Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

@junebug Standing in the corner of the inn/tavern, not facing anybody, there is a small table next to me with no chairs besides the one I'm sitting on, and a single mug on the table.

"Everything happening right now...I think I wrote something kind of like this years ago... but in which notebook?"

@misty Even completely apart from context, I still cried a little.

@Adorable_Sergal For that matter, so are ioquake3, dhewm3, and insert Doom source port here 😄

via emberpaws.bsky.social:

@mavica_again i think the biggest problem with the entire fedi thing is that it won't just tell me as a user when that's the case, it just throws errors like they don't exist.

interconnected ecosystem, my ass

And yes, I *could* stand to post on Here more. Maybe what I need is more cool people to follow. Assuming the cross-instance follow function works. I keep running into instances where it doesn't. ​

i am, in fact, posting this here instead of on bsky (where it's more relevant) because bsky is having some bizarre problems and not letting my posts go all the way through.

in fact, the only kind of community moderation that "works" on a huge website is the kind where the mods are completely isolated from their users, unable to perceive what their populace find wrong with the experience, never seeing anything from their point of view. but of course, the kind of people who want to run a site that big are the kind who *want* to be citizens of it, which means they're inevitably going to be insufferable asshats.

there can be a website where the mods are well respected by its populace, but it has to be a site where the mods are citizens of the town that they run. they must be capable of being friendly with all of their people. which means such a site is unsustainable if it gets too big. as soon as the mods are unable to connect with their users, they cannot serve them. thus, a citizen-mod is incompatible with infinite-growth social media.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/shelter/index.html - Alright, I've sat on this for long enough; I added a new section to my webspace, about all of my weird computers that I own, the naming scheme I have assigned them, and photographs of (most of) them.