Crystal 

@CrystalLord@equestria.social
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I draw gay ponies and dragons and furries in Krita!

I work on system libs and compilers professionally with LLVM. Haskell simp.

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The death of #cohost hit me considerably harder than I anticipated. Losing the one place you feel you could be yourself is... agonising. It's miserable. I loved that eggbug, and it has forever changed me.

I've been re-evaluating my space on social media in general. I've learnt a few things.

1. Microblogging sucks
2. It's better to have a few good friends who actually talk to you instead of shouting into the void (followers or not) and having randos respond.
3. Good faith, equal footing back and forth discussion is the soul of community.
4. It's easy to make friends if everyone just talks to each other! People love friends!
5. You have to ban racists/bigots immediately, and scorched earth policy is necessary.

..and I noticed "Man, Mastodon sucks at all of those". I planned to just leave.

But just to be sure, I'm going to try to move to a smaller instance with longer posts lengths. I'll be at @crystallord for the time being while I mourn a bit about cohost.

Is there a way to post something on mastodon that is not on anyone's timelines, but yet is a reply to a toot and is viewable publicly as a reply only in the replies? You know, like a comment.

I feel like that's the visibility setting I want to use like 90% of the time. But there's only Public, Unlisted, Follower's-Only and Direct. I want "Direct and everyone who sees the original toot".

Just really has been grating on me for the last couple years how 80% of the mastoverse discussion about Cohost is "this company are fools for not relying on unpaid invisible labor like the Fediverse does".
cohost was social media made with the philosophy of making a website with worse graphics by people who were paid more to work less. unfortunately it turns out most people actually were kidding

I want to use mastodon (or federated services) in general more. I like the idea. But after about 2 years of being here, the implementation is still very far from what I would _enjoy_. Mastodon does not spark joy.

I've been having trouble identifying whether it's my instance, it's my UI layout, it's the circles that I'm in, it's the technical implementation of mastodon and how it handles activity pub, or it's the _culture_ of mastodon itself. It may be all of these things.

I feel like I'm the exact target audience for this place. I'm a techy linux nerd who works on FOSS software. I like distributed systems. I value community over engagement. I value simplicity. I love the old internet.

And yet it feels like my interest here has died from thousands of small cuts. "Why is it done this way? "Why is no one trying to fix this?" "What am I doing wrong?" "Why aren't they banned yet?" "Why can't I find anything?" "Where are these randos coming from?"

It's an exercise in frustration.

Wing and Swift Apex implored Drip to get a manecut. Drip has mixed feelings being yet another Soarin lookalike.

Rare safe art with @wing and @apex_swift

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"For our communities to be safe from fascism, our streets must be unsafe for fascists"
Spotted on a Bristol street sign, in advance of a planned far-right protest.

Everyone loves Ladybird, the apparently serious attempt at creating a new browser engine!

[10 hours later]

We regret to inform you the lead developer is sexist: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

Gender neutral language within build instructions by Tunas1337 · Pull Request #6814 · SerenityOS/serenity

It's a minor nitpick, but I think it's important; assuming the user and/or developer of the operating system is male isn't exactly the best.

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ATG 22 - "A pony finding a glimmer of hope"