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 made a bit of a post (no new developments) on the gizmo here as well https://forums.transbian.love/?page=thread&id=217

anyway if you want to hit me up elsewhere, maybe join a retro tech group on discord, DM me

i'm going to try staying off here for a few days

being here isn't going to help me achieve what i want.

i think this is the crux of the issue for me. i want the things i do to become more popular. i do not want, particularly, to be a popular person. i have often conflated the two before (or, at least, people have conflated it for me)

i mean, releasing things into the world to a resounding silence hurts like hell

but at least i don't have to answer to anybody else's ideal of me

you know what, i'm glad i'm unpopular

this place is making me miserable.

mind you this is a difficult thought for me because - ha, isn't it ironic that i'm distilling my thoughts in it right here right now - for as little friends and many enemies i have here right now, to outright abandon it will mean a gross (as in scale) shift in my social life

but i'm starting to think it could be one for the better

it's not like i can use this for discoverability any more than i could twitter anyway. i don't think anyone who doesn't already know me wants to find me

i have been in one way or another "microblogging" since 2010 - for 15 years now.

for the first time i'm giving actual, serious thought about stopping. because i think the past 15 years have mostly happened on autopilot

i was thinking of upgrading computer fairies to chuckya

i am no longer thinking about that

honestly i am once again thinking about quitting the fediverse

i did this because i'm a freak who likes to use browsers too old to support SNI

(of which i was unaware of until like last week)

today i finally condensed down like 16 separate subdomain certificates into a single one that's a wildcard for every single one of my domains

(and most my websites are available in http anyway)

(google's https-everywhere was a mistake)

tag your porn appropriately folks

i... i can't find which registrar one of my domains is under.

i need less domains.