After my mom got repeatedly banned from Twitter due to incendiary behavior, I set her up with a new Twitter that only has WholesomeMeme and Tasty Japan on it. When I tried to explain why moving to Mastodon might be desirable given the state of affairs, she asked, “Can I get Tasty Japan there?” I had to admit defeat. Anybody know if there’s a Tasty Japan-like cooking videos thing on Mastodon somewhere? I’d like to follow it too, tbh. I also would miss Tasty Japan if birdsite went to hell.

@EdenLinnea The WE mods have explained it by saying that, especially with the huge influx of new users to those instances, those mod teams are not at all able to keep up with the negative elements in those places and harassers and the like keep getting through. They said that they might reconsider the defederation in the future if the mod teams bulk up and can act more effectively. WE is saying that they’d prefer to block everything just so their own users don’t have to risk encountering those negative elements. At least, this is what the WE mods said on their posts; maybe other places are thinking the same. :/

I don’t think anybody else following me is on these, but weirder.earth is defederating from mastodon.online and mastodon.social, if we suddenly vanish from your stuff. :(

I am now struggling to find an instance that allows mastodon.social purely so I can keep following Neil Gaiman. *sweats loudly* Currently I’m waitlisted for plural.cafe, as that lists mastodon.social as “limited” rather than “suspended”? I hope that’ll let him through. As it is, I’m just used to using weirder.earth for everything, so that’ll probably stay the primary account. :/

@monsterblue Damn, that’s tempting.

@monsterblue This reminds me of the concept behind the “Golden Treasure: The Great Green” video game, though the dragons are more territorial and thus rarely chill and cooperative, unfortunately.

@LilyVers Oooo, it’s even organic!! 8D

@xenolune Autistic snakebuddy is an awesome concept~ ^_^ I see what you mean about the environment now, particularly the day/night cycle issue - it’s kind of you to be aware of that and want to give the snake good husbandry, even if that means no snake. :( Hopefully you’ll be able to manifest the snake-friendly environment in the future somehow!