Arilin Thorferra

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Author, teacher, giant cat woman • wantonly flits in and out of character • she/her (IC) • giants-club.net • patreon.com/arilin
Web Sitehttps://giants-club.net
Fur Affinityhttp://www.furaffinity.net/user/arilin
Patreonhttps://patreon.com/arilin
Cohosthttps://cohost.org/arilin
Lesson learned: when importing a follower list to a new Mastodon account, it lets everyone know you just followed them, which—I was not expecting. I am not 100% sure I am moving because it is a fair amount of effort (not to mention an ongoing hosting charge!) to run your own Mastodon server. But, maybe a small invitation-only one is a reasonable idea…? #noxp
So it *looks* like Meow is recovering. Hi again. Still considering putting up my own Mastodon server, but there are definite advantages to being on one with a lot of active users, as long as it's, you know, operating. :)
Arilin’s Potted Guide to Mastodon

So this is basically like Twitter, right? More or less. They’re both “microblogging” platforms. They both let users post short posts and read posts from folks they follow in an ordered timeline. The...

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So how do I fund a more powerful or distributed server for Meow, because it kiiinda seems like the existing one needs a boost…
Relearning the travails of making posts with complicated formatting on Tumblr, by which I mean I am ready to put on my stomping sandals until I calm down
(watches several Mastodon servers grind to a halt and fall over) You know, I really do like Ruby on Rails, but perhaps we could all agree to stop writing real-time communication servers with it?
In which I get esoteric, talking about why I like Mastodon more than Cohost: https://blog.giants-club.net/post/704006966976069632/mastodon-cohost
Why I am more enthusiastic about Mastodon than Cohost

Okay. So. I am absolutely not a "free software or die" kind of cat when it comes to software and services. I mean, I've been a Mac user for decades, and my favorite applications---from my writing...

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i have eaten
the blue bird
from that
other site

and which
you should probably
have stopped
visiting anyway

forgive me
but we both know
you secretly think
vore is hot

There is a storm coming here, so it is appropriate to noodle with the Serrano story some more. I think things are starting to come together, although I don't have a sense of the story's size yet.

Seeing people complaining that some of us don't want to basically bring doomscrolling over here and I'm thinking like, duhhh?

This place is such a relief from all that crap on birdsite.