https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/
> The new Activity tab has a dropdown menu, allowing you to view any of these combinations by filtering both boosts and replies.

Hallelujah! I will finally be able to see "just posts, no boosts and no replies" when looking at folks to follow.. when folks upgrade to Mastodon 4.6 when it's released (since I typically look at new profiles on their home instance).

> You can now crop images, and add alt text to profile and cover photos.

> Replies can also be excluded from the ‘Media’ tab, allowing for a more accurate gallery where creative people may showcase their work.

Yay.

Social dynamics and relationships (not just romantic) are so incredibly complex.

Being caught up in some that fell apart (friends, relatives, groups), having dealt with some friendships of my own that fell apart…

There's so much hurt in the world.

Sometimes I have to remember that… I can't fix it. I'm not responsible for everything just because I happened to be close to some/all folks involved.

I can only hold on to the way some friend groups I'm in have grown and partially overlapped/merged. Don't only think about the ones that have splintered or exploded.

And… I'm not responsible for keeping up with everyone. If friend groups splinter, I have to make hard choices on where to spend my limited time and energy. It's not critiquing folks to not take their side of a given fork.

Still.

It hurts to feel connections deteriorate.

When you see someone posting themselves posing in fursuit, and want to compliment their paws, but you don't know if they're comfortable with that attention…

Better to err on the side of caution, unless someone says otherwise.

After about 3 years, my open source smart watch (Bangle.js 2) died, with the Bluetooth antenna inside disconnecting from the main board.

A known issue that I could fix with some careful disassembly (temperature controlled hotplate to melt the glue holding the transflective LCD screen in place), but I don't have those tools yet and I've already got other projects to tackle, so.. I bought another one. Pebble (repebble) looks promising, but it's close to twice the price, still preorder, and only has a 30 day (!) warranty for now. Bangle.js is one year.

(I've heard some folks with this issue have gotten a 50% discount on a new watch outside of warranty, bringing it down to material cost. I didn't want to wait and did want to contribute more to Bangle.js development.)

Thanks to Gadgetbridge for an open design, where I could just swap the device ID in the database to have all my steps now attributed to the new watch, and I could fake steps for the days I was without a syncing watch.