Mike, First of His Name @mike@chinwag.org

Hi, new Chinwag arrivals! Been a while since I refreshed the pinned welcome post, so here we go!

First, welcome! Second, Chinwag is more of a community than a service. We're pretty chill and open, but the happiness of our current regular users is more important than future growth.

Our admins are moderately left-leaning by Australian standards, so if you're an American you'll probably think we're godless communists bent on destroying society. Just fair warning.

Please post pics of your cats.

Hey, I just wanted to say a quick #welcome to the recent Chinwag arrivals!

Chinwag's reason for existing is to provide communication tools for people, which is something I've always been interested in. I kind of target #Australian users, but welcome anyone from anywhere.

Please read our rules: https://social.chinwag.org/about/more

And our privacy policy: https://social.chinwag.org/terms

There's a basic guide to using Chinwag Social here: https://chinwag.im/social/

If you have any questions or concerns hit me up!

Making someone call the helpdesk and log a ticket themselves instead of putting the details in for them, purely because they called me "Mark" when they messaged me.

You can't NOT SEE my name right there when you do that, mate. Go make a phone call.

Work: this 15 year old projector only has analogue inputs, it's useless. We'll send it to hard rubbish.

Me: my collection of old computers would beg to differ.

Work: your home and the bin are equivalent as far as we're concerned.

Me: yay, I think.

Now the one guy with good mic technique seems to have forgotten to turn his on.

Dear everyone on this panel, holding a microphone in your hand or using it to point at things isn't enough. You need to speak into it.

Am I the only person on the planet who doesn't look back at The Fifth Element and remember a pretty dull movie? I didn't really get the appeal then, or now.

Algorithmic timelines are awful partly because people learn to game them and craft posts to "succeed", but maybe a timeline of some completely randomly selected posts might be fun.

The ticket inspectors were on the train this morning and I'm absolutely certain the dude who came to me only pretended to scan the pass on my phone. No notification or anything at my end, but the dude nodded.

I wonder if they can't actually read them but don't want to say.

OK, a test version of Chinwag Social synced to Mastodon 3.5.2 now exists and runs on my laptop.

I guess this is warning that there'll be some downtime this week at some point, but I want to do an extra full backup first. Maybe tomorrow, I'm going to do some other stuff this evening, OK?

Ordering pizza instead of cooking tonight because ah fuck it I'm too old for this shit