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Many people, me included, have started up here and it's been a breath of fresh air. Due to being targeted by a prominent transphobe, I've had to be very careful how I interact on twitter. Locked down, my posts reached very few of my 3k followers due to whatever reason. (And yes, I reported the attacks)
If I say 'hellsite', a lot of people will immediately know which social media site I am talking about, and I want ex-twitter folk to sit down and fucking reflect on that.
It shows that racists, fascists, transphobes and the like will use the tools you give them. Anyone who's tried to report harrassment on twitter knows how driven it was by number of reports, not substance, unless you managed to find a sympathetic moderator.
Here is no different. The tools used on the first wave of people joining up was tone policing, toxic positivity and 'civility'. Many joined the big instances only to find them poorly moderated, but heavily policed in this way.
Consideration doesn't lead to viral engagement. Putting things that annoy people, or validate their own prejudices do.
There are entire communities that set up here because of the direction twitter took with their polarizing algorithmic mix.
The twitter QT divorced the original poster from the conversation, but left them open to people parachuting in to reply at them when they were outraged enough to do so, out of context or nuance. Bet the engagement clicks metrics looked great though.
I am irritated by people trying to justify changes to how the systems work here, by saying the changes worked at twitter, improved 'satisfaction', or people were 'happier'
Twitter's metrics are based on making the service bigger. To engage, to enrage, to grow the number of people on it. To sell adverts and exposure.
It wasn't focused on making the service healthier for conversation or consumption, or making interactions nuanced, deliberate, or more considerate.
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Games recently on the table:
Patchwork Halloween (featuring tiles with rebalanced costs from the original version), always a good time.
Wicked & Wise, by Fertessa Allyse - just took the shrinkwrap off this Kickstarter, looking forward to trying it two player.
And Spots - light push you luck game with dice, with the most adorable art. Fun!
I have some time off next week, will probably be getting back into some campaign games.
Still not heard back from a number of mastodon instances that have good admin and CoC. Understandable, but 
I guess I just have to wait for someone to rescue me from this big instance...
*puts on best outfit, and doing enough of my face to look good but not like I am desperate*
I don't celebrate thanksgiving, but have taken advantage of it and taken next week off. Prioritizing what projects to put time into is my only problem til the end of the month.
I have a small twine #InteractiveFiction story I've written notes for. Crows, picky fae and cookies.
I also have a dice game I want to make for the #PlayDate.
Plus a dozen campaign #Boardgames to get stuck into again like Gloomhaven, The Initiative, Journeys in Middle Earth...
@RustyBertrand I think it's this art piece from 2010: https://saraswink.com/artwork/2356408-I%20Remember%20You.html
4th C BCE cats would act identically though!
Someone on the birdsite made the proclamation that games before FFG released some titles in the 2000s were not really worthwhile.
I guess Condottiere, Ra, Modern Art, El Grande, Tichu, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, Wizard, 1830, High Society, 6 Nimmt, Manhattan, For Sale, Gipf, Mystery Rummy, Through the Desert. Tigris & Euphrates, Samurai, Medici and others were not to his taste or had any real impact.