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In reply to @ThatMermaid_J.

@ThatMermaid_J @changeling @objectinspace @SingingNala I think he's joking.

In reply to @changeling.

@changeling @objectinspace @SingingNala On the other hand, I'm watching all these people come over here and quite literally beg for the stuff they complain about all the time on Twitter or Facebook, so there's that.

In reply to @SingingNala.

@SingingNala @objectinspace Because you can't have a smooth onboarding process unless you deal with the instance question. Lots of new users, rightly or wrongly, find that to be a huge friction point, and because discovery without a recommendation engine is incredibly difficult, you're left with promote one server or other. And since the Mastodon devs run two large instances, those are the ones they're going to go with.

In reply to @summersun704.

@summersun704 @TRodick93 Yeah I tend to swear a lot too myself, and not just when I'm angry. It's an artform.

In reply to @summersun704.

@summersun704 Let us know if you make it!

In reply to @summersun704.

@summersun704 Really good served over macaroni or rice.

In reply to @summersun704.

@summersun704 If you're going to add jalapenos, use a fresh one, not the pickled ones in the jar. John usually leaves that out because that would make it too spicy for me, but the original recipe calls for jalapenos.

In reply to @summersun704.

@summersun704 Regular 10-oz, unless you like a lot of tomatoes onions and chilis. There's the original and there's also a more spicy one.

In reply to @summersun704.

@summersun704 Pound to pound and a half, depending on how much meat you like.

In reply to @summersun704.

@summersun704 32-oz jar of spaghetti sauce, will make about 10 servings, freezes really well and tastes extra awesome the next day.

In reply to @summersun704.

@summersun704 And one packet of chili powder, they have mild, medium and hot.

In reply to @summersun704.

@summersun704 Once it comes to a boil, switch to low and leave the lid partially off when you're doing all this so it doesn't boil over. Also, brown ground beef first.

In reply to @summersun704.

@summersun704 OK, can of kidney beans, can of ro-tel, some spaghetti sauce, pound of ground beef, put in pot, cook at medium until it comes to a boil. +

In reply to @dangero.

@dangero That could possibly work, but I think the elephant in the room in all the criticism of the Mastodon project just pointing people at mastodon.social is that discovery without recommendation engines is very very difficult to implement, let alone get right. Also, just because I think your idea's ultimately bad doesn't mean you shouldn't continue to throw stuff at the wall to see what resonates and what doesn't.

In reply to @dangero.

@dangero Not sure there's even an API endpoint for just the about page. And there would need to be, along with a way to block everything but that endpoint, in order for this to work. Right now the AI blocking methods are pretty blunt force, fia the robots.txt file.

In reply to @dangero.

@dangero Not with the kind of access you'd need to give it in order to get enough to summarize the content of a server.

In reply to @dangero.

@dangero This would be a horrible idea, not least because then GPT can then scrape all those servers for free training data. And that's just off the top of my head.

In reply to @cambridgeport90.

@cambridgeport90 Yeah I think so, but I'm still using the mobile version so I'd have to double check the full one.

In reply to @cambridgeport90.

@cambridgeport90 It's got a mobile version that's a lot less cluttered.

In reply to @cambridgeport90.

@cambridgeport90 @heydon I'm using Innoreader right now on the computer, and Lyre on iOS.