I'm moving back to my old account, @madewokherd, because it's turning out to be challenging for my friends to find instances to move to that aren't blocked here.
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Sprite GuardSomething I mentioned on stream that bears repeating: learning to satisfice is one of the biggest positive changes I've made in my habits.
This means making decisions based on what is needed, instead of what is best. You go with the first option that satisfies your needs or wants, or pick randomly from satisfactory options, instead of trying to find the one that is best.
It frees up a lot of energy and makes decisions easier without making life worse.
Uh just to clarify I absolutely think CWs are good and worthwhile regardless of any of that.
On Twitter, I tried to avoid RTing anything that talks about bad things happening in the world, because I saw that it was becoming a depressing place to be. I felt that it had crossed a line from highlighting worthy causes to simply indulging in despair over evils in the world.
Do CWs fix that? Do you find that, if you are not in a good place and you see a CW that tells you the post will make your mood worse, you can easily move past it? Do you expand them all anyway without thinking? Do you feel guilt for ignoring real problems if you scroll past?
Basically, are CWs enough (perhaps combined with Mastodon's anti-viral nature) to prevent our feeds from becoming draining the way that twitter often was? If not, are there better ways to prevent it than what I settled on there?
Xoe (it/its)This #TDoR, I would like to ask folks to expand what they see as violence. It's not just bigots with guns, but also the parents who disown their kids, and bullies who harass vulnerable at risk people.
When I've seen online trans friends vanish, it was often right when they were forced to come out to guardians who should have been protecting, sheltering, and loving them.
I've been incredibly blessed, but I've known so many less fortunate.
Our own capitalization and punctuation is somehow a really useful and reliable indicator of whether we've switched. If we're consistently using lower-case and no periods, that probably means we're not one of the hosts.
Alan / Draknek & FriendsThese Robotic Hearts of Mine, my abstract poem puzzler from 2011, is being removed by Apple from the App Store in 90 days.
I've made it free for its remaining lifetime: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/these-robotic-hearts-of-mine/id482086528
These Robotic Hearts of Mine
From award-winning game designer Alan Hazelden, These Robotic Hearts of Mine is a narrative-driven puzzle game where the levels mirror the story. A young boy and a young girl become friends and fall in love, but their relationship is changed after an encounter with a broken robot in the woods. Unra…
Hey turns out I'm plural nbd right?
I've been vaguely tempted to run my own instance *anyway* just to give my friends a home, but it's a hard sell for me. So if that's something you really want, let me know.
From what I've been hearing, even if mastodon.social does step up their moderation, which is unlikely, it's simply too big for their team to handle.
It's likely that the instance I'm currently on will defederate from mastodon.social in the near future. This hasn't been decided yet, and I'll have some warning if it happens, but I don't see another way that it could go. That will mean that I won't see posts from any of you I'm currently following on mastodon.social.
A lot of the movement to defederate from m.s seems to also come from the person running it being shitty towards others working with him. (Not something I can personally verify but I have no reason to disbelieve reports of it.)
I've considered moving back to my old account at computerfairi.es to stay in touch with people, but I suspect they may do the same thing. If that happens, I won't be willing to seek out a third instance or run my own just to stay connected.