The weirdest thing about this moment of "Where will everyone go after Twitter? Will it be Mastodon? Bluesky? Instagram? Threads? Cohost? Calckey? Discord?" people are not even *considering* the possibility of a Tumblr resurgence. That's how badly the operators of Tumblr messed things up.

By the way, I just boosted a couple posts about the often-overlooked Tweetdeck-style "Advanced Mode" for Mastodon:

Mastodon

If you use this, you might be interested in installing the "Stylus" extension and using @npub1gpdw...t4xh's "Compacter Mastodon" userstyle:

Compact(er) Mastodon by eramdam

Tweaks margins and sizes to make Mastodon's UI more compact.

This looks more like the old Mastodon 3.0, fits a LOT more on the screen, and posts are indented past the avatars, which I think makes the page much easier to scan. My Mastodon looks like this:

I feel kinda bad I'm making so many posts about tech stuff like, idk, Mozilla, while having said nothing at all about the much more significant Bad Stuff coming from eg the United States Supreme Court, but the thing is I have struggled to think of anything useful I could say about the United States of America right now which would be legal to put in writing

L O FUCKING L

Started reading a tutorial for Kotlin MutableSharedFlows and the English was full of really glaring grammatical errors, just really blatant that whoever wrote this did not have English as their first language, and I was like… oh, thank goodness. A human wrote this. I can trust it