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@aurelia @welshpixie I'm assuming this is for the LinkedIn cross-posting functionality that they claim they will be providing

@vitak Ah, that makes a lot more sense, thanks. I guess I got confused by the way it was presented :)

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@welshpixie @jigbean Seems that they are planning exactly that: equelsocial.com/story

Yikes^2

re: Instance meta subtoot 

@welshpixie "Bonus" points for the "always give before you ask for help", as if everybody is equally able to give and there's no inequality at all

@rosalux@climatejustice.social In the odd case that we have actual serious snow in NL, the same thing happens every time: almost everybody walks, people only drive on snow-cleared roads (particularly highways), and for any mid-distance travel over non-cleared roads, people use their bike because that's at least *somewhat* controllable.

re: meta 

@terrencefoxfur That part I don't really have an answer to, unfortunately. I'm nowhere near close enough to any artist communities to understand the finer details of social dynamics and influence there.

The generic answer to this sort of problem is "it helps a lot when influential people in a community publicly speak out about how people's assumption actually isn't right", but of course with fedi being pretty much designed against "influential people"... 😅

re: meta 

@terrencefoxfur Oops, I just realized that I might've misread your original question 😅

If you meant "more artists" rather than "big artists", then my answer would be different: there seems to be a widespread belief among artists that "there's no reach on Mastodon, because it's not a [public square] like Twitter is".

Which isn't true in practice, because people actually *interact* with each other much more here, but it's a somewhat understandable conclusion if you're applying the assumptions of how Twitter/Facebook/etc. work to something like fedi.

Under those assumptions, less people == less engagement, because of the sense of needing to fight for every scrap of attention, because that's how Twitter and such work.

The only solution I can see is to try and explain to them how the social dynamics are completely different here, and you don't *need* a massive following to have interactions with people, because there's much more genuine interaction.

meta 

@terrencefoxfur Very likely the issue is precisely in the "bigger artist" part. Twitter is made for building large parasocial followings and 'social rankings', whereas the fediverse is much more about community building in a more egalitarian manner (even if definitely not perfect).

I've found a *lot* of celebrities (at various scales) to be turned off by that change; it would mean losing their special status, and in many cases I've actually seen celebrities get genuinely angry that they don't get a massive parasocial follower base here.

This also raises the question: do we actually *want* the "bigger artists" to come here? The egalitarian community building is an important part of *why* this place is so much less toxic. Less megaphoning, more genuine community.

That's not to say that those artists aren't welcome here *as a person* of course, but I feel like seeking "bigger artists on Mastodon", in that phrasing, is much more looking for the celebrity than for the person. And what would that really bring us?

#FediBlock for bylines.social - transphobia and lack of moderation 

@dxciBel@fruef.social @blahaj@blahaj.zone Framing the fight for trans right as a debate is empowering transphobia. It's actively normalising the idea that our rights can be questioned, and that there are circumstances where our rights can take a back seat if an argument is well made.

The people debating don't care about the debate. They're not looking for answers. They're just making their feelings about trans folk known, because the debate gives them a chance to share their bigotry, as long as they do it in the socially acceptable way. Not a single person changes their mind and drops their transphobia because a trans person or an ally was willing to debate with them or "answer all of their questions".

We "win" the debates when people develop enough empathy to realise that making our rights contingent on debate is an act of harm in and of itself, and that takes empathy and consideration. And empathy and consideration will only develop when we are normalised. And normalisation is achieved by visibility, not by debate.

As for the comments, they were up for a VERY long time, including active death threats to trans people. I'll be waiting for a comment by them to show measures that ensure it won't happen again before I consider refederating.

meta, admin stuff 

just got yet another "why are you blocking my domain you have no reason listed and I don’t think that’s fair" email from a fedi admin who’s totally not upset that my single user instance is blocking his but thinks it sends a bad impression of him.

"it’s only 29 hours old and has no posts!"

yep, and before you installed GtS yesterday you ran pleroma on a different subdomain and federated with any and every cesspool that came your way.

now you’re using kiwi farms tooling to see who remembers and convince them they don’t.

fuck off, tiuxo dot com admin, I’m tryna have a nice end of year break.

long-ish 

@julialuna@chaos.social From what I've heard, the Prusa Mini + Prusament is the cheapest "just works reliably" option. Significantly cheaper than the full-size Prusa, though with a smaller build volume. Some 500-600 EUR I think?

*Personally* I've been quite happy with my Sovol SV06, which is essentially a Prusa clone, and significantly cheaper (200-250 ish EUR). The only issue I've had with it is the auto-bed-levelling being weirdly off, which required a one-off fix of manually twisting the Z axes until it was level. It's been printing with perfect reliability since. But that's more than zero tinkering of course, and the overhang performance/cooling is not as good as that of a Prusa or Ender.

(Still need to e-mail their support about the levelling issue further, totally forgot about that, oops)

I sometimes hear people who are not even millionaires saying things like, “Just being a billionaire doesn’t make someone a bad person.” It absolutely makes them a bad person. One doesn’t just happen to accumulate a billion dollars because one has a great product or service. It happens because you exploit the fuck out of people and resources. You hoard profits for yourself rather than share them with the people who are actually making your products and providing your services.

cryptocurrency 

Something we should probably draw some sort of lesson from, is that none of the early vocal cryptocurrency critics correctly predicted the *way* in which cryptocurrencies would fail, and all the criticisms boiled down to "you're doing capitalism wrong" rather than "capitalism will ruin this".

this is, once again, a case of the medical establishment reinforcing social stigma against normal physiological variations.

how many doctors tell you to just go to sleep earlier and tell you that sleeping late is unhealthy? this is just the same bullshit as always.

I'm here to tell you that your body knows what it needs, and if you listen to your body's signals and give it the amount of sleep it needs at the time when it needs it, you're doing everything right.

a lot of studies have been done and found that people who go to bed late have poorer sleep, poorer performance in life, more stress etc, but not a single one that I've seen has mentioned, let alone examined, the effect of social sleep norms and expectations, so I find them all questionable.

especially because many of them not only do not correct for, but in their methodology and their analysis actually reproduce and reinforce stigmatisation of "undesirable" sleep times.

@Cedara @Gargron I’d say , considering the reasons quotes were never implemented here in the first place, that opt-IN is the way this needs to be handled.

Its always morally correct to pirate @Adobe software, especially when they snatch data from your private artwork and feed it to their "Content Analysis" for (in their own words) Machine-Learning.

Good on Jon Lam for sounding the alarm. Remember: "Industry Standard" is a Marketing Term. What matters is if you can do the work well. Whatever tools work for you are what work best. Dont let corporations make you dependent on them.

Make changes to your Adobe account here:

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