Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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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.

Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.

Just gonna say it again

If you're using the official mastodon app on your phone: Stop It

It doesn't support basic features of the platform

Try Tusky on Android or Metatext on iOS

Bunny potion 🐇

#Furry #FurryArt #Bunny

me: working from home gives me the opportunity to focus on tasks free from the the distractions of a noisy office!

brain:

TROUT

TROUT

LET IT ALL OUT

THESE ARE THE FISH I CAN DO WITHOUT

SALMON

I’M TALKING TO YOU

SALMON

me: cool never mind

You know it's strange, How many people apparently want mastodon to have an algorithm to boost their friends posts.

Just kinda wild to me considering like, that's one of the big things everyone hated about the dead bird site.

Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.

This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.

If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".

So #KeepFediWeird.

If “the cloud” were meant to be a reliable storage medium of data, it would have been called “the fortress” or “the bedrock.” Instead, the cloud metaphor fits how it can slip away at any time