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Might as well see how the fediverse responds to one of my typical requests. This weekend, I'm moving my storage items (mostly to-be-digitized stuff) from Beacon, NY to Ardsley, NY on Sunday. If you think you might be able to help, e-mail me at jason@textfiles.com. It's about a truckload, I'm renting the truck but I have to be careful with my back.

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@crocodile The frustration I've seen (and experienced) around lacking CW use myself, is more to do with people not even taking the time or showing the interest to understand those reasons, and just declaring "nah, not gonna do that, deal with it".

I don't expect people to immediately understand. I *do* expect them to hang back for a bit and get a sense of a community and its norms before storming into it at full speed.

@wheeze_NL I *think* you can find them under 'authorized apps' in your account security settings or something along those lines

@notafurry @digdug@socialism.social @ajroach42 Problem is that this only really works if the platform in question is designed to be an outrage machine, which most are, but fedi isn't.

I just suspended two accounts from Car Companies that have registered on website boy's instance.

If you see more Corporations that are responsible for accelerating global climate change joining the fediverse, please join me in pointing a ban hammer at them.

@AFriendlyBeagle@toot.site (or at /about/more, depending on... the Mastodon version I think?)

@AFriendlyBeagle@toot.site FWIW, on Mastodon instances, the blocklist is usually visible (often only for logged-in users) at /about

disappointed that I'm seeing more and more non-captioned images cross my TL. I understand and respect that there are a lot of new people around and that means the culture will shift and change with them, but this is one aspect of fedi culture that I would really like to preserve.

so, if you are able, please please please caption your images!

art q :boost_requested: 

you know how those sort of graphic gouache paintings with only imprecise wet blending and details layered on top capture what's really satisfying about using the medium

youtu.be/BXPoFmJ82Pc?t=433

what is the style / project that showcases what is satisfying about colored pencils?

So someone at work has started leaving ducks around. So, I’m adding art captions. Because, of course I am. #ducks #GuerillaArt #office

My personal recommendation to people who are new to Mastodon is: talk about things that aren't Mastodon. Might sound simple, but during a big time and a big migration it's easy to get focused on the platform instead of... anything else! A timeline full of mostly talking about the platform isn't healthy for the platform itself - and it's not that fun either. Start living here! If you like to, anyway.

sort of meta? about designing federated systems 

I think a big part of why fedi succeeded at being active for so long without an immediate migration wave, is because unlike most other social platforms, it accommodates finding *new* people and communities rather than just talking to people you already know.

That really softens the blow of the network effect quite a lot, and other federated systems should probably learn from this.

mastodon performance is going to be very bad today. for everyone, on every instance. please do not bother your admins about this. thank you, we love you, maybe take a nice lil walk outside in the crisp late autumn morning (or spring evening, whatever hemisphere) while you wait for your picture of your cat to upload. cheers.

I have a friend who writes songs about sewing machines.

She’s a Singer songwriter, or sew it seams.

#joke #jokes #puns #joking

re: uspol, technology, bad 

@bstacey I don't know. Fedi as a whole is far, *far* less vulnerable to this sort of thing than your typical centralized US-based social network. Doesn't mean it isn't a risk at all of course, but the model does insulate it from this to some degree.

re: kiwifarms, suspend list scraping 

@f0x @tonytins@tonybark.com 🤔 shouldn't this be prevented by CORS restrictions?

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