@andyw Is it easy to set up for not especially technical folks? I was under impression that one has to be an experienced Linux user/admin to do that...
@zkat Wow. Are TERFs the only protected class on twitter?
Re: nudity topic
@tekk You sure are.
There is a simple test re: nudity. Whenever people start to wear something warmer than light dress or t-shirt/top + shorts/skirt, it's definitely too cold for them to go naked, social norms or not.
And where I live, lighter clothing styles are only popular for, like, 3 or 4 months in summer (and even then, not all time).
#harrypotter question
@telyn @kitkendrick Have you read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (http://www.hpmor.com/)? I'm not a fan for other reasons, but it contains nice explanations of how all that magic could work.
3 of 5 stars to The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=2198073695
@tekk will writing a new toot with CW and a link to original toot work? (similar to Twitter quotes)
@tekk most people would consider it to be awfully cold for naked wanderings. I live in Moscow which is warmer than most places in Russia, and 15 is the average noon temperature in September (in mornings/evenings it is more like 10°C...)
Now if we were talking about tropical places...
Nudity
@tekk where do you live? I would love that warm climate.
There are places where nudity is socially acceptable and even recommended; one of these is at the southern France coast. It only has a decent population during summer; otherwise it's too cold there. One may say that e.g. 15°C is warm enough, but only a handful of people seem to agree. And that's a warm place.
Other reason is that people have to interact with other people in crowded settings. I would hate to do it while naked.
@gingerrroot I thought that social capital means exactly that, making connections / talking with people?
@BillieCodes Have you read Imperial Radch by @ann_leckie ? She's doing exactly that, and more.
@lutoma But at least people other people will be able to spend more time on Mastodon reading their feed. For example, right now only 1% of my feed are registered on Mastodon, so I'll still use twitter for reading.
Do you see any other way of breaking that vicious circle of network effect? I don't see a lot of people migrating to Mastodon; setting up crossposting would be some valuable first step...
I strongly advise everybody to create their @MastodonProject@twitter.com account (mine is https://toot.cat/@penartur) and to configure crossposting from Twitter on https://moa.party
You don't have to actively use Mastodon, but at least you'll improve on the problem with network effect.
@ellavescent Blame the cat
@forivall @zkat @iarna @aredridel At first, I also thought that it doesn't work, but it seems that it has some 5 minutes lag before crossposting? Works for me now, but you have to wait for 5 minutes for tweets / toots to appear on other platform.