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Just as a general thang

For those running instances:

It's valid to close registrations during the wave if you don't feel like you have the energy to keep an eye out on the flood of new folks coming in

It's perfectly fine to admit that moderation isn't ready to handle a scaled up community and to hold off the growth surge.

It's fine to make decisions to prioritize the safety and rep of your existing community members and take time to vet the new applicants.

Moderating properly is expensive, in terms of energy. Being aware of who is using your services, and being able and ready to have the energy to remove those acting to harm others is crucial to keep your community, and other communities safe.

And if it's too much, it's entirely valid to admit it's too much and take steps to make things easier. it's better than burning yourself out trying to handle everything.

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@AgathaSorceress Basic rule for forms that make no sense is, if in doubt, tell them what you think they want to hear. And if you don’t know what that is, make it as simple and as boring as you can

Good morning, fediverse. moths are good, center life on moth and life will be good

At some point tusky finally fixed its hardcoded character count. Yaaaay

It's hard when most of the other masto clients are freezepeachy trash so you have very little actual alternative

"Planned power outage for the building at 10 PM!"

10:19 PM: power goes out for building
10:20 PM: transformer blows, power goes out for the entirety of downtown

It came back up but lol. lmao.

Tumblr, freed from the corporate world of yahoo/verizon/aol/oath, has embraced their user base as the horny little goblins they are and I fully expect porn to come back if they can get around credit card companies and app stores being prudes

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If you haven’t been paying attention, tumblr got sold for pocket change to the Wordpress company, who promptly told the surviving staff “do whatever.” So now they have an ad free subscription, which is good.

then they stole an idea from somethingawful: give them ten American dollars and they will shotgun whatever shitpost you want onto 2500 random people’s dashboards. No targeting or anything, just “congratulations you get “hobbit love” or whatever that post about infinite chocolate.

wholesome naga coiling 

i'll put this one here too uwu💖 @Aarkethrix

Insomnia-induced Ar tonelico venting, pedo ment name n' shame 

I guess I'm just constantly frustrated and at odds with myself because, like

I know AT can and has completely sidestepped the gross pandering shit in its sidestories and light novels, that's honestly why they're some of my favourites about the series

But I also know that doesn't excuse what's in the games and will not until the staff single out and decry those responsible for adding it, not to mention the very loud and representative voices in the community that condone it every waking chance they get

yes, Aquagon, I'm talking about you, you've done a lot for the community but you could not have picked a worse hill to die on, so fuck you for enabling pedophilia

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Insomnia-induced Ar tonelico venting 

Me: ar tonelico bad, the games are emblematic of an endemic cultural issue with their gratuitous fanservice surrounding underage characters
Also me: engages with the lore but from outside of the context of the games anyway

Why am I like this, it's one thing to like something while acknowledging its faults but in this case the faults are very very gross

I know they were obviously tacked on and can be divorced from the concept but just... ugh it's still bad and I wish I could find something with similarly extensive and in-depth lore that I could engage with instead

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Insomnia-induced Ar tonelico nerd stuff 

By all known logic of the Exa-Pico setting, Lakra is essentially a demigoddess, with the demi- part contingent on genomization and linking with other IPDs.

What I'm saying is she could theoretically make Metafalica into a whole ass planet if Ar Ciel died

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! This is so so so much my thing.
matthughson.com/retrobrew-maga

PS. This is from the creator of Witch 'n Wiz, an excellent Catrap-like homebrew for NES.

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