Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

I'm sorry but the lack of quote tweets on this platform is just magic. I keep wanting to QT somebody critically and it's just not there, and I either write my own post instead or do something better with my life. Mostly the latter right now because all the chaos is really setting off my PTSD.

Rewriting "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" but it's called, "If You Give A Nerd Some Clout"

@NanoRaptor Oh God. Now I can't quote-tweet to lean into the joke so people know things you post aren't always real. You've transcended. I shield my eyes as all embodied truth and reality bends 270° into the Danazone

Live now! #RIPTwitter #TwitterDown party! I've never played Bayonetta, let's fix that! https://www.twitch.tv/bobbyd0g

Dear "Mastadonians", you must bow immediately to my questionable assemblage of mystified second-order assertions, or I will silence your concerns with vague gestures to identitarian nu-hierarchical gobbledygook.

@Lyude I can relate, after my own eye problems began this year. Sorry you're going through this, but glad you have relief on the way.

@0xAFAEBABE Absolutely right -- I've never been comfortable with that since FB Connect began -- and we can also run OAuth2 software ourselves to provide delegated authorization without corporate interference. Of course that's a whole new landscape of complications now under the scrutiny of people much smarter than myself. I'm hoping we'll see progress by next year.

@dalias @meph Truly a brave new world we're charting here.

@meph @dalias What is this, Matrix? Didn't you know all disagreements must be hashed out in public in the least visibly-informative way possible??

@dalias Just admit you're a dunkposter, then. If you're not interested in actually interacting with people, and prefer to talk past them with QRTs, or to make plausibly deniable gamesmanship decisions about their reach versus yours, maybe you're not being entirely forthright with yourself about your purposes. What you just described is deeply antisocial & opportunistic. Never mind how now I'm "coming" to "argue" with you by responding in earnest to your belligerent public statement.

@conte I've gone years spending 20-40hrs/week using my phone, and this summer I developed severe monocular double vision in both eyes. It took a full month of completely banning the phone from my vision, and later barely using a computer screen for a couple hours a day max, for it to begin to recede. It was not helped by a bad glasses Rx this spring. New glasses have allowed me to withstand at least several hours of screen time per day, but it hurts and it won't last.

@dancefighter69 Thanks for asking! CommLab and our instance Hellsite .net are intended to build a consistent integrations platform for FOSS social media, giving users an intuitive portal to the new Web with features the corporate players refuse to produce even where they're able. Right now it's a big pile of junk! Please consider joining us on Matrix at #webrev:hellsite.net or #commlab:hellsite.net to discuss! https://github.com/bobbyd0g/commlab

This summer I went temporarily blind when my eye muscles went to hell from doing close work. (Limit your phone time especially, people, but computer screens are almost just as bad) I have good reason to believe that as a result I'll never get to be a decent software developer even if I really wanted to. So this project I started was always going to need your help… at least eventually.

@conte @ariadne This post alone is more valuable than pretty much everything else i've seen on this subject put together