This is an excellent piece. Totally nails the Mastodon/Meta issues and provides what I’d say are the best solutions for the future that don’t risk wrecking Mastodon itself.
From: @chipotle
https://micro.coyotetracks.org/2023/07/10/youre-so-vain.html
Coyote Cartography - You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon
Apologies. Feeling sorry for myself. I'll be ok in the morning.
Jesus, that shit sounds fucking self-pitying.
I live a privileged life. I'm a middle-class, white cishet, high-earning bloke with a functional family and a wife that lives me.
But my #depression tells me that the comparatively minor tribulations that I face as so large they make continuing to struggle on a pointless hassle.
My kids are grown up. They don't need me anymore. When the black tide of depression catches up with me, I feel like the daily struggles I have to overcome are more than it's worth enduring.
Honestly, though, why am I obliged to continue plodding on if I'm not enjoying life? Even as I type it, I know it's the weakest, shitest outlook. Billions of people forge on through genuine pain and hardship because they want life. But my depression cannot relate to that and I can't understand why.
Before anyone reports this post to whatever authorities pretend to care about such shite, I'm not about to do anything daft. My sense of responsibility to those around me wouldn't let me do that even if I genuinely wanted to. I just don't understand the desperate need to cling on to life regardless of the pain, upset and hardship. But then, I've not really been through any of those, except some pretty shitty grief. @phlash I used to use it to sound check my sound system when setting up my mobile disco for the similar reasons. 1983 - My mate Neil, who lived across the road from me in the Burntwood Green area of Burntwood, introduced me to a song that blew my mind. It's the first pop song I remember liking for myself rather than because other people played it. I was 11, though. I wasn't purchasing music at that age.
The song went on to create a huge controversy, which just made me like it even more.
It was Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Leo Moracchioli has done a heavy metal cover that I love and which just took me back 40 years to when I first heard it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C6oY1fumcA 
Relax (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli)
#FreeWriting Therapy is the phrase I was looking for. Perhaps I need to do some proper free writing. how on earth is the guy on the left the same guy as on the right but 6 years older?
#TimRozon #WynonaEarp #SurrealEstate #ActualActing
Craig Grannell
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