<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I think I topped out at 1800 followers on Twitter.</p><p>I&#39;ve long since surpassed that on Mastodon. It helps that there&#39;s no algorithm which hates me around here!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I think the only people that need a centralized social media like Twitter are those who peddle in going viral. (Eg Kardashian) Vs gaming on Linux which is about news</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> </p><p>There is an ever increasing chance that a large proportion of those 74k accounts are dead/bot accounts.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> how did you arrange for an adequate view and what method of finding root depth did you use?</p>

<p>One of the ways I think about software is meaning vs mechanism. We make software for people. It serves somebody in some purpose that they have. That&#39;s the meaning. But beneath, we have these very simple-minded machines, CPUs, and everything has to be expressed to them. That&#39;s the mechanism. In between there are many, many layers.</p><p>As developers, we have to love both. And as we work on software, our perspective has to shift all over that spectrum. But ultimately I think the we get the best software when mechanism is in service to meaning. And I think a lot of software goes wrong when mechanism is honored over meaning. When convenience to a programmer working on a deeper layer ends up more important than convenience to the user.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I found exactly the same thing. Right after I stopped using Twitter (but long before I actually deleted my account), I had a decision to make about whether or not to let my blog keep auto-tweeting new posts. I checked how many people were actually following those links. It was something like four that year, and it had been going down and down since even before Musk drove it into the ground.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> What a game the original UT is / was! My first real online game, sniff.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Looks cool but I&#39;ve just noticed a worrying trend. </p><p>One of my browser plugins highlights when a game is excluded from the Family Sharing service and this is the 4th I&#39;ve seen in the last day or so. It used to be the odd AAA release but now it&#39;s a bunch of smaller indie games.</p><p>As a Dad with 2 kids starting to get into regular gaming the new version of the family sharing on Steam has been wonderful but it will be seriously kneecapped if Devs are seeing it as a bad thing for them</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> <br />a small tear of joy...</p>