itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt.
journalists too... 1/3
You know how in Ender's Game where the Earth military is operating out of a cramped abandoned alien colony? That's
#Mastodon. Sure, it's an improvement over Twitter, but it's still built on Twitter's blueprint. It wasn't made for us and it's an unnatural framework to build a community around. And the root of so much conflict on here is that people have different implicit ideas about the correct way for a human to live in this alien *thing*. There's no correct way. Microblogging was a mistake.
Who could possibly have predicted that a tool designed to create output that looks right, but which has no way of understanding if it actually is right, would lead to lots of difficult-to-spot errors?
@thegibson I just want to thank you for boosting all these Ozzy posts that I wouldn't be seeing otherwise. Ozzy and Sabbath were very formative for me in the early 00's too.
This is a massive loss. At this point we need specific legislation. Insane to grant fair use to a for-profit copier that provides no benefit to the owner of the copied item and competes with it in the market. I cannot overstate how shitty this is.
@bonfire I really like the idea behind
#Bonfire, but that your website is using generative AI art (e.g. on bonfirenetworks.org/design) scared me off. It's difficult to believe your commitment to ethics and communities when you actively use such an exploitative and extractive technology. It's not unlike if you were promoting Bitcoin or NFTs; it's a massive red flag in today's tech world that you're not to be trusted. Would you consider removing any genAI and clearly crediting your artists?
Just an update on this, I think Elgg is the way to go right now.
I think a big failure of microblogging, Mastodon included, is the conflation of individual-first blogging and community discussion. Instead of people and communities, you have a federation of soap boxes. It's very libertarian in that way; there's no shared spaces, no true equals, everyone is always a visitor in someone else's house. It breeds isolation, parasocial relationships, and it keeps us divided. I think communities need an array of different communication tools for different purposes.
Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
Evinceo
JA Westenberg
Laura 🏴☠️🏳️🌈