Hello?

Is anybody there?

Shhhh, Shhhh
It’s, oh, so quiet
Shhhh Shhhh
It’s, oh, so still…

We’re all shocked by the alleged imminent death of RISC OS, I think… (see thread about the future caused by 64-bit)

I just asked my Pi4 how it was feeling, and it said “I’m fine, thanks.”

Keep the noise down and get on with the work. You’ve only done 33 & you’ve still 31 to go. Where do you think this is… Twitter?

It’s, oh, so quiet

Given the other topic, I’m leaning more towards:

Where do you think this is… Twitter?

Twitter? What was that? Was it like MySpace?

Anyone else got a Mastadon account?

Not I.

Of course, need to hang out with Geo-ex-Twitter.

Only vaguely heard of Mastodon before. Been taking a look at Wikipedia on the subject. Interesting, may follow up. Thanks folks.

https://med-mastodon.com/@gjsprague/109365304761246941 (not me, just funny)

Imagine the whole line’s a link:
https://med-mastodon.com/@gjsprague/109365304761246941

Ah now. Interesting. I saw that on a fiend’s facebook page this morning, and wondered what it was all about… 8~)

Yes, I realized that the whole line was the link.

Wow it’s slow. Must be really struggling to scale up for dealing with a few million ex-Twitter users.

I have an idea. Why don’t we write a simple social networking system in BASIC that runs on RISC OS? Ought to be a weekend project, right? Then we can pitch that as a replacement to Twitter.

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Someone with skilz and a server could set up their own RISC OS instance… Just saying.

Wow it’s slow. Must be really struggling to scale up for dealing with a few million ex-Twitter users.

My last tweet was: “Well, we took Mastodon down with us”

Presumably taking some popular servers down isn’t quite the same as taking the whole system down? (I’m very new to the idea of Mastodon – be ready for ignorant thunks… 8~)

You’re right, it’s decentralised, like Usenet.

The URL is what made me wonder – med-mastodon.com looks awfully like a central point. Don’t know how that works.

I have an idea. Why don’t we write a simple social networking system in BASIC that runs on RISC OS?

It’s called ChatCube. But it isn’t written in BASIC.

@Clive As I understand it, it’s lots of servers and they can access each other’s posts. Presumably links refer back to the originator’s server.

It’s called ChatCube.

That’s a walled garden. Not the same.

That’s a walled garden.

Why?

For one thing, you can converse with Telegram contacts, and that’s multi-platform.

I do think it meets your specification.

@Simon And presumably med-mastodon.com is just one of many points of entry, that just happens to have a rather impressive URL?

Further investigation clearly called for…

Wow it’s slow. Must be really struggling to scale up for dealing with a few million ex-Twitter users.

Posted on Mastodon:

;)

That’s a walled garden.

Why?

Because unless I’m mistaken, you need to be signed in and active in order to read anything on Chatcube (no idea about Telegraph, I’m just talking Chatcube here).

On the other hand, I pop by from time to time to see what VinceH has tweeted about (often extracting urine from Ree-Smog 👍👍). I do not have a Twitter account.

See the difference?

You have to have an account, yes, but I don’t think that makes it a walled garden.

You should try it. It’s not painful at all.