“favoriting posts does nothing” is a common thought but it’s not accurate in any sense

mastodon has trends and all interactions play into that! your admin has to approve them (and personally I have stopped caring entirely about approving them 😅) but it’s a feature

and more importantly, favorites send a nice little notification to the person who made the post! that’s what they’ve always been for! long before twitter started showing you posts other people liked, favorites were there and that’s all they did

don’t let what twitter turned favorites into make you forget what their original purpose was!! @sarae https://ecoevo.social/@sarae/116234378485815564

I have refined my desire for how to organize artists in a music player app

I think what I want is:

• a list of all artists from MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID
• with a list of all albums that artist appears on, when you move to the artist page
• so long as that artist appears at least once in the library as a solo entry in MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID
• with a separate section on the artist page for albums that artist appears on, but isn't listed as an album artist on

this feels like the right middle ground between "a list of all the artists, spamming you with one-offs from all the artists on your doujin albums" and "you get the album artist, exactly as written in the tag, so if you want an album that's by Your Favorite Artist ft. Someone You Don't Remember it's listed as its own artist and you have to find it"

"bloody linux", the distro that recompiles the kernel and kexec's the new one every time a commit is pushed

RE: https://chaos.social/@weirdunits/116244877327881734

...yeah, that's about how it's going lately, isn't it