Every time a newcomer posts an introduction and somebody tells them they shouldn’t have joined Mastodon.social and need to move to a different server, an angel loses their wings.
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@Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi most of the survivors were muffins and bagels, thus forever changing English tea habits.
@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger Winners write the history of wars
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@CiaraNi The funny(ish) thing is that Bluesky is just as purity testy about people going there from Twitter. But all that does help you decide who you want to interact with (one way or the other).
@RobJLow Interesting. I didn't know that about Bluesky.
'But all that does help you decide who you want to interact with (one way or the other)."
This is a great and true point
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@wsrphoto @CiaraNi @bleistifterin @rgarner
There's only one way to drink coffee - black!@rgarner@mastodon.social @bleistifterin@fnordon.de @CiaraNi@mastodon.green @wsrphoto@sfba.social @Sarahw@mastodon.green
cold brew tastes better than cooked coffee. black. or maybe some green tea for kicks
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@CiaraNi I’m not sure about the correct pronunciation, but I don’t really like scones. (Ducks & hides under the table…)
@Zero2beach This is as shocking to me as the time someone told me they don't like puppies
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@CiaraNi And some people need their twitter account. I need twitter to contact my ISP via DM. Without twitter, I would need to use the phone and I'm not doing that if I can avoid it.
Plus, I have deleted all my posts, likes, etc. and changed my profile to encourage everyone to leave. I just sit there as a dead account. Maybe they count those as active, but at this point, anyone advertizing over there is doing it because they are nazi adjacent and don't really care about normal things.
@human3500 It's a personal choice to let an account lie dormant or actually delete it. Whatever suits you or any of us. It's not up to any passing stranger to start interviewing people, asking them unsolicited questions about the details of their other social media accounts the minute they walk in the door to the Fediverse.
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@CiaraNi @imalcolm @johnlorimer @annika
Fully agree that we should celebrate folk for trying out Mastodon, and avoid shaming or complicating things re: "oh no you picked bad instance"
I also agree with the many issues and problems with mastodon . social
I try to do a little "actually-welcoming committee" by having # introduction + # newhere as part of my 'advanced interface / deck / homepage', that does not include instance judgement.
@dusk @imalcolm @johnlorimer @annika That's a nice idea. Tips & tricks in a general toot. Not personal and unsolicited, like people going into a newcomer's replies and instructing them what they're doing 'wrong'.
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@wannabemystiker @CiaraNi Cone all the way!
@toothless @wannabemystiker Yes, cone all the way!
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@CiaraNi born in Green, now residing in deepest darkest Orange
@toothless My thoughts and prayers are with you
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'I definitely say it in a way that rhymes with 'cone' and have no idea why.'
Oh I can explain that. The reason you think Cone rhymes with Scone is because it does. Skon be gone.
"Oh I can explain that. The reason you think Cone rhymes with Scone is because it does. Skon be gone."
Haha! That explains it!
My Irish ancestors came from Clare (180 years ago) and my English ancestors came from the West Midlands (300 years ago) -- all in the "cone" zone but there's no way that speech pattern would hold that long -- or maybe it would.
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@rgarner@mastodon.social @bleistifterin@fnordon.de @CiaraNi@mastodon.green @wsrphoto@sfba.social @Sarahw@mastodon.green
cold brew tastes better than cooked coffee. black. or maybe some green tea for kicks
@m3t00 'Cold brew' coffee - I could've done with a content warning there
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"Oh I can explain that. The reason you think Cone rhymes with Scone is because it does. Skon be gone."
Haha! That explains it!
My Irish ancestors came from Clare (180 years ago) and my English ancestors came from the West Midlands (300 years ago) -- all in the "cone" zone but there's no way that speech pattern would hold that long -- or maybe it would.
@wannabemystiker A Clare man at heart - a county that not only pronounces scone correctly but is very beautiful too. I like the idea of a 'cone scone zone'.
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@wannabemystiker A Clare man at heart - a county that not only pronounces scone correctly but is very beautiful too. I like the idea of a 'cone scone zone'.
@CiaraNi @wannabemystiker @toothless The map backs up your assertion. https://brilliantmaps.com/scone-map/
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Every time a newcomer posts an introduction and somebody tells them they shouldn’t have joined Mastodon.social and need to move to a different server, an angel loses their wings.
@CiaraNi I never make intro's -
@DavidBridger @jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits I don't know how they pronounce scone in Scone, but I do know they pronounce Scone skoon
@timpootle @DavidBridger @jbenjamint @CiaraNi @Wifiwits I have always been amused that the following sentence:
"I ate one scone at the Stone of Scone"
contains four occurrences of the letter sequence "one" that are often (in some accents, consistently) pronounced *completely differently*. It's not as bad as the situation with "ough", but it's pretty close.
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@CiaraNi @Wifiwits @DavidBridger often wondered if they pronounce it scone or scone in Scone.
The rhone, postponed, feels lonely on the scone.
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@rgarner@mastodon.social @bleistifterin@fnordon.de @CiaraNi@mastodon.green @wsrphoto@sfba.social @Sarahw@mastodon.green
cold brew tastes better than cooked coffee. black. or maybe some green tea for kicks
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@DavidBridger @CiaraNi there were few survivors of the scone/skon wars. #skonskonskon
@Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi Which "skon" do you mean? In the IPA, /skon/ is something that sounds like scone, rather than one that sounds like skon. Ok, to be clearer, something that sounds like tone, rather than something that sounds like gone.
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<Sigh.>
<Moose picks up coffee mug (empty) and wanders downstairs to open a fresh packet of Ginger Nut biscuits.>
