Hi I am new to Mastodon, I don't really know what I am doing here yet.
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@withinity I mean, I'm pretty cool...
@jordan You are pretty cool! Consider yourself followed

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@shinydelight I was craving cookies thank you!
@withinity You are very welcome!

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@VANTABlack2000 @withinity welcome to Mastodon! It can take some time to find your feet here, but once you've found your "neighbors" there's nothing quite like it elsewhere on the social web. As another reply mentioned, tags are an essential method of finding topics you're interested in here. Definitely a good idea to find some you're interested in (though most game stuff I see doesn't really use them
)I can confirm that @Alblune and @LukaTheMouse are great follows!
Also think these folks are awesome:
@glassbottommeg
@eniko
@aeva
@lisyarus
@typeswitch
@unormal
@Gord
@Alrecenk
@silverspookgames
@zarfeblong
@djlink
@maddy
@zeux
@zep
@Doomed_Daniel
@icculus
@alienmelon
@rygorous
@cmddx
@demofox
@radiatoryang
@inform7tips(I'm sure I am leaving people out, though!)
@SnoopJ Thank you! I added a bunch of them!
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Hi I am new to Mastodon, I don't really know what I am doing here yet. Does anyone know of any cool nonprofits or gamedev people to follow? Currently my feed is just the internet archive. I love that, but it might not lead to a very satisfying experience.
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Yeah, Paesano's is what I consider Midwest good.
Living in LA as a postdoc with some spending money and occasional Dad or PI-funded dinners at *really* good restaurants will pretty much ruin a palate for Midwest good eats.
And I'm not sure that dining out is cheaper here. We plunked $75 for one cocktail, one beer, a small wood-fired pizza, and a side of asparagus, tip not included. Nice location though, near the botanical garden on a deck overlooking the creek.
@MCDuncanLab Yea I would say that's about par for the course here as well.
Detroit has some fancy dining on that island. I was invited to an event there for some science thing. It was more of a boys club than good food though :/.
I'll have to check out the west coast one day. Boston and the cape is great for seafood.
Also if you ever need someone whose good at chemical data analysis with stats/ML I can probably help :D.
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@hardpenguin13 Hi!!!
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[ US centric post ]
"cool nonprofit" is in the eye of the beholder, but in the US, most nonprofits are required to file a tax return called a form 990
eg, if you search for say the Southern Poverty Law center, you find
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/630598743they have almost US $ one billion in the bank (!!!!) and the CEO is paid almost half a million dollars
so maybe not that cool
@failedLyndonLaRouchite Ewy. I am all for founders making some money to live and take care of themselves. But imagine what you could do to forward a cause by taking 1/4 of that salary

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@withinity I follow a few gamedev and art people.
I am on mobile, so I can't add links atm, but if you like anti-ai and fantasy comics I would look at David Revoy
Alblune Studios and one of their devs Luca made and is updating a fun rat picross/house maker called Squeakross: Home Squeak Home
Georgina Bensly (I may have the spelling wrong sorry) if you want to hear about a steam curator trying to find yuri games.
Vintage Story is a fun game to look into that has a Mastodon account too.
@VANTABlack2000 @withinity
I think these are the links Vanta mentions:
@davidrevoy
@Alblune @hanakogames
@vintagestoryWelcome!
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite Ewy. I am all for founders making some money to live and take care of themselves. But imagine what you could do to forward a cause by taking 1/4 of that salary


I didn't mention it, cause I was to lazy to find a source, but pretty sure SPLC has a long history of abusive treatment of employees
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@VANTABlack2000 @withinity
I think these are the links Vanta mentions:
@davidrevoy
@Alblune @hanakogames
@vintagestoryWelcome!
@jandi Thanks for the reccomendations
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Hi I am new to Mastodon, I don't really know what I am doing here yet. Does anyone know of any cool nonprofits or gamedev people to follow? Currently my feed is just the internet archive. I love that, but it might not lead to a very satisfying experience.
@withinity @david_chisnall
Now I'm imagining a feed of alerts when something is added to the Internet Archive. -
@withinity @david_chisnall
Now I'm imagining a feed of alerts when something is added to the Internet Archive.@FritzAdalis Thats kind of what my feed looked like when I first set it up and I was like "this can't be why people come here" so I asked for help.
A filtered feed based on topics of books going to the internet archive would be very nice though. Every few months I go on there and search for the same topics to try and hoard more ebooks I don't have time to read
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I didn't mention it, cause I was to lazy to find a source, but pretty sure SPLC has a long history of abusive treatment of employees
@failedLyndonLaRouchite I believe it. Sometimes I think the only way to do it is to start my own where I actually make sure people are getting something out of it. The problem is I don't think those ones get much money :(.
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Hi I am new to Mastodon, I don't really know what I am doing here yet. Does anyone know of any cool nonprofits or gamedev people to follow? Currently my feed is just the internet archive. I love that, but it might not lead to a very satisfying experience.
@withinity welcome !
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@withinity welcome !
@vampgun Thank you!
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@jordan You are pretty cool! Consider yourself followed

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Hi I am new to Mastodon, I don't really know what I am doing here yet. Does anyone know of any cool nonprofits or gamedev people to follow? Currently my feed is just the internet archive. I love that, but it might not lead to a very satisfying experience.
@withinity If I see the number of boosts, you must have reached quite a few people to hang out with...
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Hi I am new to Mastodon, I don't really know what I am doing here yet. Does anyone know of any cool nonprofits or gamedev people to follow? Currently my feed is just the internet archive. I love that, but it might not lead to a very satisfying experience.
I have DuckRun on my phone:
17 years old (!) game developer






https://teapot.informationsanarchistik.de/Megamichi
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.informationsanarchistik.teapot.megamichi.duckrun/
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@withinity If I see the number of boosts, you must have reached quite a few people to hang out with...
@martinlentink Yea its overwhelming to be honest. Extremely positive, but its a lot.
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@withinity The local timeline is hidden away under the "Live feeds" button on the sidebar if you're using the web interface.
Peak hours (as I'm able to observe them) are generally around morning to noon on week days in the Americas and in European time zones, and the most significant peaks are during the day on Saturdays. There's no magic recommendation algorithm here so the way to get eyes on something is to post it when people are active (and to post to hashtags people follow).
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