Local moth fairy loves lämp, more at 11 @elfi@pixie.town

Gonna try to do a few of these, so I'll make it a thread!
Can't call yourself an adventurer without finding random bits of armor in treasure chests.
#Art #DigitalArt #MastoArt #Sketch #ZeroXPHero

If you're an instance admin/mod struggling to keep up with the fediblock tag, @fediblock is a 'curated' version that filters through the trolling/misuse of the tag and repeat entries, and only boosts the actual proper fediblock content. :)

To kick off the new year, I read "The King of Elfland's Daughter" by Lord Dunsany. If Tolkien is the father of fantasy, Dunsany is the grandfather, and it shows: The story is very much fairy-tale still, stretched to the length of a book. That is not always a good thing: the story feels stretched like plot scraped over too many pages. Still, the prose is beautiful and as a historical document it's fascinating.

im making a list of all the people's bio's you should read before following

for ease of use I used wildcards, here's the list:

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just a lil doodle today

#dailydraw

I believe that good people should not want to be around bad people. It’s more complex than that, of course, but the simple version is that I believe it is healthy and normal to not want to taint yourself by associating with people you find to be morally repugnant.

So, a bit of a "power of the fediverse" moment here.

My quote toot is a quote toot of a lemmy post I made. Lemmy is basically "federated reddit". In the post I was asking the lemmy community and developers about content discovery options on the platform. Thanks to the power of federation, I asked the question from an account on my lemmy instance, to a lemmy group hosted on a different lemmy instance. Lots of interesting conversation has come from it.

But what's really fascinating is that the post you see in my quote toot is that conversation on lemmy. And if you were to reply to it from mastodon or calckey or the like, your post would appear as a reply in the lemmy group, whilst looking like a regular conversation to you.

That's federation. That's the future.

#lemmy #fediverse #microfedi #federation #calckey #mastodon

RE: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1409

It’s funny how recognizing AI art nowadays is just the same old rules as recognizing the fae in old tales.

“Count the fingers, count the knuckles, count the teeth, check the shadows…”

… and under NO circumstances should you make deals with their kind.

As you might have read today, #Adobe is doing really bad stuff (https://toot.cafe/@baldur/109630505660962387).

Fortunately there are many projects you can follow on here which are providing free open source alternatives:

➡️ @darktable - Photo software which lets you organise, view and develop raw image files

➡️ @Krita - Professional digital painting & 2D animation app

➡️ @kdenlive - NLE video editing software

➡️ @inkscape - Vector illustration software

➡️ @Blender@mastodon.social & @blender@video.blender.org - 3D animation and special effects

You’re all invited

A close friend who does a ton of mutual aid has a rare, singular chance to purchase the land that they've been farming/ community gardening in the city (previously abandoned lot) for the past couple years right next to their house, before gentrifiers take it and put another overpriced house there.

They are a little under $5k short! They're so close!!! They need to raise this ASAP!!

Venmo: @/pearlboatspaceship and put note "Land Back Gardens"
Cashapp: $pearlboatspaceship

#MutualAidRequest #IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #LandBack #Bvlbancha
@noladon

I'm more or less part of the fediverse since 2017, but I still can't get over the fact that you people are describing images, very often making me almost content with not being able to see them at all. I've never seen so many people taking time to write meaningful descriptions on this level anywhere else.

It really, really means a lot! Thank you for making it awesome for everyone! Keep 'em coming! ☺️

Assorted list of Fediverse scrapers you might want to block on the network level (some more malicious than others)

https://git.pixie.town/f0x/nixos/src/branch/main/nodes/aura/configuration.nix#L100

#FediBlock

If you haven't noticed, I'm big on common courtesy.

The little things like introducing yourself to people you don't know before assailing them with questions, asking about and respecting people's boundaries, respecting pronouns, apologizing when you're wrong, etc.

We often forget we really don't know each in this space, so we take courtesy for granted. But those small things build trust that eventually blooms into a community.

We're all people looking for some kind of connection, and finding those connections is so much easier when we have a baseline respect for our shared humanity.

Don't take the small things for granted. They are the bricks that build bridges between our wildly different experiences and backgrounds.

#MastoAdmin #MastoDev: TIL Mastodon has a public development roadmap… with issue numbers referring to what i can only assume is a private bug tracker, and there's nothing on it for spam controls, greylist federation, federated blocking, or almost any other safety or moderation-related feature that we've been asking for.

the Exploring section at the tail end has exactly one thing that might be useful for self-service harassment controls:

MAS-37: Restrict who can reply to a post

if you've ever wondered whether user safety is a thing Website Boy cares about, the very definite answer is: lol nope