meta defederation
the problem with full-scale defederation is it’s completely in the mods hands and users don’t get a choice, and the only recourse is to switch instances. this is a wildly shitty user experience. i’m fine with nazis and terfs getting deplatformed, but defederation here is becoming a bunch of middle school drama over the smallest slights.
The vibes on Mastodon are class and mostly very wholesome, so I'm going to share this piece I wrote a few years back about the Oblivion mod Terry Pratchett worked on. It eventually became so important to him that the developers added in a function to help him continue playing even when his Alzheimer's made it difficult to do so. Theirs is a lovely, heartfelt, uplifting story - sure give it a read if you have a sec
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-story-behind-the-oblivion-mod-terry-pratchett-worked-on
Somewhere, someone finally made this and I think it's beautiful: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4687836
Tune in -- Now we're getting to the more interesting stuff :) The cases onscreen now were featured prominently in Half-Life https://twitch.tv/bobbyd0g
📢 Going live at 7:30pm EST 📢
Working on another dozen+ computers over some good music, then putting on a game. Humidity is … just barely acceptable, hope I don't zap anything! You can follow and hit the bell for a ping when it starts -- http://twitch.tv/bobbyd0g (PeerTube simulcast returning soon!)
Re: my recent move from the journa.host instance
Was I being rude and angry in response to someone posting an anti-trans article? Yes. Did it break their rules over there? Yes, so they were certainly in their rights to suspend me from there.
Re: my recent move from the journa.host instance
Someone asked about this, and I don't want to make a big deal about it. As I wrote in response to the person who asked: their platform, their rules, their decisions. I get it. I'm just having a really difficult time dealing with the world right now, dealing with the constant attacks on trans people's ability to just exist.
Sadly, without global search -- a pernicious feature that can enable all sorts of bad behavior -- Mastodon cannot offer the same ability to investigate claims and events for yourself that contributed to Twitter's most productive outcomes for independent journalism and widespread news literacy. I find myself passing along or discussing much less information I see here because I often have no way to see for myself what happened.
once you have defeated gender you may wear its strictures as you please, not as trappings but as trophies
I guess much of my anxiety around the current shift to ActivityPub is that the network and the people necessarily aren't "ready" for each other, and technological flexibility is yet missing, so some of the potential mistakes can cause lost data -- namely, the universal need for the ability to switch instances. I don't want anybody to lose data or have a bad experience :\ I just need to spread my anarchistic view as broadly as possible to seed the ground for the revolution that belongs here.
Tonight begins a week full of streaming events -- follow and hit the bell so you don't miss out! Going live right now, until 2am https://twitch.tv/bobbyd0g (PeerTube simulcast coming back soon!)
Tonight begins a week full of streaming events -- follow and hit the bell so you don't miss out! Going live right now, until 2am https://twitch.tv/bobbyd0g (PeerTube simulcast coming back soon!)
Scrappy queer