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 wonder if there's anything at all i could do to rekindle interest/popularity in #webgbcam and #ditherinator or if it's just a case of every single person in the world who could've found out about them already has and nobody will share anything about them anymore

can anyone explain to me why my website shows up in google results with capitalized letters? not a single one of those words anywhere in the http response for that url are capitalized (and there's a spurious comma they added there too), what is triggering google to mangle the contents of my website like this and how do i fix it

what if i really lean into being the heel some people make me out to be

at least then i'd be interesting

cc @Atatra @LaserScheme

QRT https://tacobelllabs.net/@nocontexttrek@mastodon.social/114254034610660534

man camera angles are magic

what the fuck happened to alec tech connections he looks 12 now

programmers get another 1bpp animation to demo that isn't bad apple challenge impossible (gone wrong) (gone sexual)

new discord ui looks great

"but that feels wrong to write, as someone who very selectively cares about grammar only when it will inconvenience people i think should be inconvenienced about it like you, making such a childish claim as to ask your name to be properly spelled"

tough

i'm far from the first sentient being with a lowercase name and i deserve the same care and recognition

maple "mavica" syrup is lowercase yes even if you're starting a sentence with it

nobody spelled it "Iphone" just because it was at the start of a sentence

seeing stuff i want and can't have plastered all around me just alienates me rather than make me feel represented

that might be a me problem but god it's not like anybody seems intent on wanting to help me feel any better about it

so much for "it's ok to ask for help" crowd

when that valhalla or whatever game came out and fedi wouldn't shut up about it i think was one of my most miserable moments online

"if you're a robot girl you'll want to read this novel" bold of you to assume i want to read a story where someone who isn't me gets to be who i want to be and i won't feel immense dread and jealousy about it

this is why i can't with most queer indie media (games, novels, etc) that "should" be "aimed" at "me"

so "funny" (sic) how fractured and broken the fediverse is

i see a question posted on the federated timeline by a random person, decide to answer it

i look at their post on their remote instance, my answer is nowhere to be seen. other people's replies with the same answer are there.

in my own instance there are no replies other than my own. a person who isn't the OP or the other repliers favourites my answer.

the OP probably never saw my reply.

i'm CADing again

these distances used to be the same which means that now on New Discord:tm: i constantly feel like my chat is scrolled up instead of caught up at the bottom