✨Soff✨ Mawr 
I want to hear your favorite Fediverse stories 
Oct 8, 2020 at 11:05pmWeb
Show thread✨Soff✨ Mawr Oct 9, 2020
Remember when Wil fucking Wheaton joined mastodon.cloud and we ran him off the platform because he kept quietly doing gross transphobic stuff? #FediMoments #NoGodsNoMasters
Show threadMOVED TO [email protected]Oct 9, 2020
@mawr remember when the same thing happened but with famed cyberpunk author john shirley? lol
Show threadantlersOct 8, 2020
@mawr when everything rotated
Show thread✨Soff✨ Mawr Oct 8, 2020
@masklayer which time though 
Show threadantlersOct 8, 2020
@mawr The time when some instance had html filtering turned off and people gave their posts the class used to make the fave star spin to make their posts rotate on everyone's timeline
Show thread✨Soff✨ Mawr Oct 8, 2020
@masklayer Oh shit I forgot about that! 
Show threadAlexis [moving]Oct 8, 2020
@mawr When the fediverse got @vantablack out of their abusive family situation *via plane.*
Show threadFrost [moved]Oct 9, 2020

@mawr So we don't really have all that many stories, but uh...

One time we ran into an anti-nonanthro person, going "should we ban all feral art? [poll]".

I of course jumped in and was like "hey, no, /you're trying to say people aren't allowed to be nonhuman/, they have to be human and anything else is unacceptable". We traded blows a bit until I got fed up and reported them, I'm pretty sure they immediately got banned.

So like,
the mods actually care.

Show threadFrost [moved]Oct 9, 2020
@mawr This place is where we dove into furry, and then where I discovered that being nonhuman /is a thing/ and I'm literally a wolf, and then it showed us plurality was a thing and wonderful, and then it's where we discovered we were plural ourselves.
Show threadFrost [moved]Oct 9, 2020

@mawr Basically, I... none of us would be us without the fediverse.

9/10ths of us would literally not be here.

Show threadHalOct 9, 2020

@mawr

When people donated their stimulus checks and also things got lewd. No-bullshit mutual aid

Show threadthe Hearth Oct 9, 2020
@mawr We don't have a particular story, but this is the only social media we've ever felt comfortable being ourselves on.
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Show threadFrost [moved]Oct 9, 2020
@Felthry @mawr ...We've never joined any other social media because we know we wouldn't feel comfortable being ourselves on it.
Show threadthe Hearth Oct 9, 2020
@IceWolf @mawr we were on tumblr before it imploded
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Show threadFrost [moved]Oct 9, 2020
@Felthry @mawr Tumblr imploded?
Show threadthe Hearth Oct 9, 2020
@IceWolf @mawr oh yeah, they got bought and then the new owners horribly mismanaged it and now it's a tiny shell of its former self
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Show threadDr. Carl Effin' SaganOct 9, 2020

@mawr being greeted with "awoo" on the local masto soc site, also when #vore was a meme and trending before trending # were a thing

rot13 and then the implementation of the CW in the software

and finally me, at some point, feeling comfortable enough to put my pronouns in my bio (i was tired from the hate from twitter, facebook, and tumblr, so i had stopped for a while)

mastodon gave me courage

Show thread🖨️🦊💻Maddie📚🦊🍵Oct 9, 2020
@mawr I loved waking up every morning and talking about the type of tea I had. I liked seeing selfies of outfits people were excited about. I loved how Lynne would come up with a wacky new project every other week. I just kinda loved everything. I loved being able to unwind here after a long day before quarantine started
Show threadVirtuaRabbitOct 9, 2020
@mawr meeting @shoofle in person for the first time and babbling excitedly at her then showing her magic tricks.
Show threadGiraffe KeeperOct 9, 2020
@mawr @mawr fedi bought our family a freakin CAR (I mean, a $1200 15 year old one but a CAR) and have now moved us cross country twice to keep our family safe and moving forward 😭 we’d be dead in a ditch by now without this greater community. Even right now, with all that’s happened, monads users are sharing sapphicgiraffic’s emergency post.
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Oct 15, 2020
@glamorshark @mawr mutual aid ftw
Show threadGiraffe KeeperOct 15, 2020
@liaizon I really can’t wait until Jess finds a good job again cus we are beyond ready to blow it all back into the community with like, money-loaded super soakers
Show threadAustin Dern, Dean of CoatisOct 9, 2020

@mawr When I was on mastodon.social and could see on the local timeline people announcing they had realized they had realized they were trans or had found their pronounces and I could give congratulations and well-done messages from a stranger and they were happy to get it.

(I assume this is still going on but I see less of it from blimps.xyz and can't keep up with the federation timeline.)

Show threadNebula ​ ​Oct 9, 2020

@mawr Somebody did something careless one time. It upset a lot of people and some people very reasonably decided to post about it or took action. Others overreacted and some other people reacted to this overreaction and still more people blocked/muted everyone involved in an attempt to avoid drama that they might have an opinion about but didn't directly involve them. Many people involved by this stage have not seen the original post. Everyone involved is wonderful, upright, but ultimately flawed people with deep and complex lives and experiences. Whatever came of a careless, insensitive, or poorly-timed post, it will happen again. Probably tomorrow.

Oh wait, this is what happens every time I go to bed.