Hey everyone, I’ve made a Mastodon profile at https://mastodon.art/@Tangleworm to have a place outside of Tumblr/Twitter! Feel free to hit me up if you’re also there.

its time to re think social media, which is becoming increasingly antisocial, anti democratic and overly censored by media companies or the state.
Ive looked over several alternatives since tumblr announced its censorship campaign (and demise). Despite there being more than a dozen of tumblr competitors, my conclusion is to skip the centralized, and thereby unreliable and locked in solutions and finally move to decentralized social media.

Mastodon is a decentralized, like email. You simply join a server, a “mastodon instance”, that is connected to the whole network, or you host you own server and let people join. Each instance is just a point of entry to the whole network, which is build by the community. Each instance can have its own rules, on what is allowed and what is not.

Then you can post and follow people on your, or other mastodon servers.
Its also possible to move your whole account and its content, following list etc. to another server.
f.e. instance (NSFW allowed) mastodon.social
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE

wiifittrainer:

i see a lot of people asking what mastodon is but no answers, so here is an explanation

mastodon is a hosting service that allows anyone to create servers on it known as instances (with mastodon.social being the most popular one). once an instance is created, people can join it (instances can also be private, so that the only way to join is via an invite). the person who creates the instance also moderates it, with the option to allow other people to moderate it alongside them. as such, rules vary instance to instance and are usually listed on the front page of it.

there are thousands of different instances. moderators of each instance can blacklist other instances from interacting with anyone in their instance.

instances can be based around a certain topic i.e. pokemon or art, be completely miscellaneous, be only for lgbt people, stuff along those lines (they can even have custom emojis!) basically its like creating individual small-scale social media websites. people from different instances can still follow and interact with each other as well, like how people who join different email websites can still email each other

hopefully this helps people out!!

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So far, Mastodon looks like the most promising escape route.

A new place to upload anything, that doesn’t get past Tumblr’s modesty-bot!

Eatsbluecrayon (@[email protected])

It’s still rather empty.

(Thank you @caiusmajor for pointing out I had the wrong adress)

In light of recent events, I have created two new dedicated art accounts on TwitterandMastodon, where I will be posting my new art as well as reposting some of my old favorites

I will still be posting my art on here as long as Tumblr remains online (as well as on Patreon), so don’t worry about that

Thank you for your continued support. New gifs will be up soon

Killer Be Killed-Reluctant Hero

The, possibly, most high-profile metal supergroup, Killer Be Killed, are back after a lengthy break following their self-titled 2014 debut with a rather similarly well-rounded sophomore effort. Sepultura founder and current Soulfly leader Max Cavalera, dynamic frontman of the late Dillinger Escape Plan and The Black Queen Greg Puciato (who just put out a fantastic solo album a month ago), Troy Sanders of Mastodon, and Converge drummer Ben Koller make for a rather promising and lineup.

Though it takes some time to break into its shoes, a few songs in to build some momentum, Reluctant Hero is a pretty boisterous display from the star-studded alliance, who really have no excuse to fail with their combined pedigrees in the album’s thorough combination of relatively straightforward thrash, groove metal, and sludge metal.

The multi-vocal attack serves some of the more dynamic trade-offs well, but with three of them singing, I think they could have gone a little harder on layered vocal harmonies and dizzying trade-offs.

Indeed, the album’s greatest weakness is perhaps how unambitious it feels for a project made by the joining of four metal giants, especially in comparison to their works with their respective main bands.

Despite feeling largely like a less-proggy, safe version of an early Mastodon album, Reluctant Hero delivers the no-nonsense thrashers and groovy bangers it needs to, and any complaints about it are mild and largely overshadowed by the exciting dynamic exchanged among the four superstars here.

7/10

Sometimes I can pinpoint the exact moment when I started loving something. Go listen to Mastodon’s Leviathan. Get to “Megalodon”. About a minute and twenty seconds into that song I laughed. I laughed like a maniac. It was like a joke. Not a bad joke, but a good, well-executed, smart funny joke. The second that happened to me I had a new favorite metal band. 

Find me here

mastodon.art/@rosemelon

My most recent vinyl acquisitions.