Dear God I missed sharing the neat things I find as a huge dork. What a relief to do my thing without having to align the sharing of the neat things I find with someone else's larger goals of creating a universal throbbing noöspheropticon (also...not feeling morally obligated to contextualize it within sixth-wave Kropotkinism or whatever else people have decided is the most urgent solution to all social failings that week.)

I LOVE content warnings. Let me help you keep me away from you! This is exactly right.

Now to get a freaking blog running.

I’ve just seen this blog that applies to people like me flooding into Mastodon recently and altering the vibe for established users & and the particular “manners” developed over time precisely to discourage the worse end of Twitter conduct.

We may be feeling like the noisy invaders at a quiet house party

I am having to learn new ways of doing things. Using the CW wrapper much more now.

Do read it as it is thought provoking and necessary reading from @hughrundle

https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

I've changed quite a few parts on joinmastodon.org/servers today in response to the feedback from the past week. In detail:

You can now filter by region, type of legal entity, and sign-up speed. Added note about why the topics filter exists. Changed tagline.

"Get on waitlist" has become "Apply for an account" for servers that manually review new sign-ups. Removed total user count from cards.

Getting started on Mastodon, I'm reminded of a Twitter I had forgotten, one with deeper connection. It has been on a slow descent into briefer, more trivial, and more acerbic interactions that have landed us to where we are today.

Twitter has become the actions it rewards. The new ownership was almost the inevitable next step!

Viva Mastodon!