Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.

It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.

It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.

Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.

These excerpts of two consecutive pages of the Spectrum programming manual are a wonderful example of the importance of page turns and layout.

And also possibly a brilliant bit of trolling young kids learning to program - the computer will do EXACTLY what you tell it to, including deleting this little program. Save early, save often!

apocalyptic highschool dating sim

Truths we have to hold in balance:

1. Logging onto a feed and seeing a bunch of anger and despair about current events can be real stressful. The issue isn't any one message, but the deluge, and how it takes over--and boundaries around that are good.

2. We cannot separate our communities from the world we in which we live, where "no politics" usually means "leave politicized aspects of your identity at the door" and "pretend oppressive status quos are neutral."

#punk

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Euphoria from skirts off the cheapest part of Amazon. I watched grown women's eyes glitter with tears in the dark at being called by their name. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Time to live.”
-- @Impossible_PhD@twitter.com

🔗 https://twitter.com/Impossible_PhD/status/1589820317903749120
🏷 #Trans #GenderEuphoria #TransJoy

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Palmdle 2.0.1 hotfix release:
- Fixes online (checked ID) games not having their stats tracked

This one was a silly mistake, sorry for the inconvenience

https://github.com/Lana-chan/palmdle/releases/tag/v2.0.1

My own post about why you should actually not federate with Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online.

But it's mostly focused on the behavior of Eugen, not the servers as much.

https://rage.love/@maloki/109292946570882602

Reasons to defederate from Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online: Eugen would open registrations without consulting or preparing his mod team at the time, after agreeing to keep them closed (this went on over and over after he had promised not to do it again).

He would, in the early days, insist that Mastodon.social was not a flagship instance, and then open a second server, still owned and run by him. (second server is Mastodon.online)

He would promise no algorithms and then create the explore page without input. And the trending hashtags without establishing it with the community.

He surrounds himself with yes sayers, and if you want to stay in his good graces you need to take a fair amount of abuse if you disagree with him.

He would (I have not recent data points on this) throw a disabled partner's, as in business, disability back in their face when not wanting to work with them any more.

The community asked for years for a Mastodon Nonprofit, so we'd be responsible together. He eventually created one with himself as the sole founder, and no other members (as far as I've been able to find.)

All hail the Benevolent Dictator For Life.

(rewrote because some faulty info, but added some stuff I know got sure, as I do not want to give reason to be called a liar.)

Hey! I'm seeing lots of doomsaying about Mastodon today, and lots of people lamenting their new found popularity and ...

I've been thinking about this a lot.

I've been thinking about what we're losing, of course, and I understand that people are lamenting that.

I'm also thinking about what we're gaining, and the opportunity we have.

Our small communities don't have to go anywhere. We still exist, out here in this federated space. I'll have to be a little faster on the block button for the next few weeks, but my friends are still here.

And, in the process, we are robbing Corporate "Social Media" of power, which is unquestionably good.

Are we equipped for the moderation nightmare to come? Hell no! That's why my instance is small, and mostly federates with other small instances. This doesn't solve the problem, but it does slow things down.

I hope that we can find a way to look past despair for what was, and towards what might be.

unfortunately this will mean needing an internet-enabled device with you each daily game you start on your palm to check the server. Or you can fetch an RSS feed with the next few IDs in advance. Classic mode is still also an option but answers won't sync

Palmdle 2.0 released!
- Allowed words list updated
- Adds support for color screens
- Games after 505 now require an ID to match original game. See https://palmdle.maple.pet/
- Game board shows stats when letters are hidden

https://github.com/Lana-chan/palmdle/releases/tag/v2.0

if you ever used #webgbcam https://maple.pet/webgbcam this is your chance to pay me for it https://ko-fi.com/squirrel

I'm not getting a job evidently so give me money. I need money to stay here and to buy things to keep me alive. I'd love to not ask you (yes, you, specifically) for money but literally there is no way for me to get a job, trust me I tried. Your move. https://ko-fi.com/squirrel

For all it's advantages and faults, #Mastodon was not built to be a *new* Twitter. It was built to be *not* Twitter.

That distinction is important.