arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es
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I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time: such as randomizers, roguelikes, and gender expression! Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
also at: https://cohost.org/arborelia
Joined Jan 2020
It's 1990 on Silver Ball Century, my retrospective of virtual pinball tables: https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/1316331-why-is-the-world-in
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@r4_ni contacting their servers would be a bad idea, given they are probably the admins. that would just let them know they have a live target.
and yeah they can get pretty far given the only inter-server moderation tool is fediblock, which is too little too late!
like any service capable of operating on the Internet should see someone @-ing 100 people they've never interacted with before, and say, nah, this isn't going to happen.
oh there's a federation reason that that's impossible? okay! that's why federation is fucking stupid!
@Doephin like maybe slow down before you reply with an existing feature that isn't doing the job!
stop and think about what the person you're replying to actually said!
@Doephin are you being deliberately obtuse
so uh, I'm not the only one who got my notifications spammed with transphobic death threats from different servers, right?
it's making me even more disillusioned about the "fediverse". is there any sort of plan for cross-instance moderation that isn't "hope it doesn't happen too much"?
(if you say fediblock you are in denial)
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FACTS ABOUT MASTODON
If you are curious about leaving the cooked turkey site and going to the elephant site, here are some important tips:
1. It sucks. But then, so does every site.
2. You can still shitpost. Take great glee.
3. Picking your server is super important.
Ideally you should start at a large instance, and leave because it's full of white suburban NIMBY shitheads who joined in November because they were promised 0 uncomfortable experiences in their lives and lash out when this turns out not to be the case.
Then you move to a smaller server where suddenly you can't talk to your friends because your admin is feuding with the admin of their instance. Then you wait a month before you can move again.
In this regard, the feudal structure of Mastodon instances is very like early 2000s message boards, whenever the admin got drunk and deleted the site.
4. You can work around the feudalism by running Mastodon yourself. It's the size of a mastodon and costs a fortune.
You can run Pleroma, which is smaller, and is also favoured by Nazis for unfortunate historical reasons. Pleroma is perfectly good software that fulfils a need for something smaller than Mastodon, but also the devs are definitely not Nazis but are the other ten guys at the table.
There was a hilarious moment where the guy behind Spinster was so obnoxious he got kicked out of Pleroma and did his own fork called Soapbox/Rebased. He is now known as Soapbox Terf.
The nice people went to Pleroma fork Akkoma, which Soapbox Terf calls the "tr***y server", a review I understand they were delighted by. Try that.
There's also Misskey, which is a bit weird and Japanese, and supports cat ears right there in the protocol.
5. Any bozo who makes assertions about the Fediverse that assume it all runs on the rules of mastodon.social is one of the suburban NIMBYs and invariably joined in November. Block and don't look back.
6. If anyone annoys you about your posting, you can improve their feed for them by blocking them from ever seeing your posts. The blocking tools are marvellous.
7. There are NO QUOTE TWEETS on Mastodon and anyone who wants QUOTE TWEETS is an invader, pollutant and corrupting influence despoiling the suburban vistas of Mastodon who only wants quote tweets to wreak EVIL.
So quote-tweeting is well supported in Akkoma and the Calckey fork of Misskey, is in live trials in the Treehouse fork of Mastodon, and will be coming to more Fediverse software soon.
8. In Mastodon, Eugen Rochko has achieved the creation of something greater than himself. And he will *never forgive it*.
9. The Fediverse interprets Website Boy as damage and routes around him.
10. Mastodon is yet another demonstration that worse is better. So come onto Mastodon, and *be* that worse.
can I finish a Mystery Mystery randomizer run before it's time to go see a movie? https://twitch.tv/arborelia
It's the end of the 80s on #silverballcentury, my chronological stream through pinball history
@JonnyMiskatonic I do it manually, but a script would be cool to have
It's my first stream of April, and I'm playing the #alttprandomizer with some foolish new settings
also, as you may notice, it was turned off, which was very beneficial to the tournament experience
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“Fancy autocomplete scares self-declared geniuses into a doomsday cult” could have been a mid TNG episode if it wasn’t real
go to a Wawa and order a grilled ham and swiss sandwich on each ordering screen, with different toppings on each. call that Variations on a Theme of Ham Panini
Richmond Pinball Collective has a Star Wars Episode One machine with an exclusive topper.
hey my Randothon run is done but I want to play more Ittle Dew 2 randomizer! I came up with new rando settings that include the portal worlds, not just the dungeons
Ittle Dew 2 randomizer practice, for Randothon tomorrow: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
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Since there's an article from “Future Life Institute” being circulated in the media I want to share this article explaining some of the very frightening ideas behind “longtermism” and their leaders
https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo
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- she/her
I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time: such as randomizers, roguelikes, and gender expression! Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
also at: https://cohost.org/arborelia
Joined Jan 2020
