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you know shits real when very smart people are suddenly very interested in gotosocial, hometown, misskey and pleroma forks that sprung forth when the pleroma leadership went a little too unhinged for anyone to feel safe

masto ui 4.0.x rousted complacent nerds from slumber and fired up the advocates for safety and quality moderation

this will hopefully end well for those who actually built this place and made it safe for at-risk and marginalized folks and more

please support the folks making this a better place, not the grand standing folk that will reduce your ability to be safe

UPDATE: no need for further boosting. Thank you everyone!

My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,

"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."

https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1593726621340426241

Our "work with us" page: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

#Twitter #JobFairy #Automattic #Tumblr

I've updated our little list of queer and kink-friendly instances with a few new ones. Let me know if you'd like your instance added to the list! #admin https://blog.woof.group/docs/see-also

I've got plans to enjoy the company of fediverse friends from all over the world tonight, and you're invited!

Join me, my acrobatics partner @SocialGaff, and the folks that keep us company in the #CircusInPlace video chat.

We start our evening with the Emperor Norton Coffee Hour at 7pm UTC-6, and then train our circus skills all night.

https://meet.jit.si/circushomegym

Hang out while we do handstands, find joy while we juggle, and relax in the company of wonderful weirdos.

#PleaseBoost

And let's be honest. Many white 'liberals' and 'progressives' feel like they have some ownership of the fedi and can dictate what the culture is rather than being amenable to it changing as the user base grows and diversifies.

Many white people feel like they can very rudely make demands of people they don't know and expect people to acquiesce. And that's just unearned entitlement.

There are always growing pains when any platform has gains that have just happened over the last couple of weeks. We need patience, care, and understanding to let the culture grow organically.

What we don't need is white people bitterly complaining that their fabricated view of the world is changing because reality is no longer deniable.

Drink some water and shut the fuck up. You're not in any danger. LOL, you're just a bigot. You'll be fine.

I just wanted to share one of the pieces of work I'm most proud of this year.

In June I gave the University of Oxford annual disability lecture.

This lecture explored my work around unwanted touching as experienced by disabled people.

It is the culmination of work that started on Twitter 4 years ago.

I am very grateful to everyone who has shared their stories & supported #JustAskDontGrab over the years.

You can find the podcast & transcript here ⬇️
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/hands-navigating-unwanted-touch-consent-and-disability

you know me i’ll go to bat for this platform but that doesn’t mean i don’t acknowledge that its essentially the social media equivalent of ham radio

Holy shit it was HBOMBERGUY that's responsible for posts being called toots on Mastodon, I'm fucking shaking right now

Good morning to everyone this morning! Normalize recognizing that your dreams of a better world are vital and beautiful.💖🏳️‍🌈🦄🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽🔥

#GoodMorning #Gay #Nonbinary #Dreams #LGBTQ #BlackLivesMatter #Queer #Hope #Community

At the risk of boring folk, here are a couple of images I took earlier.

I know it fits on a floppy disk because I'll sell it to you on a floppy.

https://princess.software/order/

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.

are there more linux distros or weed strains?

The rush to discover whether you're LGBTQIA or neurodivergent first:
Egg and Spoon race.

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.

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!

https://joinbookwyrm.com/

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

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.

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