My friends! I wrote about my experiences on the Fediverse so far :)

https://robek.world/internet/a-newcomer-to-the-fediverse/

"I don't accept the assumption that my placement on the political compass should determine who I'm allowed to communicate with."

thanks @rw / @rwdigest for having me, and for creating the cool header

I'd like to say that I really appreciate that the "write something" prompt on a.weirder.earth is "Remember: people never forget how you made them feel."

There is a lot to be said for the efficacy of social affordances in preventing problems.

Fascinating dynamic unfolding across Mastodon: instances are dividing into two ideological factions: safe speech, and free speech.

The safe speech instances are likely to start sharing domain-level blocklists (like Adblock but for speech) in the near future, to "curb harassment".

The free speech instances legitimately don't seem to care, and so far, have held much more interesting, substantive and intellectual conversations than the safe speech zones.

What can you expect from me? Free speech.

I need a captcha on my computer, but for cats. When someone starts entering gibberish on my keyboard I need it to be like "You appear to be a cat's butt, please enter the following to prove you're human".

#catpcha :cat2:

We're now observing the emergence of local instances, e.g. https://toot.berlin/ Interesting potential, but it seems to suggest the weakness of the community == instance == administrative policy == source of identity model. There are *many* possible communities I might participate in simultaneously, and even be interested in seeing, e.g., the local TL for that particular community.

Why should my identity and social graph position be tied to one, though?