starless @starless@pixie.town
- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
Tech suggestion
@MerlinJStar@weirder.earth Heya! You mentioned soliciting suggestions for a Zoom replacement.
There's a project called Jitsi (https://jit.si) that you can use. It's also self-host-able, if you or your friends are into that, but you can also just use their site. It's not perfect, but it also is not Zoom. :)
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@Astroexeter absolutely! Can I read more about what it's an image of/what it was colorized on somewhere? Totally gorgeous stuff.
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At the risk of boring folk, here are a couple of images I took earlier.
@signal9 hi there! How've you been? :)
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@Astroexeter THIS IS NOT BORING
I'll be at the star-wars-themed night at #GroundZeroNightclub tonight! If you see me, come say 'hi'! :)
Why will I be there? A local circus arts group hosts a #kink -friendly community #event with fire stuff, #aerial performances, and music. It's in #Minneapoils. It's a cash-only venue, cover is around $15, and the bar has non alcoholic options. The space is #WheelchairAccessible. Costumes highly recommend. 🖤✨
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switter (the sex worker instance) was closed because of literal actual government interference from numerous nations. please do the reading before painting fedi with a swerf or other reactionary brush. i want sex workers to be SAFE dammit and that means knowing when we can't responsibly be a part of your work. and sex work is work.
please read https://switter.at/ - their own words - before developing a Take.
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are there more linux distros or weed strains?
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The rush to discover whether you're LGBTQIA or neurodivergent first:
Egg and Spoon race.
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Once again, for the new folks in the peanut gallery, if on Android, try Tusky or FediLab. If iOS, pay the $4 for Toot! or get MetaText for free. The official app is, well, ass. The folks who boost this will underscore how true this is.
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For those who don't know, Bookwyrm is basically a better, federated Goodreads. Because it speaks ActivityPub, you can subscribe to someone's Bookwyrm feed from directly in Mastodon and see the book reviews they post!
Also there are 2 spots remaining in the Bookwyrm patreon to pay $40/mo and support the project in a huge way *and* have @tripofmice run a server for you and 50 of your bookwormiest friends: https://www.patreon.com/bookwyrm
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changing times, long and rambling probably
Well, we’ve been saying Over Here for a long time "no, we’re not trying to kill Twitter, we don’t need Twitter to die for us to be successful, because our definition of success is drastically different than theirs."
(I use "we" as if we’re homogeneous and we are so not - give me a pass on this please, it’s easier to write with we)
and now that people are starting to file for the exits and light incense for the coming last rites, we can say we didn’t kill it; if anything, we find ourselves doing our best to save the best bits of it we see.
That’s you new neighbors. You’re the best bits.
It’s people. It’s always been people and it always will be people.
The technology is so secondary it’s barely worth considering. We’ve excelled at building community with so much less technology than we currently have. It’s ancillary to the task at hand.
Make connections. Listen. Think. Feel. People things.
If the tools don’t work exactly how we like, we’ll work together to change or replace them. That bit can be long and tedious and tiring and that can get frustrating, but we can work through that, too.
For far too long we’ve allowed corporate entities to define the shape of our social spaces, to turn them into places of competition.
May we continue to strive to make this piece of the void we’re carving out cooperative and people-centered.
I’ll be seeing you around, folks. I hope you find a cozy bit to call yours here and some folk that make it feel like home.
@NMaDayton I uh. I don't hear normally, but I didn't know Twitter's disability community. So I might not say "the whole disability community". But I entirely agree with the sentiment. I hope the influx will be good for the disability folks that have been here for a minute.
What kinds of tech things do you enjoy working with/doing? I usually program in c# for work these days, but I enjoy making little python projects that print things. :)
@kf sometimes, stuff is just complicated! At least writing it down can help it feel like you're learning. At least, that's what I tell myself. 😅
@NMaDayton that does sound really stressful.
I migrated over here about a year or two ago, back when more things weren't really happening. At the time, leaving traditional social media felt like I wasn't really missing out on as much, since I wasn't going to events in person.
When I switched to an account here, it was via an invite from a netfriend who I'd known off a chat tech called Matrix. It's a bit like a federated "Discord" kind of an experience.
Lately, it's been fun, but kind of stressful to see so much more activity and vibrancy in the "netborhood" so to speak. I'm happy to see more local instances spinning up.
I used Twitter occasionally professionally, but honestly, it was pretty rare. Part of me is glad for an increase in the ephemerality of online socialization that comes with all this, but another part of me feels like there is a real need for a "reasonably stable phone book", and I am sad that something vaguely reassembling that got looted.
@Luvvie I like using Tusky! It has a great "delete and re-draft" feature.
You can migrate accounts between servers if you really want, but it can be a bit tricky technologically.
Different groups use CWs differently. If someone doesn't like how you use yours (or vice versa), you can always just block them. Lots of people use them like "subject lines" instead of only to hide only really shocking stuff. There's some drama/asshole stuff happening a little around this discussion. I wouldn't really sweat it.
Lots of people describe their images on here. If pictures load slowly, I usually read the description to see if I care enough to wait. It's a nice thing to do because I talk with some people who use screen readers, so I like to make sure they at least know what kind of picture I've posted when people are reacting to it.
Mastodon is not actually just one technology! It is an implementation of the activity pub protocol. There are lots of other little sites that implement this protocol, which means that they can all talk to each other. So, not only can you talk to people on other mastodon servers, you can also use your normal mastodon situation to talk to people who aren't using mastodon at all! This might be a little confusing, but you can think of it like being able to follow someone on Instagram from Tumblr. If you could do that. I don't remember the names of all of them, but Pixelfed is a federated "Instagram" style experience.
See more by looking at #feditips.
Also, hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Starless. :)
@NMaDayton hey there! I tick a buncha those boxes! :)
How's your day been?
Kinda lewd
@fack my feed is full of #MastoTop25FatNutsHaversAwards2022 idk what "lack of thirst traps" you're seeing here
- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
