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[–] themachine@lemm.ee 35 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I was hoping to read about actual wolly mammoths.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's why I clicked on it too. Also, mammoths and mastodons are different animals.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 11 months ago

@OutlierBlue @themachine I was hoping to read about that heavy metal band from Atlanta

We are still in c/technology

[–] frog@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

Me too. Like obviously I could just go and read about mastodons now, but it just wouldn't be the same experience.

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 19 points 11 months ago

Did you know that mastodons were relatively short? Despite being nearly 40% more massive than modern African elephants, the American Mastodon was 25% shorter on average!

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 10 points 11 months ago

7 is a big one for me, I feel like mastodon's worst enemy is it's own developers.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Myth 11: Microblogging is a healthy and productive use of your time.

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Myth 12: political discourse online will lead to consensus and alleviate fears.

[–] TerminalLover@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

Honestly, i haven't seen much people arguing about politics on Mastodon. It is a very nice place in that sense.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

...social algorithms...

What is an algorithm?

The Geeks for Geeks blog has a great tidbit from their article Introduction to Algorithms:

Yeah, no, this author doesn't know what they're talking about.