They're putting blue food coloring in everything.

A short story

https://blog.foxtrotluna.social/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/

@foxtrotluna oh no not the posts too

alt text for non-mfm viewers: the text above is blue

Fr tho, this was a good lil’ read. I knew from like the first quarter what exactly this was going to be an analogy for :3

Our world is already chock full of single points of failure and universal dependencies that have arisen out of bad planning, stacked marketing departments, power-seeking asshats, or all of the above. We need to be getting rid of them, not adding more.

@helical I’m assuming mfm is a fedi platform with styling support? I’m a bit out of the loop on that stuff

Thank you for the kind words, you’re absolutely correct and it’s endlessly frustrating.

@foxtrotluna basically, misskey is a fedi platform which supports styling through “misskey flavored markdown” (mfm), although some other fedi platforms also support it

there are also animations you can make with it (implementations vary)

I’m on an app that supports some mfm animations but not the fading one for some reason

yay standardization!!
@helical Oh! I think I have an account on a misskey instance! It’s not my main one, but I did like it, I just found the iOS clients at the time a bit lacking
@foxtrotluna I use the Aria app on iOS which supports misskey (except the fade mfm animation lol) and it’s pretty good in my experience