maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

i make music: https://maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: https://maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: https://links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

a cross-section diagram of multi-user mastodon instances

i think for the past 10 years i shifted from being close to people and shut myself into being close only with our polycule while communal spaces either abused me or banned me outright. i turned into a really socially anxious creature but the need for connection is still there

i love getting messages from people. if you're a mutual and i haven't talked to you in ever and you want to please message me. this is a problem on my end

it's funny, on one paw i miss chatting one on one with people on MSN, on another i feel discouraged to do so in any modern fashion today

and i can't put my digit on what exactly changed. is the difference in UI/UX paradigm all there is to it? did i change? did my circles change?

while i do think that there was a lot of fucked up stuff that shouldn't have been as easy as it was for 10 year old me to find, i also think today's internet is far too sterile

all my friends are on lesbiaboard you should join it

"A BBS is technically social media also" -Jeff Gerstmann, 2026

i wish fxtwitter would link to nitter or nitter would render embed cards so you don't have to link to the same post twice on both URLs

cronflakes

going to the anna's archive does anyone want anything

nobody should be allowed to design a GUI before reading this

use more gradients. use more 3d buttons. make your ui elements shine. for goodness sake

gonna start trying signing all of my posts with subliminal messaging to try to bring myself some good luck (hire me)

pretty much all batteries are toast. 26 quid for a full set of replacements. gonna have to wait until i somehow have that money (hire me)

got some cubes