• glimse@lemmy.world
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      I think this was specifically a mastodon dig - which I totally get. Feels like most of what I see from there is quite obnoxious.

      I hate that reddit-style sites federate with twitter-style sites, too. I #don’t #want #to #see #a #million #fuckin #hashtags #in #the #title

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        I think it really depends on which instance you choose since it’s not my experience with Masto at all, either. I’ve been on .art since 2017, I think. It’s a super strict instance that heavily blocks users and instances for racism, transmisia etc (including silincing .social when they don’t get their shit together) and it’s been a very positive experience overall, I’ve met so many cool people.

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          I just what’s federated here. I couldn’t get any friends to switch to mastodon so I never really got into it. I’m not interested in following influencers and celebrities (outside of Ben Collins on bluesky)

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            Haha, I’m used to none of my friends using “social” media (except for FB which I never used and they all joined Insta after I left) so none of my fedifriends are AFK friends.

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              Pre-Trump Twitter is what most of my friends used. A few stayed on there but most of us went to bluesky.

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          Or even just people you follow. I made my own mastodon instance for my photography and follow photography related tags and such so that’s all it is from my point of view. I chose mastodon as that seemed to be the best way to federate to Lemmy and pixelfed from one account

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    Fun coincidence in terms of “three assholes”: the phonic punctuation mark ஃ in Tamil, which looks very similar to an asterism ⁂, is used to represent a voiceless glottal fricative (like the /h/ in “ham”).

    The two fun rectal-related bits:

    • This type of character in Sanskrit phonology, a visarga, means “discharge”.
    • Its cousin, representing a nasal /n/ sound, is called an anusvara.

    ~Disclaimer: I think this is all true, but I don’t really know what I’m talking about, I was just looking into the Unicode a little.~

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    The dinkus is my favourite punctuation mark! :D Although, the asterism isn’t my favourite way to write a dinkus 🙃