@GerardsGuitar I mean, dogs kind of are strange looking seals. :P

@zod000 @mechanicalkeyboards Thanks! It definitely took a while to get used to. Weirdly, it almost seems like the split keyboard aspect was harder than the ortholinear aspect for me.

@pinball_wizard @mechanicalkeyboards Haha, thank you!

Also, waaaaaaazz uuuuuup.

@mechanicalkeyboards I’ve had this setup for ~6 years now. I don’t think they make the white trackball mouse anymore. The ball also lights up – I don’t think the new models do that anymore, either.

The keyboard has Cherry MX browns in it. This is the original Ergodox EZ model, so they’re soldered in there.

@SamuraiBeandog @aww yep!

@herrcaptain @aww I’ll let him know!

@aww Update: we have chilled out and are now falling asleep standing up.

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@Telorand @opensource Maybe. But I didn’t think there was an actual funkwhale instance at that URL – I thought it was just the project’s website (forums, git repo, etc). I could be wrong, though.

If so, that’s an unfortunate way of learning to separate the two, I guess. 😩

@aciDC14 @opensource Not sure what you mean; Funkwhale is a self-hostable application for streaming music. Uses ActivityPub for sharing, too.

v2 was in the planning stages on their forum, but the website has now been down for 2-3 days (that I know of).

@opensource I see that a new whois record was created for the domain name just today. Any chance it expired? 😬 cc @funkwhale @cda

@BlinkerFluid @hedge I agree with your overall point: social networks where you subscribe to a community seem to get more replies (and longer replies) than ones where you subscribe a person. They also make it harder for influencers to take off – anyone’s post has a chance of generating discussion. They deemphasize who the OP is.

Mastodon’s ability to follow those communities is, IMO, a killer feature that I hope more people discover. (Case in point: I’m posting this from Mastodon right now.)

Plenty of people try to use popular hashtags to promote their unrelated content, but I’m almost impressed that they actually tried to make a segue from “oatmilk” to “my hustle grindset blog.”