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Any recommendations for cosy #scifi or #fantasy novels (or short story collections!) to sink my nose into? I'm thinking along the lines of Elizabeth Bear's white space novels, or basically anything by Becky Chambers.

Something to consider when posting hashtags:

For people using screen readers, they know when to separate words either by spaces, or uppercase letters. 'mastoart' will try to be pronounced as one word, whereas 'MastoArt' will be pronounced as 'Masto Art'. It just makes life a little bit easier for those who rely on screen readers to interact with the fediverse :bear_hugs:

Selfie with eye contact 

Oh by the way, hi, this is me!

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i absolutely love deleting code.

replacing things that are complicated and difficult with things that are simple and maintainable is such a nice way to spend time.

anyway #welcome and make more alts, join more instances, don't tell anyone about them, start from scratch. try different programs. also check out matrix, diaspora, etc. the internet is bigger than 5 websites <3

transphobia 

[open twitter]
what's all this then
[scroll]
[jk rowling quote retweeted into timeline]
wow yeah i get it now. mastodon sure is So much worse at ensuring user safety

Tips for when you're requesting technical help:

Don't just say "I'm having trouble with this." tThat is 100% unhelpful. Provide /as much/ information as you can. Screenshots, error messages, everything. Be absolutely specific.

(Yes I am banging my head against a wall right now trying desperately to help someone with a problem but gosh I am not having an easy time of it, which sucks because I want them to not have a problem as I'm sure it's frustrating for them too :( )

a while ago i heard "hippies are mean people pretending to be nice, and punks are nice people pretending to be mean" & i've been thinking about that ever since

#FediTips : Please don’t use “fancy text” in your display names, bios, or posts. Screenreaders can’t read these symbols as normal latin characters. Unless you want your name to be read as “mathematical script small I, mathematical script small R” and so on, use standard symbols in your display name.

For real, though, when I was new to the Fediverse (and, to be fair, it was a slightly different Fediverse back then), one of the more frustrating things was people explaining the Fediverse by comparing it to Twitter, so I, having never used Twitter, had to figure out what, like, the various Twitter conventions were in order to be on the Fediverse.
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you don't need kubernetes, you're not google scale and you shouldn't aspire to be

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This is a joke about Fedi culture 

Anyway, welcome to Fedi, which basically means you signed up to become a member of a local anarchist collective, you have been given a fursona, and you've been assigned an episode of Deep Space Nine to write a 1500 word essay on (yes this will be on the quiz)

:trans: 🇧🇪 hey i'm looking for any #trans or otherwise #queer / #lgbtq people in #belgium who know how the #transition process looks like here. any pointers, websites, organizations, therapist recs, personal anecdotes welcome 👍 :boosts_ok_gay:

Hello new people! A friendly reminder that image descriptions help make this site accessible to all sorts of people! They can be as short or as descriptive as you want them to be, but including them with your visual posts is important.

and if you're on another instance: check if your admin(s) could use some help :)

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This project has been on my executive dysfunction pile for literally 2 years so, y'know

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Whoa. Hang on.

We're not ruled by corporate overlords any more.

That means I can say...

FUCK TERFS

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