy.ml admins afaik

Our state Republican Party is particularly cynical and noxious, even compared to some southern states.

It’s a luxury purchase, but Lamy makes several fountain pens that will last you the rest of your life. The Safari is a great entry pen, made of the same plastic as Legos. The 2000 is a gold nibbed pen whose design remains unchanged since 1966.

Hachyderm is my instance. It’s heavily influenced by techy people, but there’s a bit of everything there. Strong culture of safety for social justice - some of the most followed LGBTQ and Black accounts post from there. I’d highly recommend.

Others I’ve enjoyed browsing are indieweb.social and toot.community

I had a good group of friends use it and that made it really fun. I remember the product itself being great initially. It just never gained any users.

This is exactly it

There’s a lot of good info already in here. I’d also recommend checking out the trending post tab, that’s where you’ll typically find some of the posters with the highest number of followers (“hubs” in the Mastodon zeitgeist). I’d also recommend that you follow Lisa Melton https://mastodon.social/@lisamelton. She boosts a ton of stuff and almost single-handedly acts like Mastodon’s algorithm. Her boosts will give you lots of cool accounts to follow, and at the very least will populate your timeline.

Yes! I feel the same when I leave home without one of my pens. The Everyman was a great pen - I never got one, but I remember wanting one when I can across it on Huckberry.

Just did, thanks for the recommendation!

Hashtags are the best way to connect to communities on Mastodon.

The Mlem app allowed me to “Favorite” a few core communities. So I’m bouncing between those and the “All” view to try to keep tabs on which communities are picking up steam.

Yep, totally understand this. I’m glad there are other devs ready to pick up the baton.

Good sound gear is one of those things where you have no idea the difference it makes until you try it. Particularly if you’re coming from AirPods, etc

This is really strong stuff, congratulations and thank you!

Twitter’s Circles function much the same as Google+’s did. It was a really great feature. Seems like it’s on Twitter’s chopping block now.

Look at that cable management!

Small Angels by Lauren Owen was excellent. The sense of pervasive dread was really palpable while reading. One of my favorite reads in the last few years.

I highly recommend the Nanami Seven Seas. Tomoe River paper allows these notebooks to have a ton of pages without being thick. They are thread bound so the spine is durable and it can lay flat/bend back on itself. You can get them in 7mm lines, 5mm grid, or 5mm dot grid.

I highly recommend the Nanami Seven Seas. Tomoe River paper allows these notebooks to have a ton of pages without being thick. They are thread bound so the spine is durable and it can lay flat/bend back on itself. You can get them in 7mm lines, 5mm grid, or 5mm dot grid.

I highly recommend the Nanami Seven Seas. Tomoe River paper allows these notebooks to have a ton of pages without being thick. They are thread bound so the spine is durable and it can lay flat/bend back on itself. You can get them in 7mm lines, 5mm grid, or 5mm dot grid.