@ffmike I was thinking more about the people who bought virtual McMansions, supermodel avatars and virtual clothes like you’d find in a Beverly Hills boutique. When I was a SL enthusiast myself I looked down on those people but now I think they should enjoy SL however they want.

@manton It works great. I do still use a Masto account for reading and I would like an easy way to (1) Read a Masto post from my Masto account (2) Reply to it and (3) Have that reply appear to come from Mastodon.

@manton Sorry about the typos. But you get the gist.

@manton Nucejob on the new formatting for truncation. Much nicer. I’m going to switch off Mastodon syndication again and just use MB as my fedi outpost.

@miljko I reread it in 2021 or 2022. So this was before chatGPT went mainstream. I had not considered the novel in that light. It really was amazingly prescient labout the feedback loop between online influencers and real life. 

@miljko What did you think? I loved it when I was a kid. Rereading it as an adult, I thought the first half? two-thirds? were great but then it fell apart. Obviously timely due to the talk over recent years about the metaverse. And I was a one-time Second Life enthusiast and saw the parallel — give people the option to be anything they can imagine in a virtual world, and most people will just choose to be rich and beautiful conventional people.

@manton I’m very interested to see your version of RSS. I am a longtime Inoreader user and have a love-hate relationship with it — my annual sub comes up in about six weeks and I am, for the millionth time, considering alternatives. Your app will be high up on my list!

@maique I’m a back-out. I can’t remember ever trying to back in.

@sjvn I am terrible at parallel parking, which is a shame because when we lived in San Francisco, I was an absolute wizard at it. I could parallel park on a steep hill into a space barely longer than the car. 

@eurobubba my favorite military officer!