Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Esme Povirk
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⚠️ Hey #MastoAdmin FYI there is a Mastodon security update apparently coming 6 July.
The reason you probably didn't know about it, is because it was only announced* behind a proprietary centralized paywalled garden. (Not Twitter.)
Be ready.
* This is not a recommended way to run an #OpenSource community.
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Happy Enshitification Day! 💥
July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ab-blockers, Meta and Google block news in Canada...
A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshitification, how corporate platforms die (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys), and every corporate site seems hell bend on their own destruction.
Celebrate Enshitification Day by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!
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pride month is over, time for wrath month
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I think the only thing I wanna put out there for newbies landing on fedi is not only do you not have to censor words to evade bots, algorithms and searcher arguments; doing so actively harms the ability of people who want to set up mutes OR enhanced notifications to do so on that content.
Yeah some people might have muted the word 'commission' because they don't want to be exposed to opening ads for whatever reason.
Please don't do that. You don't have to here. We're big on individual agency to see or not see what we wanna.
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My ultimate fediverse tips are:
- Embrace these specialised nerdy spaces
- Think about how awesome it is that people have such great passions and how you’re definitely one of them
- Wait, am I autistic?
- Let me research that for a minute…
- Holy shit I’m autistic!
- Oh my god this explains so much
- Oh wow I can finally embrace all of myself and share my true self without shame
- I’m going to post so much about random shit that interests me!
@Fenreliania Drowning out doesn't really work for me, it only increases the amount of noise.
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Someone else on another network said (and again, I think they meant it as an insult) that Mastodon is social media designed by people who think that social media is bad, and unironically yes.
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Oh my goodness... a LOT of new people... 😮 Welcome! 👋
If you need help with using Mastodon and the Fediverse, have a look at:
It's written for a non-technical audience, and hopefully answers most beginners' questions.
If you're looking for accounts to follow, there are lots of ways to do it summarised here:
If you have any problems, ask me and I'll try to help!
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I wish I knew how to communicate that I wanna be touched. Like I wanna be hugged, leaned on, hold my hand, cuddle, rest an arm on me. Even just platonically I want folks to get close.
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Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381 km.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seitengr%C3%B6%C3%9Fe_PDF_7.svg
animal psychology, conditioning/training //
@lioness Huh. In hindsight I feel that I never really responded to punishment, but I had assumed this was unusual.
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to hell with executive function, this brain is now a worker co-op
nail art
I found this shirt in my metaphorical closet, so I had to use it to show off this lovely nail art that I received this weekend.
Doing it but set to archive instead of delete, just in case.
Tempted to make a filter to just delete emails containing "How likely are you to recommend", but worried it might delete something important.
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US public wants climate change dealt with, but doesn’t like the options
People want both action and to keep using fossil fuels.
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This is your periodic reminder that, unless you buy and download the music you love, it will absolutely disappear out from under you at some point.
I failed to heed my own advice! This album is pretty obscure, sure, but now it's grayed out on Apple Music, and totally gone from the iTunes Store, so too late there. Bummer.
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Today's gender is the sound of a dial tone.
Joined Aug 2018
